Seriously doubt he got far and even if so, just follow the rather obvious trail of ketchup leaking from the packets in his pocket that Sarah seems to have ruptured.
Oh he’ll be back… possibly to file assault charges on Sarah. That’s why it’s important to get to a hospital or police station so they can check Joyce for rufies. Without it there’s just Joyce and Sarah’s word against his since it doesn’t look like the rest of the party goers were paying attention until after she started hitting Ryan. Moreover, Sarah isn’t all that popular so there might be enough people who’d claim she attacked him without provocation.
Beware of the Blob, it creeps
And leaps and glides and slides
Across the floor
Right through the door
And all around the wall
A splotch, a blotch
Be careful of The Blob…
Kool-Aid. Which means there’s a hole in a wall somewhere…
OMG! RYAN WAS CARRIED OFF BY THE KOOL-AID MAN!!!! TO GET RAPED!!!
Shut off the music for a minute! If anyone hears someone say a loud “OOOOOHHHH, YEAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!” Let me know! it’ll be too late for Ryan, but at least we’ll catch the Kool-aid man on the Downstroke!!!
In Amazi-Girl’s defense, everyone was busy dealing with the woozy victim, and not restraining him, so he probably crawled away well before the attention-hogging began.
Exactly! And it’s not like it will be hard to identify the student with the fresh scar. Assuming Ryan is a student and not a random older dude with a thing for… yeah, I think I know why Ryan didn’t move on to an easier mark.
Of course he escaped. Now he can return 100 strips from now as some kind of super villain. He’ll have a nice scar, and who knows what kind of personality alterations a few blows to the head with a baseball bat might cause. 😉
“You wanna know how I got these scars?”
“How?”
“A 18 year old co-ed shattered a glass of Sierra Mist in my face.”
“….That…That’s actually not a very good story.” 😉
“You wanna know how I got these scars?”
“How?”
“An 18 year old co-ed shattered a glass of Sierra Mist in my face.”
“….That…That’s actually not a very good story.” 😉
I hope Ryan doesn’t crawl away, call someone and whine to them, and then try and turn this against the girls. He’s the kind of jerk who would do that. (Also, the kind of jerk who would beat up and sexually assault people. But I digress.)
And by someone, I mean the dean of the school or something. WHO IS HIS DAD, or something.
Though I’d laugh at him if he called like, his old babysitter. Or his mom (who Mike is currently with). Someone who he could whine to, like “Oh, [Person], I drugged and raped this girl and she fought back! And then her friend fought back! Wah!”
Rofl, that’s not what I mean at all. If he were to go and report someone for breaking the law (smashing his face in with a bat) while downplaying or completely concealing his breaking the law (drugging and attempted assault), then that’d be jerk-like behavior in my opinion. Which I think would be awful.
Of course, if he were to try and turn people against Sarah by saying the whole truth, then that’d be him reporting someone who broke the law when they broke the law in a good way. Otherwise, by concealing his own actions? That’s jerk behavior imo.
Nah, that’s more natural-human-response. Right now he’ll be downright terrified of Sarah, and afraid that she’ll be coming back for seconds. Frankly I’d be surprised if he *didn’t* do *something* about it, and if that something is going to the police, given his personality, I’d be astounded if he admitted to his own wrong-doing.
So less jerk, more rape-y, and I don’t know if I’d characterize rape-y-ness as jerk behavior.
I’m with you. There’s being right, and there’s being righteous, and then there’s being self-righteous. Sarah’s not even toeing the line, she’s berating it from the self-righteous side.
I think this is kind of ironic, because in Roomies she delighted in the bringing down of the self-righteous. Which made her reappearance in It’s Walky! make me not like her, as she had become that which she hated.
Really? Sarah is my favorite character. I wish we’d see more of her life, though, and less of her just angrily trying to clean up other people’s messes. Sure she’s self-righteous, but she’s so full of anger that I’d love to see it justified.
Maybe. In my college days, I know of at least one White Knight who had to actually be restrained from going after a would-be attacker beyond the initial incident.
Tune in next time, true believers, as the circle of nether defiling little dickmonsters conspires against their latest threat: The Louisville-slugger-smashing Sarah! Will she justly protect the joy-filled Joyce from jadedly jumping the gun once more?!?
Okay, Ryan is a dick, but I am officially impressed. The fact he was even able to BREATHE, let alone move after a beating like that speaks of either great endurance, or prior experience with being beaten within an inch of his life. Which, now that I think about it, isn’t too unlikely.
That could be because while there are plenty of TVTrope fans here, I am guessing that not too many of them are Tropers (TVTrope contributors) themselves.
I just realized Amazi-girl had a seperate tag from the the other characters. That means she’s NOT a pre existing character’s alternate identity in this universe, right?
Willis has given Drunk Mike a seperate tag from Mike despite them being the same character, the same will apply to Amazi-Girl and her civilian persona (whomever that might be)
Perhaps someone dragged Ryan away, and the next we’ll see of him is gagged and bound in the kitchen of the Dining Commons, as someone prepares to turn him into barbecue.
“This is the finest barbecue I have ever tasted.”
“It’s all in the sauce.”
😀
He poured a shit-ton of ranks into the Hide skill. Also, his sweater is a magic item that gives him the “Hide in Plain Sight” and “Camouflage” abilities, and his belt lets him use the “Greater Invisibility” spell three times per day. That son of a bongo is decked out to the nines.
So, will Joyce remember it was the preacher’s son? Or will that disappear in a drugged haze?
This could easily get ugly once more, a few days from now.
More sense than Ultra-car. Unless Joe built him pre-college. Which I doubt in the DOAverse. Sill makes no sense though. Where’s the cut?
Unless… healing factor…? RYAN IS WOLVERINE IS AMAZI-GIRL?!?!
so he’s trying to save Joyce from HIMSELF?!? Cmon man…
you know that TOTALLY MAKES SENSE!!!!!! Cause he’s got split personalities anyway right, being a pastor’s son and a sexual predator! He’s like two-face! if two-face was batman and a transvestite!
I never assumed he was a student at the college to begin with. But we have a physical description of him, so the police have something to run on. We also have his MO, so we know where to look.
I think a lot of superheroes have that tendancy. I mean, they are more often concerned with aiding the victims than actually catching the villain and preventing it from happening again. Although a lot of them have complexes that stop them from choosing the greater good (e.g. letting 1 person die to prevent the villain from escaping to set up a plan to kill someone else). The others are generally stupid (e.g. Spiderman choosing to bring his Aunt back to life instead of Mary Jane and his daughter. Seriously, WTF?! She’s probably gonna die in a year or two! (please don’t hate me, I do like Spiderman, but seriously!)) So Amazi-Girl choosing to help the citizens is the obvious, superhero choice. Which is nice, but kinda dumb.
All I’m trying to say is I want Amazi-Girl to restrain him and beat the crap outta him some more. This is a comic universe, after all. Suspension of disbelief. Who cares if it’s not exactly like real life? Seriously people… more Ryan beatings.
Superheroes have to be primarily about protecting people, or else it just becomes vigilante justice. If Amazi-Girl took off after Ryan before ensuring that Joyce was safe and being watched after, and Joyce died or was injured somehow as a result, it would be on her hands.
Without the primary goal of protecting the innocent, superheroes just become two gangs, with the civilian citizens caught in the middle.
That’s why superhero teams make sense. If Batman & Robin were on the scene, Robin would stay with Joyce and make sure she’s taken care of, while Batman’d take care of Ryan.
Conclusion: Amazi-Girl needs a sidekick. And possibly to be more observant.
And then Billie or Dorothy become Icredi-Lass, or something similar. My vote being Billie do to the fact that she was already taking care of Joyce, and Dorothy is just to obvious a choice because of how eager she is about Amazi-Girl. But Amazi-Girl totally needs to be more observant. A) Joyce being taken care of already. B) Ryan escaped.
To be fair, she probably won’t due to an immunity to criticism, and I’m pretty sure that includes the constructive sort… *shrugs*
Looks to me like Willis might just be setting up the Amazi-Girl thing as a self-deluding power fantasy on the part of Amber, as opposed to the comedy superhero she was in Shortpacked.
I mean, her stupid antics actually gave the damn serial rapist a chance to escape. This isn’t gonna be good for her.
I think it’s more of an “everybody’s human” point he’s making. And besides, we all saw exactly what happened- Amazi-Girl did not. It makes sense she’d need to take a minute to understand the situation before handing out beatdowns.
Still, letting the dude go, not a good move. Even if he wasn’t the aggressor and was only the victim, it’s not a good idea to let someone who should probably be in the hospital disappear like that. He could be disoriented and wander off somewhere and die of blood loss.
Another likely set up… Is that said laceration could end up with him bleeding out to the emergency room (or farther) and later Joyce finds out what she did (she did drink the ‘evil’ drink, so there’s a chance she wouldn’t remember unless somebody told her.)
Joyce has been a bit ballsier in this comic than Walky, but even then I’d expect troubles for her.
Serial rapist, war criminal, nazi, child molester, terrorist, litterer, embezzler, con artist, brick thief, pickpocket, flasher, smuggler, tobacco lobbyist, pirate, slaver . . . c’mon everybody, we can assume Ryan’s done every evil under the sun. Maybe we can make him Bernie Madoff secret enabler . . .
I don’t think you can call Ryan a SERIAL rapist. We haven’t actually seen more than one instance where he tried to rape someone (not in this universe, compounding this one with the others doesn’t count).
He IS a rapist, though. The fact that he failed doesn’t change that, and the fact that we have no cause to call him a serial rapist doesn’t make him any better a human being.
Can we? I can use the proper lingo for a task and have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. And since he didn’t have a second Bible verse ready and grabbed one at random without knowing its meaning, that means he doesn’t prepare for all possible scenarios. And since it’s established that he’s a pastor’s son, this makes his mental abilities all the more questionable.
If this guy’s a criminal, he’s a greenhorn who hasn’t practiced beyond one line of events. That’s good, because he won’t know what to do next. But it’s also indicative that he probably isn’t an established serial rapist (he doesn’t seem that experienced).
Has he done this kind of thing before? Maybe. Does he have a long track record of successes? Possibly. Does the evidence suggest the second one? No.
Or perhaps Sarah is a woman and isn’t prone to using that particular gendered insult? And what’s with people claiming political correctness is the reason people choose not to be vulgar, as if vulgarity expression is the default?
It’s a cartoon world; realistically he should have haemorrhaged and died. Buuut even then, I still find it unlikely that he could have got up snuck away after that beating and in a room full of people unless his last name is Creek.
This does lend credence to my suggestion that someone hired him. I’m guessing his handler, pretending to be one of the party guests, picked him up and he’s currently being taken to a hospital.
The fact that he crawled away amid the distraction is indicative that he was hired to rape Joyce? He got thwacked in the back with a baseball bat and glassed in the face by his target. Wouldn’t any sane rapist, hired or no, decide it was time to bail at that point?
I just don’t see a whit of evidence that he was hired by anyone.
Not like he’s easy to miss, he officially looks like he could start cosplaying with that scar. If you think you can list them all, feel free to reply with the names, though for the record I already have three names.
I guess everyone can stop worrying about Sarah having potentially manslaughtered him and getting caught up in a messy lawsuit. Although I don’t doubt Ryan would be jerk enough to try it on anyway.
ou don’t get sued when you commit homicide (okay, you might depending on the person’s income and familial status and all but it’s not the primary) you get charged. It is not a civil matter . . .
You don’t get sued when you commit homicide (okay, you might depending on the person’s income and familial status and all but it’s not the primary) you get charged. It is not a civil matter . . .
My blurry vision is playing tricks on me. I keep reading the smear furthest to the right in the fourth panel as though it spelled out “AIDS”. Why the previous “word” ends in “IVM” is beyond me, though.
I hope he dies in the middle of the road in rush hour!!!!
Lol, okay maybe someone finds him and calls the cops?
Supposedly Amazi girl finds him? Then AmaziGirl butts in and eventually murders him?
Okay, either he’s going to be a serial killer, or he’s going to become Amazi-Girl’s first arch-nemesis. Problem is, if it’s the latter, there are so many good names he could go by! The Drugger, Roofie-lad, Dr. Light…
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I’m amazed the guy was capable of crawling away after that.
Seriously doubt he got far and even if so, just follow the rather obvious trail of ketchup leaking from the packets in his pocket that Sarah seems to have ruptured.
“… just follow the rather obvious trail of ketchup…”
*snort*
NO!!!!!!
Dont snort the ketchup!
Hey! I thought she was immune to criticism!
Wrong continuity. Obviously she’s got a different origin story here.
What the-? That comment was totally not there when I posted. Man, jokeblocked.
Don’t snort the ketchup! I wanna snort it!
Personally, I’d just use my eyes.
delicious ketchup
He probably crawled away to die somewhere quiet.
Hooray! He’s still alive!
Now we can beat ‘im s’more!
And so Ryan escaped the woman with the baseball bat beating the crap out of him. Thank you Amazi-Girl
This will not look good on her facebook page me thinks.
Is there actually a facebook page? Cause i am so there.
wow, no dumbing of age fan page on facebook.
That is surprising.
Someone needs to make one…. *wants to*
After all those blows to the head, I’m surprised not only that he’s conscious, but that he’s still alive.
Oh snap, that’s some Joker moves right there
It’s a shame that nobody had the chance to try out that disappearing pencil trick on Ryan.
For that asshole, I’d rather do the disappearing broom handle trick.
Pun strongly intended.
I was thinking month-old cow manure-encrusted pitchfork handle.
Thoroughly soaked. And then hooked up to the nearest 240V outlet.
And then allowed to catch on fire.
He’ll make it to the barn, but die before he can get the chainsaw.
However, Joyce will be forever haunted by… no wait, that was Misery.
Good going, Ultracar.
Kinda doubt he’ll be able to get far, you know, savage beating and bleeding, eh wot
Wait. All those people around and nobody tries to stop him, or even (without knowing what he did) help him? Really?
They are drunk.
Well now we know he’s still alive…
So we haven’t seen the last of Ryan…
Holy super-appropriate avatars, batman
No, that’s Amazi-Girl. Her costume is a little different, see?
Oh he’ll be back… possibly to file assault charges on Sarah. That’s why it’s important to get to a hospital or police station so they can check Joyce for rufies. Without it there’s just Joyce and Sarah’s word against his since it doesn’t look like the rest of the party goers were paying attention until after she started hitting Ryan. Moreover, Sarah isn’t all that popular so there might be enough people who’d claim she attacked him without provocation.
He’ll be back and when that day comes, they’ll be ready for him.
Where would heroes be without their villains?
But everyone knows that supervillains always find a way to escape, it’s the law of comicbook heroes dammit. 😛
YOU DIDN’T STOMP ON HIS HEAD BEFORE YOUR DRAMATIC ENTERANCE!
Just follow the trail of blood.
Ketchup
Jell-O. It’s alive!
Beware of the Blob, it creeps
And leaps and glides and slides
Across the floor
Right through the door
And all around the wall
A splotch, a blotch
Be careful of The Blob…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4V-8GlPpQ
It’s not Red Kool-Aid?
Man, i thought the Kool-Aid Man was leaking again.
What are they all staring at in the last panel?
I think Ryan hasn’t gotten far, take another swing Sarah, third strike and he’s out!
Nice job breaking it hero. Still they can follow the trail of blood.
Ketchup
Kool-Aid. Which means there’s a hole in a wall somewhere…
OMG! RYAN WAS CARRIED OFF BY THE KOOL-AID MAN!!!! TO GET RAPED!!!
Shut off the music for a minute! If anyone hears someone say a loud “OOOOOHHHH, YEAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!” Let me know! it’ll be too late for Ryan, but at least we’ll catch the Kool-aid man on the Downstroke!!!
In Amazi-Girl’s defense, everyone was busy dealing with the woozy victim, and not restraining him, so he probably crawled away well before the attention-hogging began.
Exactly! And it’s not like it will be hard to identify the student with the fresh scar. Assuming Ryan is a student and not a random older dude with a thing for… yeah, I think I know why Ryan didn’t move on to an easier mark.
Of course he escaped. Now he can return 100 strips from now as some kind of super villain. He’ll have a nice scar, and who knows what kind of personality alterations a few blows to the head with a baseball bat might cause. 😉
100 strips from now will be Sunday afternoon, DoA time.
I would very much like to see him with a Joker style Glasgow smile asking everyone if they want to hear how he got his scars.
“You wanna know how I got these scars?”
“How?”
“A 18 year old co-ed shattered a glass of Sierra Mist in my face.”
“….That…That’s actually not a very good story.” 😉
“You wanna know how I got these scars?”
“How?”
“An 18 year old co-ed shattered a glass of Sierra Mist in my face.”
“….That…That’s actually not a very good story.” 😉
My God, this comic is glorious. I don’t just mean this strip, I mean the comic in general.
I hope Ryan doesn’t crawl away, call someone and whine to them, and then try and turn this against the girls. He’s the kind of jerk who would do that. (Also, the kind of jerk who would beat up and sexually assault people. But I digress.)
And by someone, I mean the dean of the school or something. WHO IS HIS DAD, or something.
Though I’d laugh at him if he called like, his old babysitter. Or his mom (who Mike is currently with). Someone who he could whine to, like “Oh, [Person], I drugged and raped this girl and she fought back! And then her friend fought back! Wah!”
I totally saw that episode of Law and Order.
I think I’ve seen it in many tv shows, ect.
BUT WHO KNOWS?
Yes, but Law and Order has an entire spinoff series made from this premise.
That’s pretty cool. I’m sadly uneducated when it comes to Law and Order type shows, I have to admit.
wait, so now we’re hating ryan for hypothetically being the sort of person who reports someone broke the law when they broke the law.
Rofl, that’s not what I mean at all. If he were to go and report someone for breaking the law (smashing his face in with a bat) while downplaying or completely concealing his breaking the law (drugging and attempted assault), then that’d be jerk-like behavior in my opinion. Which I think would be awful.
Of course, if he were to try and turn people against Sarah by saying the whole truth, then that’d be him reporting someone who broke the law when they broke the law in a good way. Otherwise, by concealing his own actions? That’s jerk behavior imo.
Nah, that’s more natural-human-response. Right now he’ll be downright terrified of Sarah, and afraid that she’ll be coming back for seconds. Frankly I’d be surprised if he *didn’t* do *something* about it, and if that something is going to the police, given his personality, I’d be astounded if he admitted to his own wrong-doing.
So less jerk, more rape-y, and I don’t know if I’d characterize rape-y-ness as jerk behavior.
I really thin Sarah is my least favorite character. Which is quite an achievement, considering there’s also Joe and Ruth.
In all honesty, i can’t get over Roomies, and I can’t hate them. ROZ on the other hand.
I’m with you. There’s being right, and there’s being righteous, and then there’s being self-righteous. Sarah’s not even toeing the line, she’s berating it from the self-righteous side.
I think this is kind of ironic, because in Roomies she delighted in the bringing down of the self-righteous. Which made her reappearance in It’s Walky! make me not like her, as she had become that which she hated.
I always saw Sarah as a bit of a hypocrite. She was being self-righteous about not being self-righteous.
Really? Sarah is my favorite character. I wish we’d see more of her life, though, and less of her just angrily trying to clean up other people’s messes. Sure she’s self-righteous, but she’s so full of anger that I’d love to see it justified.
Dammit, Amazi-Girl! This is why you need a chest window!
If only…
He still breathes?
No, seriously, I’m in shock. That guy still moves? After THAT?
The only abductee in the DoA-verse. 😉
“Aww nuts” indeed.
Wait, wait wait. That sounds distinctly like criticism in that last panel. Amzi-girl is supposed to be immune to that!
Only in Shortpacked! We don’t know what Amazi Girl’s powers in DoA are yet.
Super dense bones, for one…
The creep lives to rape another day….
OR WILL HE?!?!?!?!
DUN
DUN
DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN(dramatic reverb)
Maybe. In my college days, I know of at least one White Knight who had to actually be restrained from going after a would-be attacker beyond the initial incident.
Tune in next time, true believers, as the circle of nether defiling little dickmonsters conspires against their latest threat: The Louisville-slugger-smashing Sarah! Will she justly protect the joy-filled Joyce from jadedly jumping the gun once more?!?
btw, you should totally put plasma Mongoose’s link in your post! drama button makes everything easier!
Okay, Ryan is a dick, but I am officially impressed. The fact he was even able to BREATHE, let alone move after a beating like that speaks of either great endurance, or prior experience with being beaten within an inch of his life. Which, now that I think about it, isn’t too unlikely.
Adrenaline can do miraculous things.
So we’re blaming everything on adrenaline now? Seriously, that’s like 90% of the last 9 strips comments. (on a side note, I agree.)
Yup. Adrenaline is now the official “A wizard did it” of DoA.
yay TvTropes! 😛
Ryan will now become the Joker to Sarah’s Batman.
It must be so!
It’s weird to me that DOA has so many troper fans and yet such a short trope page.
That could be because while there are plenty of TVTrope fans here, I am guessing that not too many of them are Tropers (TVTrope contributors) themselves.
The way I see it, why bother contributing to a wiki? Once you start, you never stop. It consumes your very soul.
See: “TV Tropes will Ruin Your Life”
Asuka, you wouldn’t happen to be talking from experience now, would you? 😀
Anyone else notice that the crowd in panel 5 seem to be concerned about something out of view?
My guess would be that they also just noticed that Ryan was gone so they were more looking around to see where he was.
But they’re all looking in a single direction. One woman’s got her hand over her mouth in shock, even.
I just realized Amazi-girl had a seperate tag from the the other characters. That means she’s NOT a pre existing character’s alternate identity in this universe, right?
Willis has given Drunk Mike a seperate tag from Mike despite them being the same character, the same will apply to Amazi-Girl and her civilian persona (whomever that might be)
*looks at avatar*
She’s really Ultracar, isn’t she?
Ultracar is also Spidercar.
duh duh DUHHHHHHHHH!
No, Amber is Spidercar. She hides the wheels under her shirt, remember?
Plasma, your link goes great with the 4th panel!!!!
The Drama Button is just sooo damn useful. 😀
How in the world did he manage to even move after that?
Perhaps someone dragged Ryan away, and the next we’ll see of him is gagged and bound in the kitchen of the Dining Commons, as someone prepares to turn him into barbecue.
“This is the finest barbecue I have ever tasted.”
“It’s all in the sauce.”
😀
^THIS. I totally support this plot line.
This gets my vote!
Thanks!
That might be a little much, even for me. The guy’s a rotten bastard, but I don’t want to KILL him. I want to imprison him.
Of cause you want him imprisoned, that way he can discover a whole new way of looking at rape… from the victim’s side. >:D
I am still wondering how the guy could escape from a room full of people looking at his direction…
They’re drunk and focused on the chick in spandex. And the girl with the baseball bat.
Stupid time-travelling rapists and their stupid perception filters…
Oh well, that just means we’ll have The Doctor show up and do something horrible to him.
He poured a shit-ton of ranks into the Hide skill. Also, his sweater is a magic item that gives him the “Hide in Plain Sight” and “Camouflage” abilities, and his belt lets him use the “Greater Invisibility” spell three times per day. That son of a bongo is decked out to the nines.
I’m wonder why they can’t just blood trail him. That looked to be a pretty deep cut.
I’m surprised that he’s still alive. 😮
Let’s hunt down Ryan! He can’t run off too far.
Someone clearly swings a bat like a girl. Am I right men?
So, will Joyce remember it was the preacher’s son? Or will that disappear in a drugged haze?
This could easily get ugly once more, a few days from now.
Oh, my God. You all know what this means, right?
RYAN IS AMAZI-GIRL.
You know it makes sense.
More sense than Ultra-car. Unless Joe built him pre-college. Which I doubt in the DOAverse. Sill makes no sense though. Where’s the cut?
Unless… healing factor…? RYAN IS WOLVERINE IS AMAZI-GIRL?!?!
so he’s trying to save Joyce from HIMSELF?!? Cmon man…
you know that TOTALLY MAKES SENSE!!!!!! Cause he’s got split personalities anyway right, being a pastor’s son and a sexual predator! He’s like two-face! if two-face was batman and a transvestite!
Here’s a scary possibility; maybe he just crashed the party for an easy lay and doesn’t even go to the college.
I can’t esplain why, but my money’d be on grad student… and I’m still expecting some kind of history with Ruth.
I’m hoping this it true. Ryan is way overdue for a Ruth-level ass kicking.
I never assumed he was a student at the college to begin with. But we have a physical description of him, so the police have something to run on. We also have his MO, so we know where to look.
He is definitely a vampire. Or has… cohorts.
I think a lot of superheroes have that tendancy. I mean, they are more often concerned with aiding the victims than actually catching the villain and preventing it from happening again. Although a lot of them have complexes that stop them from choosing the greater good (e.g. letting 1 person die to prevent the villain from escaping to set up a plan to kill someone else). The others are generally stupid (e.g. Spiderman choosing to bring his Aunt back to life instead of Mary Jane and his daughter. Seriously, WTF?! She’s probably gonna die in a year or two! (please don’t hate me, I do like Spiderman, but seriously!)) So Amazi-Girl choosing to help the citizens is the obvious, superhero choice. Which is nice, but kinda dumb.
All I’m trying to say is I want Amazi-Girl to restrain him and beat the crap outta him some more. This is a comic universe, after all. Suspension of disbelief. Who cares if it’s not exactly like real life? Seriously people… more Ryan beatings.
Superheroes have to be primarily about protecting people, or else it just becomes vigilante justice. If Amazi-Girl took off after Ryan before ensuring that Joyce was safe and being watched after, and Joyce died or was injured somehow as a result, it would be on her hands.
Without the primary goal of protecting the innocent, superheroes just become two gangs, with the civilian citizens caught in the middle.
That’s why superhero teams make sense. If Batman & Robin were on the scene, Robin would stay with Joyce and make sure she’s taken care of, while Batman’d take care of Ryan.
Conclusion: Amazi-Girl needs a sidekick. And possibly to be more observant.
And then Billie or Dorothy become Icredi-Lass, or something similar. My vote being Billie do to the fact that she was already taking care of Joyce, and Dorothy is just to obvious a choice because of how eager she is about Amazi-Girl. But Amazi-Girl totally needs to be more observant. A) Joyce being taken care of already. B) Ryan escaped.
To be fair, she probably won’t due to an immunity to criticism, and I’m pretty sure that includes the constructive sort… *shrugs*
Looks to me like Willis might just be setting up the Amazi-Girl thing as a self-deluding power fantasy on the part of Amber, as opposed to the comedy superhero she was in Shortpacked.
I mean, her stupid antics actually gave the damn serial rapist a chance to escape. This isn’t gonna be good for her.
I think it’s more of an “everybody’s human” point he’s making. And besides, we all saw exactly what happened- Amazi-Girl did not. It makes sense she’d need to take a minute to understand the situation before handing out beatdowns.
Still, letting the dude go, not a good move. Even if he wasn’t the aggressor and was only the victim, it’s not a good idea to let someone who should probably be in the hospital disappear like that. He could be disoriented and wander off somewhere and die of blood loss.
Another likely set up… Is that said laceration could end up with him bleeding out to the emergency room (or farther) and later Joyce finds out what she did (she did drink the ‘evil’ drink, so there’s a chance she wouldn’t remember unless somebody told her.)
Joyce has been a bit ballsier in this comic than Walky, but even then I’d expect troubles for her.
Serial rapist, war criminal, nazi, child molester, terrorist, litterer, embezzler, con artist, brick thief, pickpocket, flasher, smuggler, tobacco lobbyist, pirate, slaver . . . c’mon everybody, we can assume Ryan’s done every evil under the sun. Maybe we can make him Bernie Madoff secret enabler . . .
“Every evil under the sun?”
Damn, I didn’t know he was a telemarketer. That’s just low.
“Every evil under the sun?”
Damn, I didn’t know he was a telemarketer. That’s just low.
Dang, what’s with this double-posting nonsense, eh?
I don’t think you can call Ryan a SERIAL rapist. We haven’t actually seen more than one instance where he tried to rape someone (not in this universe, compounding this one with the others doesn’t count).
He IS a rapist, though. The fact that he failed doesn’t change that, and the fact that we have no cause to call him a serial rapist doesn’t make him any better a human being.
Considering he literally thought the phrase ‘Find mark’, I think we can conclude he knows what he’s doing.
Can we? I can use the proper lingo for a task and have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. And since he didn’t have a second Bible verse ready and grabbed one at random without knowing its meaning, that means he doesn’t prepare for all possible scenarios. And since it’s established that he’s a pastor’s son, this makes his mental abilities all the more questionable.
If this guy’s a criminal, he’s a greenhorn who hasn’t practiced beyond one line of events. That’s good, because he won’t know what to do next. But it’s also indicative that he probably isn’t an established serial rapist (he doesn’t seem that experienced).
Has he done this kind of thing before? Maybe. Does he have a long track record of successes? Possibly. Does the evidence suggest the second one? No.
Then again, we haven’t seen how he behaves around a box of Frosted Flakes… And I sure as hell wouldn’t trust him near a bowl of Fruit Loops.
I just ate breakfast, so I’m going to go vomit now.
Attention “hogger”?
Never would have figured Sarah for the PC type…
I honestly cannot figure out what you’re trying to imply here…
Oop, just got it.
And maybe Sarah just doesn’t want to antagonize the person closest to an authority figure right now.
Or perhaps Sarah is a woman and isn’t prone to using that particular gendered insult? And what’s with people claiming political correctness is the reason people choose not to be vulgar, as if vulgarity expression is the default?
I still have no idea what word you guys are talking about! I would have said ‘attention seeker’, which doesn’t sound gendered to me.
Also, I am equally frustrated with people whining about political correctness!
“Attention hog” is also a fairly common term. If anything, I thought her phrasing was a bit odd, using “hogger.”
It’s a cartoon world; realistically he should have haemorrhaged and died. Buuut even then, I still find it unlikely that he could have got up snuck away after that beating and in a room full of people unless his last name is Creek.
This does lend credence to my suggestion that someone hired him. I’m guessing his handler, pretending to be one of the party guests, picked him up and he’s currently being taken to a hospital.
Or being given concrete shoes.
The fact that he crawled away amid the distraction is indicative that he was hired to rape Joyce? He got thwacked in the back with a baseball bat and glassed in the face by his target. Wouldn’t any sane rapist, hired or no, decide it was time to bail at that point?
I just don’t see a whit of evidence that he was hired by anyone.
There’s a huge rape-conspiracy. Amazi-Girl will have to fight a powerful, faceless shadow-organization known only as The Brotherhood of Roofies.
You are talking about the Roofarianism movement correct? You know, the ones who worship the Flying Tentacle Rape Monster, that group right?
Sarah is now my favourite character. Again.
Sarah has lipstick on again, what happened?
It amuses me to see you oblige Charles RB’s avatar (right above your post) with that costume design.
Appropriate avatar is appropriate.
and blush. No law against turning on the sexy at public beatdowns!
Fanservice counts as public service right?
Not like he’s easy to miss, he officially looks like he could start cosplaying with that scar. If you think you can list them all, feel free to reply with the names, though for the record I already have three names.
I guess everyone can stop worrying about Sarah having potentially manslaughtered him and getting caught up in a messy lawsuit. Although I don’t doubt Ryan would be jerk enough to try it on anyway.
ou don’t get sued when you commit homicide (okay, you might depending on the person’s income and familial status and all but it’s not the primary) you get charged. It is not a civil matter . . .
You don’t get sued when you commit homicide (okay, you might depending on the person’s income and familial status and all but it’s not the primary) you get charged. It is not a civil matter . . .
Oops, sorry double post . . .
It can be. Remember OJ Simpson?
Awww, be nice, Sarah. Amazi-Girl just wants to help.
Well I was half right about Amazi-girl coming to the guy’s rescue, if by rescue I meant “get away” lol.
Is that Jacob behind Amazigirl?
Only a temporary setback. Sarah still can ID him, same with some of the drunken gamers. Also…And you will know him by his trail of blood.
My blurry vision is playing tricks on me. I keep reading the smear furthest to the right in the fourth panel as though it spelled out “AIDS”. Why the previous “word” ends in “IVM” is beyond me, though.
Wouldn’t that be fun!
“Joyce, that man who you cut – some of his blood got into the cuts in your hand…”
Holy Cerebus Syndrome begbert2!
I hope he dies in the middle of the road in rush hour!!!!
Lol, okay maybe someone finds him and calls the cops?
Supposedly Amazi girl finds him? Then AmaziGirl butts in and eventually murders him?
Oh Suuure Sarah, blame the super hero! as if you weren’t supposed to be keeping an eye out yourself!
Check all the irrigation drains.
then shoot him while holding out your mobile phone video-camera.
Or, ou know, someone dragged off the corpse . . .
Or, you know, someone dragged off the corpse . . .
Damn. Sorry, about that. Gotta go see what’s goin’ on here.
He moves fast – Sarah was looking approximately in his direction just a moment ago. (In the previous strip.)
He’s like Mike Myers! Except a bit more rapey.
Just a tad.
Okay, either he’s going to be a serial killer, or he’s going to become Amazi-Girl’s first arch-nemesis. Problem is, if it’s the latter, there are so many good names he could go by! The Drugger, Roofie-lad, Dr. Light…
I hate when punctuation signs go inside the quotationsmarks; we’re not using lead type anymore.
But I love Sarah.