The Guinea Pig! Before you run out to fight crime you break into a chemistry lab and drink a random mix of chemicals and those are your super powers for that fight
Amazi-Girl really needs to carry a portable EMP device to protect her from the evils of social media exposure, the only problem with that is that the odd person with a pacemaker will die but that’s why the American Govenment coined the term ‘collateral damage’ in the first place right?
A Dutch colleague told me that for quite some time after the second world war if a Dutch citizen encountered a German, they’d ask, “What have you done with my bicycle?” Apparently among the better known war crimes and atrocities committed by the Germans in Holland during WWII, the fact that they stole nearly all the bicycles in Holland has not been forgotten by the Dutch.
In my day when somebody spotted a superhero we had to go through the whole rigmarole of false bird and plane alarms before we finally found out who it was! And, by gum, we liked it!
That happened to me too, though I was pissed because it was in my apartment complex. Four years of riding the thing back and forth on the campus, keeping it in the bike cage in the dorms, then you put it in the bike cage in a gated apartment complex and it disappears. Soooo unhappy. I’d had it since I was a kid -_-
I usually just walk. Not many cyclists in my school. Probably because it’s in the city. I usually just walk and end up giving money to the poor on the way.
Yeah you gave the exact reasons why people do cycle at my city-based university. Avoid the poor and it’s faster than walking (and if you need to go further, the bus has a bike rack too)
Seconding Bill. My campus was considered small for a four-year in that system and it still took twenty/thirty minutes walking to get from one side to the other. We actually had trolleys to get around. A bike, especially if you were running late, was essential.
UM campus is pretty big but we have shuttle buses for student use. We also have Zip cars or whatever but I’m pretty sure those are just for the students who live on campus.
Seriousely though, fuck people who steal bicycles. I hate you only slightly less than people who create computer viruses, and I want them all to catch an ironically severe virus.
He could probably weasel out of major penalties if he played it right. “you know, the Bike was illegally parked. I was sending it back to *insert campus police*” I mean, this school seems sufficiently zany for someone to buy it.
Gas prices have fallen about half a dollar over the past few months; but then I’m still longing for the days of $0.99/gallon gasoline, which was fairly stable from ’90 to about ’93. Then it skyrocketed.
So… I blame Clinton for the gas prices being as high as they are.
Considering that the chances are high if he’d been a affluent-looking white kid in a hoodie, things would not have happened the same, I would say that your comparison seems strange to me.
not necessarily, no. neither of them know Amber particularly well, and it’s very easy to make your voice sound nothing like it normally would, even if its obviously a fake voice your using.
I love Walky’s expression in that last panel. He and Dorothy look like they’re having a fun date.
Poor Amber, but the whole vigilante thing had to end sometime. I’m hoping it ends here with early retirement and not in some sort of truly disastrous fashion. . . . Then again, this may still play out disastrously, so. I suppose we’ll see.
It one thing to be flag by the paparazzi, but its entirely different when they get in the way of the way of your job- and heres something Dorothy didn’t think about ,if she leeked out improtant information about Amazi-girl wouldn’t that put Danny in danger?
I’m glad this superhero stuff is coming to an end. Although Amber’s probably done some good stuff, she’s also A) Assaulted multiple people for crimes that didn’t really warrant assaulting, B) Allowed a date rapist to escape, and C) Worn the tackiest superhero costume I’ve seen in all my years.
I’m gonna need receipts on point a, because the only people she seems to have used violence against were 1) the guys who tried to beat up Danny and 2) a purse snatcher who she seems to have merely tackled for the purpose of retrieving the purse.
From a LEO standpoint, she has done nothing wrong. She is merely a person in a cosplay outfit requesting that a miscreant stop performing an illegal act — and there are no rules about what someone chooses to wear. Of course, we know she would kick his ass across campus if he didn’t; but she hasn’t done it yet. So at this point — no blood, no foul.
As for past incidents — have there been any formal complaints filed by those people she has flipped or tossed? We don’t know; and again, from a LEO viewpoint, without a complaint there is nothing to be dealt with.
law enforcement is just that, not peace keepers. she hasnt broken any laws yet, and she can make a citizen’s arrest. she hasnt assaulted him yet. telling him to stop breaking he law isnt a crime, calling him an insulting name isnt a crime (since it’s not ethnically or racially motivated). wearing a mask isnt a crime. so, so far… no crime (in this instance).
What part of “Assault” is not “breaking the law”? And who said I was speaking entirely about this instance? She’s done it before, and the odds are she’ll keep doing it. She was about to issue one now, but the peanut gallery interrupted her.
Cops generally don’t approve of vigilantes in the real world, regardless of how bizarre that may seem to you. Nominally, that’s because they’re actually following the law, and the vigilante is not.
LEO’s dont follow the law, they have separate laws they they follow while enforcing local laws.
They dont like Vigilante’s because they feel they’re doing their job, and makes them look bad, no matter how productive they are.. Leo’s feel they’re the only one with the rights to enforce laws for you, whether you asked them to or not.
Time for a short article on the Citizen’s Arrest:
Most states have codified the common law rule that a warrantless arrest may be made by a private person for a felony, misdemeanor or “breach of peace”. A breach of peace covers a multitude of violations in which the Supreme Court has even included a misdemeanor seatbelt violation punishable only by a fine. The term historically included theft, “nightwalking”, prostitution and playing card and dice games.
She stole a stop sign, although she did put it back later.
That’s usually a misdemeanor, unless it caused a traffic accident. Or it was an expensive sign.
It wasn’t a stop sign, it was a “Dead End” sign. And Amazi-Girl didn’t actually steal it, she ‘confiscated’ or perhaps ‘impounded’ it from the persons who were vandalizing it (and then dared them to call the cops about it). She and Danny then cleaned it and replaced it.
I too wonder why Amazi-girl is worried; so far Dorothy has merely gotten video of her from behind, not committing any crime. So Dorothy can prove that Amazi-girl 1) has tousled brown hair (or a wig), 2) a blue cape, 3) blue boots, 4) yellow leggings, and 5) a batman voice. And of those, 1-5 are both already known by everyone she’s met, and also moot points if she gets her hands on the phone again.
Seriously people, Dorothy’s not doing so great at this ‘unmasking’ thing so far. You’re supposed to actually catch them half-in costume, or alternatively knock them out, tie them to a chair, and then unmask them, optionally setting them on fire first. Merely videoing them in full costume isn’t going to do it – which is why they wear the costume and all in the first place.
I hope this doesn’t go as badly as I fear it will. I honestly like Amazi-Girl more than Amber, because she’s more dynamic and more in-control of herself.
Granted, running around in a yellow suit fighting crime isn’t exactly something I’d recommend as standard therapy. But she *does* fight crime. We’ve seen her recover purses from purse snatchers and stop beatings and muggings in progress. And when she encountered that graffiti ‘artist’ a while back, she didn’t even *hit* the guy: she chose an alternative means of dealing with the situation.
We’ve seen Amber punch her dad (who totally had it coming, not debating that), flip over a table on one of her best friends, punch doors, and flip out because she missed a frickin’ WoW raid…
…Okay, I’m gonna say it. Amazi-Girl is the stronger and more stable of the two personalities. You take that away, and Amber is just a shadow…
Dorothy could stop the bicycle thief with her camera/video/phone. But she is too busy being productive to be actually useful. She belongs Ivy League.
Bicycle thieves are the worst and their apprehension should take priority. And most Big Ten campuses are large enough that a bike is very useful until the snow starts. And most are pretty bike friendly, though I don’t know about IU in particular.
Liking Dorothy less and less. She’s about as social as Dina and less caring.
If I know comedies, Amazi-girl and Dorothy are going to now focus entirely on each other (because Dorothy won’t let Amazi-girl do her work), and the bike thief will quietly tiptoe away. Whistling. Carrying the bike with him.
After all the “Danny needs to die” discussion yesterday, for a minute I thought the alt text meant the thief inspired death wishes because he looks a little like Danny.
I’d be ok with it if Amazi-Girl slapped Dorothy and Walky and then smashed the phone. Amazi-Girl is actually doing something positive whereas Dorothy is being quite selfish in trying to unmask her (and with that face Walkys asking for a good slapping)
As a freshman in college back in 1972, a good bicycle was probably one of the most expensive things you could own at that time. Sure, some people owned cars, but those weren’t getting stolen as frequently as bicycles, and if they were the cops at least made an attempt to try to find them. Bicycles? You got a TS card and the recommendation to file a claim against your renter’s insurance (if you had remembered to buy any).
Danny is gonna make Amber hate his guts with a passion just before discovering that she’s Amazi-girl, isn’t he?
And of course, he will put the fault on Billie and Sal for tricking him into believing that Sal is Amazi-girl.
And Sal will say “wait, did you think that I was a shapeshifter able to change my skin tone, height, jawline and body shape, or what?” (and then she will kick him in the balls for being such a ******).
When did Dorothy’s motivation become to unmask Amazi-girl? I know that she is supposed to write about her in the paper. Before Amazi-girl out ran Dorothy she was trying to the reporter on her side.
Is there a comic where Dorothy is told or says she wants to unmask Amazi-girl, can someone provide the link?
The thing, is, once unmasked, Amazi-girl’s story isn’t worth sh*t. Some nerdy girl who loves superhero comics and likes to play superheroine, that’s all…and really, Dorothy shouldn’t expect anything different…it’s that or some pothead who likes to run around in leotards punching people.
Unmasking Amazi-girl is like discovering that the mysterious ghost black dog that haunts the cementery at midnight is just a Newfoundland whose lazy ass owner releases it there every night there so he hasn’t to bother giving it a real walk. Or discovering that the poltergeist that haunts an old house are just rats crawling their tunnels into the walls.
Amazi-girl’s story is interesting for so long as she remains unmasked, because it’s a fun mystery. I Dorothy doesn’t understand that, she isn’t a good reporter.
EDIT: I meant “Amazi-girl’s story is interesting for so long as she remains a masked, because it’s a fun mystery. I Dorothy doesn’t understand that, she isn’t a good reporter.”
Amazi-Girl is pretty much a well intentioned criminal. Unmsking her is pretty much catching her red-handed. remember, Amazi-Girl is attacking people, breaking into people’s dorms and who knows what else, that’s not legal.
Maybe I can clarify what I’m asking…
Is Dorothy’s motivation here to get an interview with Amazi-girl or is she trying to find out who is behind the mask?
I’m asking because a lot of comments are discussing Dorothy unmasking Amazi-Girl and I don’t remember when/if that became her motivation.
I’m guessing Blaine and Danny are going to come along now and
Blaine: “WHat are you doing Amber?”
Readers: “no danny.”
Danny: “That’s not Amber, that’s my gf Amazi-Girl!”
Readers: “No Danny.”
Blaine: “No, that’s Amber.” *goes for the mask*
Readers: “No Danny!”
Danny: *looking back and forth* “I understand everything now!”
Readers: “NO DANNY!”
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And this time, Dorothy is aware of the phone snatching.
Walky should be playing backup as well!
Well it is for HER college acceptance.
Amazi-Girl is going to end up as a tumblr meme, isn’t she.
She’s not one already?
OK then, new memes.
And then it’s on to Reddit, and her 15 minutes will be over.
Nope. I foresee phone smashing. And I can’t blame her.
Smashing phones is a slippery slope… where does it end? Pretty soon SHE’S the one stealing bikes!
I threw it on the ground
thats not an army thats a cell phone
*plays the Honda Civic “Hoodie Ninja” song*
“You got me. I am Faz!”
“The Faz would like to direct you to this chart I’ve made, indicating why this outfit and mask should arouse you.”
Re: The Alt Text: Some of you may be unaware of David Willis’ “love” of bicycle thieves….
It was the theft of his parents’ bicycles when he was six that led young Willis to take up the mantle of the
Batcartoonist.As I recall, his own bicycle was stolen in college. There was a “Rommies” storyline about it.
But I think I’m not supposed to link his other comics here.
As a cyclist myself, whatever happens to this guy wouldn’t be enough.
My pet hamster was shot up in an alleyway and I want to become a superhero. QUICK. NAME MY ALTER-EGO.
HamSTAR: the short-tailed terror that nibbles in the night
The Guinea Pig! Before you run out to fight crime you break into a chemistry lab and drink a random mix of chemicals and those are your super powers for that fight
“Ew, you vomited on me!”
“Yeah, I get that power set a lot. Now are you going to surrender, or do you want some more??”
Godammit I love this fandom.
“No. My alter ego is an EMT. I fear no vomit!”
“Evil on the other hand… well, I actually never did take the Hippocratic Oath.”
Amazi-Girl really needs to carry a portable EMP device to protect her from the evils of social media exposure, the only problem with that is that the odd person with a pacemaker will die but that’s why the American Govenment coined the term ‘collateral damage’ in the first place right?
My bike got stolen in college too. In Ohio. In January. And I didn’t have a car and my first class was a fifteen minute walk away. At 7 am.
Yeah, bike thieves suck.
A Dutch colleague told me that for quite some time after the second world war if a Dutch citizen encountered a German, they’d ask, “What have you done with my bicycle?” Apparently among the better known war crimes and atrocities committed by the Germans in Holland during WWII, the fact that they stole nearly all the bicycles in Holland has not been forgotten by the Dutch.
It’s still not forgotten. Only now we make sure to only mention it when no German is around to hear it.
Wow. Was there some organized campaign, or was the German army just inexplicably full of bicycle thieves?
I’m pretty sure it was a “We conquered you now we’re taking all your shit” mentality
As far as the Germans were concerned, the Dutch bikes were scrap metal just waiting to be melted down into panzers and Messerschmits.
Kinda like how the Germans were always stealing the Russians’ boots on the Eastern Front?
That was fast, even by social media standards.
We have teleporters now, Grandpa!
In my day when somebody spotted a superhero we had to go through the whole rigmarole of false bird and plane alarms before we finally found out who it was! And, by gum, we liked it!
And if you wanted to alert the world, you didn’t have a phone in your pocket, no sir. You had to find a phone booth.
And you had to wait your turn because the damn hero was in there changin’ into his jimjams!
And dammit, we were grateful!
And heroes had to chase evil doers uphill in the snow… both ways.
It built character.
To be fair, if Walky takes up vigilante work, he’ll be halfway there.
Funny how daytime emphasizes how awesome she looks in that costume.
I question the gangrenous yellow she chose as the primary color.
Less gangrenous in colour and more chamois.
It’s not her color, either way.
You sure she didn’t trademark it? I hope she at least trademarked the symbol on her chest, lest someone else use it.
Oh no… I’ve often begun sentences with an “A”! I’m gonna owe here THOUSANDS
Nah. The Fonz trademarked it years ago, but he’s too cool to upset anyone over it.
She actually got that from Nathaniel; she just changed the color.
@LimeTH: Yay! Someone else recognizes Amber’s awesome figure<3
The more the merrier ^_^
Not awesome.
Bodacious.
Hah, yeah, it was her figure I was talking about.
The yellow’s not that bad, though.
I feel sorry for that phone. Lord knows what Amazi-girl will do to it.
This comic is about 15+ years late wish fulfillment, isn’t it.
(For reference, the following comic was based on something that actually happened to Willis.)
http://www.bringbackroomies.com/comic/crap/
That happened to me too, though I was pissed because it was in my apartment complex. Four years of riding the thing back and forth on the campus, keeping it in the bike cage in the dorms, then you put it in the bike cage in a gated apartment complex and it disappears. Soooo unhappy. I’d had it since I was a kid -_-
PLEASE TELL ME THIS GUY IS STEALING DANNY’S BIKE
It seems whenever Danny gets involved with a Sal this kinda thing happens.
Seconded!
He’s dorming there, why would he need a bike?
To go to places that are NOT the dorm. You know..like stores and stuff.
I usually just walk. Not many cyclists in my school. Probably because it’s in the city. I usually just walk and end up giving money to the poor on the way.
You just described some of the reasons I did bike in Atlanta, even with the homicidal traffic.
Yeah you gave the exact reasons why people do cycle at my city-based university. Avoid the poor and it’s faster than walking (and if you need to go further, the bus has a bike rack too)
Because bicycles are fun?
Well, that was a helluva time to get the Joyce avatar back.
Because Indiana University campus is fuggin’ huge.
Seconding Bill. My campus was considered small for a four-year in that system and it still took twenty/thirty minutes walking to get from one side to the other. We actually had trolleys to get around. A bike, especially if you were running late, was essential.
UM campus is pretty big but we have shuttle buses for student use. We also have Zip cars or whatever but I’m pretty sure those are just for the students who live on campus.
Walky is preparing his lips for victory kissin’.
Camera phones – the downfall of many superheroes (not to mention actors and politicians).
Love how the bike the actually is intimidated by the superhero.
That bike is TERRIFIED.
It, for the first time, knows true fear.
I’m betting the stop sign told stories of Amazigirl’s harsh treatment.
I can’t really tell if it’s a Fuji Sandblaster, but it’s definitely not red.
Seriousely though, fuck people who steal bicycles. I hate you only slightly less than people who create computer viruses, and I want them all to catch an ironically severe virus.
Using context clues, I can assume you want bike thieves to catch severe bikes.
ironically severe bikes.
You mean like this one?
That would be a good, yeah.
Wait, do you want the virus programmers to have their computer security measures fail disastrously, or do you want them to become seriously ill?
I mean, obviously the answer is both, but I want to know which one you meant.
2nd.
He could probably weasel out of major penalties if he played it right. “you know, the Bike was illegally parked. I was sending it back to *insert campus police*” I mean, this school seems sufficiently zany for someone to buy it.
He might as well say its lights only light on one side.
…I wonder if Amazi-Girl’s vengeful enough right now to consider smashing a several-hundred dollar phone.
She would become a true anti-hero.
At this point it won’t matter. They know what area she’s living in. She’s made too many slip ups and is getting backed into a corner.
Her best move right now might be to offer an interview in exchange for not revealing her identity and then quietly retiring.
Yeah, but that’d require her to be… REASONABLE *scare chord*
She can’t retire. She’d explode.
I keep my armies up my sleevies.
I DON’T KNOW HOW, BUT THIS IS A BAD THING AND THEREFORE SOMEHOW DANNY’S FAULT!!!!
I blame Danny for Nuclear Winter and World Hunger.
Oh yeah? Well, I blame Blaine for causing the Nuclear Winter in the first place.
I blame Danny for rising gas prices!
Thanks, Dannybama!
Gas prices have fallen about half a dollar over the past few months; but then I’m still longing for the days of $0.99/gallon gasoline, which was fairly stable from ’90 to about ’93. Then it skyrocketed.
So… I blame Clinton for the gas prices being as high as they are.
CORRECT
DANNY IS THE ONE TRUE VILLAIN
DANNY KILLED BATMAN’S PARENTS
DANNY DEFINITELY RAN OVER AN OLD LADY ONCE
DANNY IS USING BLAINE TO GET TO AMBER, AND THEN TO SEND HER AWAY TO NORTHERN SIBERIA WITHOUT A SLEEPING BAG
Danny caused the Arctic Vortex.
Danny is responsible for a minimum of 95% of this comic’s Dannyness !
The bike will be a lot safer if it was stored in the Amazi-rack.
Heh, Amazi-rack.
Hyuk hyuk hyuk
Yup
Seems the current state of affairs, especially with her father (technically just a few days or even hours ago) have hindered her abilities…
Not her abilities, her judgement.
Considering what she does next, definitely not her abilities.
Wow, I don’t know why, but those faces in the last panel are kinda pissing me off.
Likewise.
Same here.
I agree!
Amazi-Girl, take the Batman initiative. Grab the phone and delete the photo.
She’s done that to Dorothy and her phone once already. Won’t be able to pull that trick a second time.
OK…does smashing it still works?
Yes!
What a cute bike drawing aaaahhh I love it!
that said, YES, Dorothy and Walky’s faces are SO irritating in the last panel!!
By irritating do you mean hilarious?
I’ve got a bike, you can ride it if you like…
It’s got a bah-sket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I’d give it to you if I could–
I read your post as bat’leth.
http://galleryplus.ebayimg.com/ws/web/281157132943_1_0_1/1000×1000.jpg
thanks, now I want to see a bat-leth with bells and streamers on it
I ride my bicycle, roller skate, don’t drive no car.
Don’t go too fast, but I go pretty far.
Am I the only one who get flashbacks to the Technis Imperative with the you and what army line?
“It is I, Technus! Master of all electronics!”
So that’s who stole Danny’s bike.
This comic perpetuates the idea that people who wear hoodies in broad daylight are thieves and not vampires, as we know they are.
Yeah, vampires wear capes or long trench coat and a cool hat and shades.
So minus the shades, I’m a vampire. This would explain why the sun burns me.
Yes. Gotta wear those protective shades!
Have we learned nothing from the death of Trayvon martin back in Florida 2 years ago!?
Considering that the chances are high if he’d been a affluent-looking white kid in a hoodie, things would not have happened the same, I would say that your comparison seems strange to me.
Skin color was not what I was getting at even though that is true
And Assassins. But not the boring emotionless kind, the swashbuckling and/or italian romantic kind.
What about the naive Haudenosaunee kind?
And what about the still kinda boring and emotionless Arabic kind?
That is a terrible thief.
Wouldn’t they recognize her voice, even if she was trying to disguise it?
Neither of them really knows her.
Well, no one that Bruce Wayne is Batman even with the growly voice.
To be fair, that voice is pretty much exclusive to the last two movies. In the comics and cartoons and whatnot, nobody has any excuse.
Well, in the animated series, Batman and Bruce Wayne sounds different. Not so much in The Batman, though.
Batman has pretty much always used a different voice.
Have to correct you there, old chum.
That’s why I said ‘pretty much alway’s and not just’ always’.
not necessarily, no. neither of them know Amber particularly well, and it’s very easy to make your voice sound nothing like it normally would, even if its obviously a fake voice your using.
I love Walky’s expression in that last panel. He and Dorothy look like they’re having a fun date.
Poor Amber, but the whole vigilante thing had to end sometime. I’m hoping it ends here with early retirement and not in some sort of truly disastrous fashion. . . . Then again, this may still play out disastrously, so. I suppose we’ll see.
It one thing to be flag by the paparazzi, but its entirely different when they get in the way of the way of your job- and heres something Dorothy didn’t think about ,if she leeked out improtant information about Amazi-girl wouldn’t that put Danny in danger?
Dorothy doesn’t know about Amazi-Girl’s relationship with Danny. Last she heard she saved him from some jerks. Even Joe doesn’t know about Amazi-Girl.
No no Danny told her himself that he was going out with amazi-girl, that was like the last conversation they had.
I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that was with Billie.
No no go through Dorothy’s tag archive until you see the stirp called POPULAR you’ll see what I mean.
It appears you are correct. Though I’m not sure how it would endanger him unless she identified him in her articles.
As a cyclist, I agree with the subtext. They used to hang horse thieves and cattle rustlers; why should bike thieves be any different?
Amazigirl got caught slipping
~Why can’t they see what I see~
~Why can’t they hear the lies~
~Maybe the fee’s too pricey~
~for them to realize~
Really, if this keeps Amber from beating up some jerk in broad daylight it’s kinda a real stroke of luck for her.
Never assume that I do not have an Army at my disposal!
I’m glad this superhero stuff is coming to an end. Although Amber’s probably done some good stuff, she’s also A) Assaulted multiple people for crimes that didn’t really warrant assaulting, B) Allowed a date rapist to escape, and C) Worn the tackiest superhero costume I’ve seen in all my years.
Tacky? Have you seen Mr Action’s costume? Amazi-Girl’s costume is pretty good.
Don’t be talkin smack about Mr. Action.
Mr. Action will mess you up!
I’m gonna need receipts on point a, because the only people she seems to have used violence against were 1) the guys who tried to beat up Danny and 2) a purse snatcher who she seems to have merely tackled for the purpose of retrieving the purse.
Well, there were people at Ryan’s party that she was tussling with. Can’t think of anything else right now though.
And she was planning to assault Sal.
From a LEO standpoint, she has done nothing wrong. She is merely a person in a cosplay outfit requesting that a miscreant stop performing an illegal act — and there are no rules about what someone chooses to wear. Of course, we know she would kick his ass across campus if he didn’t; but she hasn’t done it yet. So at this point — no blood, no foul.
As for past incidents — have there been any formal complaints filed by those people she has flipped or tossed? We don’t know; and again, from a LEO viewpoint, without a complaint there is nothing to be dealt with.
Uh, law enforcement tends to care about threats. They’re usually called ‘Assault’, and her schtick requires either beatings or threats of beatings.
law enforcement is just that, not peace keepers. she hasnt broken any laws yet, and she can make a citizen’s arrest. she hasnt assaulted him yet. telling him to stop breaking he law isnt a crime, calling him an insulting name isnt a crime (since it’s not ethnically or racially motivated). wearing a mask isnt a crime. so, so far… no crime (in this instance).
What part of “Assault” is not “breaking the law”? And who said I was speaking entirely about this instance? She’s done it before, and the odds are she’ll keep doing it. She was about to issue one now, but the peanut gallery interrupted her.
“Officer, this girl stopped me from beating up a kid/vandalizing a sign/stealing a bike, etc. You gotta help me!”
Cops generally don’t approve of vigilantes in the real world, regardless of how bizarre that may seem to you. Nominally, that’s because they’re actually following the law, and the vigilante is not.
LEO’s dont follow the law, they have separate laws they they follow while enforcing local laws.
They dont like Vigilante’s because they feel they’re doing their job, and makes them look bad, no matter how productive they are.. Leo’s feel they’re the only one with the rights to enforce laws for you, whether you asked them to or not.
Leos don’t follow the law because, as unemployed mutant turtles, they are unable to pay property taxes.
Time for a short article on the Citizen’s Arrest:
Most states have codified the common law rule that a warrantless arrest may be made by a private person for a felony, misdemeanor or “breach of peace”. A breach of peace covers a multitude of violations in which the Supreme Court has even included a misdemeanor seatbelt violation punishable only by a fine. The term historically included theft, “nightwalking”, prostitution and playing card and dice games.
She stole a stop sign, although she did put it back later.
That’s usually a misdemeanor, unless it caused a traffic accident. Or it was an expensive sign.
It wasn’t a stop sign, it was a “Dead End” sign. And Amazi-Girl didn’t actually steal it, she ‘confiscated’ or perhaps ‘impounded’ it from the persons who were vandalizing it (and then dared them to call the cops about it). She and Danny then cleaned it and replaced it.
STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!
You have committed crimes against Indiana University and her people. What say you in your defense?
THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD!
You win an Internet!
I am disappoint that I had to scroll down this much for someone to finally make a reference.
Wish you have smoke bombs, huh?
amazi-girl’s embarrassed face.
embarrassi-girl’s amazed face.
Why is Walky making a duck face? Does he think they’re taking a selfie?
Walky is secretly a duck dressed as a manchild. Turns out the Walkerton parents arnt racist, they’re speciesist.
He’s doing kissy facial stretches so he’ll be super ready for tonight’s make-outs.
Dorothy and Walky’s face…..I feel IRRITATED just by glancing at them.
I know how you feel…somthing about their expressions just pisses me off!
Dorothy and Walky…..look creepy as hell right now. Really?
Yeah, Dorothy’s insane ‘PRODUCTIVITY AND PROGRESS’ face is starting to creep me out, too.
Though then again I’m not sure why she’s getting a photo of her from behind. For posteriority?
I think she’s recording a video.
Huh huh huh, you said ‘posteriority’.
I too wonder why Amazi-girl is worried; so far Dorothy has merely gotten video of her from behind, not committing any crime. So Dorothy can prove that Amazi-girl 1) has tousled brown hair (or a wig), 2) a blue cape, 3) blue boots, 4) yellow leggings, and 5) a batman voice. And of those, 1-5 are both already known by everyone she’s met, and also moot points if she gets her hands on the phone again.
Oh, Amazi-Girl. This is why you used to only work at night.
I can’t believe it’s taken this long for an Oblivion reference:
STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!
She used to be an Amazi-Girl, but then she took an unmasking to the knee.
But her mask’s still on.
Seriously people, Dorothy’s not doing so great at this ‘unmasking’ thing so far. You’re supposed to actually catch them half-in costume, or alternatively knock them out, tie them to a chair, and then unmask them, optionally setting them on fire first. Merely videoing them in full costume isn’t going to do it – which is why they wear the costume and all in the first place.
I hope this doesn’t go as badly as I fear it will. I honestly like Amazi-Girl more than Amber, because she’s more dynamic and more in-control of herself.
Granted, running around in a yellow suit fighting crime isn’t exactly something I’d recommend as standard therapy. But she *does* fight crime. We’ve seen her recover purses from purse snatchers and stop beatings and muggings in progress. And when she encountered that graffiti ‘artist’ a while back, she didn’t even *hit* the guy: she chose an alternative means of dealing with the situation.
We’ve seen Amber punch her dad (who totally had it coming, not debating that), flip over a table on one of her best friends, punch doors, and flip out because she missed a frickin’ WoW raid…
…Okay, I’m gonna say it. Amazi-Girl is the stronger and more stable of the two personalities. You take that away, and Amber is just a shadow…
…Of her father.
owch as much as I like amber.. dayum, thats pretty accurate….
The title gives the Ben Folds Five fanboy in me a huuuge boner.
Have to agree with MsSchiff.
Either way I wonder if Dorothy is going to be able to walk very well with her phone jammed up her butt.
Which is where I hope Amazi-girl puts it.
Danny doesn’t count, as usual.
Walky is complimented that you referred to him as the noble Danny, lender of shoes to monkey men.
And neither does Walky for that matter. Miss typed.
Oh, you already noticed your error. Didn’t see that in time.
You should use the ‘reply’ feature. It keeps things much more organized.
Stalker alert.
Pfffft
Bwahahahaaaah!
XD
Dorothy could stop the bicycle thief with her camera/video/phone. But she is too busy being productive to be actually useful. She belongs Ivy League.
Bicycle thieves are the worst and their apprehension should take priority. And most Big Ten campuses are large enough that a bike is very useful until the snow starts. And most are pretty bike friendly, though I don’t know about IU in particular.
Liking Dorothy less and less. She’s about as social as Dina and less caring.
She *IS* stopping the bicycle thief. He is now actually stopping the theft. WTH?
If I know comedies, Amazi-girl and Dorothy are going to now focus entirely on each other (because Dorothy won’t let Amazi-girl do her work), and the bike thief will quietly tiptoe away. Whistling. Carrying the bike with him.
Something tells me Walky might be getting some tonight.
yah, he loves nachos!
… wait, we are talking nachos, rite?
We’re always talking about nachos.
Wait, how did they get there so fast?
There was a time skip. This is actually the seventh crime that Amazi-girl has foiled this morning.
That makes sense, I suppose.
After all the “Danny needs to die” discussion yesterday, for a minute I thought the alt text meant the thief inspired death wishes because he looks a little like Danny.
It’s like some bizarro episode of Cops.
Oooh, whatcha gonna do now, Amazi-girl?
Flip amber off, and continue working, all without letting the camera catch her face.
And then deleting the video with her psychic powers. Wouldn’t that be a surprise!
Most of all to her.
Rats, I was looking forward to a good ass kicking here……. now it’s going to be all tweety and texty, and who knows what all.
I keep misreading the first line as “Stop right there criminal scum”
I think it’s skyrim time again.
I used to be a crime fighter like you, but then I took an abusive father figure and a hopelessly naive boy to the knee.
Except “Stop right there criminal scum” makes it Oblivion time.
“Come quietly and face the Jarl’s justice” would make it Skyrim time.
I love that face in the last panel!
She just can’t catch a break. –.–
I bet it’s Danny’s bike 😀 Danny gets his bike stolen in this universe too.
Ah, blast! This is a fine mess of turnips I’ve gotten myself into, if I do say so myself.
I’d be ok with it if Amazi-Girl slapped Dorothy and Walky and then smashed the phone. Amazi-Girl is actually doing something positive whereas Dorothy is being quite selfish in trying to unmask her (and with that face Walkys asking for a good slapping)
I’m not normally for the death penalty, but I think that bike thieves should be forcefed their own wiresnips.
Obvious joke: Of course you don’t have an army, Amazi-Girl, you have a Hulk.
Blaine should only see her in costume and call it. Condescendingly, but call it.
Frankly I don’t see how bike thieves are any worse than most other types of thieves. With that said, I agree.
As a freshman in college back in 1972, a good bicycle was probably one of the most expensive things you could own at that time. Sure, some people owned cars, but those weren’t getting stolen as frequently as bicycles, and if they were the cops at least made an attempt to try to find them. Bicycles? You got a TS card and the recommendation to file a claim against your renter’s insurance (if you had remembered to buy any).
Danny is gonna make Amber hate his guts with a passion just before discovering that she’s Amazi-girl, isn’t he?
And of course, he will put the fault on Billie and Sal for tricking him into believing that Sal is Amazi-girl.
And Sal will say “wait, did you think that I was a shapeshifter able to change my skin tone, height, jawline and body shape, or what?” (and then she will kick him in the balls for being such a ******).
When did Dorothy’s motivation become to unmask Amazi-girl? I know that she is supposed to write about her in the paper. Before Amazi-girl out ran Dorothy she was trying to the reporter on her side.
Is there a comic where Dorothy is told or says she wants to unmask Amazi-girl, can someone provide the link?
The thing, is, once unmasked, Amazi-girl’s story isn’t worth sh*t. Some nerdy girl who loves superhero comics and likes to play superheroine, that’s all…and really, Dorothy shouldn’t expect anything different…it’s that or some pothead who likes to run around in leotards punching people.
Unmasking Amazi-girl is like discovering that the mysterious ghost black dog that haunts the cementery at midnight is just a Newfoundland whose lazy ass owner releases it there every night there so he hasn’t to bother giving it a real walk. Or discovering that the poltergeist that haunts an old house are just rats crawling their tunnels into the walls.
Amazi-girl’s story is interesting for so long as she remains unmasked, because it’s a fun mystery. I Dorothy doesn’t understand that, she isn’t a good reporter.
EDIT: I meant “Amazi-girl’s story is interesting for so long as she remains a masked, because it’s a fun mystery. I Dorothy doesn’t understand that, she isn’t a good reporter.”
Amazi-Girl is pretty much a well intentioned criminal. Unmsking her is pretty much catching her red-handed. remember, Amazi-Girl is attacking people, breaking into people’s dorms and who knows what else, that’s not legal.
Maybe I can clarify what I’m asking…
Is Dorothy’s motivation here to get an interview with Amazi-girl or is she trying to find out who is behind the mask?
I’m asking because a lot of comments are discussing Dorothy unmasking Amazi-Girl and I don’t remember when/if that became her motivation.
I do sure hope that Amazi-girl Rips that cellphone out of Dorothy’s hand!
Run, Amazi-girl, Run! D:
I love that Amazi-Girl says “blast” as her curse word. So appropriate.
I’m guessing Blaine and Danny are going to come along now and
Blaine: “WHat are you doing Amber?”
Readers: “no danny.”
Danny: “That’s not Amber, that’s my gf Amazi-Girl!”
Readers: “No Danny.”
Blaine: “No, that’s Amber.” *goes for the mask*
Readers: “No Danny!”
Danny: *looking back and forth* “I understand everything now!”
Readers: “NO DANNY!”