I’m reminded of when Ramona was first assigned to work with the Doctor, and she immediately pointed out how she was the top of every class in the history of ever and she had looked up the Doctor’s records and noticed he’d barely passed Timelord School.
(This is a real thing. I did not make this up. Ramona was the Hermione of Dr. Who)
I actually learned a bit of parkour in one of my Computer Science classes once. That prof also spent a lecture on lock picking. CS departments tend to be pretty eccentric, and once those guys get tenure, oh boy do they get tenure.
We didn’t get lectures on lockpicking, but I did spend several of my boring lectures picking locks. Nowadays I have a smartphone for that (boring lectures, not lockpicking). The thing about eccentric CS guys is true. I’m a bit eccentric myself, but we have a running theory about our professors. We’re not sure yet whether you have to be that eccentric to get tenure as a CS professor, or whether you only get to be that eccentric after you’re a tenured professor, because no one will dare tell you otherwise. My favourite tenured professor is a member of the ethics committee, and is constantly trying to egg our hacker club (I’m a member) on, to hack the university. He’s a great guy.
…mostly because the facilities people never got around to adding anyone to the card-swipe lock for the room most of my classes were in, so we had to sit around outside it until the prof showed up with a physical key.
Moving it isn’t legal. Larceny is the taking and carrying away of tangible personal property of another without consent with the intent to deprive them of it’s possession permanently.
It’s been legally established that moving the entire object ANY distance away after having gained sole possession of it is enough to satisfy the carrying away aspect. The fact she discarded it rather than returned it directly to the bike jacker, is enough to satisfy “deprived permanently” aspect.
I feel like bird rules would apply i.e. she’s not grounded, so the electricity doesn’t want to go through her (if that’s what you were referring to, and if what I learned about that 15+ years ago was actually true).
really? I thought electricity should fry her since she is using steel pipes to grab the cable and it goes through it. Guess I need to study a lot more haha.
Yeah, I was thinking similarly, but it seems there isn’t any reason why the electricity to “want” to go through the metal as opposed to staying on its intended path.
There’s enough current running through one of those wires to burn through asphalt. You’d probably need at least a foot of rubber for it to start mastering. The reason she’s not being electrocuted is because she’s not grounded and electricity seeks ground in much the same way water seeks it’s lowest level.
Fun fact, if you’ve heard you should stay in your car when a live wire falls on it, that’s true. The car will protect you from getting electrocuted, but not because of its rubber tires. As with the shears, you would need several feet of rubber for it to matter, otherwise the rubber soles in your shoes would save you. Instead, the car’s metal frame forms a vanderferd cage around you.
This works because, in addition to seeking ground, electricity seeks the path of least resistance. Metal has a lot lower resistance then air or humans, so the electricity has no reason to jump through the center of the car, the slightly longer route around its edges is much easier.
This also explains why we normally see electricity jumping to metal. If there are too paths to ground, the one that includes metal will usually be easier, so that’s the one the electricity will takes. However, this is only true if there’s actually a path to ground. On it’s own, metal does not attract electricity.
A Faraday cage is simply a metal shell. Cars are just very coarse ones with large holes, so they’re not particularly effective at stopping even long-wavelength radio signals (though they do interfere; my GPS gets notably better signal on the dash under the glass windshield than in the back seat under the metal roof), but still work fine against basically-DC lightning strikes.
Nah, she isn’t grounded so it doesn’t matter. If she’d been touching the ground (and thus revealed to be a descendant of one Mr. Richards) or touching something that connected to ground, then you’d have a problem.
I was going to follow this up with a “girl who plays seme” but i have only a vague understanding of what those words mean and that would be followed up with me instituting a “no yaoi jokes before bed” rule.
Technically, it would be yuri, since Amber’s a girl…
Unless you meant you’d have to institute the rule because you spent all night “reasearching” yaoi to figure out the proper meanings of the words. If that’s the case I can’t help you.
I recently discovered that on a mobile device you can tap on the empty space to the left and right of the comic navigation links and it will display the mouse over / alt text.
The text will be displayed in a white box and the rest of the page will fade to black. Just tap the black space to close the alt text. This works the same way as clicking the alt text link on a Hininks Ensue comic
And then when she sneaks back onto campus, sans costume, they’re all, “Hi. You know, that mask didn’t cover much of your face. Wanna go out for pizza and talk about it?”
Not entirely clear. They’ve never appeared in the same strip, but Dina alerted Amber to the Billie/Ruth confrontation here, and it seems likely that she was watching from off-panel when Amazi-Girl subsequently carried Billie off. But possibly not. I believe that’s the only time Dina’s been nearby when Amber was in costume.
I’d a tribute the sparks to friction. Sort of like how you get sparks from a metal grinder. Of course this raises issues with the wire being coated in a non-metalic substance, but shush.
Every strip in this story arc, I’ve read it and said “Wow, Amber just can’t get any more badass, can she?”
Yet every day, SHE DOES.
HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE
(And on a side note, how has no one in the electrocution argument mentioned that the power line is insulated?)
She’ll impale the Jabberwocky through the heart with a Transformers action figure and slingshot the asteroid into the sun using a daisy chain of Amazi-Condoms.
That is really good to know and would be really good design on Willis’s part if there was some way to know about that just by looking at it. I’m surprised I haven’t seen that sort of thing before, it’s a great idea.
Well…that stunt is in the introductory course. The advanced courses involves dinosaur punching, bear wrestling and uppercutting tigers among other things.
Poor Willis. If he had only had the foresight to draw those bolt-cutters with wooden handles, he might have saved himself from some of these comments about electrocution. (Some, but probably not all.) 😉
Wait, is Amazi-girl holding the bolt cutters open against the pressure of her own body weight? We’ve seen some impressive athletic feats from her but daaamn.
That’s more fascinating to me than how she may have counteracted electricity (I know why: the whole not touching ground/also insulated gloves/also rubber on handles thing) because I didn’t even notice her doing it until you pointed it out but yes and DAMN that is impressive
(also considering her hands are closer together which means it would require more strength to keep them open)
I would pay for workout lessons from Amazi-Girl she needs to give me her secrets
Grip strength, and the closer the hands are together the lesser the load to counteract. Still the strength in her index fingers… lets just say you wouldn’t want a hand job from her when she’s upset and not concentrating…
She took them off the bike thief. She forgot to wrap them around his neck with zip ties (I HATE bike thieves, they should be hanged like horse thieves).
Ok just want to chime in on this one. Re:eloltrocution. There are a few reasons that the Willis could have planned for this to be safer than it appears. And one very good reason that it is safe anyways. Non-conductive cladding or insulation on the wires, her gloves being an insulator, The handle of the bolt cutters being fiberglass, wood, composite or even rubber coated steel. All of those would help seem to save her, but they would all fail in reality. High power lines have too much voltage for that to work. Hell in most buildings the voltage is 3 phase 480V AC (not homes, real buildings that have to supply power to industrial chillers, heaters and the like).
What saves her life is that (like someone said earlier) She is suspended high above the ground by about 10-15 feet of fantastic insulation. AIR. No path for electricity, no current. No current, no Power used. Volts hurt, current kills people. Hit by lightning, you will probably live, unless you are near something that explodes near you (trees + lightning is bad kids) Thousands of volts, almost no current. Taking a bath with a toaster = death. See: All birds are not dead either.
TL:DR Touch wire and ground same time death. Amber is not on the ground, Amber is not kill.
Well, air isn’t a TOTAL insulator (you nullified your own example by mentioning lightning), but it would take a hell of a lot more current than that of a standard power line to be able to arc into the ground through multiple insulators.
Actually, the air is not what conducts the lightning. Before the lightning can travel from the cloud to the ground (or technically, from the ground to the cloud), it needs a path to follow. It cannot travel through the air, but it can travel through ionized air.
Page 4 of the article is the page that deals specifically with air ionization. It essentially creates a path of ionized air between the earth and the cloud that acts like a giant metal rod.
I’m suddenly picturing Amazi-Girl in that last panel doing Amber’s animated victory dance from when the False Equivalence comic reached howevermany thousand notes.
It’s incredible, that power line goes directly over a shark tank!
I kid, I kid, but for real. I’ve come to accept that Amber can do all that parkour stuff, but an impromptu grind on a power line onto a moving truck is a BIT unrealistic.
Yeah, my suspension of disbelief kind of cracked on this comic. I’m kind of expecting the next comic to be her smacking into something (like that power line coming up since it’s hard to tell how high it is compared to the truck) because she forgot to duck down or something.
Can I just mention how much I appreciate that Willis is not a pro tennis judge and therefore lets Amazi-Girl make noises representing the fact that this is fucking hard?
Truck is actually being driven by Dina, who is Albert to Amazi-Girl’s Batman, and she pulls over about a mile away to let her get down. That also explains how the truck just happened to be there exactly when she needed it.
Man, on the one hand, the mystery of Amazi-Girl remaining a mystery even when people have seen her in broad daylight, and now taken photographs, feels pretty implausible, and it’d be kind of dissappointing if the question of her identity remains an enigma that’s treated as inscrutable. They might not know who Amazi-Girl is yet, but they’ve got enough clues to piece it together when seeing Amber.
On the other hand, this chase scene has been excellent, and it illustrates Amber’s determination really well. Her will to preserve this outlet for her anger is immense.
They’d need to see Amber and a good photograph of Amazi-Girl to piece it together though, and as we have seen, Amber hides in her room killing spiders on her computer.
When you aren’t actively looking for Amazi-Girl as well, since Amber tends to just play her DS or look at her phone, she tends to ‘blend in’ as perfectly ordinary, making her easy to overlook.
Even if they were looking for Amazi-Girl, her glasses and ordinary behaviour would throw them off as people want superheroes to be obviously amazing which would send them after the brown-haired heavy set girls that are obviously amazing first and then they’d likely give up before they ever reach Amber.
They forget that superheroes are trying to blend in and focus mainly on those who stand out and then they just give up before they find out who it is.
From the “Cast bio” section:
“If Amber’s high school friends Ethan and Mike didn’t occasionally try to force her away from her MMORPGing, she probably wouldn’t ever leave her dorm room. That said, she’s surprisingly fit for someone who sits on the computer all day. Maybe she has a shake-weight or something.“
It’s probably both. But I’d hazard a guess that the powerline is taking the stress, since they tend to be higher than the phone lines. It would not make any difference to how dangerous it is because the danger is from falling not electrocution. Anyone hanging from the powerline is not grounded, so the electricity will not flow through them. Classic examples are birds who perch on powerlines all the time.
The short answer is not really, because she’s not completing a circuit and isn’t grounded (and both work basically under the same “why don’t birds get shocked” question), so I think the biggest danger is falling and getting hit by a truck.
Well, we know she did track and field so that accounts for stamina and speed. Throw in some terror, some anger issues and a need to escape and viola, you have developed all the skills necessary to be Amber. -w-
Logically though, it is possible she was on more than one team e.g. track & field AND gymnastics. Then she’d just need the right equipment and to put forethought into her escape route, in this case, it was the bolt cutters which helped her escape along whatever line that is which she may have thought of before climbing the building.
I’m more impressed with how she got to the wire in the first place without completing a circuit from the wire to the building. That is a hard jump to make.
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Ain’t no major like that. Wish there were.
What she’s doing? There’s a major like that. It’s computer science. They just don’t teach parkour is the thing.
I majored in Computer Science. We didn’t learn any parkour.
We DID learn how to do math in base 16. So I’ve got that going for me.
I didn’t know that the Doctor majored in Computer Science.
The Doctor majored in EVERYTHING.
Well, you need a degree to know what all those buttons on the TARDIS control console do.
So what you’re saying is he didn’t get his degree.
Well…
It’s ok! Those who don’t commit tend to give more of a general sh- well you know.
I’m reminded of when Ramona was first assigned to work with the Doctor, and she immediately pointed out how she was the top of every class in the history of ever and she had looked up the Doctor’s records and noticed he’d barely passed Timelord School.
(This is a real thing. I did not make this up. Ramona was the Hermione of Dr. Who)
It’s Romana. Short for Romanadvoratrelundar, although she said she’d prefer to be called Fred rather than Romana. The Fourth Doctor ignored this.
I’m kinda of the opinion that you don’t learn what hey do. You -decide- what they do.
Now you know what he’s a doctor of.
Pfft. Are you sure you didn’t just get an MIS degree?
I actually learned a bit of parkour in one of my Computer Science classes once. That prof also spent a lecture on lock picking. CS departments tend to be pretty eccentric, and once those guys get tenure, oh boy do they get tenure.
dammit I went to the wrong university |=[
Did the Prof use the MIT guide to lock picking? (It’s a thing)
Heh I got a lecture on lockpicking in my computer security class as well. I thought that was pretty interesting.
We didn’t get lectures on lockpicking, but I did spend several of my boring lectures picking locks. Nowadays I have a smartphone for that (boring lectures, not lockpicking). The thing about eccentric CS guys is true. I’m a bit eccentric myself, but we have a running theory about our professors. We’re not sure yet whether you have to be that eccentric to get tenure as a CS professor, or whether you only get to be that eccentric after you’re a tenured professor, because no one will dare tell you otherwise. My favourite tenured professor is a member of the ethics committee, and is constantly trying to egg our hacker club (I’m a member) on, to hack the university. He’s a great guy.
Well, looks like I’ve got this kinda stuff to look forward to. I just gotta graduate high school first…
Lockpicking is actually relevant because a lot of the principles of computer security ethics were first explored and established by locksmith guilds.
Who reached all the wrong conclusions. (security through obscurity, etc.)
I wish my CS profs had taught lockpicking.
…mostly because the facilities people never got around to adding anyone to the card-swipe lock for the room most of my classes were in, so we had to sit around outside it until the prof showed up with a physical key.
See, she just MOVED the cutter. That’s LEGAL.
You might say that AG is a cutter above the rest. 😀
But right now she’s gotta Bolt.
Weren’t Dorothy and Walky shocked
This story arc has been simply electrifying.
Electiricity takes the pah of least resistance. Amazigirl is never the path of least resistance.
There’s no place like OHM. There’s no place like OHM. There’s no place like OHM……
They just didn’t make the cut
Moving it isn’t legal. Larceny is the taking and carrying away of tangible personal property of another without consent with the intent to deprive them of it’s possession permanently.
It’s been legally established that moving the entire object ANY distance away after having gained sole possession of it is enough to satisfy the carrying away aspect. The fact she discarded it rather than returned it directly to the bike jacker, is enough to satisfy “deprived permanently” aspect.
*shifty eyes*
So… rubber gloves eh!
I feel like bird rules would apply i.e. she’s not grounded, so the electricity doesn’t want to go through her (if that’s what you were referring to, and if what I learned about that 15+ years ago was actually true).
Yeah, pretty sure she’d have to be touching TWO of them to complete a circuit and get electrocuted.
really? I thought electricity should fry her since she is using steel pipes to grab the cable and it goes through it. Guess I need to study a lot more haha.
Yeah, I was thinking similarly, but it seems there isn’t any reason why the electricity to “want” to go through the metal as opposed to staying on its intended path.
Don’t most of those cutters have grips where you hold them? Could be rubber.
There’s enough current running through one of those wires to burn through asphalt. You’d probably need at least a foot of rubber for it to start mastering. The reason she’s not being electrocuted is because she’s not grounded and electricity seeks ground in much the same way water seeks it’s lowest level.
Fun fact, if you’ve heard you should stay in your car when a live wire falls on it, that’s true. The car will protect you from getting electrocuted, but not because of its rubber tires. As with the shears, you would need several feet of rubber for it to matter, otherwise the rubber soles in your shoes would save you. Instead, the car’s metal frame forms a vanderferd cage around you.
This works because, in addition to seeking ground, electricity seeks the path of least resistance. Metal has a lot lower resistance then air or humans, so the electricity has no reason to jump through the center of the car, the slightly longer route around its edges is much easier.
This also explains why we normally see electricity jumping to metal. If there are too paths to ground, the one that includes metal will usually be easier, so that’s the one the electricity will takes. However, this is only true if there’s actually a path to ground. On it’s own, metal does not attract electricity.
It’s safer to stay in a car because they are essentially Faraday cages.
That would be what I meant to type.
This is why one should not post impromptu science lectures after 3 in the morning.
Not really. If cars were Faraday cages then your cell phones wouldn’t work inside of them.
They’re simply a (usually) metal shell on insulated tires, and electricity prefers the path of least resistance.
A Faraday cage is simply a metal shell. Cars are just very coarse ones with large holes, so they’re not particularly effective at stopping even long-wavelength radio signals (though they do interfere; my GPS gets notably better signal on the dash under the glass windshield than in the back seat under the metal roof), but still work fine against basically-DC lightning strikes.
Nah, she isn’t grounded so it doesn’t matter. If she’d been touching the ground (and thus revealed to be a descendant of one Mr. Richards) or touching something that connected to ground, then you’d have a problem.
Could be a phone line
It used to be Danny.
Walky seriously is making this chase scene 1000x better.
It’s like Amber and Dorothy are an action movie, and Walky is the MST3K crew just commenting on the action.
I would totally watch Walky watch movies!
His thing is watching snarky cartoons. He’s got this shit down.
What IS Amber’s major anyway?
Computer Science, I think. She’s that much of a dream girl.
Yes, she is, Leorale. Yes she is.
Is she a manic pixie to boot, though?
Nope. Too introverted, not enough ukulele.
Also has a temper to beat the band.
Wrong kind of ‘manic’.
She used her Computer Studies class to hack the matrix that the DoA universe is obviously set in.
Computer Science is LAAAAAAME.
My dream girl studies MUSIC.
<3
A girl who plays Uke…
I was going to follow this up with a “girl who plays seme” but i have only a vague understanding of what those words mean and that would be followed up with me instituting a “no yaoi jokes before bed” rule.
Technically, it would be yuri, since Amber’s a girl…
Unless you meant you’d have to institute the rule because you spent all night “reasearching” yaoi to figure out the proper meanings of the words. If that’s the case I can’t help you.
…Huh. So, Amber’s, uh…Amber’s pretty awesome.
So awesome she’s…… Amazing!!
Thank you, I’ll be here all week! Tip your waiter.
She’s Amazing !
Amber is Batman in drag (somebody had to say it)
Wouldn’t that be Batgirl or Batwoman? 😛
Batman is Amber in drag.
I think there was no way Batman could getbetter, and then you had to come and make me wrong.
Batman wishes he could be HER sidekick!
Batman wears Amazi-Girl pajamas!
I’m not even going to respond to this sort of wild speculation.
Yoouuu….sorta just did?
I WANT AMAZI-GIRL PAJAMAS
Man, so do I.
I really hope those don’t fall on someone… ouch.
Man, a sequence like this just doesn’t work for 24 hour updates :/
Man, you’re telling me. I’m on pins and needles AND bolt cutters just reading this.
dude I know this is rouuuuugh
holy fuck. I seriously expected her to break a few of her bones.
She is Fucking insane
Amber is gonna end up hurting herself…or worse!
It is at this moment that I throw my hands up.
She’s Amazi-girl.
Conjuror of wires.
A lesser known super power, but it has its uses.
Seriously, where does Amber learn all this stuff?
The Internet.
Spending lots of time on the internet? You can research all kinds of crazy shit on the internet. 😉
I could research how to juggle chainsaws but that wouldn’t make me compotent at it.
Have you tried it ? How do you knwo you can’t if you haven’t tried it ?
PS – Don’t try it.
Really? Well, in that case, here’s hoping I could find a way to make a time machine.
Killing spiders in WoW has helped Amber to level up her AG character.
Ever since they started raising the level caps the power level’s been out of control.
Are they over 9000 yet?
Twinkies.
That must be some Twinkie.
Last panel: “Deal with it.”
So Walky needs to get into programming?
…I wish I could do that. It’d almost be worth all that trauma. Maybe. Okay well not exactly but I still wish I could do that.
Amazi-Girl majors in…. being Amazing.
With a minor in saying “Hrrk!”
Her Major is being Amazing
Her Minor is being Girl.
I don’t know. I think she’s a little old to be a Minor.
She still can’t drink yet. SO…
For three decades or so, legal drinking has lagged behind adulthood by three years in Indiana. And the rest of the USA.
While Willis minors in titling strips incorrectly after their onomatopeic contents
This is why my mom doesn’t want me doing parkour, cause I unlike Amazi-Girl will fall to my death
I wonder how good at truck surfing AG is.
She’s seen Teen Wolf like 30 times, vehicular surfing is no problem for her.
I would’ve pegged her for Sam & Max Hit the Road =o
Maybe she should be looking where the truck is going before it hits an overpass.
The truck is then crushed by Ruth’s fist. As it should be, as it has been, and as it will be.
Glorious Revenge!
Spoiler: The truck is Optimus Prime!
And then the truck takes her straight to Blaine and Danny.
Where she snaps Blaine’s neck.
Or she tries, doesn’t work!
You’re confusing Amazi-girl for the latest Superman.
Or maybe Blaine, Danny and Sal.
Dear Amazi-girl,
You are awesome.
And the fact that you are made of Amber
Makes you even more awesome.
You go, girl.
She’s made of Amber? So she’s might be full of fossils!
Dina will be excited.
No wonder Dina is interested in her. She’s secretly a villain who wants to use Amber’s fossilized DNA to create an evil Dino army!
All she needs now is some frog DNA.
Now I’m just thinking about the terrible innuendos in the Amber/Dina fanfic…
Made worse by Amazi-Girl having to stop and explain them to Dina.
I’d like to see her in her villain costume.
The hat would be magnificent.
Yes, please. It’d be dino-might!!
Amazi-girl is also immune to voltage.
Amazi-Girl is wearing gloves. They’re probably insulated. That and bolt cutters like that usually have rubber grips.
And once again, the power line appears to be insulated.
Irrelevant, she is not grounded. Birds don’t wear insulated gloves, do they?
Amazi-girl is immune to being grounded. That’s why her dad can’t punish her.
PLEASE don’t mention Blaine while I’m in the middle of my Amber-is-a-badass revelry…
Amber finds Blaine and breaks his back.
Makes him humble!!!
Oh, I got a degree in being awesome. Yeah, I guess. Engineering pays better.
I think I found my dream girl….what has become of my life?
Dat mouseover. Major feels.
I… didn’t know DoA did mouseovers. I now realize I’ve missed a lot of Willis content :[
#mobileviewingproblems
You can long press with fire fox on Android to get a pop up that includes the mouse over text. Unfortunately, it truncates it if the text is to long.
I recently discovered that on a mobile device you can tap on the empty space to the left and right of the comic navigation links and it will display the mouse over / alt text.
The text will be displayed in a white box and the rest of the page will fade to black. Just tap the black space to close the alt text. This works the same way as clicking the alt text link on a Hininks Ensue comic
That was amazi
Wait for it…
-girl!
And then when she sneaks back onto campus, sans costume, they’re all, “Hi. You know, that mask didn’t cover much of your face. Wanna go out for pizza and talk about it?”
When would they see her though? She’s not exactly in their social circle. Dorothy’s seen her twice, briefly.
It’s something I want to happen to every super hero who wears a bandana or domino mask and calls it a disguise.
Most of them don’t hang around the same people in both identities though. Except Superman but that’s just kind of tradition now.
Until it’s disproven, it’s my headcanon that Dina doesn’t even realize that she’s not supposed to recognize Amber when she’s in costume.
I need this to be a thing.
Has Dina ever even seen Amazi-girl?
Not entirely clear. They’ve never appeared in the same strip, but Dina alerted Amber to the Billie/Ruth confrontation here, and it seems likely that she was watching from off-panel when Amazi-Girl subsequently carried Billie off. But possibly not. I believe that’s the only time Dina’s been nearby when Amber was in costume.
Domino masks are really more of a distraction technique than a disguise.
Go watch this.
It’s not just the mask (or the glasses).
Is it wrong to be crushing on Amazi-girl?
It’s wrong not to.
are you fucking kidding me? this is awesome.
This is sooo far *BEYOND* awesome.
Ironically, she’s majoring in Marine Biology.
So she can become Aqua-Girl?
Totes awesome! Sparking but not grounded!
I’d a tribute the sparks to friction. Sort of like how you get sparks from a metal grinder. Of course this raises issues with the wire being coated in a non-metalic substance, but shush.
How
Every strip in this story arc, I’ve read it and said “Wow, Amber just can’t get any more badass, can she?”
Yet every day, SHE DOES.
HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE
(And on a side note, how has no one in the electrocution argument mentioned that the power line is insulated?)
In the next strip she’ll slay the Jabberwocky and destroy an earth bound meteor.
She’ll impale the Jabberwocky through the heart with a Transformers action figure and slingshot the asteroid into the sun using a daisy chain of Amazi-Condoms.
This whole story arc is going to sum itself up as Amazi-girl is awesome, isn’t it?
Those boltcutters and Zip line where really convenient.
Amazigirl is always prepared
With enough prep-time, Amazi-Girl can defeat any foe.
There are two solid electrocution puns in that sentence. Good job sir.
OH, Walky
Leaving a cutter hanging up there can’t be safe ….
Also, how much you want to bet that the person driving that truck is the counterpart to the person driving the truck on that fateful day?
And here I was expecting “Don’t try this at home, kids!” for the alt-text.
What is it? Using a phone….
If you touch to the side of the next page/previous page/etc. buttons then it’ll showthe alt text.
That is really good to know and would be really good design on Willis’s part if there was some way to know about that just by looking at it. I’m surprised I haven’t seen that sort of thing before, it’s a great idea.
Amazi-Girl majors in Awesomeness 101.
I thought it was Badassery 101.
Either way, you’d think she would major in something more than an introductory course.
Well…that stunt is in the introductory course. The advanced courses involves dinosaur punching, bear wrestling and uppercutting tigers among other things.
Oh, thank Willis. I’d worried she’d get injured and would end up in the care of her father, after the last comic.
Day’s not over yet. And she’s still gotta get down…
And quickly, before the truck speeds up and gets outside the campus. Without being seen by Walky and Dorothy either.
Now is Dorothy going to cancel her plans with Walky and go back to studying?
After seeing THAT? Methinks the Amzichase would get Dorothy’s blood pumping. Pumping for an article writeup.
Poor Willis. If he had only had the foresight to draw those bolt-cutters with wooden handles, he might have saved himself from some of these comments about electrocution. (Some, but probably not all.) 😉
My goodness….if you excuse me..I need some time to myself.
No, no, no. The line is “I’ll be in my bunk.” Know your meme.
Amazi-Girl is clearly from the planet Amaziton.
Where an allspark from that wire might have killed her instead of bringing her to life.
And Willis gives good pun on his own words.
Wait, is Amazi-girl holding the bolt cutters open against the pressure of her own body weight? We’ve seen some impressive athletic feats from her but daaamn.
I mean it might be easier to do the iron cross on the rings than what she’s doing right there. Depending on how rusty the cutters are I guess.
Its not so hard when you’re resistant or completely immune to gravity, as all female super heroes are.
That’s more fascinating to me than how she may have counteracted electricity (I know why: the whole not touching ground/also insulated gloves/also rubber on handles thing) because I didn’t even notice her doing it until you pointed it out but yes and DAMN that is impressive
(also considering her hands are closer together which means it would require more strength to keep them open)
I would pay for workout lessons from Amazi-Girl she needs to give me her secrets
Grip strength, and the closer the hands are together the lesser the load to counteract. Still the strength in her index fingers… lets just say you wouldn’t want a hand job from her when she’s upset and not concentrating…
They might lock open, too.
You’re ruining all my fantasies :C
Best alt text.
Best EVER. 1) meme-tastic, 2) informative, 3) in-joke’y
Where did she get the boltcutters?
From the bike thief a few comics ago.
And they’ve been in her belt since. I’ve been checking.
Wow. I missed that completely!
Well makes since, Damn! I have got too pay attention.
sense
Ok that one was me, can’t get mad over that.
She took them off the bike thief. She forgot to wrap them around his neck with zip ties (I HATE bike thieves, they should be hanged like horse thieves).
Kids, Amber is a trained(?) professional. Don’t try this at home.
Of course I won’t try this at home. There’s no electric wires in front of my house !
Across the street however …
Of course I won’t try this at home.
I’m not crazy and doing things that could end up hurting/killing me!
If this were a movie, we would have got a nice close-up of Walky’s nostrils in panel 1.
Not that I’m into that sort of thing.
What nostrils?
That’s one of my all time favorite Walky/Dumbiverse comics!
And that’s when Dorothy started questioning her sexuality.
In the Dumbiverse, sexuality questions you!
“Gay, what’s up?”
“Not much, Asexual, it’s just… I think I might be Thomas.”
I’m going to show my age and say that I envisioned that conversation with people popping out of lockers.
thou hath earned my respect
And it’s Amazi-girl for the win!
That bit’s going in the movie trailer.
Ok just want to chime in on this one. Re:eloltrocution. There are a few reasons that the Willis could have planned for this to be safer than it appears. And one very good reason that it is safe anyways. Non-conductive cladding or insulation on the wires, her gloves being an insulator, The handle of the bolt cutters being fiberglass, wood, composite or even rubber coated steel. All of those would help seem to save her, but they would all fail in reality. High power lines have too much voltage for that to work. Hell in most buildings the voltage is 3 phase 480V AC (not homes, real buildings that have to supply power to industrial chillers, heaters and the like).
What saves her life is that (like someone said earlier) She is suspended high above the ground by about 10-15 feet of fantastic insulation. AIR. No path for electricity, no current. No current, no Power used. Volts hurt, current kills people. Hit by lightning, you will probably live, unless you are near something that explodes near you (trees + lightning is bad kids) Thousands of volts, almost no current. Taking a bath with a toaster = death. See: All birds are not dead either.
TL:DR Touch wire and ground same time death. Amber is not on the ground, Amber is not kill.
You forgot SQUIRRELS
To say nothing about the possibility that it’s a telephone line.
Well, air isn’t a TOTAL insulator (you nullified your own example by mentioning lightning), but it would take a hell of a lot more current than that of a standard power line to be able to arc into the ground through multiple insulators.
Specifically, it’d take 1.21 jiggawatts.
Actually, the air is not what conducts the lightning. Before the lightning can travel from the cloud to the ground (or technically, from the ground to the cloud), it needs a path to follow. It cannot travel through the air, but it can travel through ionized air.
See the following link for a more detailed explanation:
How Lightning Works
Page 4 of the article is the page that deals specifically with air ionization. It essentially creates a path of ionized air between the earth and the cloud that acts like a giant metal rod.
…I have never been so much a lesbian as I am right now.
http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1792
I’m suddenly picturing Amazi-Girl in that last panel doing Amber’s animated victory dance from when the False Equivalence comic reached howevermany thousand notes.
http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/48296669313/hugintheraven-itswalky-false-equivalence
And now we all can!
It’s incredible, that power line goes directly over a shark tank!
I kid, I kid, but for real. I’ve come to accept that Amber can do all that parkour stuff, but an impromptu grind on a power line onto a moving truck is a BIT unrealistic.
Yeah, my suspension of disbelief kind of cracked on this comic. I’m kind of expecting the next comic to be her smacking into something (like that power line coming up since it’s hard to tell how high it is compared to the truck) because she forgot to duck down or something.
Badass!!
I suppose now, Amber will be forced to beat Dot into a crippled wreck. Then Dot will break her neck to ruin Amber’s career.
Oh wait, sorry, I forgot Frank Miller wasn’t writing this.
Can I just mention how much I appreciate that Willis is not a pro tennis judge and therefore lets Amazi-Girl make noises representing the fact that this is fucking hard?
That alt text just made me cry so hard! D:
If only Joice saw this. She would have become no 1 fan of hers. And would demand to be her sidekick.
Now THAT was clever!
Optimus Prime shows up just int he nick of time.
Truck then hits all green lights and takes exit onto interstate, doesn’t stop for 200 miles.
Nice story about the truck, but Amazi-Girl gets off before it’s even out the gate, so not at all needed.
Truck is actually being driven by Dina, who is Albert to Amazi-Girl’s Batman, and she pulls over about a mile away to let her get down. That also explains how the truck just happened to be there exactly when she needed it.
Albert?
Malich.
Spot on, xKiv. You are also a reader of Sir Pterry, I presume?
Oops …. Alfred.
OMG! She is so amazing!
Man, all that doing stuff before she’s sure if she can do it because she knows it needs to get done…
She’ll make a great mom.
Damnit, I wanted her to get caught. Oh well…
That was silver age Daredevil impressive. Well done, sir!
Can I have a link for this truck reference? Someone?
It’s on this Bring Back Roomies storyline.
Just keep reading for about 20 strips, and prepare the kleenex.
I get a Peter Griffin/Chicken chase vibe from all of this.
Slander! Calumny and slander!
Why? Can’t a guy like both? 🙂
Sure, but there’s just something about this gravatar that inspires me to get angry and shouty about everything.
Oh man, that was badass. I only wonder how she gets caught in the end, judging from the Tumblr previews for the next chapter.
holy MOLY
Man, on the one hand, the mystery of Amazi-Girl remaining a mystery even when people have seen her in broad daylight, and now taken photographs, feels pretty implausible, and it’d be kind of dissappointing if the question of her identity remains an enigma that’s treated as inscrutable. They might not know who Amazi-Girl is yet, but they’ve got enough clues to piece it together when seeing Amber.
On the other hand, this chase scene has been excellent, and it illustrates Amber’s determination really well. Her will to preserve this outlet for her anger is immense.
They’d need to see Amber and a good photograph of Amazi-Girl to piece it together though, and as we have seen, Amber hides in her room killing spiders on her computer.
When you aren’t actively looking for Amazi-Girl as well, since Amber tends to just play her DS or look at her phone, she tends to ‘blend in’ as perfectly ordinary, making her easy to overlook.
Even if they were looking for Amazi-Girl, her glasses and ordinary behaviour would throw them off as people want superheroes to be obviously amazing which would send them after the brown-haired heavy set girls that are obviously amazing first and then they’d likely give up before they ever reach Amber.
They forget that superheroes are trying to blend in and focus mainly on those who stand out and then they just give up before they find out who it is.
From the “Cast bio” section:
“If Amber’s high school friends Ethan and Mike didn’t occasionally try to force her away from her MMORPGing, she probably wouldn’t ever leave her dorm room. That said, she’s surprisingly fit for someone who sits on the computer all day. Maybe she has a shake-weight or something.“
Is that a power line or a telephone line? And would that make any difference to how dangerous this is?
(Not that I’m planning to try this at home.)
It’s probably both. But I’d hazard a guess that the powerline is taking the stress, since they tend to be higher than the phone lines. It would not make any difference to how dangerous it is because the danger is from falling not electrocution. Anyone hanging from the powerline is not grounded, so the electricity will not flow through them. Classic examples are birds who perch on powerlines all the time.
The short answer is not really, because she’s not completing a circuit and isn’t grounded (and both work basically under the same “why don’t birds get shocked” question), so I think the biggest danger is falling and getting hit by a truck.
Of course, if her foot had touched the truck while she was holding the cutters, that would be a problem.
Is this the line for having Amber’s babies? I’d like to sign up!
It’s amazing what adrenalin can do.
Also, I think she should intern at Wayne Industries. Both as a computer geek and as the next Robin.
I think Amber is a witch.
I’m suddenly wondering.
Where did Amber get those awesome skills?
Well, we know she did track and field so that accounts for stamina and speed. Throw in some terror, some anger issues and a need to escape and viola, you have developed all the skills necessary to be Amber. -w-
Logically though, it is possible she was on more than one team e.g. track & field AND gymnastics. Then she’d just need the right equipment and to put forethought into her escape route, in this case, it was the bolt cutters which helped her escape along whatever line that is which she may have thought of before climbing the building.
Oh god… that IS the truck. Aaagh!
Cover your Ruths !
‘Fight or Flight’ is not normally a phrase to be taken literally.
Amazi-Girl is my favorite. She’s like the daughter I never had.
But you did. In another universe. Iteration. Pre-reboot. Like, three reboots ago.
“I’m Batman. I mean, Amber. I mean, Amazi-Girl.”
The only major there was the major hangtime she got!
Truck, you are now dead.
You’re an Amazi-Girl on a telephone wire/I hope you’re happy now–apologies to Elton John
Skills
Say, if it isn’t my old nemesis: a truck.
For some reason I imagine Dotty won’t give up that easily.
I’m more impressed with how she got to the wire in the first place without completing a circuit from the wire to the building. That is a hard jump to make.
Christ, they should have videotaped that. Would’ve been awesome for the whole journalist thing.
That… is APPRECIABLE upper body strength Amber is showing there to keep the clipper arms not just open, but parallel to the ground.
Willis, if you claim that this is autobiographical basis too I’ll call you a dirty liar.