Is Westville still open? They used to send them there – and up until 1976, sterilize them as well (rather than use medication, to prevent it “spreading” even though the cause may have been environmental, not genetic!).
Indiana was REAL progressive in that regard. They are still paying off lawsuits for bipolar 15 year olds with disconnected nads (or removed- either sex) when all they needed was Lithium.
One of those crud MDs went on to teach at Univ of FL, believe it or not, as faculty in In-Patient Psychiatry.
I like that. Help me out with a clearer definition. I love the term. Is the grease already ultra-oxidized (rancid)? Where is it from? “Fries with that?” or ‘emo-hair’?
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Finally… you must equate “crushed optimism” with something! Perhaps “Colorado Oysters and a rusty meat hammer” ?? Humpty Dumpty after the 3rd day yelling at turkey vultures? I must know the “essence!!”
Sarah has interacted with Amazigirl before (in a situation where Sarah was herself administering some vigilante justice), and if no one was hearing about some weirdo who goes out at night in a jumpsuit before august chances are they’re freshmeat.
More to the point, Sarah had the situation firmly in hand, when Amazi-Girl’s showboating allowed the guy who assaulted Joyce to escape. As far as Sarah is concerned, Amazi-Girl is a menace.
That’s why in many future sci-fis, people have evolved beyond the need for fashionable, uncomfortable gear and embraced space-age tracksuits/PJs instead.
It was also completely valid. Being acquainted with someone requires current knowledge of them. When you stop speaking to people this knowledge falls out of date as soon as they change in the few ways you knew them.
Well, Sarah, at least, seems to be more comfortable around Ethan. She used to be too shy to talk to him. Now she talks about vibrators with him, and in today’s comic, she put her hand on his chest. She may not realize it, but they’re in some sort of a relationship.
Jacob, not Ethan. And I dunno, for one thing, I read that gesture as her waving him off, not necessarily making contact. And there’s a huge gap between “comfortable enough hanging out to have momentary physical contact” and “in a relationship”.
The shadow for Sarah’s hand is further down on Jacob’s torso, so she is not touching him. I put that there so it would be apparent she is not actually touching him, for the record.
I fucked up. The DJ I was referring to, with whom a running gag was Joe’s refusal to acknowledge his ludicrous existence, was actually from another universe and also the future. So that joke made even less sense than it already would have.
At the party where Joyce almost got raped. Amazi-Girl showed up, distracted everyone and the guy snuck away while everyone was looking at the crazy lady in the cape. Sarah apparently has not forgotten or forgiven.
I think Sarah sees right through the costume, hence the quote marks around “Amazi-girl” in Psychoqbal’s link. So when she says “You’ve got a lot of nerve pulling this”, Sarah is referring to Amber’s outrage at Ethan using a fabricated identity – it’s a bit hypocritical to follow that up by running around pretending to be some else.
If you want to see when 2+ characters were tagged together, enter a URL like this: http://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/amazi-girl+sarah/ The 3 strips around Roofiegate and these 2 are the only times they’ve been “on screen” together.
The 14 comics where *Amber* and Sarah have been tagged together are: I.1 Opening floor meeting (3), II.3 Cafeteria (2), III.3 Another floor meeting (1), III.4 Meeting Mrs. Warner (1), IV.1 The table flip (7).
Either the “You let that rapist get away” or “Whoa there, tiny thunder” (if Sarah sees through the disguise and doesn’t call her out because she just doesn’t give a fuck) would be a perfectly reasonable bad experience from “last time we spoke”.
It baffles me that Willis hasn’t implemented a search function that allows you to just search the archives for multiple tags at once.
I’m sure he probably has a good reason why he has it set up the way it is, but it really makes searching the archive for certain strips a pain. I had to cycle through like 10 pages of strips with Joe in them looking for the Wingman comic the other day because I couldn’t remember the date for it, and I didn’t know about the trick you just posted.
I think it’s pretty unfair for AG to be blamed for Ryan getting away. That was a crowded house party, no matter how big an entrance AG made, someone should have noticed Ryan leaving and said something.
It’s still her fault. If she wanted to help she should have stayed back and watched him instead of announcing herself and drawing all attention. Hell, the best thing to do would have been to call the police or stay out of it entirely since she has no actual authority.
Seriously, Sarah? Tossing you under the bus? No, a couple of freshmen in the wing saw you drawing a dong (granted, in jest) on Joyce’s whiteboard and said so. Amazi-Girl then took that information and followed up on it in her own heavy-handed style.
You are carrying around one hell of a persecution complex because of how some people feel about what happened with your roommate last year.
Sarah’s got a legitimate grievance with Amazi-Girl, but I hope her lack of a “no” isn’t a hint of her being guilty. Also, major persecution complex, much?
Her lack of a “no” is pretty much her major persecution complex coming into play.
But Sarah wouldn’t deny anything anyway. See from my time spent in space with a bunch of ne’er-do-wells (also known as the Kimia Station; zing!) I learned that there’s a way to deny something without actually denying it on the record. Such as lying to get on the Ethics Committee; no one’s going to fess up to Emirate Xaaron about that! But saying no outright, can lead to greater scrutiny. So you invent ways to lie: “I have an alibi.” “Swerve is my alibi.” “Do you really want me to open my briefcase?” “I was on Ark 42 overseeing the installation of hull plating.” “I was reading the latest “Wreckers: Datalogs”.” “Briefcase!” Etc.
Yyyeaaahhhh. I think laziness is a better alibi when a video game you were playing saves your progress, so you can provide a list of “actions” during that time period.
Good on Sarah. The whole Amazi-Girl business is neat, but stay out of serious bidness, like to the twenty-fifth power. Not that this is serious business, but that’s Sarah’s reference point.
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Jacob, what a fanboy.
The biggest fanboy – he benches smaller fanboys.
If that is true, Ethan might be in with a chance.
Call me Ms. Cleo because I saw this comment coming. And I’m sure not complaining about it.
Sometimes the replies almost write themselves.
She sure is fast to whip out the negative, accusatory tone and language for everyone she encounters – and for of all things, THIS?
She’s ready for a white coat escort into a straight jacket.
Is Westville still open? They used to send them there – and up until 1976, sterilize them as well (rather than use medication, to prevent it “spreading” even though the cause may have been environmental, not genetic!).
Indiana was REAL progressive in that regard. They are still paying off lawsuits for bipolar 15 year olds with disconnected nads (or removed- either sex) when all they needed was Lithium.
One of those crud MDs went on to teach at Univ of FL, believe it or not, as faculty in In-Patient Psychiatry.
Woah, that is straight-up horrible.
It’s a prison now, and has been since I was born. My dad lives in Westville (the town).
Was just about to say that. It is so adorable.
NEW SHIP
I swear, I’m about to ship this comic’s fan community with the very concept of shipping.
I ship shipping with rule 34.
But Doctor, wouldn’t that rip a tear in the fabric of space and time? Releasing lots of Ammonites and Daleks and what have you? Jus’ saying…
I ship the rule 34 version of shipping with the rule 34 version of rule 34.
*BRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWM*
I ship rule 34 with rule 63
I ship FedEx.
I’m shipping you, yes, you, Sentinel, with the fan community.
Don’t get me wrong, I already *love* the fan community!
I am shipping ships with boxes
Hm. Where to begin? A box is, by definition, a fail boat…
I hear a meme calling my name.
How about round boats?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coracle
AG would be like a lifeboat in comparison to Jacob’s passemger-liner.
Kinky!
And I take it her disguise isn’t working like it used to.
It works better at night.
I’d guess it’s more that Amazi-Girl wasn’t around last year, so she must be a freshman.
Naw, it’s just that Sarah can SMELL freshmen.
You can even buy those car deodorizers that give it that new freshmen smell. 😀
If anyone’s curious, freshmen smell like crushed optimism and grease.
With a dash of ramen.
Eh, College will still be far better than my life right now.
…I’m kinda in a rut right now, emotionally and academically.
What stage are you in now exactly? *sincerity*
I’m assuming before college, so… a Grade?
Finally getting paired with people who are your peers and not just people who were born within two years of you probably helps. A LOT.
I like that. Help me out with a clearer definition. I love the term. Is the grease already ultra-oxidized (rancid)? Where is it from? “Fries with that?” or ‘emo-hair’?
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Finally… you must equate “crushed optimism” with something! Perhaps “Colorado Oysters and a rusty meat hammer” ?? Humpty Dumpty after the 3rd day yelling at turkey vultures? I must know the “essence!!”
Sarah has interacted with Amazigirl before (in a situation where Sarah was herself administering some vigilante justice), and if no one was hearing about some weirdo who goes out at night in a jumpsuit before august chances are they’re freshmeat.
More to the point, Sarah had the situation firmly in hand, when Amazi-Girl’s showboating allowed the guy who assaulted Joyce to escape. As far as Sarah is concerned, Amazi-Girl is a menace.
She’s a menace, Parker, a menace!
Jacob has an Amazi-girl action figure he made himself.
And a costume he wears when he thinks no one is looking.
It’s making Ethan even more confused.
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd. Cool glasses though.
No. No Uggs. Bad Willis. BAD!
They’re called UGGs for a reson! They’re UGGLY.
But damn they’re comfortable.
Most ugly things are. That’s why suits and ties look GREAT. They’re SO uncomfortable.
That’s why in many future sci-fis, people have evolved beyond the need for fashionable, uncomfortable gear and embraced space-age tracksuits/PJs instead.
Ugg boots give zero traction, and you can’t really run in them.
I was able to find sheepskin hiking boots for sale.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/like/221319628814?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=107
Yea, but you live in Australia, isn’t everything made out of sheep over there?
I’d say it’s justified by him trying to give his characters realistic fashion senses for their ages, but he put Jacob in suspenders so what do I know.
I knew a multiple guys in high school that used suitcases. It’s not that unrealistic.
I don’t care if you knew guys that wore three-piece suits with ties to each class, I can guarantee you not one of them was wearing suspenders.
If you went to San Francisco State like I did, you’d have seen quite a few lovely boys in suspenders. Some even had a bow tie from time to time.
The 80s are back again for the 3rd time it seems.
The 80s never died!
Mork from Ork was cool.
Mork wore suspenders.
Ergo, suspenders are cool.
I don’t care that you said we have enough people crushing on Amazi-Girl, I’m adding Jacob to the list.
Having him keep talking about her would completely infuriate Sarah. And that means comedy!
To many people real and nonexistent.
Well, we have seen the whole Jacob-crushes-on-Amber thing before…
*GASP* THEIR DIFFERING VIEWS ON AMAZI-GIRL ARE GONNA TEAR THEIR RELATIONSHIP APART!!!!!
…Nah, probably not.
…what relationship?
Acquaintances is a kind of relationship.
You’re worried they’ll stop knowing one another?
It was a joke.
It was also completely valid. Being acquainted with someone requires current knowledge of them. When you stop speaking to people this knowledge falls out of date as soon as they change in the few ways you knew them.
Well, Sarah, at least, seems to be more comfortable around Ethan. She used to be too shy to talk to him. Now she talks about vibrators with him, and in today’s comic, she put her hand on his chest. She may not realize it, but they’re in some sort of a relationship.
Jacob, not Ethan. And I dunno, for one thing, I read that gesture as her waving him off, not necessarily making contact. And there’s a huge gap between “comfortable enough hanging out to have momentary physical contact” and “in a relationship”.
The shadow for Sarah’s hand is further down on Jacob’s torso, so she is not touching him. I put that there so it would be apparent she is not actually touching him, for the record.
My bad! On both counts.
Right now, their relationship is dissing another person. I’m kinda thinking it’s not going to last very long anyway.
Unless they start having sex of course. Then it will last the semester.
So the next decade’s worth of webcomics then. 😀
don’t you have to have one to tear it apart
Being acquaintances counts as a relationship.
At least he’s not a creepy fan boy.
We have no proof of that yet. He’s probably wearing Amazi-girl underwear.
That he made himself.
With permanent marker.
Dammit, now I’m creeped out
Sarah knows all…
Seriously, I love Amber to bits, but running around in broad daylight is not the way to keep Amazi-girl’s secret identity a secret.
Her own father and a guy who had intimate knowledge of her face with his face were both unable to tell it was her.
I don’t think the presence of sunlight will be the thing that undoes her.
Sarah is superior to both those idiots.
Out of strands of her hair he’s collected.
Dangit, I thought I posted this on the thread up from this.
Dina realizing it is her means virtually no one else would. Your lack of knowledge of superhero identity mechanics disturbs me. 😛
DOA!Sarah:DOA!Amazi-Girl::WV!Joe:WV!D.J.
Wut?
There should be a web app for translating fandom speak.
WV is Walkyverse, I think. Still don’t understand it.
Doa Sarah is to Doa Amazi girl
As
Walkyverse Joe is to Walkyverse D.J.
Yeah, but who’s DJ? I don’t remember a DJ.
I fucked up. The DJ I was referring to, with whom a running gag was Joe’s refusal to acknowledge his ludicrous existence, was actually from another universe and also the future. So that joke made even less sense than it already would have.
I just realized you were doing an SAT analogy thing with that.
I’m drawing a blank. When was the last time Amazi-Girl and Sarah spoke?
Joyce got roofied, methinks. (Why the fuck doesn’t my spellcheck want to correct the word “methinks”?)
Your spellcheck has an English degree.
Because it’s a legitimate word.
At the party where Sarah hit Rapey McDouchepants with a baseball bat.
I just want to express how dissapointing it is that that guys name ISN’T Rapey McDouchepants it’s so much better than Ryan.
Then again if his name is Rapey McDouchepants, he’d probably go by a middle name.
The thing is, if your name is Rapey Douchpants, you have a pretty reasonable excuse for being a rapey douchbag.
Ooooh! I see what ya did there.
Amazi-Girl letting Ryan, who had drugged and was about to rape Joyce, get away in the last arc of book 1.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/caped/
So that wasn’t great.
Huh, I just realized she wasn’t doing the voice thing back then.
Back when Joyce was given spiked punch. She ended up distracting everyone and allowing the guy who drugged her to escape.
At the party where Joyce almost got raped. Amazi-Girl showed up, distracted everyone and the guy snuck away while everyone was looking at the crazy lady in the cape. Sarah apparently has not forgotten or forgiven.
I reckon it was the cafeteria table flip.
That was Amber, not Amazi-Girl.
I think Sarah sees right through the costume, hence the quote marks around “Amazi-girl” in Psychoqbal’s link. So when she says “You’ve got a lot of nerve pulling this”, Sarah is referring to Amber’s outrage at Ethan using a fabricated identity – it’s a bit hypocritical to follow that up by running around pretending to be some else.
If you want to see when 2+ characters were tagged together, enter a URL like this: http://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/amazi-girl+sarah/ The 3 strips around Roofiegate and these 2 are the only times they’ve been “on screen” together.
The 14 comics where *Amber* and Sarah have been tagged together are: I.1 Opening floor meeting (3), II.3 Cafeteria (2), III.3 Another floor meeting (1), III.4 Meeting Mrs. Warner (1), IV.1 The table flip (7).
Either the “You let that rapist get away” or “Whoa there, tiny thunder” (if Sarah sees through the disguise and doesn’t call her out because she just doesn’t give a fuck) would be a perfectly reasonable bad experience from “last time we spoke”.
It baffles me that Willis hasn’t implemented a search function that allows you to just search the archives for multiple tags at once.
I’m sure he probably has a good reason why he has it set up the way it is, but it really makes searching the archive for certain strips a pain. I had to cycle through like 10 pages of strips with Joe in them looking for the Wingman comic the other day because I couldn’t remember the date for it, and I didn’t know about the trick you just posted.
Nice tip. Thank you 🙂
I don’t think it was Sarah. A careful look at her dong drawing clearly shows a very different pattern from the others.
The dong on Dorothy and Sierra’s door is actually comparable to the one we saw Sarah drawing earlier.
Is this really evidence? Weren’t they ALL drawn by Willis?
Exactly! Willis must have shattered the Fourth Wall and defaced the whiteboards while everyone in Clark Wing was asleep!
Or just drawn them in and made it early morning in the strip so that they would appear to have been drawn in people’s sleep.
I’m sensing some hostility here…
What from Sarah? Is that anything new?
Careful, Amazi-Girl, you don’t want to anger Old Testament God.
Smite me, oh mighty Smighter!
Is this Amazi-girl immune to criticism? Cause she just got a face full! …Also double thumbs up if you think Jacob’s the man.
Alot of the characters need criticism, thing is all of it is just going to one person.
Billie?
I know! I’ve always liked Jacob, but he’s great in this strip.
Ya, I guess she doesn’t have a big enough name to be taken seriously.
Her past actions have prevented Sarah from responding to Amazi-Girl favorably.
“Sarah will remember this”
You have let The Rapist get away.
Sarah will remember this…
Sarah is feistiest of the feisty.
I think it’s pretty unfair for AG to be blamed for Ryan getting away. That was a crowded house party, no matter how big an entrance AG made, someone should have noticed Ryan leaving and said something.
It’s still her fault. If she wanted to help she should have stayed back and watched him instead of announcing herself and drawing all attention. Hell, the best thing to do would have been to call the police or stay out of it entirely since she has no actual authority.
well…at least sarah is comfortable enough with jacob to raise a hand toward him and walking away?
Sarah takes crap from no one!
Always liked Sarah. Now she’s my favourite character 🙂
Jeez. Amazi-Girl is being a giant asshole lately.
Jacob and Sarah, acting married already!
Seriously, Sarah? Tossing you under the bus? No, a couple of freshmen in the wing saw you drawing a dong (granted, in jest) on Joyce’s whiteboard and said so. Amazi-Girl then took that information and followed up on it in her own heavy-handed style.
You are carrying around one hell of a persecution complex because of how some people feel about what happened with your roommate last year.
She drew a dong….ON HER OWN DOOR.
SARAH TAKE NO SHIT FROM NO STINKIN’ PAJAMA-WEARING FRESHMAN.
Sarah’s got a legitimate grievance with Amazi-Girl, but I hope her lack of a “no” isn’t a hint of her being guilty. Also, major persecution complex, much?
Her lack of a “no” is pretty much her major persecution complex coming into play.
But Sarah wouldn’t deny anything anyway. See from my time spent in space with a bunch of ne’er-do-wells (also known as the Kimia Station; zing!) I learned that there’s a way to deny something without actually denying it on the record. Such as lying to get on the Ethics Committee; no one’s going to fess up to Emirate Xaaron about that! But saying no outright, can lead to greater scrutiny. So you invent ways to lie: “I have an alibi.” “Swerve is my alibi.” “Do you really want me to open my briefcase?” “I was on Ark 42 overseeing the installation of hull plating.” “I was reading the latest “Wreckers: Datalogs”.” “Briefcase!” Etc.
P.S.: The second to last one was one of mine. Laziness is a great alibi, especially when you can provide a time stamp proving you were goofing off.
Yyyeaaahhhh. I think laziness is a better alibi when a video game you were playing saves your progress, so you can provide a list of “actions” during that time period.
Jacob fanboying is funny because Shortpacked! 😀
Goddamn it, Amber.
“Uggs” more like “Ughs” amirite ladies
What is with all the Ugg hate?
They’re hideous monstrosities of fashion. We’ve hated them all along.
Personally, I’m with Sierra; your species should just go without shoes. Or wear retractable roller blades.
JACOB. Jacob. Are you secretly an ELEVEN? The scale is only meant to go to ten!
But his knob can be set to 11, so there is that. 😀
I swear Jacob just gets better every time we see him. He is awesome.
Sarah is now officially my hero.
Only now? What about when she clobbered Joyce’s would-be-rapist with a baseball bat?
yeah Sarah has been the best character for me since OLD TESTAMENT GOD and so far that hasn’t changed
Sarah using her superpower – she turns into a grumpy old person when under stress. Kinda a crotchety Hulk.
I got more of a Slappy the Squirrel vibe.
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Dammit, now I am picturing a Slappy vibrator.
She still never said no……
My thoughts exactly.
Appropriate that they are in the Clark wing because Jacob couldn’t look more like Clark Kent if he tried.
Aw Jacob.
Good on Sarah. The whole Amazi-Girl business is neat, but stay out of serious bidness, like to the twenty-fifth power. Not that this is serious business, but that’s Sarah’s reference point.