I’ve heard a full-body suit called a jumpsuit or a boilersuit (often worn in the UK by boiler repairmen, or at least they used to be xD), but we mostly call them overalls (because they are over everything else, and cover it too).
These that Amber is wearing are always called dungarees, and the shorter versions (such as Ruth has been shown wearing), are referred to as dungaree shorts. 🙂
It’s time to introduce some french that you have to pardon:
it’s a called a “salopette”, which is a small salope (the word means bongo (filtered!) nowadays but used to mean someone/something dirty, I mean dirty as with dirt on it… because it was used… by children… to protect their clothes form dirt). The boiler suit is called a “bleu de travail” (something like workers’ blue clothing, you see where your “blue collar” meets it), worn by, well workers. Some people call it a “combinaison” when it’s not blue.
Nope, “salope” means “slut”. Take it from a person who spent every school year from kindergarten to grade 12 in French (not French-immersion!) school. As for the rest, that’s neat facts. And on the note of that “bleu de travail”, the French language has lots of strange instances like that where they call an object/substance a colour. “Rouge à lêvres”, “vert-de-gris”… I guess it’s a thing with them?
Although perhaps the thing about the French is not that they call objects/substances by their colour, but that they call them by their notable attribute. For example, the case of “salope” which was called that because it was dirty… as in, hard physical dirt on it. I’m a little too lazy to look into other examples– I mean, I’ve got homework to do, and look at the time! Better run!
I’m quite flattered that with my stubbing-my-toe-on-any-difficulty english you could think otherwise that my being a snail eater.
This intel comes from the reference site I use for my teaching (as I teach french to french pupils in France) that you can now use for any etymology related: http://www.cnrtl.fr (in portail lexical then etymologie).
For further matters, most of colour-related objects are because of the use of synecdoche: a bleu de travail is in fact blue and that colour defines the object. And if you can most of time translate salope by slut (as slutwalks were called marches des salopes), it sometimes is better translated by bongo, for bongo having being reverted by feminist movements/authors (like roberta gregory), and so was salope for a small time after the pro-choice manifesto of 1971 used by french feminists, transforming the insult into a pride title.
I was never fond of history in general as a school subject, and the origins of language always baffle me, but that’s one of a handful of things I’d like to look in to further. I guess the K-12 French student has to take it from the French teacher. As far as I knew, “salope” was always “slut” and “bongo” was always “chienne” (even in its derogatory meaning).
I’m in Texas (lived in south and central Texas and most my family is in DFW) and have only ever heard them called coveralls.
Makes me wonder what they call them in east Texas. Sometimes east Texas is VERY Texan, but other times they’re VERY Sourhern and confuse the rest of us Texans.
I should know what game specifically this is a reference to put I’m running a blank. (I know the series obviously. Just blanking on which game has that LR start thing)
Sorry I don’t click strange links. But it’s Stoneheart. There’s a story behind it, but the important thing is that it’s not Stonehearth, and so it probably has nothing to do with that link.
Overalls can be overdone. My ex dressed our little girl in overalls so often because she was “sooo cute!” than I witnessed an adorable tiny rebellion- a six year old folding her arms, pooching out her lower lip, and saying “No more overalls!”
She still refuses to wear them.
It’s like when one burns out on their favorite food, sorta.
It happens in stages, though. When they’re babies they wear whatever mom/dad picks. Gradually they have more input, but if it’s an outfit mom loves on them, they get praised like crazy and fawned over when they wear it, so they like it to. (Plus, for my kid, he loved having lots of pockets that were easier for a toddler to access than in regular pants) So, for years, they are jumping for joy at wearing overalls.
They gradually give more input in what they wear day-to-day, but at that stage their only consideration is how it feels on them (comfort) and how it looks (the color, a picture on it, does it have pockets? Glitter? Frills? Favorite shapes?). They don’t care if it suits the weather or the day’s activities, or even if it fits. So they still have little real say in the matter ultimately.
Then they start giving more input in the store. So you buy more of what they like and what fits their style. But they’re still using you as a gauge and still only thinking in the moment, not about fit, durability, weather, etc.
But as their world expands more and the “I’m the center of the universe” innate toddler attitude falls away, they develop their own tastes and styles.
I know I let my son dress more-or-less in what he likes, and he picks 90% of his clothes now. But it’s still hard to let go of the styles that I like on him. I spent 6 years being the ultimate decider (and still am at times, like on special occasions, or if he decides he wants to wear his Super Mario costume to school) and his tastes aligning with mine mostly.
It’s not easy to let that go and say “okay, you’re old enough to pick.” Or even “alright, I’ll help you pick.”
And honestly, for things like holidays or professional photos, it’s my decision. I will try to pick things that he likes and fit his tastes, but things like wearing overalls for a quick photo at the pumpkin patch won’t kill him, and it won’t quash his sense of individuality. It’s just another dumb thing mom made him do for 5 minutes before he was allowed to run off and play and he forgot about it.
Yeah, I think my son is just so adorable in overalls. I’d comb racks to find them in his size. They’re cute, they fit longer than most pants, I don’t have to wear out my arm yanking on that damn elastic like I do in all his regular pants (he can only wear adjustable waist pants. He’s long-legged and very slim) and when he was a toddler, the X on the back of them made a good handle for when he was trying to run off or when he was about to fall and I couldn’t quite reach to catch him. Overalls saved that kid from *so* many bonks on the head and scraped knees.
But now he’s 6 and in kindergarten. None of his friends wear overalls, nor do any of his fashion heroes on Disney Channel (I will wring the neck of whoever gave Teen Beach Movie the green light), so he also refuses to wear them. Little lovable brat.
I was that way before I got my Lasik surgery, I could see well enough to do most things, but everything was blurry, so stuff like reading was off the table. I never had any depth perception though, my eyes don’t work together and I have doublevision all the time, so I approximate depth via angles and sizes of things.
I had double vision for the first 25 years of my life that required glasses because I had an imbalance in the strength of my eye muscles. But then I had a work accident (worked construction) and went blind in one eye, and now I don’t need glasses… kind of a silver lining to the grey grey cloud of going blind in one eye :B
My dad was born with double-vision too (he’s now 63). Honestly, it’s a mystery to me how he’s not always walking into walls or stuff, nevermind the fact that he’s a perfectly competent driver. I’d never get behind a steering wheel and I can see only one of everything in front of me! xD
(…although my optician keeps insisting my eyesight is great – better than average in fact, and wonders why I keep going back for my regularly biennial appointment – I do have mild stereoblindness. I only really notice it when I’m reaching for the handrail on the bus, and miss xD)
I’m very longsighted in one eye, and have been all my life. In theory, I don’t have normal depth perception (which sometimes affects me), but in practice, this is how I’ve always been, so my brain works around it. Probably the same with your dad, he’s ALWAYS had the double vision, so it’s normal to him and he works it.
It would probably be a different story if he’d developed it later in life.
Yeah, I suppose so. In fact, he went to the optician once to ask about getting his vision sorted (not only does he have double vision caused by a squint in one eye, he also has one eye longsighted and one eye shortsighted!), but they said that he’s too old to sort it out now anyway. And even if they could sort the squint out at such an old age (basically, all adults are classed as too old to undergo squint-correction surgery), he’d probably have to learn to see all over again, which would not be fun for him at all.
I would guess that Amber wears glasses to correct a minor vision impairment, and she’s able to see well enough to get by without them. I myself am mildly nearsighted, and I have glasses for that. Without my glasses, distant objects appear blurry, I can see objects that are close perfectly clearly. I don’t have my glasses on right now, and I’m having no difficulty seeing the computer screen. I could manage without glasses if I had to. I couldn’t pull off moves like that, but I couldn’t do that with the aid of corrective lenses either, so that’s beside the point.
Yeah, I’m impressed. I can’t even walk down stairs without my glasses on because my depth-perception is so off without them.
I can also only see clearly about 6in in front of my face, so that doesn’t help, but even when my eyesight wasn’t all that bad, not having glasses threw off my depth-perception to dangerous levels.
I think college was when glasses stores started doing buy-one, get-one-free sales semi-often, so since then I’ve always had 2 pair. One everyday pair, and one back-up. I keep my back-up in my car and always keep my most recent old pair in my nightstand. You never know.
I wonder if any schools in North America have parkour teams. If Amber hasn’t at the very least spent a lot of time watching parkour videos I’d be greatly surprised.
There’s a parkour team at IU, but I get the impression that it’s a student-led and organized club, not an official school thing. Still would be good for her. Give her a more healthy outlet and get her around other people.
…which means it wouldn’t happen.
The revelation that the shut-in nerd girl is actually really good at parkour would threaten her secret identity.
I do think it’s kind of odd how few of the DoA characters are involved in any sort of formal extracurricular activities, though. There’s Dorothy and Billie with the newspaper (and is Billie even still doing that?), and… that’s pretty much it.
And according to the latest slipshine, he runs more.
I’m hoping Danny goes to another one and Bryan helps clear things up for him. I think what Danny needs to hear right now is that he doesn’t need to worry about being attracted to Ethan and it won’t screw things up with Amber, and hearing that from a fellow queer dude would probably work wonders for him.
I’m pretty sure making amateur Internet porn vids doesn’t qualify as a formal extracurricular activity. I might be wrong. It’s been a while since I was in college. But Big Boss didn’t seem to think it did, either.
I did think of the questioning meetup, but I got the impression that it was something Bryan and Jim were doing on their own initiative, not as part of a campus LGBTQACRONYM club or whatever.
Thinking back to my college days, I don’t think a single one of my friends participated in any “formal” school activities other than what was tied to their studies.
I took part in formal activities other than my studies, but not many that were actually related to school at all. I was in the school choir, but that really didn’t require much effort. My two main pasttimes which took up a lot of time outside of school were Scouts, and ballroom dancing (both done very much elsewhere).
She’s a girl, she’s a girl with visible breasts of a significant size, she’s wearing overalls and doing flips – and everything is properly arranged and in the correct place afterwards?
It’s just you. I mean, she does muss up her hair as part of her amazi girl disguise, but it would take several cans of hair products to keep her “Amber hair” perfectly in place while performing freeform acrobatics. So her hair isn’t “going amazigirlish”, it’s just understandably slightly unkempt.
I mean, it’s not like she undergoes a magical girl transformation that gives her a different hairstyle when changing into her costume. It’s too bad she can’t pull a spinnerette and have a wig attached to her mask in order to further protect the identity of her alter ego, though. Be funny, though:
“Amazigirl! Wait….didn’t you used to have less hair???”
“You are imagining things, citizen.”
The same thing happened during the chapter that was about her losing herself in her second identity, though. Her hair gradually becomes more frazzled as the day goes on, she’s wearing the Amazi-Girl colours in her civvies, stuff like that.
Oh alt-text. “Your wrong.” There, see? Easy. Now, convincing you of this statement might not happen, but your going to have to do something drastic like hunt me down and physically restrain and gag me to prevent me from saying it.
….her jump was strange there..
like she ran leaping and like.. inverse rolled from the direction she was going and then twisted again to land bakc in the origina direction?
Pretty impressive moves for someone who was hit by a car four days ago.
I suppose Amber has a point. We are too fixated on our screens to look at our surroundings, or at least I am. I don’t even know how to open the blinds in my apartment. As pathologically uncoordinated as I am, I could probably eventually figure it out if I actually spent some time trying to do it. I don’t really care enough to try. All I’d be able to see from my second floor apartment is the fire escape and the side yard of my building with its perpetual pile of garbage bags. The view from those windows appears to be more scenic, however, especially with the leaves changing color. Billie and Ruth were looking out the window just a little while ago. Perhaps Amber should think twice about practicing her moves in a public space while out of costume.
“a bit of gymnastics” is if she were doing that on solid ground. On a fucking wall? That’s a degree of confidence/suicidality that’s pretty amazi-telling.
Someone needs to do a fan comic of Amber going through her movement and martial arts practice, whatever they might be. It’s the kind of thing you really can’t stick into the strip in any sort of extended way, as in over several strips, without it seeming like filler.
I’m wondering how and where she developed such technique and agility. Are there circus performers in her background? Is she a natural athlete? Is this yet another manifestation of the trauma she suffered at the hands of her ratbastard father? Furthermore, how did she shrug off the beating she took saving Becky? He recuperative powers must be extraordinary.
Ever since the Convenience Store incident, she’s been pushing herself to never be afraid or helpless again, both mentally and physically. This has included a regime of intense physical training (of which Blaine is only very partly aware). I consider it highly likely that she taught herself after obsessively studying the appropriate YouTUBE videos.
You’re wrong. Overalls infantilize everyone who wears them. Which is fine if that person is a child, but pretty bad looking if they’re not. The only exception is farmers, but that’s a whole look. Not a random item of clothing.
Meanwhile, some college student recording a skype session accidentally catches Amber in the background outside of his window. Obliviously posts it to YouTube. One of his ten subs notices it and it goes viral.
Y’know, it’s moments like this that make me think it is so sad that Amber thinks that she’s a monster and normally feels that she has to hide all her potential under masks of one kind or another. She’s smart, physically able and has the soul of a true hero. If only she could start believing in herself and believing that she isn’t a shorter and cuter female version of Blaine, she’d be a lot happier.
PREDICTION: Carla was looking out of the right window at the right moment and this just adds to her suspicions.
A nice touch in panel 3 – Amber automatically taking the formal gymnastic ‘end-rest’ posture. That indicates that, at some point, she had formal gym training so that she has that move drilled into her hind-brain.
IDK what it is, but there is something about Danny, where, whenever he gets any screen time, I lose interest entirely, no matter who else is involved. He’s just so….bleh. He blehs up the place.
He is pretty vanilla. I like that he’s just kind of this goob goobing his way through his goob life, but not like Marten from QC where he’s never allowed to do or so anything outside his boundary as straight man.
And, yeah, being the only bi dude in anything I follow kind of adds an automatic level of importance to him for me.
Does no one else suspect she’s dreaming or hallucinating? The dreaminess of the first panel suggests it to me. This is like the “naked in public” dream for her.
Not really. Amazi Girl has pulled off stuff like this before. Besides, the dream sequences have been pretty clearly dream sequences from what I remember. (Like Joyce having glowing eyes, or the background rapidly changing on Danny)
Amber no. Just because people don’t en masse look out of the windows on the regular doesn’t mean there isn’t a single one in an entire building, which is all it could take to uncover your secret / make you a celebrity (yay video recording!)
Do you WANT to get caught?
…actually that probably would be an objectively better outcome >_>
It may be entirely possible that subconsciously she does want to get caught, to be forced to have both facets of her total personality (Plain-Old-Amber and Amazi-girl) merged together finally into ‘Amber the Amazi-girl’.
Sarah would never do that. It would risk revealing her secret identity as the Cudgeler, the mysterious vigilante who terrified the local criminals last year. The mess with her roommate attracted too much attention, which is why she stopped doing it.
It’s not that Danny won’t be bisexual until he fuck a dude, but that Willis wants to get two male main characters together rather than pairing Ethan together with an extra (again) and he made Danny bisexual for the sole purpose of doing that.
Though I suppose it may be a fake out, and Ethan just ends up with Mike or Joe or something. It’s just that the Danny/Ethan thing is kind of heavily foreshadowed; it’s the banner above the comic for me as I type this.
Okay let me try this again. I think my previous post was too antagonistic towards you.
So like, Danny’s bi because there’s a lack of queer men in this series (not a complaint. It’s lady-centric, and that’s ultimately a consequence of this being a work by one dude who only has so much panel time), but that doesn’t necessitate that he needs to get with Ethan. He still gets to be a queer dude if he isn’t in a visibly, easily identifiable queer relationship.
Oh man… I know I am going to get told off for this. But the acrobatics depicted are really bothering my gymnastics sensibilities. There is no movement I can think of where you can find that sequence of stills. I know, I know “comic physics and dont be negative” yadda yadda, but it really irks me. Even disregarding the Batman level of leg strength for that starting position to work, the way she twists just is not possible :/
Sorry about this dumb post 😛
oh man, I want this ‘verse to suddenly have magic XD
(I have done gymnastics only a little bit as a kid, but I honestly can’t imagine how that works either. She… twirls in mid-air, then magically flies up an does a backflip? Whenever I explain some part of this sequence to myself, there’s another one that doesn’t fit at all. Amazi-magic is definitely it)
Not only that, her Starting Position is set up for a leftwards twist, and yet her hands are clearly twisting to the right! Aaargh this bothers me xD
I guess you explanation is as good as any :)h
Huzzah! I’ve only recently gotten into DoA (when I finished a two day binge of all the comics Becky was telling her dad how awesome she’s gonna be), and from what I’ve seen it seems like I’m very much in a minority here, but Amber & Danny’s relationship is my favourite thing about the series. I love them together and want to see more.
I just want them to actually discuss Danny’s sexuality so it doesn’t become a problem (i.e. keeping secrets, her getting worried about getting hurt again like with Ethan, etc.), and for them to openly be in a relationship, rather than the deal of him only dating Amazi-Girl.
I’m just amazed she’s able to do that only a few days after she got hit by a car and nearly got her arm wrenched from its socket.
As for the glasses, well, I need mine to drive and recognize faces that are more than 20 feet away, but when I sit down at the computer, off they come. On a day where I don’t go out, and read instead of watching TV or playing Xbox in the morning, I might not put them on for hours. Amber’s vision may be like mine.
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yay overalls
Ah… short-haired ladies in overalls…
Amber in Overalls. I want the soundtrack.
I like what she’s wearing, overall…
hahahahahahaHAHA HA HA
Mmm, cute Amber in dungarees… *_*
(that’s what we call ’em in the UK. We use “overalls” to refer to a full body suit, which I think other countries call a boilersuit?)
Everything about today’s strip is adorable. :3
In Canada the ones with sleeves are cover-alls. See, over-alls go over all your clothes; but cover-alls actually cover everything.
I think the States followed our lead on that one. 😉
A full-body suit with legs and sleeves, I’ve always called that a jumpsuit.
I’ve heard a full-body suit called a jumpsuit or a boilersuit (often worn in the UK by boiler repairmen, or at least they used to be xD), but we mostly call them overalls (because they are over everything else, and cover it too).
These that Amber is wearing are always called dungarees, and the shorter versions (such as Ruth has been shown wearing), are referred to as dungaree shorts. 🙂
It’s time to introduce some french that you have to pardon:
it’s a called a “salopette”, which is a small salope (the word means bongo (filtered!) nowadays but used to mean someone/something dirty, I mean dirty as with dirt on it… because it was used… by children… to protect their clothes form dirt). The boiler suit is called a “bleu de travail” (something like workers’ blue clothing, you see where your “blue collar” meets it), worn by, well workers. Some people call it a “combinaison” when it’s not blue.
Nope, “salope” means “slut”. Take it from a person who spent every school year from kindergarten to grade 12 in French (not French-immersion!) school. As for the rest, that’s neat facts. And on the note of that “bleu de travail”, the French language has lots of strange instances like that where they call an object/substance a colour. “Rouge à lêvres”, “vert-de-gris”… I guess it’s a thing with them?
Although perhaps the thing about the French is not that they call objects/substances by their colour, but that they call them by their notable attribute. For example, the case of “salope” which was called that because it was dirty… as in, hard physical dirt on it. I’m a little too lazy to look into other examples– I mean, I’ve got homework to do, and look at the time! Better run!
I’m quite flattered that with my stubbing-my-toe-on-any-difficulty english you could think otherwise that my being a snail eater.
This intel comes from the reference site I use for my teaching (as I teach french to french pupils in France) that you can now use for any etymology related: http://www.cnrtl.fr (in portail lexical then etymologie).
For further matters, most of colour-related objects are because of the use of synecdoche: a bleu de travail is in fact blue and that colour defines the object. And if you can most of time translate salope by slut (as slutwalks were called marches des salopes), it sometimes is better translated by bongo, for bongo having being reverted by feminist movements/authors (like roberta gregory), and so was salope for a small time after the pro-choice manifesto of 1971 used by french feminists, transforming the insult into a pride title.
day-yamn znayx done got told
This is clearly a prototype power armour
Whatcha talkin’ about, Willis?
…Nevermind, I done got doggone told my ass off.
I was never fond of history in general as a school subject, and the origins of language always baffle me, but that’s one of a handful of things I’d like to look in to further. I guess the K-12 French student has to take it from the French teacher. As far as I knew, “salope” was always “slut” and “bongo” was always “chienne” (even in its derogatory meaning).
^apparently I didn’t reply at the right spot
Full body ones have always been called jumpsuits where I live, southeast US.
I’m in Texas (lived in south and central Texas and most my family is in DFW) and have only ever heard them called coveralls.
Makes me wonder what they call them in east Texas. Sometimes east Texas is VERY Texan, but other times they’re VERY Sourhern and confuse the rest of us Texans.
All I could think is “It’s-a-me, Amazigirl!”
After completing the game if you press
LR Start you can play as Dina
I should know what game specifically this is a reference to put I’m running a blank. (I know the series obviously. Just blanking on which game has that LR start thing)
I was just thinking Mario games in general, but if you want a specific one
New Super Mario Bros on Nintendo DS
also known as the game that Shortpacked Amber went shirt ripping crazy over
“Lord Stonehearth” eh? 😀 http://www.stonehearth.net eller? 😉
Sorry I don’t click strange links. But it’s Stoneheart. There’s a story behind it, but the important thing is that it’s not Stonehearth, and so it probably has nothing to do with that link.
And you change class from fighter to stealth ?
Dina goes through life always rolling nat 20s for “Hide In Plain Sight”.
So she has Dina’s power, but with the limitation “Only in costume”?
So she is a shadow dancer as well?
She looks a bit more like Luigi to me.
“It’s a-me-Luigi” still works~
Are those Pajama-Overalls(tm)?
I had overalls in college!
Overalls can be overdone. My ex dressed our little girl in overalls so often because she was “sooo cute!” than I witnessed an adorable tiny rebellion- a six year old folding her arms, pooching out her lower lip, and saying “No more overalls!”
She still refuses to wear them.
It’s like when one burns out on their favorite food, sorta.
It seems like dressing a droll rather than taking into account the tastes of a living being.
It happens in stages, though. When they’re babies they wear whatever mom/dad picks. Gradually they have more input, but if it’s an outfit mom loves on them, they get praised like crazy and fawned over when they wear it, so they like it to. (Plus, for my kid, he loved having lots of pockets that were easier for a toddler to access than in regular pants) So, for years, they are jumping for joy at wearing overalls.
They gradually give more input in what they wear day-to-day, but at that stage their only consideration is how it feels on them (comfort) and how it looks (the color, a picture on it, does it have pockets? Glitter? Frills? Favorite shapes?). They don’t care if it suits the weather or the day’s activities, or even if it fits. So they still have little real say in the matter ultimately.
Then they start giving more input in the store. So you buy more of what they like and what fits their style. But they’re still using you as a gauge and still only thinking in the moment, not about fit, durability, weather, etc.
But as their world expands more and the “I’m the center of the universe” innate toddler attitude falls away, they develop their own tastes and styles.
I know I let my son dress more-or-less in what he likes, and he picks 90% of his clothes now. But it’s still hard to let go of the styles that I like on him. I spent 6 years being the ultimate decider (and still am at times, like on special occasions, or if he decides he wants to wear his Super Mario costume to school) and his tastes aligning with mine mostly.
It’s not easy to let that go and say “okay, you’re old enough to pick.” Or even “alright, I’ll help you pick.”
And honestly, for things like holidays or professional photos, it’s my decision. I will try to pick things that he likes and fit his tastes, but things like wearing overalls for a quick photo at the pumpkin patch won’t kill him, and it won’t quash his sense of individuality. It’s just another dumb thing mom made him do for 5 minutes before he was allowed to run off and play and he forgot about it.
that was insightful.
Yeah, I think my son is just so adorable in overalls. I’d comb racks to find them in his size. They’re cute, they fit longer than most pants, I don’t have to wear out my arm yanking on that damn elastic like I do in all his regular pants (he can only wear adjustable waist pants. He’s long-legged and very slim) and when he was a toddler, the X on the back of them made a good handle for when he was trying to run off or when he was about to fall and I couldn’t quite reach to catch him. Overalls saved that kid from *so* many bonks on the head and scraped knees.
But now he’s 6 and in kindergarten. None of his friends wear overalls, nor do any of his fashion heroes on Disney Channel (I will wring the neck of whoever gave Teen Beach Movie the green light), so he also refuses to wear them. Little lovable brat.
I read that statement as “Overalls can be undone”, as in, undone quite easily…I’m having a Slipshine thought moment right now.
Excuse me, I’ll let myself out. xD
Of all the things Amazi-Girl had done, Amber trumps them by being able to do backflips in overallS AND sticking the landing while not seeing clearly.
Personally I’m a bigger fan of Jean Shorts but I can see the appeal of cute girls in Overalls too.
This should be Amber’s new look. Permanently. It’s super-cute! <3
Cute girls in dungarees. There is no bad here. 😀
Well at least her depth perception and balance still seem to be okay 🙂
Either she’s wearing contacts, and does so as Amazi-girl, or she really doesn’t need glasses, and they’re just part of her Amber persona.
She needs them, but not badly enough that she can’t get by without them if she has to.
I was that way before I got my Lasik surgery, I could see well enough to do most things, but everything was blurry, so stuff like reading was off the table. I never had any depth perception though, my eyes don’t work together and I have doublevision all the time, so I approximate depth via angles and sizes of things.
I had double vision for the first 25 years of my life that required glasses because I had an imbalance in the strength of my eye muscles. But then I had a work accident (worked construction) and went blind in one eye, and now I don’t need glasses… kind of a silver lining to the grey grey cloud of going blind in one eye :B
And also you can wear a cool eyepatch if you want.
My dad was born with double-vision too (he’s now 63). Honestly, it’s a mystery to me how he’s not always walking into walls or stuff, nevermind the fact that he’s a perfectly competent driver. I’d never get behind a steering wheel and I can see only one of everything in front of me! xD
(…although my optician keeps insisting my eyesight is great – better than average in fact, and wonders why I keep going back for my regularly biennial appointment – I do have mild stereoblindness. I only really notice it when I’m reaching for the handrail on the bus, and miss xD)
I’m very longsighted in one eye, and have been all my life. In theory, I don’t have normal depth perception (which sometimes affects me), but in practice, this is how I’ve always been, so my brain works around it. Probably the same with your dad, he’s ALWAYS had the double vision, so it’s normal to him and he works it.
It would probably be a different story if he’d developed it later in life.
Yeah, I suppose so. In fact, he went to the optician once to ask about getting his vision sorted (not only does he have double vision caused by a squint in one eye, he also has one eye longsighted and one eye shortsighted!), but they said that he’s too old to sort it out now anyway. And even if they could sort the squint out at such an old age (basically, all adults are classed as too old to undergo squint-correction surgery), he’d probably have to learn to see all over again, which would not be fun for him at all.
I would guess that Amber wears glasses to correct a minor vision impairment, and she’s able to see well enough to get by without them. I myself am mildly nearsighted, and I have glasses for that. Without my glasses, distant objects appear blurry, I can see objects that are close perfectly clearly. I don’t have my glasses on right now, and I’m having no difficulty seeing the computer screen. I could manage without glasses if I had to. I couldn’t pull off moves like that, but I couldn’t do that with the aid of corrective lenses either, so that’s beside the point.
I’ve got to say that this is my preferred explanation.
I read that more as a “Not still concussed/no permanent damage” than about her glasses.
Yeah, I’m impressed. I can’t even walk down stairs without my glasses on because my depth-perception is so off without them.
I can also only see clearly about 6in in front of my face, so that doesn’t help, but even when my eyesight wasn’t all that bad, not having glasses threw off my depth-perception to dangerous levels.
I think college was when glasses stores started doing buy-one, get-one-free sales semi-often, so since then I’ve always had 2 pair. One everyday pair, and one back-up. I keep my back-up in my car and always keep my most recent old pair in my nightstand. You never know.
Those overalls are what really make it pop!
Amber’s what makes the overalls pop. Batman should have overalls.
Wish granted.
for one wild moment i thought you were going to gift us with farmer Batman.
(this is just about as good tho)
Well THATS a pretty swift confirmation that she’s feeling better
One could say she’s feeling…
…hungry?
Better overall?
DING! Correct answer. Have a waffle!
Amazing?
Huh. I’d actually been under the impression that only Amazi-Girl could do the flippy shit. Guess the tags prove me wrong.
It’s only Amazi-Girl when she uses the Batman voice.
Nope. She didn’t use the voice at the beginning, remember?
She was not truly Amazi-Girl then, she was too soft on criminals. Let them live
Other than the tags, the cheek color is a pretty good indicator. Amber has blushes. Amazi Girl does not.
When it’s Amber her cheeks are blue
When it’s Amazi-Girl her cheeks are yellow
Well I’ve fulfilled my perverted joke quote for the day.
I can attest to this–just the other day, my co-worker walked straight past me at the grocery but her face was glued to her phone, so
–oh I guess the site’s clock’s fixed now? huh
Yesss. A thousand thanks to the Great and Powerful Willis for restoring the Time Shift.
until the next one.
*shoves a clock*
Amber’s getting an early start on Halloween with her Luigi costume, I see
Luigi’s up+B is looking a lot cooler these days
Glad I’m not the only one who saw it 😛
Okay, cool, I’m not the only one who thought Luigi.
There are more of us!
Mamma mia !
I wonder how Luigi feels about this…
She figured that it’d help her jump higher.
She eats a lot of shrooms.
Nothing wrong with being physically adept. I wish I were more so myself.
I hear that. I’m worse than useless at all things physical.
I wish I were merely useless at things physical.
I’m pretty sure my body wants me dead. I’ve tried explaining the illogic of this to it, but it won’t listen.
When your body gets the message, can it explain it to my body?
Our bodies seem to have similar grasps of logic.
AMBER JOIN A JYMNASTICS TEAM FOR GODS SAKE
I wonder if any schools in North America have parkour teams. If Amber hasn’t at the very least spent a lot of time watching parkour videos I’d be greatly surprised.
There are several parkour clubs in Seattle. That’s not quite the same as a team I guess? But it’s a thing.
There’s a parkour team at IU, but I get the impression that it’s a student-led and organized club, not an official school thing. Still would be good for her. Give her a more healthy outlet and get her around other people.
…which means it wouldn’t happen.
The revelation that the shut-in nerd girl is actually really good at parkour would threaten her secret identity.
I do think it’s kind of odd how few of the DoA characters are involved in any sort of formal extracurricular activities, though. There’s Dorothy and Billie with the newspaper (and is Billie even still doing that?), and… that’s pretty much it.
Roz and Joe were engaged in certain “movie productions” – until the dean banned it.
Also Bryan and Jim organising a questioning-your-sexuality-meetup.
And according to the latest slipshine, he runs more.
I’m hoping Danny goes to another one and Bryan helps clear things up for him. I think what Danny needs to hear right now is that he doesn’t need to worry about being attracted to Ethan and it won’t screw things up with Amber, and hearing that from a fellow queer dude would probably work wonders for him.
AMBER JOIN A GYMNASTICS TEAM.
Better yet…
JOIN THE COLLEGE CHEERLEADING SQUAD! That’d really everyone’s blood pumping! ;D
She would rather suffer in the Death Pits of Doctor Cyborg.
Well maybe she’s changed her mind about gymnastics/cheerleading since then. After all, that was 4 and a half years ago…I mean, what, 6 weeks? xD
But seriously, Amber’s personality has changed quite a bit in those weeks, maybe she’d be a little more open to it now?
I’m pretty sure making amateur Internet porn vids doesn’t qualify as a formal extracurricular activity. I might be wrong. It’s been a while since I was in college. But Big Boss didn’t seem to think it did, either.
(Roz’s Planned Parenthood activism probably counts, though.)
I did think of the questioning meetup, but I got the impression that it was something Bryan and Jim were doing on their own initiative, not as part of a campus LGBTQACRONYM club or whatever.
Thinking back to my college days, I don’t think a single one of my friends participated in any “formal” school activities other than what was tied to their studies.
I took part in formal activities other than my studies, but not many that were actually related to school at all. I was in the school choir, but that really didn’t require much effort. My two main pasttimes which took up a lot of time outside of school were Scouts, and ballroom dancing (both done very much elsewhere).
I was JUST thinking “wow, Amber, I can’t believe you’re wearing overalls” and then I saw the alt text.
Overalls are wrong. You are wrong.
Girls in overalls and hoodies is super cute ok
fite me 1on1 irl mate
*m8
(Sorry)
r u havin a gigle ther
il bsh ur fkn edn swarn memum
Who’s this new character? Amber wears glasses and Amazi-Girl wears a mask, so it’s obviously someone else.
“It is I, Maria!”
I think I know that reference! Where’s it from, Plasma?
It’s a me, Mario!
She will need a sidekick. Here comes Louise!
“Man, more like Amazi-Squirrel”
Or, in this case… Ambi-Squirrel? Amberrel? Squir-ber?
Ambster the Hamster, according to Becky
Amber’s glasses got broke.
Blame Amazi-Girl and/or Toedad.
Neither glasses nor mask and costume nor hairstyle nor voice are definitive signs. She’s got cheek blushes; she’s Amber.
I guess she can see fine enough without glasses.I always wondered how that worked for her costume.
I think they’re just for shortsightedness. Like she can see fine, just can’t read the small print.
Amazi-Contacts
That would be longsightedness. I’m short-sighted; I need glasses to drive or watch a movie, but I can read teensy print if I hold it close enough.
Contact lenses?
contact lenses sound dangerous when fighting and doing acrobatics.
How so?
Prescription mask?
ha 😀
She’s a girl, she’s a girl with visible breasts of a significant size, she’s wearing overalls and doing flips – and everything is properly arranged and in the correct place afterwards?
I CALL SO MUCH BULLSHIT ON THIS.
Unlike many women, Amber is wearing a properly sized and fitted sports bra!
The Amazi-Bra is an amazing feat of undergarment engineering.
Amber O’Malley is Useless?
Amber O’Malley is Useless?
Would you rather invisible breasts of a significant size?
What’s the point to that if you can’t even see them?
You can’t calm what you cannot see
Please, hakuna your tatas.
… LOL. I actually like that one.
I know, right? The only way to confirm that they were there would be manually.
…. and that would be wrong.
That’s another nice thing about overalls: the option to wear them without a shirt.
Amazi-Girl practiced to be the best at everything.
Everything?
EVERYTHING.
* cue montage that includes a DDR challenge between Batman & Amazi-Girl
Amazi-Girl can so beat Batman at DDR.
But he’s better at breathing in space, so it evens out.
Video game. Amazi-girl might not be Amber, but they obviously share skills and memories. Advantage Amazi-girl.
Hamster-Girl err I mean Amber sure is amazing.
Does parkour have a theme song?
*looks for his copy of “Nadia’s Song”*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxZDeiTgNRs
*throws a glance at the Russian judge who only gave Amber a 7.5 score*
I love the warped crackles in the music. Adds to the feel of nostalgia.
Russian? They are in the USA.
There’s always a Russian judge.
Okay so Amber’s hair is definitely going Amazi-Girlish this time, right? It’s not just me?
It’s just you. I mean, she does muss up her hair as part of her amazi girl disguise, but it would take several cans of hair products to keep her “Amber hair” perfectly in place while performing freeform acrobatics. So her hair isn’t “going amazigirlish”, it’s just understandably slightly unkempt.
I mean, it’s not like she undergoes a magical girl transformation that gives her a different hairstyle when changing into her costume. It’s too bad she can’t pull a spinnerette and have a wig attached to her mask in order to further protect the identity of her alter ego, though. Be funny, though:
“Amazigirl! Wait….didn’t you used to have less hair???”
“You are imagining things, citizen.”
(I really do say “though” a lot…)
The same thing happened during the chapter that was about her losing herself in her second identity, though. Her hair gradually becomes more frazzled as the day goes on, she’s wearing the Amazi-Girl colours in her civvies, stuff like that.
I hope things don’t go all Paranoia Agent with her.
omg somebody else watched that
Amber’s the FlipMaster!
Oh alt-text. “Your wrong.” There, see? Easy. Now, convincing you of this statement might not happen, but your going to have to do something drastic like hunt me down and physically restrain and gag me to prevent me from saying it.
Technically, you didn’t say “YOU’RE wrong”, so Willis still wins.
Grammar rules!!
(Pun intended.)
The Willis is never wrong, and the rare time he is, reality shifts to conform to The Willis.
….her jump was strange there..
like she ran leaping and like.. inverse rolled from the direction she was going and then twisted again to land bakc in the origina direction?
the third shadowimage is throwing me
You just have to teach physics who’s boss.
Amber is actually Luigi. the overalls and super smash-style flippy maneuvers confirm it.
No uses those except you and Sal.
Overalls? What is this, 1997?
Of course not. I have overalls. I bought them in, let’s see, well, actually, 1997.
From where I’m from, farmers still wear them when they work.
I wish!
If you wear them with one strap undone, it’s 1987, a la Bananarama or Dexy’s Midnight Runners or any number of other early MTV videos.
I remember in 2001 my high school principal adding “no overalls” to the dress code.
Pretty impressive moves for someone who was hit by a car four days ago.
I suppose Amber has a point. We are too fixated on our screens to look at our surroundings, or at least I am. I don’t even know how to open the blinds in my apartment. As pathologically uncoordinated as I am, I could probably eventually figure it out if I actually spent some time trying to do it. I don’t really care enough to try. All I’d be able to see from my second floor apartment is the fire escape and the side yard of my building with its perpetual pile of garbage bags. The view from those windows appears to be more scenic, however, especially with the leaves changing color. Billie and Ruth were looking out the window just a little while ago. Perhaps Amber should think twice about practicing her moves in a public space while out of costume.
Mutant healing factor.
And her bones are probably made of adamantium.
There was this accident…
Eh, so Amber knows a bit of gymnastics. It’s hardly a smoking gun. LOTS of girls know how to do flips and cartwheels of stuff.
… and if it was a smoking gun, it’s not like Amazi-Girl uses guns.
…. cue Mike cutting the building’s wifi so everyone will get frustrated and look out the window and catch her in the act.
Wouldn’t put it past him, but thanksfully he’s busy with Billie & co right now.
“a bit of gymnastics” is if she were doing that on solid ground. On a fucking wall? That’s a degree of confidence/suicidality that’s pretty amazi-telling.
It’s a lot wide than a standard balance beam.
Billie was a cheerleader, so maybe she is really Amazi-Girl. 8-)}
No Billie, you are the superhero!
And then Billie was Amazi-Girl.
It gets passed along, like being the Dread Pirate Roberts?
In the other universe, the mantle did get passed on to Lucy.
“Good night, sleep well, and I’ll most likely kick ass and fuck Danny in the morning.”
…Nah, doesn’t really flow the way “kill you” does.
Billie was really Amazi-Girl ALL ALONG!
–From M. Night Shamalyan’s “Dumbing of Age” movie
DAMNIT that was supposed to be a reply to Spencer up above!
..or, Spencer, for Higher.
Someone needs to do a fan comic of Amber going through her movement and martial arts practice, whatever they might be. It’s the kind of thing you really can’t stick into the strip in any sort of extended way, as in over several strips, without it seeming like filler.
good for keeps the dumbing of age anime adaptation (which will happen someday dammit!) from overtaking the comic
*keeping
-and no this one won’t lead to any puzzles.
I like overalls and I cannot lie
You other brothers can’t deny…
When a girl walks in with suspenders that replace
The belt loops around her waist you get SPRUNG!
Sorry to break the chain fellas, but I wanted to add some science to the lyrics.
It’s nice seeing Amber (not Amazi-Girl) doing something like this just because she can.
Practice!
Hey, I wish could find overalls in my size.
Are overalls a thing again? Am I showing my age by saying “again”?
Yes.
It’s wonderful how happy Amber looks in the first panel.
Oh my god Amber you look so adorable stop
Don’t stop.
It’s okay Willis, overalls are coming back in.
That’s an interesting point. Were they coming back in when Willis drew this one, or did he / Amber predict a fashion trend?
You could say that Amber’s wearing her best over all outfit…
Two years from now we’ll laugh about how incredibly dated this strip is. “Snapchat indeed.”
(Or two years from now this comment will look incredibly presumptuous. Just covering the bases.)
well, the page is already 4 months old, techically.
I know what you mean… I always loved the look of overalls on women, I think they look so cute.
Guys in overalls, however, look like complete rednecks. *shrug*
or construction workers.
Amber flippin’ amazes me.
I’m head over heels for that girl!
“flippin'”
ohhhh i get it
She spins me right round, baby.
She’s on a roll! I’d give her a tumble. Even if she could pommel me into submission like a horse.
But we wouldn’t swing.
I’m wondering how and where she developed such technique and agility. Are there circus performers in her background? Is she a natural athlete? Is this yet another manifestation of the trauma she suffered at the hands of her ratbastard father? Furthermore, how did she shrug off the beating she took saving Becky? He recuperative powers must be extraordinary.
Rahhhgh! ‘HER recuperative powers …’. Stupid tablet keyboard.
Ever since the Convenience Store incident, she’s been pushing herself to never be afraid or helpless again, both mentally and physically. This has included a regime of intense physical training (of which Blaine is only very partly aware). I consider it highly likely that she taught herself after obsessively studying the appropriate YouTUBE videos.
Amazi-Girl/Amber did track and field in highschool.
She also did self defence classes instead of getting therapy, after her run-in with Robber Sal.
You’re wrong. Overalls infantilize everyone who wears them. Which is fine if that person is a child, but pretty bad looking if they’re not. The only exception is farmers, but that’s a whole look. Not a random item of clothing.
I think that’s only true if you’re born wearing overalls.
In which case, SOMETHING went horribly wrong SOMEWHERE.
My wife says Keith Richards was born with a lit cigarette in his mouth.
Ambster the hamster!
I’m so happy to see her do cool stuff as Amber rather than Amazigirl
Meanwhile, some college student recording a skype session accidentally catches Amber in the background outside of his window. Obliviously posts it to YouTube. One of his ten subs notices it and it goes viral.
Y’know, it’s moments like this that make me think it is so sad that Amber thinks that she’s a monster and normally feels that she has to hide all her potential under masks of one kind or another. She’s smart, physically able and has the soul of a true hero. If only she could start believing in herself and believing that she isn’t a shorter and cuter female version of Blaine, she’d be a lot happier.
PREDICTION: Carla was looking out of the right window at the right moment and this just adds to her suspicions.
What if instead of Carla it was Daisy who was looking.
Heh, I love the way the wind musses Amber’s hair into the Amazi-Girl style as she lands. Nice touch.
A nice touch in panel 3 – Amber automatically taking the formal gymnastic ‘end-rest’ posture. That indicates that, at some point, she had formal gym training so that she has that move drilled into her hind-brain.
IDK what it is, but there is something about Danny, where, whenever he gets any screen time, I lose interest entirely, no matter who else is involved. He’s just so….bleh. He blehs up the place.
He is pretty vanilla. I like that he’s just kind of this goob goobing his way through his goob life, but not like Marten from QC where he’s never allowed to do or so anything outside his boundary as straight man.
And, yeah, being the only bi dude in anything I follow kind of adds an automatic level of importance to him for me.
I just want to say that I love how Amber looks as she lands in the first panel, she looks both equal amounts of adorable and awesome.
I also just realized that despite the image she gives off, the large chested, mousy, nerdy girl, she’s probably the most agile of the entire cast.
His bone was rendered super dense in a lab accident.
Well no wonder Amber’s into him.
Think you may have that backwards.
Does no one else suspect she’s dreaming or hallucinating? The dreaminess of the first panel suggests it to me. This is like the “naked in public” dream for her.
Not really. Amazi Girl has pulled off stuff like this before. Besides, the dream sequences have been pretty clearly dream sequences from what I remember. (Like Joyce having glowing eyes, or the background rapidly changing on Danny)
is she really practicing / checking her health
or is she reliving the chase because she is angry that sal saves her
She seems happy to me. I think she just likes to get out and exercise every so often.
And perhaps this is a sign that the distance between Amber and Amazi-Girl is not as great as it used to be.
Amber no. Just because people don’t en masse look out of the windows on the regular doesn’t mean there isn’t a single one in an entire building, which is all it could take to uncover your secret / make you a celebrity (yay video recording!)
Do you WANT to get caught?
…actually that probably would be an objectively better outcome >_>
But that leads directly to Danny being in a hideous death trap in order to lure her to her doom.
That’s already happened. But it was a villain from her civilian life, not her costumed life.
Dani: “So if nobody uses windows anymore, then we should be able to f**k right here out in broad daylight with nobody noticing!”
Amber: “Hmmm, let me go get my mask first . . .”
Willis, you’re wrrr-rr…
You’re wrrrRRRRR-RRR…!
Dammit, he’s RIGHT! Overalls ARE awesome!
Perhaps Amber could ditch the costume, and take crime-fighting tips from a certain baseball bat wielding roommate of Joyce.
Sarah would never do that. It would risk revealing her secret identity as the Cudgeler, the mysterious vigilante who terrified the local criminals last year. The mess with her roommate attracted too much attention, which is why she stopped doing it.
They are cute together.
Its a shame they have to break up
Silly me. I forgot that Danny doesn’t get to be a real bisexual until he fucks a man.
It’s not that Danny won’t be bisexual until he fuck a dude, but that Willis wants to get two male main characters together rather than pairing Ethan together with an extra (again) and he made Danny bisexual for the sole purpose of doing that.
Though I suppose it may be a fake out, and Ethan just ends up with Mike or Joe or something. It’s just that the Danny/Ethan thing is kind of heavily foreshadowed; it’s the banner above the comic for me as I type this.
It’s great knowing that the only reason Danny’s bi is because Ethan needed a boyfriend.
Okay let me try this again. I think my previous post was too antagonistic towards you.
So like, Danny’s bi because there’s a lack of queer men in this series (not a complaint. It’s lady-centric, and that’s ultimately a consequence of this being a work by one dude who only has so much panel time), but that doesn’t necessitate that he needs to get with Ethan. He still gets to be a queer dude if he isn’t in a visibly, easily identifiable queer relationship.
amber where’d u even learn to do fuckin sick gymnastics like that
You just knew there’d have to be a hint of whatever her insane training regimen must be.
Oh man… I know I am going to get told off for this. But the acrobatics depicted are really bothering my gymnastics sensibilities. There is no movement I can think of where you can find that sequence of stills. I know, I know “comic physics and dont be negative” yadda yadda, but it really irks me. Even disregarding the Batman level of leg strength for that starting position to work, the way she twists just is not possible :/
Sorry about this dumb post 😛
It’s… Amazi-magic?
oh man, I want this ‘verse to suddenly have magic XD
(I have done gymnastics only a little bit as a kid, but I honestly can’t imagine how that works either. She… twirls in mid-air, then magically flies up an does a backflip? Whenever I explain some part of this sequence to myself, there’s another one that doesn’t fit at all. Amazi-magic is definitely it)
Not only that, her Starting Position is set up for a leftwards twist, and yet her hands are clearly twisting to the right! Aaargh this bothers me xD
I guess you explanation is as good as any :)h
*reads alt text*
You’re wuh.
…
You’re wuh-wuh.
You… are… wuh-rruuuuh… uh.
You. Are. Wwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooiiight!
Fascinating!
“Oh, it’s just you.”
Yeah, Danny gets that a lot, I’d bet.
Dorothy said that exact line on prom night.
Huzzah! I’ve only recently gotten into DoA (when I finished a two day binge of all the comics Becky was telling her dad how awesome she’s gonna be), and from what I’ve seen it seems like I’m very much in a minority here, but Amber & Danny’s relationship is my favourite thing about the series. I love them together and want to see more.
I just want them to actually discuss Danny’s sexuality so it doesn’t become a problem (i.e. keeping secrets, her getting worried about getting hurt again like with Ethan, etc.), and for them to openly be in a relationship, rather than the deal of him only dating Amazi-Girl.
Danny fans unite!
We’re just 12 members shy of a double digit counter!
But we have the Yaoi fans now! That should increase our numbers.
Just what on Earth was happening in that third still? She’s pointed backwards. O.o
Back somersault with 1/2 twist in layout.
Or is it a forward somersault with full twist in layout?
Yay! More Amber and Danny stuff!
I’m just amazed she’s able to do that only a few days after she got hit by a car and nearly got her arm wrenched from its socket.
As for the glasses, well, I need mine to drive and recognize faces that are more than 20 feet away, but when I sit down at the computer, off they come. On a day where I don’t go out, and read instead of watching TV or playing Xbox in the morning, I might not put them on for hours. Amber’s vision may be like mine.
Always loved women in overalls
I love Amber without glasses!