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Maxwell
Posted on October 13, 2024 by David M Willis

132 thoughts on “Maxwell”

  1. Doopyboop

    The Disney Gargoyles cartoon lied to me…

    1. Proxiehunter

      I’m sure Goliath had a huge “water spout”.

      1. Sirksome

        Only Elisa knows where it is.

        1. Freezer

          And Demona.

        2. Michael Steamweed

          Hundreds of fanfics written about this very thing.

        3. Meagan

          I’ll have you know I found only 149 “explicit” fics from this movie on A03.

        4. jeffepp

          AO3 is new. The cartoon came out during the same time frame as the internet. Many have been lost to time.

        5. Michael Steamweed

          It is sad, but it is true. So much fanfic, lost to us forever. Truly, the universe’s entropy is inevitable.

        6. JA

          I’m sure there’s a forgotten trove to be found on ff.net.

        7. JasonAW3

          You know, if Elisa and Demona ever got together, with Golith at the same time, I think a lot of their problem could be solved in a fun way. But, they’d have to be careful not to make it an all nighter, as the results could be embarrassing. But at least Elisa wouldn’t have to worry about Goliath not being able to “keep it up”.
          “It is advised that if your election lasts more than twelve hours, you should contact your doctor, your sculptor and the Guiness Book Of World Records. Elections of this nature may cause perpetual arousal and significant chaffing for your significant other. Please be discrete and considerate of those around you, as feelings of inadequacy may be instilled in the general population…” quoted from the Office Of Statuary Molestation.

        8. JasonAW3

          You know… I really hate autocorrect… But I think I should keep a stiff upper lip, and carry on with an erect posture, ignoring this whole “thing”…

      2. Chaucer59

        Ba-Dump-ssshhaaah

      3. Dday

        Now here in Indiana
        The spell is broken
        AND WE SPOUT AGAIN
        DUNNNNN DUNDUNDUNDUNDUNNNNN DADADAAAA

        1. StClair

          Stone by day, warriors by night!

    2. Thag Simmons

      Yeah, well, calling the show “the Grotesques” would be the wrong vibe

      1. someone

        Nerdy fact of the day, “grotesque” are named such because they are “like those statues found in the grotto”, so etymologically it’s “grotto-esque” if you will.

        The grotto in question? It wasn’t a grotto at all! It was Nero’s “Golden House”, “Domus Aurea”, which had been literally buried after Nero’s death — entirely filled with dirt and then built over. Well, not entirely entirely. There remained some empty air areas in it. Several centuries later, a roof over such an unfilled area gave in, a guy fell in, and so the “grotto” with its weird statues was re-discovered.

        1. Tatterhood

          Thank you for sharing this! TIL.

      2. NGPZ

        and what of the Toxic Crusaders? 😛

    3. Michael Steamweed

      Appropriate Danny facial expression is appropriate. 😀

  2. NGPZ

    Amazi-Girl is back in action
    this some real power she be packin’

    up real high by the Grotesque
    this is the best
    time to put her skills to the test!

    ain’t no need to be on edge
    AG gonna find them dinoz cuz she know the ledge!

    *plays “Know The Ledge” by Eric B. & Rakim on hacked muzak*

  3. Nick Piers

    “That’s a grotesque.”
    “WHAT’D YOU CALL ME?”

  4. DailyBrad

    That’s not a-grotesque, it’s-a pretty statue, mama mia.

    1. Opus the Poet

      I have to call it a handsome statue.

  5. Sirksome

    Becky really takes any chance to dump on Dorothy. Even when she was supposedly worried for her gf. Girl is locked in.

    1. Dante

      Her “frenemies” thing when Dorothy has been nothing but friendly with her is her least charming trait

      1. Yumi

        Yeah, in general I prefer Becky to Dorothy, but here I find myself wanting Dorothy to clap back.

        1. Jeremiah

          She won’t because she doesn’t care or take any real offense at it.

        2. Seralyna

          yeah for dorothy to respond in a negative way she would have to literally ever express that she dislikes, or have changed her opinion from an earlier comic where she said it was chill

        3. Jeremiah

          I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not (I am not assumed either, I am genuinely wondering)

        4. Daibhid C

          I mean, she hasn’t ever expressed a dislike of this, and she did say it was chill, so if it’s sarcasm it’s a very odd use of it.

        5. Daibhid C

          Broken tags, sorry. Only “hasn’t” and “did” shoudl be italicised.

        6. Needfuldoer

          Someone constantly assigning you a role can wear on you over time.

    2. Zero

      I gotta give this one to Becky. Dorothy was the one who brought up gargoyles.

      1. Radiance

        Yeah, using a word and then correcting someone who uses the same word in the same context is some next-tier pedantry.

        1. Nymph

          Okay but Batman (for example) perches on actual gargoyles and in this comic, that is a grotesque. It isn’t that Dorothy was also wrong, it’s that this isn’t what she was talking about.

          IDK why people respond to info with combativeness, it’s not like she said “Wow Becky, you fucking moron, that’s not a gargoyle.”

        2. thejeff

          Or at least, this is a variation on what she suggested. Pretty sure that even Batman’s been seen next to grotesques a few times.

        3. Jamie

          I’ve found that people are extremely proud of their ignorance and will go to very extreme lengths to justify it. Anything to avoid saying, “I didn’t know that.”

      2. jflb96

        She wasn’t the one who said that there were some nearby, though

    3. Daibhid C

      Speaking as an annoying know-it-all, if people aren’t annoyed by it, what’s even the point?

      (Unless they’re actually annoyed by it, obvs. I hate it when people are actually annoyed with me.)

  6. Dante

    ………not to be annoying but. [Autistic Dorothy Intensifies.]

    Love that she immediately KNEW where AG would be, though. In her heart. That’s the right place indeed, perched high :’33

    1. NGPZ

      YES ^^ <3

      i really hope she fully embraces her autistic self soon, she gonna be so much happier (even if that does require makin a giant mess first in doing so :')

    2. Kimi

      There is something about perches, where you can oversee and watch everything, that I find enjoyable. It creates an interesting dilemma with the fear of open heights I developed due to an event in childhood. A lot of wanting to be on a perch until I am up there and then not wanting to be up there in a cyclical fashion.

      1. StClair

        says the person with the cat avatar (checks out).

        1. Opus the Poet

          +1

  7. Yumi

    Dorothy “at least my girlfriend answers my texts” Keener

    1. Taffy

      Dorothy “I have two living parents who love me” Keener

      1. Clif

        Dorothy “Joyce loves me better than you” Keener

        1. Yumi

          Dorothy “My knowledge of many things helped me get Joyce to cum” Keener

        2. Rose by Any other Name

          Okay, that’s is. Go home everyone. Yumi just posted tonight’s best comment. The rest of you are just wasting your time.

        3. Vanessa

          Haha, very good everyone! These are all of the clapbacks Dorothy is thinking but won’t say because she has better manners than that. New Dorothy, however, maybe doesn’t give a fuck and will let loose on Becky with everything.

        4. Yumi

          To be fair, she probably isn’t thinking my first one.

        5. Michael Steamweed

          Dorothy Keener, eminent sex therapist

        6. NGPZ

          Hmmm, ya know that somethin,

          does Dorothy have a middle name?

        7. Taffy

          Margot

        8. Michael Steamweed

          A good reference source:
          https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DumbingOfAgeClarkWing

  8. Chaucer59

    But she’s in her Amberwear.

    1. Queen Anthai

      Amazi-Girl colors, though. I wouldn’t put it past AG to have made a warmer, more practical winter costume.

    2. Abel Undercity

      It’s her late 90’s/early 2000’s “non-costume costume” phase.

    3. Michael Steamweed

      Eventually there might be some slight blending of the two again. Like the less-angry Hulk/Banner combo.

  9. Sirksome

    Probably makes me a Buzz Killington, but does IU not have campus security? Like, there’s no way she’s allowed up there right? Especially not with people now shouting at AG and calling attention to her being up there.

    1. Sirksome

      I feel like AG would be one of those tiktokers you see doing pull ups off girders on high rises for views. I always wonder if those are real.

    2. Thag Simmons

      I’m sure it has some security, but it’s not exactly the White House.

    3. AbacusWizard

      Campus security can sometimes be remarkably permissive when it comes to student shenanigans. I was once involved with a group that met at midnight shortly before winter break to gift-wrap a large outdoor sculpture. At one point a golf cart with two campus maintenance workers drove up, parked, watched us for a couple of minutes, shrugged, and drove away.

      (And yes, we cleaned up after ourselves—we were planning to leave it up for a week and then take it down, but ended up doing so a few days early because it was getting rainy and we were worried that the ink on the wrapping paper might stain the sculpture when wet.)

      1. Vanessa

        That does explain some of the famous pranks at my university. Recently an engineering student literally filled his dorm-room up with plastic balls like an amusement park feature, like that famous XKCD about adulthood. He said the worst part (the school newspaper interviewed him) was not paying import tax and transporting the pallets to the room, but figuring out how to dispose of them properly. He had to take them all to the dump at the end of the semester I think.

        1. Mark

          (1) Donate them to the local Chuck E. Cheese’s.
          (2) Autograph them and hand them out to classmates etc., saying, “you’ll be glad you kept this when I’ve become famous.”
          (3) Set up a little lemonade-stand booth with a sign that says “Free!” and see how many passersby take one.
          (4) Make friends with an art student and glue them up into a gigantic statue titled “Ennui”.

    4. Bruno

      Cop comment.

    5. Needfuldoer

      IU has campus security. She’s up there next to the grotesque.

    6. Nymph

      People often do things they “aren’t allowed to”. It’s called “not getting caught”.

    7. thejeff

      IU has campus security. They don’t have magical ubiquitous security that instantly appears whenever anyone breaks a rule. It’s been seconds since Becky shouted. If there’s any security in the area, they haven’t even had the chance to react yet.
      Plus, no one ever looks up. 🙂

  10. Marsh Maryrose

    Is that gargoyle grotesque Maxwell’s Demon?

    1. NGPZ

      i see wat you did there XD

    2. Opus the Poet

      Bang bang Maxwell’s Silver Hammer came down on her head. .

    3. Laura

      “We are Maxwell’s Demons. The laws of physics are optional for us.”

      https://www.alicegrove.com/page/11
      (*trigger warning for blood*)

      1. StClair

        “I refute the Second Law of Thermodynamics.”
        “The hell you do. Get back in the box.”

        http://www.machall.com/comic/demon-days

        (In my head, he sounds just like Stitch.)

        1. darkoneko

          oh, i see you two have good taste <3

  11. BBCC

    Huh, I didn’t know that gargoyles had water spouts. Cool

    1. Kamino Neko

      The word comes from an old word for throat, and refers, specifically, to the spout. It’s related to ‘gargle’.

      1. Michael Steamweed

        Cool! A TIL moment!

        1. Nymph

          See THIS comment thread is the right way to respond to this kind of information. It’s neat to learn things.

  12. IntangibleMatter

    Well today I learned!

  13. AbacusWizard

    Dorothy’s right, though; it *is* a grotesque!

    1. Vanessa

      I thought that was pretty interesting! Too bad Becky had to make it all about her.

  14. Dara

    I went to look this up on Google Maps and google’s stupid smoothing makes them just look like tallish nubs

    i wanna see the grotesques (apparently)!

    1. Dara

      (I found one on Flickr)

  15. Cassie

    As someone who loves gargoyles and grotesques I’d have made the same correction.

    1. Tan

      I made the same correction in my head when Dorothy said “gargoyle” in panel 2.

      1. thejeff

        But how did you already know AG was next to a grotesque, not a gargoyle?

        1. Tan

          Even if it had been an actual gargoyle, that would still be a grotesque. Gargoyles are a subset of grotesques.

  16. Elbereth

    This is my friendgroup

  17. Icalasari

    I’d be the friend going, “THAT was the word that was bugging me!”

  18. Chris Phoenix

    Call me weird, but I enjoy random facts like Dorothy just spouted. And I’m a bit sad to see anyone suggest that people who like random facts should get punched for it.

    “Grotesque” probably originally meant “In the style of art discovered in a grotto” – because when the Italians excavated Roman ruins, they found art of this style, thought it was cool, and copied it.

    1. Coatl

      Dorothy is always informed all the time.

      And yes, there are times when Becky becomes annoying.

    2. Da Boy

      To be fair she wouldn’t be getting punched for knowing random facts. She’d be getting punched because Becky doesn’t like her and looks for excuses to get her punched XD

      1. Daibhid C

        To be even fairer, she’s not getting punched because it was a silly comment nobody in-universe is taking seriously.

        1. Da Boy

          I don’t know, if given opportunity I wouldn’t put it past Becky to punch Dotty… not a high chance but… 10% maybe 20%?

    3. Mark

      Call me weird too, then. And thanks for the etymological tidbit.

    4. zee

      Look it’s just funny to call people dumb nerds it’s ain’t that deep

      1. Jamie

        Yeah, that’s why we have Republicans.

  19. Kitschensyngk

    I am vengeance.

    I am the night.

    I…AM…starting to get dizzy up here.

  20. Laura

    I wonder how Carla and Becky and Sal knew that AG was fronting that day?

    1. Laura

      Do AG and Amber use different phones, so that Sal only tracks AG’s phone, and not Amber’s? Sal’s aware of AG’s alter ego as Amber, and presumably Carla knows too, being on the same roller derby team as AG.

      1. Laura

        (I’m actually a little worried about where Amber has gone, today. Dunno if that’s an appropriate worry. I just worry that Amber might find herself pushed aside sometime.)

        1. Nymph

          (not a system so take my answer with several grains of salt – it’s just me in here)

          I think it’s normal and even healthy to have periods of time where AG fronts for a while and not Amber. I think the ideal situation is to have everyone talking together and working together toward common goals rather than controlling who fronts at any given time.

        2. Messy

          As a system its normal to change who fronts day to day. We generally range an individual alter fronting for a couple hours to a day or so without switching out. Its common for even our hosts to not front for days at a time. We have a lot more alters than AG and co have, so we have to have a pretty robust communication system. There are spreadsheets involved, haha

        3. Laura

          Wow, thank you Nymph and Messy! I appreciate you both for engaging so thoughtfully with my query!

  21. Dana W

    Is Carla getting taller?

    1. Bruno

      She’s in college, they all are.

    2. Michael Steamweed

      She’s always been that height. She’s on skates. And refer to the scene with Carla applying makeup on Dorothy and Joyce. She’s a full head over them.

  22. Mr.Morningstar

    I’m gonna give Becky this one,

    if only because Dorothy did call it a gargoyle first

    1. Bruno

      No she didn’t, she thought AG would be by a gargoyle and she was wrong.

      1. Mark

        I suppose it depends on whether you think she looked up, saw AG, and (mis)recognized the architectural feature; or that she thought a moment, guessed “perched on a gargoyle” and then looked up.

        1. Jamie

          I mean, Becky’s the one who spotted her.

  23. AlexaSpuds

    Shouting her hero identity out in public when she’s no on costume? Oh yeah something bad is going to happen, they’re fucked.

  24. Dara

    She really doesn’t want to be on the ground, does she?

    (I empathise and honestly agree, ground sux, you can’t see your enemies coming nearly so well.)

    1. Jamie

      Can’t have enemies coming if they’re all dead. Just saying.

  25. ValdVin

    Dorothy sure knows a lot about 1990s minor league hockey.

  26. Kamino Neko

    I will always be sad I never managed to get the superhero RPG I planned to run off the ground, because I was planning to use this to wrong-foot the players – have them called to deal with a villain called Gargoyle, then surprise them when he blasted them with water.

    ‘Gargoyles have water spouts, you architectural ignoramuses!’

    1. Agemegos

      I share your sorrow!

  27. Amós Batista

    ….
    …
    that’s a bulldog

  28. darkoneko

    oi Amazi aren’t you cold up there ? It’s snowing and you’re not even wearing pants ?!

    1. Taffy

      No worries, she’s got leggings on. I hear they can be pretty comfy in the cold.

  29. Yeet

    I know becky is joking but it still makes me sad when people respond negatively to cool facts

    1. John

      Same.

  30. Hof1991

    Dorothy is preparing for her dream job. Jeopardy champion.

  31. Rabisch

    Go Amazi-girl! Dorothy desperately needs that punch.

  32. John

    Okay, I know Becky is probably joking here, but still, she’s being kind of an ass.

    1. anonymsly

      That’s Becky’s usual speed, yeah. She has streaks where she manages not to be an ass, but more often she uses ‘joking! joking! can’t you take a joke?’ as an excuse to be some degree of jerk to her supposed friends – this usually manifests as bullying Dorothy or tormenting or manipulating Joyce.

      1. Jeremiah

        “Tormenting or manipulating Joyce” Wow, glad I am not reading whatever weird comic you are, it sounds awful and so different from this one.

  33. Pseudowolf

    Dorothy is a Jackal. I should have guessed.

    (If you watch Corrections, you’ll get it)

  34. HueSatLight

    Etymology is not the same thing as definition. That statue is what’s colloquially known as a gargoyle. you walk up to someone and say, “look at that grotesque,” they’ll ask, “a grotesque what?” You say “gargoyle”, they know exactly what you mean.

    Dorothy’s correcting Becky unnecessarily, and Becky’s telling her it’s unwelcome, in manner that lets them drop it.

  35. Nothri

    Oh no she just being pedantic. And yes the joke is I’m being a pedant about being pedantic. And I’m not sorry.

  36. Stanistani

    Not apologetic. It’s possible that you’re still sorry.

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