I’m worried that it’s a bit more insidious than that. I mean, we know why he targeted Joyce, and so this seems less like “I support Desanto” and more like he’s found a target rich environment.
Reltzik
The more I look at his totally neutral expression, when everyone around him is either shouting or jeering or horrified or excited, the more creeped out I get.
They’ve only started after Amazi-Girl and her shiny superhero reputation got into the ring with Sal. Furthermore, one of the first hecklers is black – I’d say that shows how this is not about race.
In other words, they’re trying to justify why a CLEARLY good person without any sort of mental issues what so ever like Amazi-Girl would be fighting Sal. Answer: Sal MUST have done SOMETHING bad… right? RIGHT?
This is why hero-worship and jumping on the side of someone without knowing ANY facts is a terrible, terrible idea. Sadly it is a distinctly human reaction to take sides based on prior affinity.
Zeriel
Well, I will take issue with one thing. Self-hatred is a thing, and it’s perfectly plausible for that first heckler to be a racist. “I’m one of the good ones, not like THAT thug.”
TachyonCode
Anyone ever hear the story of the literally blind, dark-skinned white supremacist? Ideology has no color.
TachyonCode
*Meant to add: It does, however, have parents.
Capt Chaos
You do know that was a Dave Chappelle skit right? I sometimes miss sarcasm so that may be a thing here too.
sjmcc13
Are you talking about the Chapel show sketch???
Orion Fury
That skit came to mind too. Though the character there was told he was white as a child.
thejeff
We’ll see when AG goes after Ryan next strip. If the crowd is like “Different target? Ok. Get him!”, then it’s the hero worship that’s the problem here.
Otherwise, maybe there might be a racial component? Nah. I’m sure there’ll be some other excuse next time.
rectilinearpropagation
I’d say that Sal’s dad has already demonstrated why the “but a black person agrees with it” argument doesn’t mean that something isn’t racist.
Attempted rapist, so far. We don’t know if he’s actually done anything to anyone else.
Not defending him, but with how quickly he flipped out and how impulsively he acted trying to force Joyce into the bathroom… that whole scene pretty much implied he was the kind of rapist who only just managed to work up the ‘courage’ to do more than just fantasize while watching violent porn. In essence… a ‘newbie’. Fledgling criminal, of whom their “first tries” are usually always laden with mistakes, and always tend to be a bit more violent because something doesn’t go according to plan and they get nervous/scared about being caught.
It hasn’t been all that long since he attacked Joyce, either… chances are he’s been laying low all of this time making up some story about how he was mugged by some horrible POC minority with a knife/broken bottle and that’s how he got his scar, waiting to see if any cops show up to ask him questions about an incident at a party, and saw that no one did (because it was never reported to anyone), so he assumes either his victim doesn’t remember or was too scared of him to do anything. His involvement here is either he’s 1) hunting for a new victim, 2) his father being a pastor was asked to speak or do a prayer and convinced/made him come help out, 3) given the possible “A black/brown possibly muslim or mexican thus TERRORIST criminal attacked me!” story he’s made up he’s going to be paraded around as an example of how minorities and/or immigrants are out of control and a threat to FWEEDUMZ, or 4) a combination of some or all the previous 3.
If Amazigirl tries to confront him for what he did, I don’t see it going well for her (or Sal by extension, since she’s already being pegged as a troublemaker because she’s black). The crowd will likely defend him once they realize that she’s not going to go after the person they automatically hate and are afraid of (Sal), and the cops will probably be called to deal with a “crazy person wearing a hero costume attacking people” and her soon to be associated “gang member protester thug” sidekick (again… Sal*). Chase will ensue… Sal likely to be arrested just for being black and at a Republican rally… If Amazigirl escapes the police will start really hunting her down for being associated with multiple incidents… Media outlets at the rally and with police contacts start running stories about a violent vigilante on the loose… University starts getting flack for said vigilante living on campus and performs a mandatory search on all dorms for anything indicating who it might be…
I would agree that that probably would have been his first rape where he used force, but since he had a plan and an expectation, i wouldn’t say it was his first bout with non-consensual sex A.K.A. rape.
I just realized something, does she know what ryan looks like there is nothing there in the earlier comic pages to suggest she would actually recognizing him, I mean there’s no confirmation she saw his face.
Maybe a few (misogynist racists, in response to Ana’s inB4everyone comment) … the rest are — so far — simply caught up in the mob response to the jumped-to conclusions of a few. If you didn’t mean to make a subtle comment on American populist politics, Willis, take credit for it anyway. At a guess, we’re going to see some DeSanto demagogic opportunism here. And it looks like AG’s realized the downside of an adoring crowd. This could be the turning point for Amazi-Amber.
Come on, let’s be real here. She’s standing in for trump. Notwithstanding that mob responses are, yanno, sort of based on baseline racism or sexism (or both! Or other isms)
DarkVeghetta
Let’s be real here, I don’t think you realize just how old Robin’s candidacy is in real-time. She’s been at it for longer then Trump has.
Also, this response is based on Amazi-Girl’s reputation of being the good-guy(gal). It wouldn’t even make sense for it to be based on ‘baseline sexism’, since both are female and the crowd is on one of their side.
Fart Captor
She’s the incumbent. She has previously made it clear she views her constituents as a bunch of hicks, but I still hope this incident will inspire her to make some changes and maybe even listen to Roz
thejeff
She’s been the incumbent for a long time in real time. As such, she’s been a good general foil for the various prejudices common in the Republican electorate. This particular rally storyline goes back aways, but not before the trump campaign.
Lailah
She showed up with a hat that read Make District Whatever Great Again, and has had jokes about her tiny hands, despite not actually having tiny hands. She’s been around longer than Trump. Her presentation, however, does not predate Trump. And then you have a crowd cheering on (becoming?) racist violence. It’s a trump rally. Let’s be real here.
…And good god. That’s how mob violence works. In this case, it’s not sexism, but you will see it in others.
motorfirebox
Yeah, but the things Trump represents existed well before Trump announced his candidacy, and Robin is a stand-in for those.
I’m pretty sure the crowd goading Amazigirl to “kick her ass” in regards to Sal is a straight on criticism of Trump supporters attacking black people who showed up to their rallies. Remember that wannabe-Marine that jumped on and punched the black girl in the face because she was holding up a sign who was being escorted out? Or the guy who stood up as a black man was being escorted out and just straight up hit him and was never arrested? The white couple who tried to take away a black woman’s book because she was ignoring Trump’s speech?
Not subtle at all. This is a straight up left hook criticism to Republican supporters who automatically would assume that the black girl is here to cause problems and that the white one is not only innocent, but should brutalize the black girl just because.
DarkVeghetta
Or it could be that the crowd has an affinity for Amazi-Girl as she is the local hero.
Personally, I’d wager you’re putting too much real-world politics into this situation and disregarding the in-comic context.
That sed, this will all be moot by tomorrow’s comic as she’ll likely go for the attempted rapist.
Jason
You… You really think Willis isn’t influenced by “real world issues”?
He is. He absolutely is. A lot of stuff he puts in the comic basically to say “this is a thing that happens in our world, this happens to real people.” I don’t think he’s likely to shy away from showing the most extreme political individuals in a way that affects his characters.
Personally, only Willis can say what exactly he was influenced by- but it definitely feels like this is a reflection of racism within certain extremist circles. Partly because I don’t think Amazi-girl IS a local hero, outside of the college itself- and partly because yes, this sort of ugliness happens, and it affects people, and that’s something that Willis tends to focus on.
It probably IS a crowd of misogynist racists. It is a political rally for a conservative politician and it is a Willis comic where they are all gauranteed to have all the bad traits found in real world conservatives.
But… I don’t see how misogyny has anything to do with it considering both combatants are women. Seriously, unless Amber suddenly grew a penis the last time she was on Slipshine that statement makes no sense at all.
Also.. is it really fair to assume the crowd is racist? Before they prove themselves so? Doesn’t that make one just as prejudiced as the real world people that crowd represents?
They haven’t quite proven themselves racist yet. So they took the white girl’s side? So what. Only one person made a comment that Sal ‘looks’ like a trouble maker. Sure.. that one probably meant her brown skin but we don’t actually know that. She does have kind of a bad ass look thing going on. Or.. maybe it’s a prude that doesn’t like exposed midrif… Don’t get me wrong, that one is probably racist but we don’t really know yet.
As to the rest assuming that Sal is a guilty party… she is fighting Amazi-Girl. Let me repeat that. SHE IS IN A FIGHT WITH AMAZI-GIRL. They don’t see Amazi-Girl as a regular person who might just have an ordinary disagreement with someone. They only know her as a quasi-super hero that fights CRIMINALS. And now she is fighting Sal. It’s a pretty obvious conclusion for them to jump to don’t you think?
By the way… if this story arc is the start of a message about racist, Trumpish conservatives that’s fine. That group certainly deserves to get knocked down a bunch. I just hope Willis plans to establish that that is what they are a bit better than this before doing so. White girl known as a super-hero, expected to be in right because she is a ‘super-hero’ not just because she is white vs brown girl that nobody knows is not a good way to establish racism.
Oh. That’s who the guy with the scar is… the rapist… I didn’t catch that. Ok.. certainly the presence of one evil person in the crowd has now been verified!
DarkVeghetta
… so? Are we going to judge a crowd by picking out one person in it? You don’t honestly expect everyone in a large gathering to conform to one trait, do you? Because that’s just naive. Even if this was the ‘gathering money to cure cancer’ get-together, it would STILL have a few grade-A assholes in it. Not everyone goes to these things for the same reasons.
“it is a Willis comic where they are all gauranteed to have all the bad traits found in real world conservatives” I would be sorely disappointed if Willis would choose to write these people as caricatures instead of human beings – I’ve come to expect better of him. Even in religious gatherings he’s shown redeeming traits, so I could only hope he’d give the same courtesy to other groups he might or might not personally like.
I agree that it’s not quite fair to call racism as a cause yet. But, as you said, racism is highly likely in this crowd. It does appear to be an analog to some racist shit at Trump rallies.
In other words, it’s not as big a jump as calling Amazi-Girl racist.
Are you sure? Hopefully Amazi-Girl will give that guy the justice he deserves.
Wheelpath
Yeah, I thought that zoom in means Amazi-Girl is gonna drop it and chase the asshole, and then they will bond by kicking his GOD DAMN TEETH IN
Reltzik
Unfortunately, Amazi-girl is a bit bogged down in her present circumstances. She’d have trouble disengaging to go after Ryan.
Obviously, Sal is to blame for this. If she hadn’t grabbed her cap, she would have seen Ryan and been free to pursue and etc etc etc justify justify justify.
AGV
Not so sure about that, Amazi-girl is obsesed with Sal, if she didn’t literally grounded her, she wouldn’t have toticed
thejeff
Oh sure. In your reality based system that might be true. Through the lens that filters Amazi-Girl’s world it’s all obviously Sal’s fault. Somehow.
Actually, I suspect that’s less true now than a couple minutes ago. Amber didn’t like what she sees from that crowd and maybe she sees herself reflected in it as well.
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Ana Chronistic
WHAT A TWEEST!
…a rally full of misogynist racists, you don’t say!
SmilingNid
The plot twist is that after this arc there won’t be any twists left.
butts
It ALL returns.
Fart Captor
Tomorrow we’ll find out Blaine is somewhere in the crowd as welld
butts
And Toedad escaped from jail.
HeySo
The League of Evil has formed.
LeslieBean4Shizzle
Hey butts – I love your current Gravatar image. ^^
Fart Captor
…with a bag containing the still-smoking remains of Becky’s closet
Dark
Why is the name Blaine associated with Evil Douchebag in the webcomic community?
First the Walkyverse, then Zombie Roomie…
Okay, that’s all I’ve got, but still.
Idontcarenomore
Well actually, that’s already been said SmilingNid.
motorfirebox
What a plot twist!
Sheason
“I have no more ‘plot twists.’ No surprises. All you see here are the unused plot elements and red herrings YOU left behind, STRIPPED BARE.”
“Well, that’s a bit much.”
Cerberus
Who would have guessed that the “family values” crowd would just turn out to be a pack of bigots? It’s so out of character for them.
Kris
I know right!
baroncognito
I’m worried that it’s a bit more insidious than that. I mean, we know why he targeted Joyce, and so this seems less like “I support Desanto” and more like he’s found a target rich environment.
Reltzik
The more I look at his totally neutral expression, when everyone around him is either shouting or jeering or horrified or excited, the more creeped out I get.
Cerberus
It’s a nice eerie touch. Like the sound suddenly dropping out in a horror movie.
Needfuldoer
We can’t see it because the comic’s a static image, but the focus on Gashface must have some dolly zoom thrown in.
Ragingagnostic
Oh, NO! That’s he! The would-be rapist Amazi-Girl let escape! http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/bat/
Okay, forget Sal. This is the bastard that needs to get taken down right now! Get him, Amazi-Girl!
thejeff
It does put kind of a creepy twist on the jokes about both Leslie and Daisy hunting at the rally.
DarkVeghetta
They’ve only started after Amazi-Girl and her shiny superhero reputation got into the ring with Sal. Furthermore, one of the first hecklers is black – I’d say that shows how this is not about race.
In other words, they’re trying to justify why a CLEARLY good person without any sort of mental issues what so ever like Amazi-Girl would be fighting Sal. Answer: Sal MUST have done SOMETHING bad… right? RIGHT?
This is why hero-worship and jumping on the side of someone without knowing ANY facts is a terrible, terrible idea. Sadly it is a distinctly human reaction to take sides based on prior affinity.
Zeriel
Well, I will take issue with one thing. Self-hatred is a thing, and it’s perfectly plausible for that first heckler to be a racist. “I’m one of the good ones, not like THAT thug.”
TachyonCode
Anyone ever hear the story of the literally blind, dark-skinned white supremacist? Ideology has no color.
TachyonCode
*Meant to add: It does, however, have parents.
Capt Chaos
You do know that was a Dave Chappelle skit right? I sometimes miss sarcasm so that may be a thing here too.
sjmcc13
Are you talking about the Chapel show sketch???
Orion Fury
That skit came to mind too. Though the character there was told he was white as a child.
thejeff
We’ll see when AG goes after Ryan next strip. If the crowd is like “Different target? Ok. Get him!”, then it’s the hero worship that’s the problem here.
Otherwise, maybe there might be a racial component? Nah. I’m sure there’ll be some other excuse next time.
rectilinearpropagation
I’d say that Sal’s dad has already demonstrated why the “but a black person agrees with it” argument doesn’t mean that something isn’t racist.
Rosicrucian
And rapists.
Well, at least one rapist.
GhostWriterL
Attempted rapist, so far. We don’t know if he’s actually done anything to anyone else.
Not defending him, but with how quickly he flipped out and how impulsively he acted trying to force Joyce into the bathroom… that whole scene pretty much implied he was the kind of rapist who only just managed to work up the ‘courage’ to do more than just fantasize while watching violent porn. In essence… a ‘newbie’. Fledgling criminal, of whom their “first tries” are usually always laden with mistakes, and always tend to be a bit more violent because something doesn’t go according to plan and they get nervous/scared about being caught.
It hasn’t been all that long since he attacked Joyce, either… chances are he’s been laying low all of this time making up some story about how he was mugged by some horrible POC minority with a knife/broken bottle and that’s how he got his scar, waiting to see if any cops show up to ask him questions about an incident at a party, and saw that no one did (because it was never reported to anyone), so he assumes either his victim doesn’t remember or was too scared of him to do anything. His involvement here is either he’s 1) hunting for a new victim, 2) his father being a pastor was asked to speak or do a prayer and convinced/made him come help out, 3) given the possible “A black/brown possibly muslim or mexican thus TERRORIST criminal attacked me!” story he’s made up he’s going to be paraded around as an example of how minorities and/or immigrants are out of control and a threat to FWEEDUMZ, or 4) a combination of some or all the previous 3.
If Amazigirl tries to confront him for what he did, I don’t see it going well for her (or Sal by extension, since she’s already being pegged as a troublemaker because she’s black). The crowd will likely defend him once they realize that she’s not going to go after the person they automatically hate and are afraid of (Sal), and the cops will probably be called to deal with a “crazy person wearing a hero costume attacking people” and her soon to be associated “gang member protester thug” sidekick (again… Sal*). Chase will ensue… Sal likely to be arrested just for being black and at a Republican rally… If Amazigirl escapes the police will start really hunting her down for being associated with multiple incidents… Media outlets at the rally and with police contacts start running stories about a violent vigilante on the loose… University starts getting flack for said vigilante living on campus and performs a mandatory search on all dorms for anything indicating who it might be…
So much shit hitting so many fans right now.
* = Good lord, Sal really can’t catch a break
MrZombieScordo
I would agree that that probably would have been his first rape where he used force, but since he had a plan and an expectation, i wouldn’t say it was his first bout with non-consensual sex A.K.A. rape.
nicostrat
I certainly did not expect that!
Holy Mother of bat-turns Amazi-Girl!
TheAnonymousGuy
I just realized something, does she know what ryan looks like there is nothing there in the earlier comic pages to suggest she would actually recognizing him, I mean there’s no confirmation she saw his face.
darkgloomie
How many duded with a huge, recent facial scar do you think there are in the same campus/neighbourhood?
Chengrel
If I recall Joyce gave her a brief description so she could chase after him. If nothing else, Amazi-girl should at least know the scar.
DSL
Maybe a few (misogynist racists, in response to Ana’s inB4everyone comment) … the rest are — so far — simply caught up in the mob response to the jumped-to conclusions of a few. If you didn’t mean to make a subtle comment on American populist politics, Willis, take credit for it anyway. At a guess, we’re going to see some DeSanto demagogic opportunism here. And it looks like AG’s realized the downside of an adoring crowd. This could be the turning point for Amazi-Amber.
Lailah
Come on, let’s be real here. She’s standing in for trump. Notwithstanding that mob responses are, yanno, sort of based on baseline racism or sexism (or both! Or other isms)
DarkVeghetta
Let’s be real here, I don’t think you realize just how old Robin’s candidacy is in real-time. She’s been at it for longer then Trump has.
Also, this response is based on Amazi-Girl’s reputation of being the good-guy(gal). It wouldn’t even make sense for it to be based on ‘baseline sexism’, since both are female and the crowd is on one of their side.
Fart Captor
She’s the incumbent. She has previously made it clear she views her constituents as a bunch of hicks, but I still hope this incident will inspire her to make some changes and maybe even listen to Roz
thejeff
She’s been the incumbent for a long time in real time. As such, she’s been a good general foil for the various prejudices common in the Republican electorate. This particular rally storyline goes back aways, but not before the trump campaign.
Lailah
She showed up with a hat that read Make District Whatever Great Again, and has had jokes about her tiny hands, despite not actually having tiny hands. She’s been around longer than Trump. Her presentation, however, does not predate Trump. And then you have a crowd cheering on (becoming?) racist violence. It’s a trump rally. Let’s be real here.
…And good god. That’s how mob violence works. In this case, it’s not sexism, but you will see it in others.
motorfirebox
Yeah, but the things Trump represents existed well before Trump announced his candidacy, and Robin is a stand-in for those.
GhostWriterL
I’m pretty sure the crowd goading Amazigirl to “kick her ass” in regards to Sal is a straight on criticism of Trump supporters attacking black people who showed up to their rallies. Remember that wannabe-Marine that jumped on and punched the black girl in the face because she was holding up a sign who was being escorted out? Or the guy who stood up as a black man was being escorted out and just straight up hit him and was never arrested? The white couple who tried to take away a black woman’s book because she was ignoring Trump’s speech?
Not subtle at all. This is a straight up left hook criticism to Republican supporters who automatically would assume that the black girl is here to cause problems and that the white one is not only innocent, but should brutalize the black girl just because.
DarkVeghetta
Or it could be that the crowd has an affinity for Amazi-Girl as she is the local hero.
Personally, I’d wager you’re putting too much real-world politics into this situation and disregarding the in-comic context.
That sed, this will all be moot by tomorrow’s comic as she’ll likely go for the attempted rapist.
Jason
You… You really think Willis isn’t influenced by “real world issues”?
He is. He absolutely is. A lot of stuff he puts in the comic basically to say “this is a thing that happens in our world, this happens to real people.” I don’t think he’s likely to shy away from showing the most extreme political individuals in a way that affects his characters.
Personally, only Willis can say what exactly he was influenced by- but it definitely feels like this is a reflection of racism within certain extremist circles. Partly because I don’t think Amazi-girl IS a local hero, outside of the college itself- and partly because yes, this sort of ugliness happens, and it affects people, and that’s something that Willis tends to focus on.
Me
It probably IS a crowd of misogynist racists. It is a political rally for a conservative politician and it is a Willis comic where they are all gauranteed to have all the bad traits found in real world conservatives.
But… I don’t see how misogyny has anything to do with it considering both combatants are women. Seriously, unless Amber suddenly grew a penis the last time she was on Slipshine that statement makes no sense at all.
Also.. is it really fair to assume the crowd is racist? Before they prove themselves so? Doesn’t that make one just as prejudiced as the real world people that crowd represents?
They haven’t quite proven themselves racist yet. So they took the white girl’s side? So what. Only one person made a comment that Sal ‘looks’ like a trouble maker. Sure.. that one probably meant her brown skin but we don’t actually know that. She does have kind of a bad ass look thing going on. Or.. maybe it’s a prude that doesn’t like exposed midrif… Don’t get me wrong, that one is probably racist but we don’t really know yet.
As to the rest assuming that Sal is a guilty party… she is fighting Amazi-Girl. Let me repeat that. SHE IS IN A FIGHT WITH AMAZI-GIRL. They don’t see Amazi-Girl as a regular person who might just have an ordinary disagreement with someone. They only know her as a quasi-super hero that fights CRIMINALS. And now she is fighting Sal. It’s a pretty obvious conclusion for them to jump to don’t you think?
Me
By the way… if this story arc is the start of a message about racist, Trumpish conservatives that’s fine. That group certainly deserves to get knocked down a bunch. I just hope Willis plans to establish that that is what they are a bit better than this before doing so. White girl known as a super-hero, expected to be in right because she is a ‘super-hero’ not just because she is white vs brown girl that nobody knows is not a good way to establish racism.
Me
Oh. That’s who the guy with the scar is… the rapist… I didn’t catch that. Ok.. certainly the presence of one evil person in the crowd has now been verified!
DarkVeghetta
… so? Are we going to judge a crowd by picking out one person in it? You don’t honestly expect everyone in a large gathering to conform to one trait, do you? Because that’s just naive. Even if this was the ‘gathering money to cure cancer’ get-together, it would STILL have a few grade-A assholes in it. Not everyone goes to these things for the same reasons.
DarkVeghetta
“it is a Willis comic where they are all gauranteed to have all the bad traits found in real world conservatives” I would be sorely disappointed if Willis would choose to write these people as caricatures instead of human beings – I’ve come to expect better of him. Even in religious gatherings he’s shown redeeming traits, so I could only hope he’d give the same courtesy to other groups he might or might not personally like.
buckybone
I’ve been part of conservative political groups before (College Republicans, and a couple of others)…this isn’t a caricature.
Me
You are correct. I was totally off base with that one.
trlkly
I agree that it’s not quite fair to call racism as a cause yet. But, as you said, racism is highly likely in this crowd. It does appear to be an analog to some racist shit at Trump rallies.
In other words, it’s not as big a jump as calling Amazi-Girl racist.
Ana Chronistic
I figure the use of unfiltered “bongo” is justification for the misogyny label
buckybone
Well, it *is* Bloomington…by the time you’re that far south, you’re in the South.
AnvilPro
Hurray! Title Drop! Nothing could ruin this night!
Sambo
As CinemaSins would say,
Roll credits!
Jim the Fish
*ding*
Doctor_Who
ohshit
butts
My thoughts exactly.
SgtWadeyWilson
Well of course the TARDIS would agree with the other TARDIS.
Undrave
Cue the Kill Bill soundtrack!
Disloyal Subject
Hmm, I think I will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTVHjYAix-g
TheAnonymousGuy
GET HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheTJ
Oh… So this is gonna be a thing again.
…yaaay?
butts
‘Yaaay’ is definitely the opposite of this situation.
Sambo
Are you sure? Hopefully Amazi-Girl will give that guy the justice he deserves.
Wheelpath
Yeah, I thought that zoom in means Amazi-Girl is gonna drop it and chase the asshole, and then they will bond by kicking his GOD DAMN TEETH IN
Reltzik
Unfortunately, Amazi-girl is a bit bogged down in her present circumstances. She’d have trouble disengaging to go after Ryan.
Obviously, Sal is to blame for this. If she hadn’t grabbed her cap, she would have seen Ryan and been free to pursue and etc etc etc justify justify justify.
AGV
Not so sure about that, Amazi-girl is obsesed with Sal, if she didn’t literally grounded her, she wouldn’t have toticed
thejeff
Oh sure. In your reality based system that might be true. Through the lens that filters Amazi-Girl’s world it’s all obviously Sal’s fault. Somehow.
Actually, I suspect that’s less true now than a couple minutes ago. Amber didn’t like what she sees from that crowd and maybe she sees herself reflected in it as well.