My pet hamster was shot up in an alleyway and I want to become a superhero. QUICK. NAME MY ALTER-EGO.
Leorale
HamSTAR: the short-tailed terror that nibbles in the night
Riku
The Guinea Pig! Before you run out to fight crime you break into a chemistry lab and drink a random mix of chemicals and those are your super powers for that fight
begbert2
“Ew, you vomited on me!”
“Yeah, I get that power set a lot. Now are you going to surrender, or do you want some more??”
Amazi-Girl really needs to carry a portable EMP device to protect her from the evils of social media exposure, the only problem with that is that the odd person with a pacemaker will die but that’s why the American Govenment coined the term ‘collateral damage’ in the first place right?
A Dutch colleague told me that for quite some time after the second world war if a Dutch citizen encountered a German, they’d ask, “What have you done with my bicycle?” Apparently among the better known war crimes and atrocities committed by the Germans in Holland during WWII, the fact that they stole nearly all the bicycles in Holland has not been forgotten by the Dutch.
In my day when somebody spotted a superhero we had to go through the whole rigmarole of false bird and plane alarms before we finally found out who it was! And, by gum, we liked it!
Doctor_Who
And if you wanted to alert the world, you didn’t have a phone in your pocket, no sir. You had to find a phone booth.
And you had to wait your turn because the damn hero was in there changin’ into his jimjams!
Sageress
And dammit, we were grateful!
EEWWW
And heroes had to chase evil doers uphill in the snow… both ways.
Boom
It built character.
TheGrammarLegionary
To be fair, if Walky takes up vigilante work, he’ll be halfway there.
That happened to me too, though I was pissed because it was in my apartment complex. Four years of riding the thing back and forth on the campus, keeping it in the bike cage in the dorms, then you put it in the bike cage in a gated apartment complex and it disappears. Soooo unhappy. I’d had it since I was a kid -_-
To go to places that are NOT the dorm. You know..like stores and stuff.
Psycho
I usually just walk. Not many cyclists in my school. Probably because it’s in the city. I usually just walk and end up giving money to the poor on the way.
Dude
You just described some of the reasons I did bike in Atlanta, even with the homicidal traffic.
Sage
Yeah you gave the exact reasons why people do cycle at my city-based university. Avoid the poor and it’s faster than walking (and if you need to go further, the bus has a bike rack too)
Seconding Bill. My campus was considered small for a four-year in that system and it still took twenty/thirty minutes walking to get from one side to the other. We actually had trolleys to get around. A bike, especially if you were running late, was essential.
UM campus is pretty big but we have shuttle buses for student use. We also have Zip cars or whatever but I’m pretty sure those are just for the students who live on campus.
242 thoughts on “Army”
Jen Aside
The ARMY OF TWITTER
David Herbert
And this time, Dorothy is aware of the phone snatching.
TheLurkerAbove
Walky should be playing backup as well!
GoldStarz
Well it is for HER college acceptance.
Plasma Mongoose
Amazi-Girl is going to end up as a tumblr meme, isn’t she.
Yotomoe
She’s not one already?
Plasma Mongoose
OK then, new memes.
Yamara
And then it’s on to Reddit, and her 15 minutes will be over.
Yarrr
Nope. I foresee phone smashing. And I can’t blame her.
OH_NO_YOU_DI'ENT!
Smashing phones is a slippery slope… where does it end? Pretty soon SHE’S the one stealing bikes!
Vash
I threw it on the ground
igor
thats not an army thats a cell phone
Stephen Bierce
*plays the Honda Civic “Hoodie Ninja” song*
Mr K
“You got me. I am Faz!”
Sageress
“The Faz would like to direct you to this chart I’ve made, indicating why this outfit and mask should arouse you.”
Jay Eff
Re: The Alt Text: Some of you may be unaware of David Willis’ “love” of bicycle thieves….
Plasma Mongoose
It was the theft of his parents’ bicycles when he was six that led young Willis to take up the mantle of the
Batcartoonist.LS
As I recall, his own bicycle was stolen in college. There was a “Rommies” storyline about it.
But I think I’m not supposed to link his other comics here.
Bill
As a cyclist myself, whatever happens to this guy wouldn’t be enough.
Psycho
My pet hamster was shot up in an alleyway and I want to become a superhero. QUICK. NAME MY ALTER-EGO.
Leorale
HamSTAR: the short-tailed terror that nibbles in the night
Riku
The Guinea Pig! Before you run out to fight crime you break into a chemistry lab and drink a random mix of chemicals and those are your super powers for that fight
begbert2
“Ew, you vomited on me!”
“Yeah, I get that power set a lot. Now are you going to surrender, or do you want some more??”
Psycho
Godammit I love this fandom.
Boom
“No. My alter ego is an EMT. I fear no vomit!”
asmcint
“Evil on the other hand… well, I actually never did take the Hippocratic Oath.”
Plasma Mongoose
Amazi-Girl really needs to carry a portable EMP device to protect her from the evils of social media exposure, the only problem with that is that the odd person with a pacemaker will die but that’s why the American Govenment coined the term ‘collateral damage’ in the first place right?
Doctor_Who
My bike got stolen in college too. In Ohio. In January. And I didn’t have a car and my first class was a fifteen minute walk away. At 7 am.
Yeah, bike thieves suck.
Ancestral Hamster
A Dutch colleague told me that for quite some time after the second world war if a Dutch citizen encountered a German, they’d ask, “What have you done with my bicycle?” Apparently among the better known war crimes and atrocities committed by the Germans in Holland during WWII, the fact that they stole nearly all the bicycles in Holland has not been forgotten by the Dutch.
Robin
It’s still not forgotten. Only now we make sure to only mention it when no German is around to hear it.
Andrusi
Wow. Was there some organized campaign, or was the German army just inexplicably full of bicycle thieves?
Riku
I’m pretty sure it was a “We conquered you now we’re taking all your shit” mentality
Spack
As far as the Germans were concerned, the Dutch bikes were scrap metal just waiting to be melted down into panzers and Messerschmits.
Marisa Mockery
Kinda like how the Germans were always stealing the Russians’ boots on the Eastern Front?
Thanks, I'll Have Another!
That was fast, even by social media standards.
Yotomoe
We have teleporters now, Grandpa!
Daeva
In my day when somebody spotted a superhero we had to go through the whole rigmarole of false bird and plane alarms before we finally found out who it was! And, by gum, we liked it!
Doctor_Who
And if you wanted to alert the world, you didn’t have a phone in your pocket, no sir. You had to find a phone booth.
And you had to wait your turn because the damn hero was in there changin’ into his jimjams!
Sageress
And dammit, we were grateful!
EEWWW
And heroes had to chase evil doers uphill in the snow… both ways.
Boom
It built character.
TheGrammarLegionary
To be fair, if Walky takes up vigilante work, he’ll be halfway there.
LimeTH
Funny how daytime emphasizes how awesome she looks in that costume.
Sageress
I question the gangrenous yellow she chose as the primary color.
Plasma Mongoose
Less gangrenous in colour and more chamois.
Sageress
It’s not her color, either way.
NightmareWarden
You sure she didn’t trademark it? I hope she at least trademarked the symbol on her chest, lest someone else use it.
Sageress
Oh no… I’ve often begun sentences with an “A”! I’m gonna owe here THOUSANDS
Boom
Nah. The Fonz trademarked it years ago, but he’s too cool to upset anyone over it.
Bill
She actually got that from Nathaniel; she just changed the color.
Kiggy
@LimeTH: Yay! Someone else recognizes Amber’s awesome figure<3
The more the merrier ^_^
The Sandman
Not awesome.
Bodacious.
LimeTH
Hah, yeah, it was her figure I was talking about.
The yellow’s not that bad, though.
Psycho
I feel sorry for that phone. Lord knows what Amazi-girl will do to it.
Kernanator
This comic is about 15+ years late wish fulfillment, isn’t it.
Kernanator
(For reference, the following comic was based on something that actually happened to Willis.)
http://www.bringbackroomies.com/comic/crap/
Marisa Mockery
That happened to me too, though I was pissed because it was in my apartment complex. Four years of riding the thing back and forth on the campus, keeping it in the bike cage in the dorms, then you put it in the bike cage in a gated apartment complex and it disappears. Soooo unhappy. I’d had it since I was a kid -_-
Pivitor
PLEASE TELL ME THIS GUY IS STEALING DANNY’S BIKE
Yotomoe
It seems whenever Danny gets involved with a Sal this kinda thing happens.
Totz the Plaid
Seconded!
Psycho
He’s dorming there, why would he need a bike?
Yotomoe
To go to places that are NOT the dorm. You know..like stores and stuff.
Psycho
I usually just walk. Not many cyclists in my school. Probably because it’s in the city. I usually just walk and end up giving money to the poor on the way.
Dude
You just described some of the reasons I did bike in Atlanta, even with the homicidal traffic.
Sage
Yeah you gave the exact reasons why people do cycle at my city-based university. Avoid the poor and it’s faster than walking (and if you need to go further, the bus has a bike rack too)
DSL
Because bicycles are fun?
DSL
Well, that was a helluva time to get the Joyce avatar back.
Bill
Because Indiana University campus is fuggin’ huge.
Marisa Mockery
Seconding Bill. My campus was considered small for a four-year in that system and it still took twenty/thirty minutes walking to get from one side to the other. We actually had trolleys to get around. A bike, especially if you were running late, was essential.
Dragon_Nataku
UM campus is pretty big but we have shuttle buses for student use. We also have Zip cars or whatever but I’m pretty sure those are just for the students who live on campus.
Yotomoe
Walky is preparing his lips for victory kissin’.
JessWitt