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Exhausted
Posted on April 15, 2013 by David M Willis

121 thoughts on “Exhausted”

  1. Plasma Mongoose

    “…and some goo gone?”

    Please explain!

    1. fellixe

      Product used for removing adhesive residues and paint

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        So, it’s a brandname product… that makes much more sense.

        1. Kelly

          Who’s the ava this time, Plasma?

        2. Hawkwing

          I *believe* its Agent Xero from “The Modifyers” wiki page

        3. BayoWolf

          …Why is there an entire wiki for that?

        4. Hawkwing

          Because of Zone, Bayo. Because Zone doesn’t just ruin your childhood, Zone ruin childhoods you’ll never even get to have. Because where Zone walks, there follows a very considerable portion of the internet.

        5. taekwondogirl

          I wish I didn’t know what the hell you were talking about.

        6. Arkadi

          What are y’all guys looking at? *Looks to the left* What’s there?

        7. Cooledd

          Rule 34

        8. Alex

          With that avatar I don’t think you need to ask.

    2. ZuiyoMaru

      It’s a paint/glue remover! So she’ll clean the sign and return it, presumably.

      1. Plaid Wolf

        She better be careful….depending upon the face of that sign, she may wipe off more then the graffiti…if the sign was silk-screened, she may take off the sign’s message as well…..and if the message was ‘stickied on’, that might come off as well…

        1. Azumango

          Nah dude, they tagged the back side of the sign.

  2. thecanvashat

    Another day in the life of AMAZIGIRL!!!

    1. Doctor_Who

      Being a hero is so glamorous sometimes.

      1. thecanvashat

        I can hear the theme music playing already.

        1. Aizat

          Must not sing Batman theme…….

        2. G.G.

          I thought the same thing

        3. Felix Kütt

          spider-pig, spider-pig, does what-ever-spider-pig-does..~

        4. xKiv

          Can it swing from a web?
          No it can’t, it is pigged-out fat!

  3. ASmellyOgre

    I have to wonder if she just carries goo-gone with that wrench or if Amazi-Girl made a trip to Wal-Mart on the way over to Danny.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Wouldn’t be the worst-dressed person at Wal-Mart late at night.

      1. Yotomoe

        Perhaps the best.

        1. Aizat

          Well, better than that one guy who made a meth lab in Wall-Mart.

        2. Regalli

          Okay, I just have two questions about that story.
          1) Was it a customer or an employee?
          2) How big was the Walmart in question? Was it a regular Walmart, or one of those super-Walmarts that are bigger than some counties?

    2. drs

      That would be a long trip, at least a couple miles to the edge of town. Supermarket would be closer if they carry it, though still close to a mile each way.

      1. ASmellyOgre

        Well, that would explain why she’s so tired!

    3. Whittier

      I can attest the Walmart is nowhere near campus.

  4. Wonder Wig

    Danny, splayin’ out the goods in the first panel to attract a mate.

    1. Yotomoe

      Ladiiiiiiieeeeees….

      1. Wonder Wig

        Superhero lllllllllllllllllllllaadies.

        1. Aizat

          Ehem…..Gentlemen.

        2. Aizat

          Darn it, I changed my gravatar to the BLU Spy but nothing happened.

        3. Aizat

          Nevermind.

        4. Yotomoe

          Yes it did. Patience is a virtue.

        5. Wonder Wig

          Spies are all about virtues.

  5. Kernanator

    I’m helpinnnng…

    1. JustcallmeSoul

      Fancy seeing you here Jarvan

  6. John

    Oh, so that’s what Danny is good for!

    1. John

      (Scrubbing street signs, I mean.)

      1. Aizat

        Oh, I thought it was for comfort.

    2. Yotomoe

      Danyy. HAH. Huh!
      What is he good for?
      Absolutely nothin’!
      SAY IT AGAIN uhu!

      1. Impy

        Danny, he ain’t nothing
        But a heartbreaker
        Danny, friend only to the undertaker
        Ooooh, Danny

      2. Thor

        Good Cheese, y’all.

  7. Cliff

    Cue car wreck due to missing sign, Amazi-girl scandal ensues…

  8. The Sound Defense

    Removing paint on demand is Danny’s second best feature.

    1. Thor

      I’m guessing that his first best feature is that he doesn’t hold much of a grudge when you get done scraping him off of you like a barnacle.

      1. Leorale

        Also, availability.

        1. xKiv

          Danny’s two second best features are …
          … no, wait, I will come back.

    2. Lukkai

      Somehow I linked this statement to Distracterella (and her costume) from LoSRH.

  9. Grimlockimus

    Danny has reached that sacred level in a relationship when a woman asks you to Goo Gone all over her broken vandalized sign.
    ..
    YAY KISSES

    1. Aizat

      You can’t make that line any dirtier, can you?

  10. Scott

    awwww Danny, how nice

  11. Kelly

    Cute!

  12. Yotomoe

    Official first kiss. Danny is officially Amazi-girl’s damsel.

  13. Jon P

    Oh man, that title text. I was like “Wait, that sounds familiar… it’s from something, what song is it from? How does it go… ‘the light where you–‘ DAMN YOU WILLIS!”

    Now I have Ace of Base in my head.

    1. David

      mwahahaha

      1. Warpshade

        And now I am reminded that you added title text to this and Shortpacked! and that I’ve missed MONTHS of it…

        1. Yotomoe

          I don’t think it’s possible to have missed MONTHS of it. maybe MONTH of it.

      2. tahrey

        You’re a cold blooded monster.

        But at least it wasn’t “All That She Wants”.

        1. DrunkenGator

          I’d say don’ t tempt fate, but Willis probably already had it planned somewhere down the line…

      3. John

        I have defeated your evil scheme through my amazing power of not knowing that song!

        1. Lukkai

          No reason to change that, is there?

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y

    2. Kelly

      Thank goodness!

    3. tyren22

      That was my exact thought process, except with a bit at the end where I was amazed I actually got that reference.

    4. Roborat

      When I first read the hover-text, I misread it, and thought we had a rick-roll coming.

  14. Kafloobop

    Wait a second…….haircut?

    1. Aizat

      What haircut?

    2. David

      what

    3. John

      If you mean Amazi-Girl, nah, she’s just (not) combing it differently to protect her secret identity.

      1. Kafloobop

        Oh ok that makes sense.

  15. Aizat

    Lucky guy.

    1. Andiemus

      What are you? President of his fan club?

      1. Aizat

        No, that would be your mother.

  16. Uncle Rylon

    Walked right into that one, didn’t you Danny? Man if this keeps up, I might actually like Dumbverse Danny as much as I like Teri Hatcher’s Lois Lane from Lois and Clark.

    That is my favorite live-action superhero tv show. Smallville had it’s moments, but it was never as much fun. And man, don’t get me started on CBS’s Flash.

    1. mrelegos

      Man, I loved CBS’s Flash. Of course, I’m happy any time we get an adaptation of a DC character besides Batman and Superman…

      1. Uncle Rylon

        I have the CBS Flash on DVD. I really liked it at the time. And, though I don’t think it’s aged very well, I still liked it. Like Lois and Clark, it acknowledged that he had powers 24/7 and that he used his speed to great effect.

        It’s pretty funny though that Barry Allen was depicted as a nerd and derided for being a “police scientist” on the network that, 20 years later, would have 20 million CIS shows.

        1. Andiemus

          No love for Lou Ferrigno as the hulk?

        2. Uncle Rylon

          Lou Ferrigno was good. So was Bill Bixby. It’s not their fault that the writing was awful and Banner was forced to wander the world interacting with boring people who I never cared about.

          The best thing about The Incredible Hulk live action TV show was that it ended and Kenneth Johnson was then free to make is magnum opus: Short Circuit 2.

          Too bad he followed it up with Steel.

        3. Li

          See, I feel the opposite re: the Hulk. I haven’t seen enough of it to judge the writing quality, but what you describe as a typical plot is more interesting to me than most Hulk things.

          The whole reason why I liked him in The Avengers (besides Whedon and Mark Ruffalo) is that we had scenes about BRUCE BANNER, and he was making an effort to better the world as himself (and, post-movie, also as the Hulk). I couldn’t really get behind the whiny guy hunkered down in a soda factory obsessively trying to cure himself, or the tact taken by most cartoons and comics where it’s Hulk, Hulk, all the time, punching down walls and beating up bad guys. In “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes”, I was just depressed by the fact that the Hulk obviously just hangs around the manor full-time and no one even knows Bruce is in there. (And yeah, that’s what Bruce promised him, but it didn’t make it suck any less.)

          To be honest, I also prefer Hulk only marginally intelligent, written like a big mostly nonverbal animal, because I think that’s a more effective contrast between Hulk and Banner; without that, the Hulk is just the Thing with a slight split personality.

          But I’m well-aware that what I prefer here is portrayed rarely, and is certainly not in line with the original creation.

        4. Uncle Rylon

          The live action TV show certainly had it’s moments. The pilot is, I think really good. If you haven’t seen that, you may want to. Also the TV movie, Trial of the Incredible Hulk is cool. It’s got Daredevil in it. Come to think of it, Return of the Incredible Hulk has Thor in it. You might want to check them out.

          I agree with you that giving Banner a reason to be there and making him part of the team was a good idea. And like you, it’s one of the reasons I think Hulk worked as well has he did.

          Some of my own vitriol towards the show may be because when I was little it marketed toward me as a kids show. It’s not a kids show. Not because it’s bad or has a lot of stuff that’s inappropriate, but because it’s boring and the Hulk is rarely in it.

        5. Uncle Rylon

          Damn. Gotta check those tags.

        6. Li

          But IT HAD SUPERHEROES IN IT, what do you mean little boys weren’t the right demographic?!

          But no seriously, I’ll have to check the whole thing out.

        7. Andiemus

          It is important that one cares about the other people though. If the others are just boring little fishes that don’t have any traits beyond “I’m a civilian in distress, help me hero!” Then it no longer matters because there’s no investment.

  17. Rachel

    Hooray, a MONDAY kiss!!

  18. Brady Kj

    Is it me, or is the engineering vandal a young Ninja Rick?

    1. Aizat

      You saw that guy, right? No way he’s Ninja Rick.

      1. Ancestral Hamster

        Ah, but he’s still an apprentice right now. They make mistakes, like using Sexy no Jutsu. :p

        1. Aizat

          Well, at least he’s not wearing his ninja gear in public unlike a certain anime.

    2. Kernanator

      But that would mean… GASP! HE’S STILL IN THE STRIP! HE KNOWS THE IDENTITY OF AMAZI-GIRL’S BOYFRIEND!

      1. CRtwenty

        And he also knows he’ll do menial tasks in exchange for kisses!

    3. Yotomoe

      Young Ninja Rick’s name was Genin Rick.

  19. NinjaNick

    That is one amazi-kiss.

  20. james

    the edited out fifth panel

    Danny:…….kinky

    1. Aizat

      What, running a cattle herd through the Vatican?

  21. Maycroft

    Best way to help ever!!

    1. james

      with his penis

  22. Ancestral Hamster

    Hey, is the Buffer Watch so when someone claims Willis “totally got this idea from the discussion section”, the rest of us can point to the Buffer as proof the comic in question already existed for at least a month before the comment was even made?

    1. Aizat

      I think so….or Willis is from the future.

    2. John

      It appeared shortly after a comment thread in Friday’s strip where someone suggested that Willis was getting ideas from the commentary, and I pointed out that he had a huge buffer already prepared, but underestimated how huge by a couple of weeks.

      That’s probably totally unrelated, though. I think he actually did it just to make every other webcomic artist except Howard Tayler feel like a lazy slacker.

  23. Jellor

    Love the little spark detail in the first panel, and the fact that she’s glumly dragging the street sign along in the first place…

  24. Notebooked

    Amazi-Girl seems a bit dishevelled today. (Before I found out Goo Gone was a brand-named product, I thought she was just slurring incomprehensibly. “I’ve got a street sign and some Goo Gone g’tchoo gthluuuu. [hits ground]”) I wonder when she sleeps. (‘Course, that’s the Batman question as well — successful Bruce Wayne in the day, vengeful Batman at night, insomniac all-day ’round.)

    The buffer watch is beginning to worry me. It feels like the start of something. When Willis had his comics planned out and drawn a year in advance, he began to grow restless. Transformers provided a welcome diversion, but their idle company was not enough. He needed the job that had sustained him for years. He began offering to make strips for other comics — ‘ghost-cartooning’, as it were. His pace was mighty, and he filled out strip after strip, prepared week after week of story, of gags, of interaction…soon, he was scripting and drawing every comic in existence. It was still not enough. One night, weary from his frantic workload, he cut his hand while sharpening a pencil. Blood mixed with ink. Something terrible happened that night.

    From then on, there was no David Willis. There was no one to cast blame on and damn. There was only The Cheese.

    (Still found time to go to Botcon, though.)

    (Also, the heck, are there sparks coming from where Amazi-Girl is dragging the site along the ground?)

    1. Notebooked

      Dragging the sign along the ground, I mean. Her effect on the site is probably infinitesmal.

    2. Kernanator

      Applause.

      1. Notebooked

        Aw, thanks. Usually I only get a singular plau.

  25. averystrangeplace

    Ah yes, Danny’s in that coveted “Your Tongue Is The Most Important Part Of You” stage of the relationship.

  26. Arkadi

    Help your local super-heroines, everyone! 😀

  27. berober

    Willis why is your answer to everything “now kiss”!!

  28. Boegiboe

    I love the sparks in the first panel.

  29. Gordon Blvd

    gotta admit……………didnt see that one coming 🙂

  30. bunivasal

    David, is your deviantArt a well-kept secret? After comics like this and last week’s Dorothy strip (puns!) I see a lot of people acting disappointed that your comics are PG, when as far as I can tell you’re one of the most prolific pin-up artists in webcomics outside of the Slipshine label. And one of the few pin-up artists that seem genuinely sex-positive.

    1. David

      it’s… it’s linked at the top of every page.

      1. Shariku Onikage

        …where no one will ever find it… just as planned.

      2. bunivasal

        I know! That’s why it’s so confusing.

  31. Gargamel

    Ah the spouse of a superhero.
    It always starts out like this…

    …Then comes the running and the screaming.

    1. Roborat

      And don’t ever, ever break up, or you might end up getting a shark thrown at you.

      1. Lukkai

        Which by the way is probably the coolest form of revenge I’ve ever seen.

        Except for the shark of course.

        From his point of view: Not cool.

        (But I can’t help it: I like that movie!)

  32. StClair

    They tried doing this scene with Amazi-Girl hanging upside down, but she kept falling and/or getting dizzy from the headrush.

  33. John

    Hmm. Just occurred to me: Danny is halfway to figuring out who Amazi-Girl is now.

    And I guess it’d be nitpicking to wonder how the vandals got paint across the center of the back of the sign, where the post was until Amazi-Girl unbolted it…

  34. Kiggy

    Woohoo! You go amb…er, amazi-girl

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