Does Amber and Amazi-Girl have the same type and colour of phone, I forgot.
Matt
I don’t know, but it’s suspicious how you never see those phones in the same place at the same time! WHAT ARE YOU HIDING, PHONE.
Led
Ambers phone is really Amazi-Phone, the mobile vigilante!
AckAckAck
Until it run out of battery that is.
And with smart phones nowadays it will be less than a day.
Led
Well it has to return to the Amazi-Phone-Cave each day to get a full recharge, but it also has hidden recharge stations around campus if it needs a quick boost while chasing a bad guy… phone… phoneguy… thing.
Bill
Just be judicious with how you use your phone, and install (and use) a task killer app, and you’d be surprised how much mileage you can get out of a charge.
I was going to say the campus text alerts too, though my university didn’t have it just for fire alarms… (God, could you imagine… ugh) Only actual fires or impending weather problems.
Or that one time they thought a bomb was in the basketball arena.
Kafloobop
My college sent out an alert text because the water was going to be turned off in the history building for an hour.
Witch [Soul] of Heart
Text alerts have informed me of about a half-dozen water pipe breakages. I’m halfway through sophomore year.
Freshman year, the sewage line in the basement broke as well as the water lines on the second and third floor. All down the same hallway I lived on, just every floor but mine.
I’m still dreading the day it breaks on my floor. Because it’s gonna come. I got out of it three times last year, and I’m in an older dorm this year. (And first floor flooded already.)
Dicrel Seijin
I can honestly say that my college campus has not sent out an actual fire alarm. The recent alerts that I can remember off the top of my head were for a couple of tsunami warnings and a flasher.
Pat
I signed up for text alerts, but they were stupid and useless.
I didn’t have a texting plan, so I had to pay for them. I thought it was worth a few cents for an occasional actual emergency, but they happened all the time so I dropped it in a week. Fire alarms? Wouldn’t be surprised.
It is not illegal at all to own a police scanner. Police activity is a matter of public record and the broadcast in the clear on public frequencies.
brionl
Well, used to be in the clear. More and more they are going to digital transmissions, so if you don’t have the correct decoder you just get buzzing and weird noises.
Police Scanner App is available for free on the Google Play Store for Android Mobile users. Provided you have a savvy data plan or internet connection, you can easily tune in on your local police station.
A police scanner is just a radio receiver. If radio receivers are ever illegal, it’s time to start planning the insurgency. Now, there are restrictions about -broadcasting- on police bands, but you can listen in all you want.
Not only legal, but cheap. You can get an entry-level scanner for around $100. I use my for NASCAR races, but it will also pick up the frequencies used by police, fire, etc.
It could be Nixle. It’s what my local college uses.
As for campus fire alarms, what we get most are burnt food in the dorm kitchenettes, followed by hairspray. (Seriously. Smoke detectors are made more and more sensitive every few years. i swear soon they’ll ban beans in the cafeteria because of the detectors.)
We didn’t have kitchens in my dorms (oh, how I wished we did). It was mostly burnt microwave popcorn (seriously people, pay attention for two dang minutes).
Not necessarily. It could have been the beginning of recurring storyline wherein characters almost pull the fire alarm for their own purposes, but decide against it, coming to its conclusion when there is an actual fire, and someone pulls the fire alarm, and we learn that it’s broken – which we would have found out much earlier if only someone had pulled it.
Actually, since UF has a police text system (for example, when someone was getting stabbed on campus), there would be a text update about it to all current students.
Hence why I wasn’t surprised-although fire alarms weren’t included in that unless it was an actual fire…
Personally, I can see how someone might have serious issues with the comic, both in that it’s symptomatic of DC’s “Everything Silver Age is new again!” ethos and that “fixing” their wheelchair-using superheroine is … unfortunate. On the other hand, motherflippin’ Gail Simone.
Yes, and thus ends the origin story of Captain Condom.
TPman
Then an inebriated clown burst through my window and my path became clear. His novelty buzzer ring has selected me as the most appropriate being in the sector to take over his role. On a trip to the science zoo I was bitten by a radioactive elephant. To save my life the doctors had to graft solid helium to my skeleton and they also accidentally replaced my heart with a hand crank.
The cumulative trauma caused caused my latent mutations to activate, and now I am… colorblind!
Seeing the world in dull grays, Colorblind Man is more than a match for Doctor Kaleido’s hypnotic color patterns. But can he defeat his arch-nemesis, Traficklytze?
149 thoughts on “Fire alarm”
Jen Aside
Is that a police scanner app?
AliaPie
Probably a campus text alert system. But, who knows? Maybe it is a police scanner.
Plasma Mongoose
Does Amber and Amazi-Girl have the same type and colour of phone, I forgot.
Matt
I don’t know, but it’s suspicious how you never see those phones in the same place at the same time! WHAT ARE YOU HIDING, PHONE.
Led
Ambers phone is really Amazi-Phone, the mobile vigilante!
AckAckAck
Until it run out of battery that is.
And with smart phones nowadays it will be less than a day.
Led
Well it has to return to the Amazi-Phone-Cave each day to get a full recharge, but it also has hidden recharge stations around campus if it needs a quick boost while chasing a bad guy… phone… phoneguy… thing.
Bill
Just be judicious with how you use your phone, and install (and use) a task killer app, and you’d be surprised how much mileage you can get out of a charge.
Amanda
I was going to say the campus text alerts too, though my university didn’t have it just for fire alarms… (God, could you imagine… ugh) Only actual fires or impending weather problems.
Or that one time they thought a bomb was in the basketball arena.
Kafloobop
My college sent out an alert text because the water was going to be turned off in the history building for an hour.
Witch [Soul] of Heart
Text alerts have informed me of about a half-dozen water pipe breakages. I’m halfway through sophomore year.
Freshman year, the sewage line in the basement broke as well as the water lines on the second and third floor. All down the same hallway I lived on, just every floor but mine.
I’m still dreading the day it breaks on my floor. Because it’s gonna come. I got out of it three times last year, and I’m in an older dorm this year. (And first floor flooded already.)
Dicrel Seijin
I can honestly say that my college campus has not sent out an actual fire alarm. The recent alerts that I can remember off the top of my head were for a couple of tsunami warnings and a flasher.
Pat
I signed up for text alerts, but they were stupid and useless.
I didn’t have a texting plan, so I had to pay for them. I thought it was worth a few cents for an occasional actual emergency, but they happened all the time so I dropped it in a week. Fire alarms? Wouldn’t be surprised.
MarcinMN
That’s the, uh, Amazi-scanner.
John Harmon
Is there such a thing as a police scanner app? I’m pretty sure it’s illegal as hell to own a police scanner, so how can an app be legal?
BassBone
It is not illegal at all to own a police scanner. Police activity is a matter of public record and the broadcast in the clear on public frequencies.
brionl
Well, used to be in the clear. More and more they are going to digital transmissions, so if you don’t have the correct decoder you just get buzzing and weird noises.
Bettyspaghetti42
Police Scanner App is available for free on the Google Play Store for Android Mobile users. Provided you have a savvy data plan or internet connection, you can easily tune in on your local police station.
Buckybone
Here’s the link to Chicago’s police scanner. I’ve had it on my favorites for a year, it’s still legal. http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/763/web/?rl=rr
Heavensrun
A police scanner is just a radio receiver. If radio receivers are ever illegal, it’s time to start planning the insurgency. Now, there are restrictions about -broadcasting- on police bands, but you can listen in all you want.
Charlie Spencer
Not only legal, but cheap. You can get an entry-level scanner for around $100. I use my for NASCAR races, but it will also pick up the frequencies used by police, fire, etc.
qka
It could be Nixle. It’s what my local college uses.
As for campus fire alarms, what we get most are burnt food in the dorm kitchenettes, followed by hairspray. (Seriously. Smoke detectors are made more and more sensitive every few years. i swear soon they’ll ban beans in the cafeteria because of the detectors.)
– a firefighter
Pat
We didn’t have kitchens in my dorms (oh, how I wished we did). It was mostly burnt microwave popcorn (seriously people, pay attention for two dang minutes).
Geminia999
I feel like the bag for the Amber’s comics is a bit superfluous.
Wonder Wig
It’s clearly a baby Minecraft Creeper.
Bettyspaghetti42
Sssssss…
Doctor_Who
Gail should totally have her first name legally changed to that, just so I can buy comics with “Motherfuckin’ Gail Simone” on the cover.
Romanticide
As far as I knew Gail Simone was a “nom the plume” so it’s no much of a strech XD
Uniqueantique
So, Billie went and done it.
Plasma Mongoose
Mayyyybeeee…
Yotomoe
MAYBE A RANDOM FIRE BROKE OUT, YOU DON’T KNOW.
stevecharb
woulda been a Chekhov’s gun thing if she hadn’t.
Zababcd
Not necessarily. It could have been the beginning of recurring storyline wherein characters almost pull the fire alarm for their own purposes, but decide against it, coming to its conclusion when there is an actual fire, and someone pulls the fire alarm, and we learn that it’s broken – which we would have found out much earlier if only someone had pulled it.
SUGauthor
This is Billie’s finest moment. It’s a shame she’ll get in huge trouble for it.
Tikitori
Actually, since UF has a police text system (for example, when someone was getting stabbed on campus), there would be a text update about it to all current students.
Hence why I wasn’t surprised-although fire alarms weren’t included in that unless it was an actual fire…
Plasma Mongoose
Silly Amber, just because YOU are genre savvy, doesn’t mean that Amazi-Girl is.
berober
Who does she think she is? Amazi-Girl?
Josh
Exactly! I mean in panel 4 we can clearly see Amazi-Girl going there now
GoldStarz
Funny, you couldn’t put that comic in my cold, dead hands.
Count Dracula
That sounds like a dare to me.
Kernanator
Why not?
Vabolo
It would probably be out of print by then?
Daibhid Ceannaideach
Personally, I can see how someone might have serious issues with the comic, both in that it’s symptomatic of DC’s “Everything Silver Age is new again!” ethos and that “fixing” their wheelchair-using superheroine is … unfortunate. On the other hand, motherflippin’ Gail Simone.
Kernanator
I have never wanted to legitimately choke the shit out of Billie as much as I do right now.
Plasma Mongoose
While the odds are that it was Billie, there is a SMALL possibility that someone else could have chosen to pull the alarm.
Prior Semblance
There’s also other ways to set off the alarm
Plasma Mongoose
Like the old ‘hold a cigerette lighter under the sprinkler’ trick.
George
Or the popcorn button on the microwave.
Yotomoe
Or cook burgers like I tried to do today (not even lying).
Plasma Mongoose
I have a fire alarm next to the bathroom, if you forget to shut the door properly, the steam sets of the alarm.
Kernanator
That happened to me once, back when I was just starting to switch over from baths to showers.
james
or set the floor on fire
AckAckAck
The floor is lava?
John
At least it’s daytime. And not raining. Or snowing. Or twenty below.
Plasma Mongoose
You cannot blame Kerny, after all he lost his beloved chiapet in a tragic fire-alarm prank. -__-
Kernanator
A pulled fire alarm shot my parents in an alley when I was 8.
Plasma Mongoose
Is that before you discovered an empty warehouse full of novelty condoms and pledged your life to fight the forces of cheap college pranks?
Kernanator
Yes, and thus ends the origin story of Captain Condom.
TPman
Then an inebriated clown burst through my window and my path became clear. His novelty buzzer ring has selected me as the most appropriate being in the sector to take over his role. On a trip to the science zoo I was bitten by a radioactive elephant. To save my life the doctors had to graft solid helium to my skeleton and they also accidentally replaced my heart with a hand crank.
The cumulative trauma caused caused my latent mutations to activate, and now I am… colorblind!
Plasma Mongoose
Too silly even for Stan Lee.
james
but not for thenew 52
Tenn
Seeing the world in dull grays, Colorblind Man is more than a match for Doctor Kaleido’s hypnotic color patterns. But can he defeat his arch-nemesis, Traficklytze?
Narf
Kernanator = Batman
Kernanator
So far, I’ve been George Takei, President Obama, and now Batman.
I lead a very storied life.
Kernanator
Oh, and Ruth too.
Narf
We should all hope to live lives as storied as yours, President Brucekernaruth Hussein Waynakeibama.
Yotomoe
Kinky.
Kernanator
I want to choke-slam her against a wall, then make out with her.
That’s normal courtship behavior, right?
Plasma Mongoose
Only if Billie was a klingon.
AgentKeen
Hmm, I think Billie would have noticed a bat’leth in Ruth’s closet.
John
… Ruth? We’ve been worried about you!
Luzahn