Walky’s talking about himself here, right? Not…not to sound like that one guy with the inexplicable Walky hate-obsession, just like, that looks like a “same” kinda yeah going on.
Yeah, that’s probably Walky putting himself down because he feels guilty about Dorothy’s current state of mind. (And possibly Joyce’s current state of foot, by extension.)
Also, I was going to ask “who does she think Walky thinks she is” until I checked the tags.
The speech balloon is non-diagnostic, being an affectation to obscure the connection between Amber and Amazi-Girl. It’s the cheeks to look at. And they’re Ambery.
Speech bubbles. Colour coded for YOUR convenience! 😉
Reltzik
Actually, the speech bubble just indicates she’s doing the voice. Amazi-Girl has talked in normal speech bubbles before and Amber’s used the Amazi-Girl voice before. The tags are the best indicator, followed by the (currently mostly-obscured) blush on the cheeks.
Cholma
The change in voice isn’t a conscious thing on Amber’s part. She speaks in the “A-G voice” when Amazi-Girl is in control of her. What you’re talking about is when her control sometimes slipped and Amber slipped out. (or vice-versa) Basically, she’s suffered a complete split personality, with neither of the two communicating with each other anymore.
Yes it is, she only adopted that voice after Danny met her as both Amber and Amazi-Girl and she was trying to hide her identity.
Before that, Amazi-Girl sounded just like Amber, and since then, Amber has used AG’s voice multiple times. Once talking to Sal to trick her, and once to Danny to insist he was wrong about Amber not being awful
GoblinScribe
Also once to convince Billie that Ruth was okay!
Liliet
Amber does have DID (split personality), but the voice isn’t an indicator of that, the cheek blush is. The voice IS a deliberate affectation, much like the mussled hair and the outfit.
So is the use of the word “cheese” just a thing in the DOA-verse even without the sci-fi elements? Or maybe it’s just Walky being Walky; that actually seems very likely.
Also, does this building just allow rooftop access like that? I mean, Amber has her ways, just wondering how Walky is there and has been there regularly.
Makes sense. I love open rooftops but there’s a lot of reasons to limit them in a college setting…from what Dean implied below to people throwing burning furniture off them because of sportsball.
But they make for a dramatic place to stand.
tirachokko
a dramatic place to throw flaming armchairs off of as well it sounds
THE ROOFTOP (friendship…?) CHATTING IS BACK, I LOVE IT. They’re both wrecks who can’t communicate that they feel like wrecks and I so dig that this is a theme now.
I just hope it’s not “nope nope nope dissociating the fuck away now”. If it’s that she might not be around to hear Walky clarify that he’s talking about himself. Or she might be in that in-between stage where she hears the sounds he’s making but it’s too late, the dominoes already started falling… :/
I got my DA book for the first time and the doodle was amazing! Thanks for also using my preferred name and respecting me as a trans person Willis. You are an amazing human being.
Sympathy via appropriate gesture or words… for living in a world where basic decency is so unusual. For whatever little help it is, if I knew your preferred name I’d use it too.
This is the day when Amber learns that her problems, though catastrophic, are far from being the only seemingly-insoluble problem in this world. I think that it is also the day when she finds out that the definition of ‘hero’ is a lot broader than she thinks.
Will Amber and Amazi-Girl lead the intervention with Dorothy? She is their friend, after all!
Considers putting either The theme from M*A*S*H (the vocal version aka: “Suicide is painless”)” or Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone again naturally” on the hacked muzak, but decides there’s enough bleak depression in this update without adding any more.
It feels like Amber is essentially leading up to solving the personality split by committing suicide of the Amber personality and leaving AmaziGirl in full time possession, including creating a new secret identity”Amber” that’s molded to fit the AmaziGirl persona if needed. Troubling to say the least.
97 thoughts on “Garbage”
Ana Chronistic
“YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO AGREE THAT FAST”
“why not”
D8
Clif
Until proven otherwise, I’m going to assume that Amber is up here looking for kittens to kick.
Gwen
I mean, he did wait a WHOLE PANEL to respond. That’s what, three seconds?
Gwen
Augh! Try Grav Roulette Again!
Shiro
Walky’s talking about himself here, right? Not…not to sound like that one guy with the inexplicable Walky hate-obsession, just like, that looks like a “same” kinda yeah going on.
Pablo360
I assume so, what with the voice-warble and the fact that if that wasn’t what he meant I’d probably have to murder David M. Willis for being too mean
Haven
Yeah, that’s probably Walky putting himself down because he feels guilty about Dorothy’s current state of mind. (And possibly Joyce’s current state of foot, by extension.)
Also, I was going to ask “who does she think Walky thinks she is” until I checked the tags.
Tempest
I mean, to be fair, there’s a difference between “I hate walky” and “walky clearly hates himself”.
Keulen
Wait a minute the tag says Amber.
Pablo360
That’s because Amber’s in this scene, and Amazi-Girl is not.
AnvilPro
No purple speech-bubble. This is Amber in the outfit so that she can go around ruining Amazi-Girl’s good name
Kamino Neko
The speech balloon is non-diagnostic, being an affectation to obscure the connection between Amber and Amazi-Girl. It’s the cheeks to look at. And they’re Ambery.
Yumi
Yeah, she’s pretty clearly Amber in this strip. She has the cheek blush and she’s not doing the voice.
Scoops
See her speech bubbles too. And where she says “I’m not who you think I am.”
Raijin
Speech bubbles. Colour coded for YOUR convenience! 😉
Reltzik
Actually, the speech bubble just indicates she’s doing the voice. Amazi-Girl has talked in normal speech bubbles before and Amber’s used the Amazi-Girl voice before. The tags are the best indicator, followed by the (currently mostly-obscured) blush on the cheeks.
Cholma
The change in voice isn’t a conscious thing on Amber’s part. She speaks in the “A-G voice” when Amazi-Girl is in control of her. What you’re talking about is when her control sometimes slipped and Amber slipped out. (or vice-versa) Basically, she’s suffered a complete split personality, with neither of the two communicating with each other anymore.
Fart Captor
Yes it is, she only adopted that voice after Danny met her as both Amber and Amazi-Girl and she was trying to hide her identity.
Before that, Amazi-Girl sounded just like Amber, and since then, Amber has used AG’s voice multiple times. Once talking to Sal to trick her, and once to Danny to insist he was wrong about Amber not being awful
GoblinScribe
Also once to convince Billie that Ruth was okay!
Liliet
Amber does have DID (split personality), but the voice isn’t an indicator of that, the cheek blush is. The voice IS a deliberate affectation, much like the mussled hair and the outfit.
Woobie
Like dragons!
Mr. Mendo
Walky is immune to Amazi-Girl’s drama!
Pablo360
Unfortunately, this is Amber.
DrWattson
So is the use of the word “cheese” just a thing in the DOA-verse even without the sci-fi elements? Or maybe it’s just Walky being Walky; that actually seems very likely.
tim gueguen
Probably came from Dexter and Monkey Master.
ValdVin
If Amber, in costume, starts enacting her idea of ruining AG’s good name, Walky may get to drop “Cheese it–the cops!”
hennerson
Cheese it is part of the old ‘Thieves Cant’ (Yup, it exists outside D&D) meaning either to stop it or to run away.
It would please me if Walky had a knowledge of 18th century slang…
lots more here: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5402/pg5402-images.html
Arian
I always thought it was a minced oath, because baddies in kids’ shows can’t be heard to curse/blaspheme. Well, live and learn.
AnvilPro
Lol, a character finally telling Amber exactly what she wants to hear
Opus the Poet
You may be garbage, but people still worry about both of your personalities
Passchendaele
…is there always a breeze up there?
Archivist
As long as it makes their hair look cool….
Pablo360
It’s part of the costume.
Meta
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/super-human/
Apparently, based on Walky’s last line in this one!
CJ
Because of hight and heat differences, I suppose there always is wind. The direction must be a feature of Amber/AG though…
thejeff
That’s why she always come up here. This is the best spot on campus for dramatic wind-blown posing.
Deanatay
Also for the classic superhero ‘hunch and brood’.
Yumi
I’m looking forward to this conversation.
Also, does this building just allow rooftop access like that? I mean, Amber has her ways, just wondering how Walky is there and has been there regularly.
David M Willis
It did 20 years ago!
But I’m pretty sure there are, like, walls of mesh wire or whatever that I ignore because those get in the way of people looking cool on a roof.
Yumi
Makes sense. I love open rooftops but there’s a lot of reasons to limit them in a college setting…from what Dean implied below to people throwing burning furniture off them because of sportsball.
But they make for a dramatic place to stand.
tirachokko
a dramatic place to throw flaming armchairs off of as well it sounds
Woobie
Or locks added to the access doors.
Archivist
THE ROOFTOP (friendship…?) CHATTING IS BACK, I LOVE IT. They’re both wrecks who can’t communicate that they feel like wrecks and I so dig that this is a theme now.
Meta
Yeah I love this relationship, I’ve been wanting more since the cookie chat.
brionl
Cheese Walky. You’re supposed to say “You and me both, Sister!”
Not “yeah”.
Dean
Panel 3 isn’t what you want to hear from someone who’s standing on the edge of a rooftop.
DailyBrad
I hope Walky’s refreshing bluntness might get Amber to lighten the fuck up, but who knows.
Shiro
Unfortunately, your own brain turning against you makes that a tad bit difficult.
JessWitt
It would have been easier Walky to shine the Amazi signal.
RacingTurtle
“OTHER people have issues? What is this madness?”
-or-
“AGREEMENT IS CONFUSING THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE”
I wonder which it is.
Schpoonman
Walky’s talking about himself, Amber’s gonna think “He’s agreeing?” at first but look at him and realize “Nope, talking about himself.”
RacingTurtle
I think you are right!
Inahc
I just hope it’s not “nope nope nope dissociating the fuck away now”. If it’s that she might not be around to hear Walky clarify that he’s talking about himself. Or she might be in that in-between stage where she hears the sounds he’s making but it’s too late, the dominoes already started falling… :/
Reltzik
Well, tags say she’s not Amazi-Girl yet, so.
timemonkey
Someone finally agreed with her but he thinks she’s the wrong persona.
Josh Spicer
“Who can relate?”
Walky apparently.
Reltzik
So Sal’s auditioned for Amazi-Girl’s sidekick, and now Walky’s auditioning for Amber’s sidekick.
…. he’s such an underachiever.
BenRG
Actually, Walky is auditioning to be Amber’s reality anchor. That’s sort of the same role played by Alfred Pennyworth and Lois Lane.
thejeff
Except he thinks he’s auditioning for Amazi-Girl.
Bagge
No racist cookies, Walky? For shame.
Joking aside, I’m very glad those two are building a support network.
Deanatay
You can’t always depend on your Mom to send you racist cookies when you need to talk to a superhero, dood.
Transgressingwaffle
I got my DA book for the first time and the doodle was amazing! Thanks for also using my preferred name and respecting me as a trans person Willis. You are an amazing human being.
Chris Phoenix
Sympathy via appropriate gesture or words… for living in a world where basic decency is so unusual. For whatever little help it is, if I knew your preferred name I’d use it too.
Deanatay
I’unno, I like that they’re a waffle. 🙂
But, yeah, for all the ‘damn you’s we throw his way, Willis is one of the good ones.
BenRG
This is the day when Amber learns that her problems, though catastrophic, are far from being the only seemingly-insoluble problem in this world. I think that it is also the day when she finds out that the definition of ‘hero’ is a lot broader than she thinks.
Will Amber and Amazi-Girl lead the intervention with Dorothy? She is their friend, after all!
ValdVin
Amber’s eye pop and Walky’s meandering word balloon are real big payouts in the last panel.
Reltzik
*plays Imagine Dragons “On Top of the World” on the hacked muzak, because no one more competent, serious, or respectful than him was on the job*
Dave M
Considers putting either The theme from M*A*S*H (the vocal version aka: “Suicide is painless”)” or Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone again naturally” on the hacked muzak, but decides there’s enough bleak depression in this update without adding any more.
It feels like Amber is essentially leading up to solving the personality split by committing suicide of the Amber personality and leaving AmaziGirl in full time possession, including creating a new secret identity”Amber” that’s molded to fit the AmaziGirl persona if needed. Troubling to say the least.
Reltzik
Really? I was under the impression that she was trying to kill the Amazi-Girl personality.
Danni
which ones talking?
Dave M