Gotcha
Posted on April 30, 2014 by David M Willis

258 thoughts on “Gotcha”

  1. Yotomoe

    Her body was never found.

    1. Jen Aside

      “You… KNOCKED OVER MY TRASH CAN”

      1. The Meek Ninja

        “Prepare to die.”

        1. otusasio451

          “My name is Amber O’Malley. I pummeled my father. Prepare to die.”

        2. AzureSky

          Give this one a cookie!

        3. Unkind fish

          HhahahahahahaAaaa

        4. asmcint

          WELCOME TO DIE!

      2. Aizat

        “You spilled my diet soda!”

        1. Darren

          “John my diet soda!”

          You sir, get +1 internet

    2. Cholma

      Fortunately, Amber can count on Dina to help with the disposal of the body.

      1. Yotomoe

        You need a whole to bury the body? Dina can dig it.

        1. That Damn Rat

          She just calls in her raptor brothers, and bam! no body

        2. Aizat

          But look at the BONES!

        3. Aeron

          You twat! I soiled my favorite raptor t-shirt I was so scared!

        4. Shadow12000

          A whole what though?

        5. nekobawt

          a whole hole. she tried digging half of one, but couldn’t figure out when to stop.

        6. Bill

          You’re done once you get all the dirt out of it.

        7. awakisiok

          Miki? Do you like my name?

    3. Glynvel

      Someone call Bricktop and see if the pigs are hungry.

      1. Admiral ChucK

        I called. He didn’t answer. I think Mickey got him.

        1. Arkadi

          Good man Mickey.

        2. Cholma

          Holy crap! A “Snatch” reference?! great movie!

      2. Leorale

        Dem pigs eat anyteeng.

    4. nah

      I legit want this the moment where dumbing of age goes straight up Game of Thrones about some shit

      1. nah

        “hey danny! I need you to help me remove a large heavy trashbag that smells like it has a dead human being from my room. Also incidentally that girl you used to date has vanished without any trace”

        1. Seerow

          That’s not game of thrones. That’s some dumb buddy cop plot.

        2. LAZiERWOLF

          I think you mean “human bean”.

        3. John

          Leave Leslie out of this.

    5. Vree

      “It could have been so perfect, Dorothy. But you just HAD to pry and peek.”

  2. Herohatch

    Dun dun… dun?

    1. Jen Aside

      UH-OH, she just realized WALKY IS AMBER

      1. gc

        Genius.

      2. Blimey

        Next: Amber realizes that Dorothy is Sal.
        Danny realizes Joe is his alter ego.

        1. Shadow12000

          Fracking heck and now I can’t get Danny Sexbang out of my head.

        2. Vash

          if you mix joe and danny you get danny sexbang

        3. John

          Joe is Danny’s Tyler Durden.

        4. -JAD-

          So cool

        5. Aeron

          This.

        6. Aeron

          The Dumbingverse ends with the singularity.

        7. Strain Of Thought

          Eventually, it turns out that there is only one character in Dumbing Of Age, a poor disturbed soul who believes that they are the collective student body of Indiana University.

          And that character is David Willis.

          And it is still 1998, and he is still hiding in his dorm room, still having a complete nervous breakdown. And in his fevered dreams, he is having a vision of the future, of all possible college life experiences that can be experienced at Indiana University, by all possible college students. And this is his story.

        8. das-g

          This sounds eerily like a horror movie I’ve seen. Just switch the university with a motel and Willis’ dorm room with a courtroom.

        9. Alan Lafond

          I knew which movie it was before I even clicked the link. One of my favorites of my collection of movies that feature the lead actor from that one. 🙂

        10. Jerden

          Amazi-Girl realises that Dina IS EVERYONE.

      3. Björn

        Oh Willis, PLEASE make that canon!

      4. Thasvaddef

        Actually looks blue to me. That’s more or less the opposite of amber.

    2. Kaiden

      Dun Dun, DUN!!!!

  3. Vivvav

    This ain’t good.

    1. Tunaro

      Nnnooope. No, it ain’t.

    2. PsychokineticEX

      Vivvav my friend, things are about to do a rapid pirouette backflip off the deep end.

    3. creatorx2

      She totally thinks Amber’s secretly dating Walky.

  4. Mr. Random

    That look. She needs to be taken care of.
    For the family.

    1. Aizat

      Leave the body…take the canoli.

      1. Ivan

        Best ad lib ever in a movie!

        1. Charlie Spencer

          Nah. “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

        2. StClair

          For me, it’s a toss-up between the collected works of Harrison Ford.

          Also:
          “The police are here!”
          “How many?”
          “Uh, all of them, I think.”

        3. Jen Aside

          “Newman, what are you doing?”
          “I’m thinking.”
          “Well, think me up a cup of coffee and a chocolate doughnut with some of those little sprinkles on top, while you’re thinking.”

  5. Deathjavu

    Oh amber, nooo, what are you planning… 🙁

    1. TemplarKnight

      Amber disappeared before the last panel.

  6. Yotomoe

    Also Fuck. How did I not catch on to them cheeks. I feel dumber than a Danny.

    1. rhelmot

      aaaaaaaaaaaa so obvious in hindsight
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/incoming/

      1. Jay Eff

        Uh-oh.
        Amber’s gonna start talking in “Nolan-Voice” next strip, isn’t she?

        “WHERE IS IT? TELL ME WHERE THE BOMB IS!!“

        1. Aizat

          Or Bauer-Voice. “TELL ME WHERE THE BOMB IS!”

        2. hmmm e-yep...

          and then all the other characters will be saying, “AMBER OMALLY?” “O’MALLY!” “AMBER…” and then it will switch back to amber saying the above lines, lol.

        3. Tenn

          Nolan-Voice + Dorothy = “WHERE ARE WE, TOTO?!”

    2. AgentKeen

      Well obviously the mask… hid the… change….

      Oh crap, masks do work.

  7. newllend

    Now we’re going to haft to kill ya,nothing personal.

    1. Yotomoe

      Although, while I’m at it, you did break my boyfriend’s heart.

    2. Blackbird

      And while I’m at it, your best friend is dating my ex-boyfriend, who is gay but hiding in the closet and she’s enabling it.

    3. Blackbird

      Also, your boyfriend’s twin sister was central to a pretty traumatic event from my childhood.

    4. Blackbird

      You know what? Screw it, it is personal.

  8. Opus the Poet

    Another set of poisoned eyebrows leaps from a face!

    1. KingMabel

      The ‘brows want nothing to do with this.

  9. Shanunu

    Noooooooooooooo

  10. KingMabel

    Oh snap! Thick glasses-wearing college-girl cat fight!

    1. Saru

      And many a wrist was damaged that day.

  11. AHR

    I don’t get the cheek thing.

    1. Yotomoe

      Blush=Amber
      No Blush = Amazi-tits (or something).

    2. clodia

      I think: Amazi-Girl doesn’t blush. Amber does? Amber dropped her blush in her last panel: she’s about to get violent or run away with great rapidity. Example below.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/neutral/

      We see Amber blushing in the Amazi-girl costume, but mostly when she’s coming out of her Amazi-girl headspace.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/grounds/
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/hostage/
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/down/

      1. Shanunu

        That last one she has the blush going on. Does that mean she’s just violent normal Amber beating on her dad?

        1. garaden

          Yep, the tags say it too. (Just found this out meself)

        2. John

          Yes. Notice “amazi-girl” is not in the tags for that strip. “amber” is.

        3. ellen

          This strip shows the transition from her speech, too, to be super extra clear.
          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/hostage/
          And then you can see the cheek color in the subsequent Blaine-beating.

      2. Alan Lafond

        I was not getting it either, until this explanation. Even then, it took me a while to get it. That’s when I realized, I was misinterpreting the blush as being a shadow cast by the glasses. 😀

    3. Cloudski

      Honestly, I always thought the blushes were just shadows off glasses. I had to go back through to see if there was any blush on others without glasses before, since it’s something I wouldn’t have noticed otherwise without it pointed out,.

    4. Jen Aside

      It’s her “Dark Yugi” switch, I think.

  12. carl320

    Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

    1. Eromer

      I see what you did there.

  13. Saru

    And now…you must die.

  14. clodia

    That look. She’s put together the dots. She has sympathy. That’s not the look of a person who is ready to run off and publish, that’s the look of a person who realizes that the girl was involved in a physical altercation with a family member.

    1. Psycho

      I thought she looked more like someone about to get mauled by a tiger.

      1. clodia

        Also plausible.

      2. Yotomoe

        Amber has an Amazi-Tiger pit.

        1. PsychokineticEX

          AND SHE IS THE TIGER

        2. Jay

          It is incredibly. Incredibly. Fortunate that Faz jumped into the lion pit.

        3. Thasvaddef

          The raptor pit

    2. Allison

      I think you’re right. And I think Amber’s look is less “Now I have to kill you” and more resignation to the inevitable.

    3. Leorale

      It’s true. Plus, of the entire cast, Dorothy is the single most likely person to encourage Amber to get help. Lookit that sympathy! Amber could totally agree to get help so that Dorothy doesn’t publish.

      ::grasping at straws::

      1. clodia

        Assuming Amber’s in a headspace to listen. I think the comment about her blushing means that she’s going into her Amazi-Girl headspace, which is pure fight (or occasionally flight).

        1. John

          Worth remembering: It was Amber who stabbed Sal, and Amber who attacked Blaine, both in her room and in the parking lot. Not Amazi-Girl. Even though she was wearing the costume when she beat him down, she was tagged only as “amber”.

          From the discussion she just had with Ethan, I don’t think Amazi-Girl is Amber’s way of justifying her violence. (Or at least not only…) I think she’s her way of controlling it.

          So, yeah, I think Amazi-Girl coming out here is a good sign. Amber might react like a cornered rat. Amazi-Girl reacts with awesomeness and comic-book banter. And hitting, but only people who need it.

        2. Kas

          Yeah, I think Amazi-Girl is absolutely an identity she takes on to get away from the violence. Because she attacked Sal and has noticed aggression issues within herself, she feels like she has to be someone else to get away from that.

          I also kind of always looked at Amazi-Girl as like… who Amber wishes she was? And not in the obvious superhero way, but to be confident and brave and able to stand up for herself and others without losing control of herself.

          So I’m doubting this is going to lead to a fight. I really hope AmaziAmber will talk… I mean, what’s the point of running now that Dorothy knows her identity?

    4. shietka

      I was thinking the same thing. It’s a look that says “Oh my. You’re really messed up, aren’t you?”

  15. Wonder Wig

    I never saw that coming. Tailgate was Amazi-girl!!!

  16. Doctor_Who

    “Omigod! This means Amazi-Girl is…”

    (Looks through tags)

    Huh. I think I’ve run out of characters. A sad day indeed.

    1. Yotomoe

      We could ALWAYS fall back on Dina.

    2. Ghostforge

      ….And the penny drops.

      1. Thasvaddef

        Amazi-girl is Penny!

        1. captainswift

          No, no. Penny is Pizza Girl

        2. Opus the Poet

          I spent 2 1/2 hours archive crawling QC to find the strip where Pizza Girl makes a delivery to Penny and couldn’t find it. I know it’s there somewhere but you have to go through each strip one at a time and I’m just getting too old for that shit.

        3. Rabid Rabbit

          http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1932

          It’s the other one with Chaucer in it.

        4. AgentKeen

          Good thing she doesn’t have the sweet eye-patch anymore. It’d get in the way of the mask.

    3. Zekiah2

      Is amazi-girl the transformer or the shoe?

      1. Jerden

        SHE IS THE TRASH CAN.

  17. Stephen Bierce

    *plays Garth Brooks’ “The Thunder Rolls”*

    1. Opus the Poet

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYFdldfYEJk

      NOT Garth Brooks.

      This one is even wilder (if that is possible)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

    2. Seerow

      The lightning flashes in her eyes, and she knows that she knows~

  18. MrSirk

    Dorothy is just too smart and the pieces fit together too well.

  19. Hoboturtle

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egne2ZCMM_0

    1. Opus the Poet

      I always loved the techno version of that theme.

  20. Plasma Mongoose

    Time for the Amazi-boot to the head to cause some easy amnesia.

    1. KingMabel

      The concussion will be most effective…

      Especially since the only one who knows her location is watching biblical cartoons.

      1. newllend

        Boot won’t cut it might as well cold cock her with a pipe, get the Amazi-rod.

        1. KingMabel

          Are you sure? The Amazi-rod might be too much for her…

    2. Yotomoe

      Suddenly Dottie forgets the last 3 weeks and thinks she’s still dating Danny!!!

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Now that would result in a lot of shenanigans.

        1. newllend

          Now THAT would be fucking funny

    3. StClair

      No, Amber has to kiss her.
      Superman II is quite clear on this.

  21. John Madden

    BRACE FOR IMPACT

  22. Kernanator

    I AM THE DREAD PIRATE O’MALLEY! THERE WILL BE NO SURVIVORS!

    1. AgentKeen

      So… then Dorothy becomes the Dread Pirate O’Malley? That’s how that works, right?

      1. Heavensrun

        Goodnight, Dorothy. Sleep well, good training today. Most likely kill you in the morning.

  23. Matt

    Dorothy remember no matter how dumb you feel right now. The austrian army once mistakenly attacked itself resulting in 10,000 deaths. And it still lost the battle

    1. Bilfred

      ‘Tis true, I don’t think there’s ever been such a massive screw-up since that.

    2. Lanval

      The Australian Army lost a war against Birds.

      1. cmd1095

        was gonna bring that up actually

      2. Opus the Poet

        But to be fair the Aussies were out numbered hundreds to one. The birds won through sheer attrition.

      3. Matt

        And emus were compared to an army of zulu warriors

      4. Plasma Mongoose

        You can’t expect an easy vivtory fighting Australia wildlife after all.

        1. Aizat

          Unless you’re SAXTON HAAAAAAAAAALEEEEEEEE! Though he did lose Mann Co to a little girl.

    3. gc

      Won the war, though. So there’s always hope.

  24. Ridureyu

    Any outcome that does not result in Amber getting counseling with a good counselor is not a desirable outcome.

    1. Leorale

      Unless she gets counseling with Ninja Rick. That would be permissible.

      1. nekobawt

        ahahaha that would be perfect, ninja rick the guidance counselor, spouting “eastern wisdom” he learned from fortune cookies.

        1. AgentKeen

          Every session is just an hour of him hissing ‘For vengeance…’ at her as the solution to everything.

        2. Hoboturtle

          Either that or Rick WAS her guidance counselor.

        3. brionl

          ITYM, Episodes of Naruto, not fortune cookies.

    2. gc

      We are the psychiatric profession. You will be assimilated.

  25. Lanval

    Theoretically, Amber could kill Dorothy and then take her place.

    Considering how alike they looked, she could say she needs to focus on her studies due to a bad mark and it would be like a month before anyone noticed.

    1. Yotomoe

      Dorothy, Have you put on weight? In All the right places?

      1. newllend

        Walky: Dorothy! Where have you been? Wait you’re not Dorothy your way more curvy and luscious, with a perfect hour glass figure and…..on second thought forget what I just said want to meet up later tonight?”

        😉

  26. Tunaro

    It’s GO Time!

  27. I don't know what to put here.

    HOH, SHET

  28. cmd1095

    that face on Dorothy though, I think she also understands why Amber is Amazi-girl if she connected Blaine getting beat up as well as everything else

  29. John

    Hello, Amazi-Girl. Glad you could join us here.

    Man, I even noticed the blush thing in the last strip both of her were in, but didn’t connect it to her switching personae.

  30. Doominbottle

    If this comes to a physical altercation I do not see this ending well for Dorothy. We’ve seen what Amazi-girl can do. We’ve also seen what Dorothy can do, and that seems to be homework and Walky, not in that order.

    1. 3oranges

      If it came to a physical altercation I do not see it ending well for Amber, assaulting the student next door. But John and MsSchiff are probably right, Amazi-girl is about bottling that stuff.

  31. Idon'tcarenomore

    I have a feeling that the ‘resigned’ look is the one I’d go for. Amber knows she is caught. How she is going to handle that is the question. Run, or stay and face up to the whole mess by talking to someone.

    As to Dorothy, I think she looks sorry and sad. If she has put together the two O’malleys, which yeah, she did, then chances are she has now figured out that The Beaten, bastard daddy, and the Beater, the dark haired girl right here, are involved in the worse kind of mess: super dysfunctional family.

    Maybe, she even now knows why Danny grew some, when he flat out told Dorothy to back off Amber. Because Danny was involved, and he condones what was done, she knows it has to be bad, because Danny ain’t exactly Capt. America.

  32. Charles Phipps

    Poor Dorothy. She should just disappear from the comic while we do a background of Amber taking out the trash.

  33. Khaner

    Another way to tell the difference between Amber and Dorothy: Dorothy’s glasses are horizontal, while Amber’s are vertical.

    1. John

      And. Y’know. Different faces. Different heights. Different builds. Different hair color. Different hair style. Different complexions. Different wardrobes. (Thought admittedly Dotty horns in on Amber’s typical yellow-and-blue color scheme occasionally.)

  34. newllend

    She Going to haft to have her Buried out in the dessert mafia style isn’t she?

    1. Rani

      Amber, last strip: That wasn’t nice. Now youze gotta leave.

      Amber, present: …Now youze can’t leave.

    2. Aizat

      Or she could give Dotty the Cement Tennis-Shoe….or the Cement Tuxedo.

    3. Jerden

      Apparently pigs are also good at this sort of thing.
      And nobody ever looks for graves in the middle of forests.

  35. Rani

    RE: Frame 7

    I DON’T LIKE THAT LOOK

    I DON’T LIKE THAT LOOK

    I DON’T LIKE THAT LOOK

    Regards,
    Rani

  36. timemonkey

    Now is not the time for sympathy, Dorothy, Amber just slipped on her crazy face. Get out of the room, board up the door and boobytrap the window.

  37. Yotomoe

    Congratulations Dorothy. You are the first person to find out Amber is Amazi-girl without having (a.) Prior Knowledge or (b.) Having it dangled right in front of your face! And your prize is….

    1. timemonkey

      A BRAND NEW CAR!

      …that turns into some robot or something. It’s on the shelf behind you.

      1. Aizat

        “Insert picture where Dorothy is jumping for joy”

    2. nagash1959

      ….Amber Performs a Distracting Sex?

    3. newllend

      You face on the back of every milk carton in the country!….wait a minute.

      1. Aizat

        I meant, your face on the front page of every major newspaper…and the word MISSING.

        1. John

          Gives whole new meaning to “Amber Alert”.

        2. Drakey

          So, her face on the three newspapers that are left? (hey-oooh!)

    4. Viktoria

      It was fairly dangled in front of her face. Blaine O’Malley was beaten up by someone, likely Amazigirl. Amber O’Malley was in possession of several unique items that belong to Amazigirl. Amber freaked out when questioned about the assault on Blaine. That’s more details than Danny had, and the fans hated him for not picking up on it.

      1. Yotomoe

        Amazi-girl was literally unmasked in front of him.

      2. John

        Dorothy has clues because Dorothy has been looking for clues. She spotted them, she thought about them, she put them together, she figured out the answer all by herself with her brain. This is in no way comparable to stumbling around in willful ignorance until the answer literally falls in your lap.

      3. Legasher

        Danny hung out with both regularly. He at the least made out with her. Dorothy saw Amazi-girl once, granted in broad daylight, but AG actually covered her face up more when they were face to face. Basically, Dorothy needed to figure it out based on hair and/or body type if she was going to figure it out any sooner. Because she was already in the process of connecting Amber and Blain, and she DID figure it out based on physical objects.

  38. nagash1959

    Dorothy has the worst poker face in history.

  39. red

    she knows your secret. now you have to kill her.

  40. Kitschensyngk

    If the shoe fits…

    *rimshot*

  41. Blue Dragon

    “As per our agreement, you may now ask me a FEW questions. Go.”

  42. NinjaNick

    Busted!

  43. Mass Confusion

    Amber’s going to prison, isn’t she?

    1. Jerden

      No, quickly arrange a coverup!
      Or a fatal accident!

    2. EEWWW

      No, because after (an incredible make out session)* Dorothy realizes that she can help Amazi-girl, and she comes up with her own costume. Leading to the formation of the Justice League of IU.

      *not really, but somebody already shipped them. 🙂

  44. Jack Finch

    Not fair.

  45. newllend

    You know its to bad Joyce didn’t come could took her out as well, two birds one stone.

  46. mister gray

    You knoweth to much!

    1. CianM1301

      *neck snap*

  47. Lone Wolf

    Dorothy, I have a word of advice to give you at this point. It might not be good advice, or even feasible for you to follow up on, but it is something I think needs to be said here.

    Run.

  48. Aizat

    Dorothy…RUN!

    1. newllend

      You and me both know she can’t out run her.

      1. Aizat

        At least she will be tired enough not to leave her in the Everglades or something.

    2. Rani

      “I will kill your Mom. I will kill your Dad. I will kill your stupid Walky.”

      1. Aizat

        “I want you dead, I want your family dead, I want your house burn to the ground.”

  49. MsSchiff

    I don’t think people realize that Dotty’s chances of survival INCREASED the moment Amber went Amazi. Think about it. Every time she’s done something unmeasuredly violent, it’s been AMBER in control.

    I think the ball is in Dorothy’s court now. Does she want to be a reporter, or does she want to be a human being? What’s more important to her: Her story, or this girl’s psyche?

  50. Aizat

    You hear that? That’s the sound of broken glass.

  51. caesaria82

    dun dun duuuuuuuunnnn

  52. andoni1989

    Amber O’Malley, consider yourself BONED!!!

  53. Egraind

    Oh Walky, you’ve laid the foundations of your own doom. Ain’t no cartoon-hustling slackabout gonna stand long between the superhero and her Lois Lane.

    1. Jerden

      Nah, he wants to get a shark tank, so this is totally his supervillain origins. He’ll be fine.

  54. Locke

    “Dina, get the shovel.”

  55. NF

    Quick Amber, out the window!

  56. Thomas

    Amber should have chucked that shoe through the waste disposal chute.

    1. Thomas

      – DOWN the chute, I mean.

  57. -JAD-

    I really like your drama, Willis. Watching the scene makes me want to just hug both girls. (I am not one, despite my avatar. And anyway, Ruth’d say the same…)

  58. MrPotamus

    Eyebrows intensify!

  59. Strain Of Thought

    Being a fan of Amazi-girl, I have often found Dorothy’s pursuit of her to make Dorothy come across as irritating and self-centered. But I want to give credit where credit is due, so I’ll grant this: Dorothy’s expression in the last panel is suitably frightened. A lesser investigative reporter would look smug or triumphant, but Dorothy realizes when she’s found out too much, too fast.

  60. Blob Marley

    Gotchaaaaaa…

    https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTqsiziqMGafyOT_62Hm3xmj-TrpvxMpIdmvedoq7TkW0yc8P7L

  61. The Wrong Phoenix

    Two options, Dorothy: 1. Play dumb. 2. Be friendly. 3. RUN.

    1. Ikaru

      Hmmm. That’s three. Of course the ‘take the third’ option is always the best.

    2. Legasher

      4. Fight. Dunno which one is closer to the door, but Amber could actually get in a lot of trouble if Dorothy outs her. She’s probably strong enough to restrain and quiet her long enough to come up with an effective threat. Amber has taken option 3 several times, but Amazi-G is getting stronger, and more cornered.

      1. No Name

        DOROTHY has three options. Amazi-Girl has two: Talk it out (I hope) or fight it out (I sincerely hope NOT). She, having already crossed, has dispensed with playing dumb.

  62. Raibean

    So are Amber and Dorothy going to enjoy a Superman/Lois Lane relationship now?

  63. Acher4

    Ok, seriously, the cheek thing, genious.
    Also, i love today’s title. Who caught who?

    OMG! Dorothy is going to be so dead :P.

  64. GreatContagion

    “You’ve found me out. You won’t like me now that you’ve found me out.”

    I honestly hadn’t noticed the cheek thing as applying to that, but I did note the chance in expression and eye set, also Dorothy’s worried, sorta fearful expression. Nifty design aspect.

  65. CianM1301

    *Theme from Kill Bill begins to play*

  66. Dave

    She did the math.

  67. Sir Robin

    So this means … Amber’s room mate is Amazi-Girl?

  68. Carlos

    “Hey! Did I say you could stop, have a few flashbacks, and make sudden realizations? You need to get out of my room. Now!”

  69. MsSchiff

    See, for me, those last two panels aren’t quite “now I must kill you” and “now I must die”.

    More like…

    “So. Now you know.”

    “And now I need to know more.”

  70. SilverArrowArtemis

    Dorothy: “****ing ****, it’s her.”

    And all through the campus, the students say
    that Dorothy’s body was never found that day.

  71. Kiggy

    Can you hear that?
    Is the sound of dots being connected.

    1. LordHaw

      Dotty connecting the dots 🙂

  72. Shadow Eagle

    ” I will have to kill you now…. sorry! “

  73. Van Jealous

    Too bad this strip isn’t based at the University of Washington. Then you could call it “Shoeless In Seattle”!………Hello?……..Anybody?………

  74. Doulos

    Joe is going to walk in next frame. “Now kiss”

  75. fantasyfreakvi

    I might just have bad memory, but I don’t get why the shoe and the transformers equate to Dorothy figuring our who Amazi-girl is.

    1. Doulos

      Dorothy and Walky found them when they were last tracking Amazi-girl. She stole back the Transformer and the matching shoe was in the waste basket.

  76. jbear

    i’m sorry, cheek color change. amazigirl and dorothy?

    1. Jessie

      Amber’s got rosy cheeks when she’s Amber, but as Amazigirl doesn’t blush, when she crosses into that persona, the rosies go away. Meaning…at the end here, we’re not looking at Amber. We’re looking at Amazigirl.

  77. Jen

    Squeee! I can’t wait for the character development that’s going to happen during this story arc. 😀

  78. Charles Phipps

    This is my canon.

    *Amber reaches over*

    *SNAP*

    “You actually just twisted my neck slightly to the side.”

    1. Legasher

      “Actually, that felt pretty good.”

  79. nothri

    Yep. Amber is either about to flee, attack, or passionately make out with Dorothy. I know which one I’m in favor of.

  80. Ailorn

    I really wish people would stop commenting on random characters making out or performing a sex. Just because people have sex doesn’t mean they do it indiscriminatly. It is especially unlikely in this situation because they have not interacted before this strip, and neither have shown any inclination for bi/lesbian tendencies. The running joke is getting to be as irritating as asking if Ethan is gay or OMG Amber is Amazigirl.

    1. Deathjavu

      You’re not the only one

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/about/

      (question 8)

  81. LarryGarryJerry

    Okay, I have no idea what’s going on. I’m not sure how Walky at all relates to her Amber. Could someone perhaps help me to figure this out?

    1. No Name

      Shoe (in Walky’s hand and the garbage can) + Transformer (in Walky’s other hand and on now under the desk) = Amber is Amazi-Girl

      1. snark

        How does that compute? I understand that this is the collective conclusion, but it seems that Dorothy could much more likely conclude that Amber is stalking Walky. Is there something I’ve overlooked in the story so far?

        1. David M Willis

          I am not sure how Dorothy could conclude Amber is stalking Walky merely by possessing a woman’s shoe which matches the one they found yesterday. If anything, that points to Walky stalking Amber, which Dorothy knows they did, because she was helping.

  82. Lunch bag art

    If you deduce that Batman is Bruce Wayne, don’t you get to be Robin?

  83. Galatine

    In my personal headspace, this ends with Dorothy taking Amber to go speak to Ruth. Together, the three of them decide that Amber needs to go to get help. She leaves school and gets the treatment she so desperately needs, comes back, and resolves her relationship issues with her father in an adult fashion.

    Dina, meanwhile, patrols the night as Amazi-Raptor.

    1. No Name

      You are aware that with comic strip time, it will take several years IRL to get to that point realistically, right?

      1. No Name

        I mean, there’s nothing wrong with that, but it will effectively remove Amber from the story, as therapy is Boring (which is why it’s never an option). Why do you think Dana hasn’t appeared for real?

  84. Jerden

    Clearly, there is only one reasonable option.
    Knock Dorothy unconscious and hide her in the wardrobe.
    Remember, superheroes don’t kill civilians and dump them in local lakes, despite how easy it is.

  85. Tomas

    No, Willis, no one noticed the cheeks. All that hard work was for nothing.

    1. Chris

      Hmm, I must go re-read the comic to see how many other women characters have secret amazi-hero identities we haven’t seen in the comic yet.

      (time passes) Wow, one I guess was obvious, the others, though… :p

  86. Keulan

    http://www.dramabutton.com/

  87. Gargamel

    Oh so it won’t be Blaine she’s helped by Danny to sneak out of campus in a plastic bag.

  88. Cattus

    Dorothy’s expression looks as though she is going to say the only thing that might save it all: “Amber, I think we need to talk.” I hope she does and that Amber lets her talk.

  89. Roborat

    “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry”

  90. Maycroft

    That night at her computer, Dorothy reads in the screen:

    “The heroine everyone calls amazi-girl is a woman called Amber O’Milley”

    Dororthy:(presses delete, walks outside, and looks up) “go get them Amber”

    1. Dbro

      That movie is hated on way too much. Thanks for the reference.

  91. Mr. Morningstar

    Oh dear. This is gonna end badly.

  92. Subject HORNET

    Aaaaaand it all comes crashing down.
    It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion: it’s terrible, but I can’t stop watching… O_O

  93. Marc in MN

    It’s interesting how so many people assume impending violence. Amber’s face in her last panel says to me, “Ok, so you found me out. Now what will you do with that knowledge. Will you make the right choice?…”

    And, of course, Dorothy’s face in her last panel says to me, “You flipped me off from the top of that truck… That was mean…” 😉

  94. Plume

    You know too much. Now you must die

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