Ya gotta keep trying until you get the gold foil one!
Doctor_Who
Then you win a trip to the Carla Factory, where Willis dons a top hat and shows you around, while little men dressed as Hot Shot called the Ja’amba La’ambas do all the work.
What do you do when the archive runs dry? Caught up on strips, even read the Slipshines? Big comic buffer that you cannot yet claim. You know exactly who…to…blame.
Now exclaim “Damn you, Willis!”
…It occurs to me that I get a little bit silly this late at night.
Dean
Willis then explains how, rather than paying workers a living wage, he has enslaved an African tribe to work in his webcomic factory, whom he literally pays in beans.
Shit, we’ve seen what sort of contraptions one Carla can build. Can you imagine what fifty very like-minded engineering students could whip up together?
Einstein would tremble in fear, Dennis the Menace would lay sobbing on the floor, Loki would fall into a coma from sheer panic, the true power of Carla is unimaginable.
Somewhat, but it’s acceptable to refer to the MPC in general, and in the MPC it is indeed assault as the threat of violence (not just verbal!) and battery as the actual carrying out of violence.
Lailah
Yech, yech. I just realized I responded to pedantry with pedantry. No, I responded to pedantry in response to pedantry with pedantry. yeeeeech.
Mr Ak
*cough* Americanexceptionalism *cough*
😛
As an Australian criminal law lecturer, may I just say”yeah, nah, mate, we mostly just use assault for both these days. You beauty. No wuckers”.
foamy
Canada also, as it happens. Got into a big argument with people about the definitions of assault back when Mary got hit with a pie.
Lailah
That’s not American exceptionalism, it’s american primacy! I’m not saying we’re different because America, I’m talking about American things where it’s not necessary 😀
Is threatening people a lesser crime than carrying out that threat for y’all too? Also I’m vaguely surprised, I could have sworn we inherited this weirdism from the British.
Mr Ak
You did get it from England, it’s just that most (or maybe just many?) common law jurisdictions got over it, because it wasn’t particularly helpful. It’s like old offences for theft, where there were a half-dozen different types, all requiring different things to prove.
In terms of seriousness – ehh, kinda. In my state, Victoria, we’ve even mostly moved away from the language of “assault” and into a bunch of individual offences:intentionally causing serious injury; intentionally causing injury, threats to kill, threats to cause serious injury, etc.
Before that you’d have, I think, “assault causing serious injury” which may have been a common law offence (bit before my time).
foamy
In Canada, broadly speaking, the answer is “it depends”. Under some circumstances, threatening someone is assault, and in others it’s a separate offense, uttering threats. Aggravated assault requires injuring someone, which a threat generally would not do.
What this boils down to is that if someone takes a swing at you and misses, that’s still assault and you can take self-defense measures.
Don’t super care. I doubt one punch will cause lasting harm, and maybe next time she won’t try to bargain with people’s happiness and mental well-being as if she’s trading toys.
There are some countries where “it was just one punch” doesn’t work as an excuse. People do die from a single punch. That said, I’m putting this in the “punch as carthesis” category, in the same way that the “someone gets knocked out for comedy” category in films is funny rather than “welp, someone’s just been given brain damage.”
Zaxares
Some countries including my own country of Australia, where we have enacted “one punch laws” that carry severe penalties. The reason for this is because even single punches can be EXTREMELY dangerous. Not only might you hit the victim in a vulnerable spot that causes lasting damage, victims have also been known to hit their head while falling, resulting in concussions/bleeding that ended up killing them. Suddenly, you’re responsible for the death of a person, and even if it was justified, that tag will haunt you for life.
I hate Mary as much as the next guy here, but Billie, the LAST thing you need right now is an aggravated assault charge.
on the contrary, a sucker punch can be deadly. You hear stories about people dying from getting sucker-punched outside bars. You fall, hit your head at a wrong angle, and that’s that.
You can also hear stories of people who are blackmailed and bullied like Ruth, who end up killing themselves because they see no other escape from their tormentor.
And here Mary is, trying to convince Billie to let her do it to someone else.
690 thoughts on “Off limits”
AnvilPro
Agatha is just along for the ride
Doctor_Who
Maybe she’ll keep cheerfully pointing out the obvious.
“Hey! That was a right cross! I bet that hurt! Did that hurt Mary?”
David M Willis
well damn, now i wish
Seerow
you draw fast enough to squeeze in a bonus strip tomorrow.
Dean
There’s still a second Patreon strip for this month…
Gwen
This is now my headcanon
Tacos
You just want Agatha pointing out the obvious in all the strips forever. Admit it.
Doctor_Who
Obviously. So I’ve got you doing it at least. 😀
Clif
And thus a meta meme is born.
chris73
Looks more like a right hook
A Scientist
I thought the same, based on shoulder alignment on the follow-through.
Ana Chronistic
“now if you said Trump, it’d kinda be a toss-up”
(also, Carla overhears and manufactures forty-nine more of herself)
Bruceski
A horrid person as victim does not justify horrid actions.
Disloyal Subject
The problem is that everyone has different ideas of what constitute horrid actions.
Willoughby Chase
I’m guessing there’ll be a lot of pearl clutching over this non-event.
Jade
I don’t see how; didn’t Billie move out of Ruth’s room?
…I’ll see myself out D:
The Other Mike
“(also, Carla overhears and manufactures forty-nine more of herself)”
I hope not. I’m not sure the world could handle the awesome that would be fifty Carlas.
Cattleprod
I like her expression. She’s not shocked, or excited, or outraged. “Yes, that’s a thing that happened.”
Pat
She looks angry to me. But definitely focused on Mary.
Cattleprod
Well, it’s not to say she has no reaction at all, but it’s pretty understated for having just seen someone punched out.
Bibulb
Exactly what I was going to note – she’s sternly angry, and she’s looking at the target of said anger.
DrakenKaiser
She’s officially my favorite of this strip.
darkoneko
Well there goes that.
darkoneko
“Ex cheerleader, cereal killer”
jeffepp
I thought that was the wild Dinasaurus Rex, who preys on unsuspecting cereal?
darkoneko
I guess Dinasaurus Rex is an opportunistic cerealist
WikiDreamer
Now, that’d actually make for a damn good slasher flick!
Train Moblin
Suddenly, 50 Carla’s come out of nowhere. Billie regrets everything.
Opus the Poet
This is why this comments section needs an upvote capability.
Doctor_Who
This would be a very different comic if Walky kept buying 50 packs of Carlas.
Cholma
Ya gotta keep trying until you get the gold foil one!
Doctor_Who
Then you win a trip to the Carla Factory, where Willis dons a top hat and shows you around, while little men dressed as Hot Shot called the Ja’amba La’ambas do all the work.
What do you do when the archive runs dry?
Caught up on strips, even read the Slipshines?
Big comic buffer that you cannot yet claim.
You know exactly who…to…blame.
Now exclaim “Damn you, Willis!”
…It occurs to me that I get a little bit silly this late at night.
Dean
Willis then explains how, rather than paying workers a living wage, he has enslaved an African tribe to work in his webcomic factory, whom he literally pays in beans.
Willy Wonka was all kinds of messed up.
miados
are any of them a shiny?
Cephalo the Pod
Shit, we’ve seen what sort of contraptions one Carla can build. Can you imagine what fifty very like-minded engineering students could whip up together?
Fauna Sarcastic
Einstein would tremble in fear, Dennis the Menace would lay sobbing on the floor, Loki would fall into a coma from sheer panic, the true power of Carla is unimaginable.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Bloom n, the Living City that expands and absorbs everything into its biotechnological amalgamation.
darkoneko
Clearly there isn’t enough room to host all the 50 Carlas beds
darkoneko
They’re gonna need their own wing
Mr Ak
They’re actually just the Zooma sisters (big family) and they’re annoyingly perky and upbeat
Ethan
Welp, that’s assault.
AeromechanicalAce
What assault? I didn’t see anything. I’m sure Agatha didn’t either.
Cholma
“She ran into my fist; she ran into my fist 10 tens.”
It’s the Reed Hall Tango!
Neeks
Someone PLEASE write this.
Carolyn
SHE HAD IT COMIN’
POP! SIX! SQUISH! UH UH. CICERO! LIPSCHITZ!
Foxhack
Mary just happened to walk into that fist swinging!
Rocketboy1313
Battery. Assault is verbal.
foamy
That all depends.
Either way, this is both:
1. Immensely satisfying;
2. Worrisome
spriteless
Willis needs to draw satisfying punches every once in awhile.
foamy
Why’s it always the face though? That’s a good way to hurt your hand, like Joyce did. The gut’s a bigger, softer target. Less likely to hurt yourself.
Dave
And yet one of my initial thoughts was: “Dammit Billie, what took you so long to deck her across the face?!”
Joe
Nah, right now we’re still at Immensely Satisfying.
Worrisome can wait until reality ensues.
Orion Fury
Thank you.
jeffepp
That depends on the state and local laws.
Lailah
Somewhat, but it’s acceptable to refer to the MPC in general, and in the MPC it is indeed assault as the threat of violence (not just verbal!) and battery as the actual carrying out of violence.
Lailah
Yech, yech. I just realized I responded to pedantry with pedantry. No, I responded to pedantry in response to pedantry with pedantry. yeeeeech.
Mr Ak
*cough* Americanexceptionalism *cough*
😛
As an Australian criminal law lecturer, may I just say”yeah, nah, mate, we mostly just use assault for both these days. You beauty. No wuckers”.
foamy
Canada also, as it happens. Got into a big argument with people about the definitions of assault back when Mary got hit with a pie.
Lailah
That’s not American exceptionalism, it’s american primacy! I’m not saying we’re different because America, I’m talking about American things where it’s not necessary 😀
Is threatening people a lesser crime than carrying out that threat for y’all too? Also I’m vaguely surprised, I could have sworn we inherited this weirdism from the British.
Mr Ak
You did get it from England, it’s just that most (or maybe just many?) common law jurisdictions got over it, because it wasn’t particularly helpful. It’s like old offences for theft, where there were a half-dozen different types, all requiring different things to prove.
In terms of seriousness – ehh, kinda. In my state, Victoria, we’ve even mostly moved away from the language of “assault” and into a bunch of individual offences:intentionally causing serious injury; intentionally causing injury, threats to kill, threats to cause serious injury, etc.
Before that you’d have, I think, “assault causing serious injury” which may have been a common law offence (bit before my time).
foamy
In Canada, broadly speaking, the answer is “it depends”. Under some circumstances, threatening someone is assault, and in others it’s a separate offense, uttering threats. Aggravated assault requires injuring someone, which a threat generally would not do.
What this boils down to is that if someone takes a swing at you and misses, that’s still assault and you can take self-defense measures.
Jon Rich
MPC?
foamy
Model penal code, I believe.
Lailah
Mmhm.
LegalPedant
That’s correct under civil law (torts). Many states’ criminal laws define criminal assault as contact.
Jaded Cynic
Well, if you want to be pedantic, Mary can claim a fair amount of threats (assault) leading up to that physical attack (battery), so
“Both?”
“Both.”
“Yes, both is good.”
Shiro
Don’t super care. I doubt one punch will cause lasting harm, and maybe next time she won’t try to bargain with people’s happiness and mental well-being as if she’s trading toys.
LiamKav
There are some countries where “it was just one punch” doesn’t work as an excuse. People do die from a single punch. That said, I’m putting this in the “punch as carthesis” category, in the same way that the “someone gets knocked out for comedy” category in films is funny rather than “welp, someone’s just been given brain damage.”
Zaxares
Some countries including my own country of Australia, where we have enacted “one punch laws” that carry severe penalties. The reason for this is because even single punches can be EXTREMELY dangerous. Not only might you hit the victim in a vulnerable spot that causes lasting damage, victims have also been known to hit their head while falling, resulting in concussions/bleeding that ended up killing them. Suddenly, you’re responsible for the death of a person, and even if it was justified, that tag will haunt you for life.
I hate Mary as much as the next guy here, but Billie, the LAST thing you need right now is an aggravated assault charge.
DSL
I’ll just leave this here as bait for pedants and clutchpearls: “No horse ever needed stealin’ as much as some people need killin’.”
Najaru
on the contrary, a sucker punch can be deadly. You hear stories about people dying from getting sucker-punched outside bars. You fall, hit your head at a wrong angle, and that’s that.
Fart Captor
You can also hear stories of people who are blackmailed and bullied like Ruth, who end up killing themselves because they see no other escape from their tormentor.
And here Mary is, trying to convince Billie to let her do it to someone else.