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Shoop
Posted on May 27, 2014 by David M Willis

248 thoughts on “Shoop”

  1. Plasma Mongoose

    That thing with that swing!

    1. sps48

      You ain’t got a thing if you ain’t got that swing!

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Yeah, doa, ooh, doa, ooh doa, oooooooh yeeeeeeeah!

      2. a4lbi

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2xVTE-2eik

        *rolls up everyone here*

        1. LuckyStar7

          YES!
          +1 Internet

    2. Jon P

      You know, the thing about the thing.

    3. GoldStarz

      It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing
      (doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah)

    4. brionl

      How about a Ding-a-ling-a-ling?
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MLBfwblps8

    5. Jen Aside

      No, THE Thing. She wants to see the new Fantastic Four!

    6. halcyon1234

      I’m in a dance show in June. The opening number is to that song. I’ve heard it about sixty eight thousand times in the past few months. You just gave me choreography flashbacks. I cannot feel my soul anymore, or I would be sad.

      1. Jaxx Sentinel

        Is that strange that anyone in a musical, or dance number slowly grows to hate the songs they have to learn temporarily? or was that just me ? ( green day, hairspray and rocky horror have been forbidden from my playlists for months, and i just finally began to re-listen to them )

  2. Doctor_Who

    “Joyce’s new look. It’s the talk of the whole campus!”

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Apparently even the girls want her now. 😀

      1. David

        Well, Ethan wants her.

  3. Raptorman

    Bless you Dorothy.

    1. Yet_One_More_Idiot

      OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR the entire previous day only happened in Amber’s dreams/nightmares. Her being discovered, Joyce’s cool new look, sadly all just imagined in Amber’s head.

      There’s a thought for y’all…

      1. StClair

        An Occurrence in a Wal*Mart Parking Lot

        1. Betty Anne

          Thankfully, Amber didn’t die at the end, in that Wal*Mart Parking Lot. 😐

        2. Yet_One_More_Idiot

          O no, I just meant that that the day never happened, she was still asleep and dreaming in her dorm room. 🙂

      2. Machine of Slight Discomfort

        Sal is Amber’s Tyler Durden.

  4. caesaria82

    I had a feeling this would happen.

  5. chris73

    Well done Dorothy for doing the right thing!

    1. Yotomoe

      Well it’s the wrong thing. It’s the right thing at her and more importantly our reference level.

    2. Anarchy 101

      I have a feeling next panel will be Dorothy rushing into the newspaper office yelling and ranting about how her paper wasn’t published like they promised. Or on the other hand she missed the deadline because she was having too much “study time” with Walky

      1. Deanatay

        Nope. Look at Dorothy’s eyes in panels 4 and 5. Aggressively not looking at Amber as she denies knowledge. She knows. And is saying nothing.

        1. Anarchy 101

          Wait, thats dorothy? I did not recognize her.

    3. Sageress

      What thing?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        You know, the walking hand from the Addam’s Family.

        1. nothri

          Ooooh. I thought we were talking about the brick guy from that super hero team.

        2. Doctor_Who

          I thought we were talking about the John Carpenter movie.

        3. Opus the Poet

          Nope the screaming carrot played by James Arness version…

        4. Stephen Bierce

          Or a VW vehicle from the Seventies.

        5. Marcos Dantas

          The extraterrestrial dessert?

          No, my bad, that isn’t the thing. That is the stuff.

        6. nothri

          Could it be the ancient gathering place for a group of Vikings?

        7. stewbacca

          I thought it was all about what Peter Potamus sent..

          Didn’t you all get it…

        8. Stephen Bierce

          https://www.facebook.com/cartalk/photos/a.167341151081.128953.10387251081/10152033127161082/?type=1

        9. Plasma Mongoose

          It sure ain’t John Carpenter’s that’s for certain. 😀

        10. nothri

          Whoops. Looks like Doctor_Who beat you to that one. I guess he just….::shades:: had better timing.

        11. Plasma Mongoose

          It’s hard to beat a limey when it comes to the timey-whimey.

        12. nothri

          But it is real easy to get Rhymey about a limey involved in the timey-whimey.

        13. nothri

          Blimey!

        14. Roborat

          but if you beat him too long, he will become all slimey

        15. Roborat

          But if you beat him too long, he will become all slimey.

        16. Roborat

          Ouch, he ninjad you by a minute.

    4. AgentKeen

      I don’t see Amber in therapy yet (though that’s not really Dorothy’s responsibility, but it’s something I hope she suggests at least).

      Also, I don’t really agree that it’s that cut and dry. Dorothy knows that the person living next door is a vigilante (which is illegal and dangerous for her and others) that beat the crap out of at least one person without obvious cause. That’s pretty strong grounds for going to the police (again, I’d prefer Amber went to therapy instead of jail, but it’s important to remember that this isn’t exactly a ‘safe’ situation from Dorothy’s point of view).

      1. kelticat

        Dorothy could go to the cops, and reveal that Amber beat up Blaine. But, interestingly enough, the only one to leave trace evidence was Danny.

        1. The Weird One

          “Trace evidence” doesn’t really count when it was saliva. In the middle of rainy weather, while Blaine was unconscious. So Blaine never knew he was spit on, and the water washed away any and all of the saliva one way or the other.

          There. Possible plot thread resolved. Let’s go back to “Amazi-Girl vs. The President”, people!

      2. Bantha

        Without obvious cause? There was plenty of obvious cause if you were there.

        1. Bill

          But that’s the point.  Dorothy wasn’t there.

  6. Yotomoe

    The person going around punching people in both eyes so that they wake up with black eyes.

    1. Terah

      Mike?

    2. Totz the Plaid

      I think those are just bags under Amber’s eyes because she wasn’t able to sleep.

      1. Yotomoe

        I know that. I’m joking.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        That or Amber’s slowing evolving a second pair of eyes.

        1. nothri

          I feel compelled to point out on Dina’s behalf that this is not how evolution works.

          Unless….Amber is secretly a pokemon…

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          She does seem to match the profile of a FIGHTING type after all. 😛

        3. Yotomoe

          Danny is a normal type. Which is why he’s so weak to her.

        4. nothri

          Her next form will be called Amazi-Gal.

        5. Yotomoe

          Amazi-Woman. Amazi-Lady!

        6. Bill

          Amazi-Girl > Fantasti-Girl > AWESOME-Girl

        7. JeremiahTheBulldog

          You guessed it. All that moon stone exposure is making her evolve rapidly.

        8. Anarchy 101

          Would they also be glasses, and would she be called eight eyes to make fun of her glasses. Also, she’d have to evolve a second nose to put her glasses on.

  7. kelticat

    So Dorothy has made the decision to keep Amazi-girls secret identity out of the school newspaper….for now.

    1. Sageress

      Blaaaackmail~!

      1. Crimson Magick

        It’s a good way to curtail dad-beatings near campus.

        1. Kelly

          I totally heard that in the voice I use for Red Mage, and with the particular inflection used for “Red Mage has a new terrible idea”

        2. Karfsma778

          What now?

        3. JacHunter

          Yes.

    2. Doctor_Who

      “I own you now, Amber. Now take this blonde hair dye, I want to blow off class to boink my boyfriend, and I need a body double.”

      1. Yotomoe

        Which will backfire when she remembers her boyfriend is in that class with her and they make out in the back of the classroom.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Gender Studies has never been soooo entertaining and fap-worthy.

        2. Yotomoe

          “Dorothy. Did you gain weight? In all the right places?”
          (don’t care if I’ve said it before. This sentence is always relevant)

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          Gotta love that amazing bootay!

        4. AgentKeen

          I’d suspect a body-snatcher if you hadn’t said it.

        5. Plasma Mongoose

          I think you mean an ava-snatcher in this context.

        6. indignostudios

          Knowing Walky, he would probably just ask Dorothy if she was feeling pregnant.

        7. David

          If making out with Walky is making her gain weight in all the right places, it sounds like Walky is a body hugger.

      2. Roborat

        Don’t you mean a booty-double?

  8. Plasma Mongoose

    Only four comics to choose from, what is this? A newspaper… wait… nevermind.

    1. nothri

      Oh…snap?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Crackle!

        1. Ghostforge

          Kaboom!

        2. nothri

          Dude. You did it wrong.

        3. Bill

          No, he got it right.

    2. Doctor_Who

      Ah, I remember being so excited for newspaper comics. Even though there were only like three I really liked, I read them all.

      Now I have a folder on my bookmarks toolbar devoted especially to webcomics, and I only admit ones I really enjoy.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        I know that feeling, I created three folders for webcomics in My Favourites:

        Webcomics A-I
        Webcomics J-P
        Webcomics Q-Z

        1. Opus the Poet

          I used to have separate folders for each day of the week until Firefox stopped allowing duplicate bookmarks in different folders. Damn you Mozilla!

        2. Joe

          You guys _really_ need to learn about rss feed readers.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          What do they do that checking the webcomic websites don’t?

        4. Joe

          Well, generally better folders, and also checking all the websites for you. Automatically, and also all at once.

        5. Jerden

          I have a favourites bar, in which I rank webcomics in order of update frequency. Of course, that means the ones that the comics that only update once a week end up very low on a scroll down menu, so I tend to forget about them for a while, but that just means that I get to catch up with a few months at once, which is nice.

  9. JessWitt

    Yeah! She lives to fight another day!

    1. JessWitt

      Or rather, she lives to amaze another day!

      1. Doctor_Who

        “Wow, that level of psychological trauma is truly amazing!”

        1. JessWitt

          Incidentally, I’m reading about trauma management. Harrowing stuff.

        2. Anarchy 101

          Sounds like something Mike would read so as to show Amber how not to resolve her probs.

  10. Mr. Random

    Well, now what? I mean, do they become friends, tense acquaintances? what? THIS CHARACTER DYNAMIC IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Will Dotty become Mary-Jane to Amber’s Peter Parker?

      1. Opus the Poet

        Who is showing in your Gravatar today, from this computer it looks like Asuka Langley shooting a BAR.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          You’re right on the money.

    2. Swerve

      The can always start as neighbors, whose hab-suites share an ajoining waste disposal facility. Where they go from there is anyone’s guess.

      Perhaps Dorothy will remain unsure of whether to help Amber conquer her demons; Dorothy will probably engage in dialogue that makes Ironfist’s “Fisitronisms” look like fine art, as she says “I must help her! Even if it costs me my shot at breaking into journalism, CAN I DO NO LESS!”

      Meantime, Amber is suspicious of Dorothy, and says “What are you playing at?!?” Dorothy tries to convince Amber of her genuine desire to help, but Amber responds with, “It’s over – finished!”

      That’s probably what will happen. 😉

      1. Mr. Random

        Now the best question after this is how will Billie react? She’ll probably have a vague recollection of what happened, but will she pursue her foggy memories?

        1. Swerve

          I think Billie was way too drunk to coherently remember anything from early this morning. At best, Billie will remember that Amazi-Girl rode through the hall on a unicorn, checked in on Ruth and helped Billie into bed. Also Billie will remember Amazi-Girl telling Billie how hot Billie is.

          Trust me; I’m a bartender. On a spaceship full of Autobots (and Cyclonus, who is most certainly not a Decepticon). I deal with this all the time. 🙂

        2. Anarchy 101

          Tripping acid much, swerve?

  11. Sensedog

    Nice.

    1. Yotomoe

      http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/a/image/1393/65/1393652642046.jpg

  12. Vile Gamer

    “Y’know, the movie…”
    “Oh THAT Thing? That’s not as good as the first Thing?”
    “That Thing?”
    “I like that Thing”
    “I liked the Thing.”
    “Great character of the Four.”
    “I feel we’re getting of track here…”

  13. AgentKeen

    IT HAS MORE THAN ONE COMIC, TOO?
    (I’m probably not going to let this go.)

    1. cesium133

      They should consider themselves lucky. The campus newspaper here has zero comics.

  14. Jake

    Yay! Now they can be friends!

    1. newllend

      And no one has to get capped.

  15. dropded

    It may have been the wrong thing to have outed Amazi-Girl, but anything that doesn’t push Amber to give up the AG nonsense and seek help is barely the right thing either.

    1. Charles Phipps

      Why give up Amazi-Girl? Amber is the false identity.

      1. John

        I don’t think she’s hit the Batman stage yet, where Amber is just a costume Amazi-Girl sometimes wears. Amazi-Girl is probably her healthier persona, but I don’t think she’s the only real one. Yet.

  16. Kernanator

    Get some goddamn sleep, Amber. Otherwise you’re going to blearily stumble through the day and do dumb things like go into the wrong bathroom.

    1. timemonkey

      It’s not like her judgement can get any worse. Maybe sleep deprivation will be to Amber what booze is to Mike?

      1. Kernanator

        Pretty sure it could be worse. Though the idea of sleep deprivation making Amber deliriously happy is amusing to me.

  17. GoogerGeiger

    An unlikely alliance.

  18. timemonkey

    That’s right, Amber, you interacted with Malaya for nothing.

    1. John

      Not nothing.

      She got to clothesline Malaya and throw her across a parking lot.

      1. Kernanator

        Clotheslining Malaya is its own reward.

        1. The Weird One

          Many people would actually endure Malaya’s company (for a short while, of course) for a chance to clothesline her.

  19. Alyssa

    So is this the part where Amber is confused and Dorothy suggests the campus counseling center?

    1. Regalli

      Please. PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE.

    2. David

      Impressive as Amber is, I doubt she is fit to counsel the campus.

  20. Khaner

    The original, I hope, not the shitty 2011 remake Thing.

  21. MrSirk

    Amber did sort of just assume a lot of things.

  22. Yotomoe

    Here’s the thing Amber. We’re gonna spiderman this shit. You jump all cool from building to building while I take impossible, close up and personal amazing shots of you that noone could possibly do ever and somehow noone ever will question how I managed to get them.

    1. Tom T.

      It’s more Daredevil and Ben Urich. Although hopefully Dorothy won’t start chain-smoking.

      1. nothri

        ….except no one knows who in the frick of frick Ben Urich even is, cause nobody reads Daredevil.

        And by no one I mean me.

        1. p

          He’s a character in Spider-man, too.

        2. Khantalas

          Ben Urich is also in Ultimate Spider-Man.

        3. Starscreamer

          And regular Spider-man…

    2. nothri

      Yeah, fine. Now excuse me while I go summon a demon to erase our relationship from existence…

    3. Jay Eff

      Most of the male student body won’t question it, anyway. Oh, and lesbians, I suppose…

      Daisy might question it, but only because she’d like to meet Amazi-Girl in person.

  23. Raibean

    They’re going to start dating now, right? That’s how it works when a woman finds out your secret identity, she starts dating you. Right?

    1. Yotomoe

      I need to tell more people my secret identity more often.

      1. Opus the Poet

        First you have to have a secret identity.

        1. Yotomoe

          My real name….isn’t Yotomoe.

        2. Swerve

          I don’t think it works that way. You can’t just blurt out your secret identity! No, you need to play a game of turbofox and cyberkitty, where you dangle hints about about your civilian identity, while having ways to drag out the chase. Have another superhero pose as you, especially a shapeshifter (extra points if you can get the Martian Manhunter, a shapeshifting telepath!). Hire body doubles. Fake your death. Then let her unmask you by leaping off Niagara Falls or the Manhattan Bridge; after you save her, you can scold her and she can confirm her suspicions. That is how it works. I think. Honestly, I haven’t been in any of the cross-overs with Spider-Man. You’d probably be better off asking Gears.

        3. Opus the Poet

          You think either of my parents had the last name the Poet?

        4. David

          Pussy the Patsy?

        5. Doom Shepherd

          My last name isn’t Shepherd.

        6. Swerve

          I’m not really an Autobot metallurgist/bRtender who appears in IDW’s ongoing series “Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye”.

        7. John

          I totally am a guy named John. I even use my real last name in the comments on BBR and SP!.

          This identity isn’t my secret one. There’s a reason I didn’t comment all weekend. I was off the net because I was doing secret identity stuff.

    2. Tom T.

      Often the woman who makes the discovery just gets memory-wiped. See, for instance, Superman II.

      1. rachel

        my last name isn’t… oh wait.

        1. Clif

          Oddly, mine isn’t …oh wait… either.

  24. parttimegamer93

    Go Dorothy, making a responsible choice!

  25. Ragnal

    I expected this this was going to happen. I mean, not them talking about it in a shared bathroom, but I mean c’mon, Dorothy has MORALS, yanno.

  26. Chris

    ROFL, that look on Amber’s face in the last panel, like when your brain blows a fuse or something.

  27. Wonder Wig

    Did you get that thing I sent ya?

    1. Opus the Poet

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NI23CRx_Mw

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      You mean that thing with three control settings?

    3. nothri

      The anthrax? Yes I did. Your a dick, by the way.

    4. Swerve

      Yes. It’s nothing to be concerned about. It’s just a simple rust rash, not Cosmic Rust. you need to apply propex swabs to the affected areas for ten to fourteen solar cycles and it should clear up.

  28. SilverArrowArtemis

    Amber, you need to learn to be a better judge of character. And get some f***ing water.

    1. Greenygal

      Amber barely knows Dorothy, and most of what she does know involves Dorothy’s burning desire to track her down and get a story for the paper. Why would she think Dorothy would keep quiet?

      1. John

        In their first engagement, Dorothy told Amazi-Girl she was on her side.

        1. Greenygal

          Which she immediately followed up by pointing out that she could find out Amazi-Girl’s identity on her own and asking if Amazi-Girl wanted her on her side or not, implying that Dorothy would not be on her side if Amazi-Girl didn’t cooperate.

  29. kelticat

    Dorothy is displaying the ethics that Joyce’s parents refuse to believe that she has. Outing someone against their will is not a good thing. Helping them quietly get therapy to deal with any underlying issues is so much better.

    1. kelticat

      Or, rather safer. Not better, safer.

      1. The Weird One

        No, it’s better too. I mean, it IS safer. The two don’t have to be mutually exclusive, though.

        Don’t tell my minions I said that. I have them all firmly convinced that nitroglycerin is the deodorant of the future, and that occasional violent explosions are the price we must all pay to be better.

    2. Rutee

      Quick reminder: amazigirl engages in beatdowns. I feel you, but it is not the same.

      1. John

        That’s Amber, not Amazi-Girl.

  30. Kernanator

    “The thing where I dress up at night in a yellow jumpsuit and release my pent-up emotions.”

    “I didn’t need to know about your weird sex habits.”

    1. The Weird One

      Yes. All of my yes. If my yes was a physical being, I would have packed it screaming and kicking into a box, to be mailed to you post-haste.

      I seriously hope Willis will go somewhere like that.

      1. DSL

        Kicking and screaming in a box? That’s gotta be worse than just damning him.

    2. Roborat

      “And by the way, that katana is a terrible dildo. I do like the motorcycle helmet however, keep it on”.

  31. EvergreenFir

    Amber wants to know about your missing thing

    1. David

      To rub it on her tummy?

    2. gwalla

      I woke up this morning
      And my penis was missing again
      This happens all the time
      It’s detachable

  32. someguywithakatana

    Could this, finally, be the start of Amber’s life not being a constant influx of terrible, emotionally scarring nightmares?

    1. kelticat

      We can only hope.

    2. Jack Finch

      Maybe! It’s not like this is a David Willis comi……….uuuuuuuuh, dammit!

  33. Swerve

    C’mon, Amber! Couldn’t you knock? You shouldn’t just barge in on other people when they’re… what is it she’s doing? It looks like Dorothy’s buffing the finish on her teeth. Do humans really do that? The only ‘Bot whose teeth I’ve ever had to remove rust from was Grimlock; the chompers on his alt-mode corrode really quickly, because he keeps biting into his enemies.

    Back on topic! Seriously, Amber, knock first! What if Sierra had been in there, without her shoes on? 😉

    Amber needs to seriously tone down the paranoia. If she’d only spoken to Dorothy, she might have realized that Amazi-Girl wasn’t going to appear in the paper, and she wouldn’t have gotten pounded on by Malaya.

    I’m kind of hoping that IDW decides to officially promote me to “Official Recap Page Narrator”, so I can break the fourth wall, tell snarky jokes, and spill gossip about Tailgate. Fingers crossed!

    1. fembot

      JFC dude, now you just made me go and buy a Swerve figure on eBay.

    2. Slipgate

      Swerve,

      Amber and Dorothy are in adjacent dorm rooms. I think they have a shared bathroom.

      Even if they didn’t, the door appears to already be open, and it’s not necessarily Amber that opened it. (See how Joyce and Sarah’s door was open already so Sal just spoke aloud to get their attention instead of having a door to knock on.)

      Slipgate

  34. moby

    Wonder where’s Dina in all of this.

    1. Jay Eff

      She’s up in the ceiling.

      Watching.

      Watching them all.

      1. David

        I think you mean hatching. Hatching them all.

      2. Jen Aside

        Ceiling Dina is watching you exacerbate

    2. Swerve

      Standing quietly in the corner? Or maybe she went to have her morning sugared cereal ration?

    3. Rex Hondo

      Trying to come up with a polite way to point out that she was in there first, trying to poop.

      1. Bill

        Or already in there pooping and quietly thinking to herself that “Mammals are wierd”.

  35. Rabid Rabbit

    I feel that the bags under Amber’s eyes deserve their own tag.

  36. Gigafreak

    Given that Dorothy is brushing her teeth and Amber’s newspaper is obscuring her body, I thought for a moment that Amber’s reading it on the toilet while Dotty casually brushes her teeth in the same bathroom like it ain’t no thang.

    1. bibulb

      Glad I’m not the only one.

  37. Shanunu

    I feel like if a Blaine level beatdown happened again on campus, Dorothy would start holding it ovee her head.

    Keeping in mind beating a peraon until they have to go to the hospital isn’t really a good thing in the first place.

  38. Mass Confusion

    Dotty just shot to my number one favorite character. After Dina, of course.
    And Mike, but I don’t count him as a character so much as a force of nature, like a tornado or taxes

  39. The Steve

    Now Dorothy becomes Amazi-Girl’s sidekick, right?

    1. Crimson Magick

      I was figuring Dorothy would be Commissioner Gordon to Amazi-Girl’s Batman, reigning in her wild side and giving her purpose.

      Or maybe Amber will join the Monkey Master entourage. There cannot be too many!

    2. Bill

      Jason Furness has already cleared up the “who is Amazi-Girl’s sidekick?” issue here.

      p.s. — the “CG” stands for “Clever Girl”.

  40. Bilfred

    This is where we reveal that Dorothy suffers from short-term memory loss.

    1. ninja_jesus

      Please, let’s not have a re-enactment of 50 First Dates. As a resident of Hawaii, that movie was an embarrassment.

  41. Yurlibus

    And Dorothy secures her future legacy as the stupid journalist who couldn’t tell she lived right next to a violent criminal if the Amazigirl identity ever becomes public by other means.

  42. Big Drahma

    Here I go, here I go, here I go again (again?)
    Girls, what’s my weakness? (Men!)

    1. Big Drahma

      Ok then, chillin’, chillin’, mindin’ my business (word)
      Yo, Salt, I looked around, and I couldn’t believe this

  43. Charles Phipps

    I think Amber needs to seek professional help. By which I mean she needs to talk to Danny about becoming a better vigilante–one who fights actual crimes than committing acts of racist persecution against trans, disabled, Asian, and black girls.

    1. Heavensrun

      AG’s attack on Sal’s posse was stupid and based on some deep-seated issues, but there was no indication that it was racially motivated.

      1. Anon

        Aslan speaks truth. AG was simply seeking to confront and defeat her childhood nemesis and the source of much of her trauma. She took the wrong approach, however, and confronted her physically (perhaps due to the nature of the trauma) rather than verbally.

  44. TOM

    And thus begins a two-man spiderman job.

  45. Idon'tcarenomore

    GtG Dorothy. Glad you did what you did.

    Being as smart as Dorothy is, she may be just the person Amber needs in her life at this exact time. Get Amber to go to a clinic for help?

    Charles Phipps, you gotta be kidding?

  46. WingedBeast

    I think Amber could use *a* confrontation with Sal, but less of an actual confrontation and more of a… conversation. Sal, whatever else she is, isn’t a bad guy. (Amber’s father, on the other hand, she can beat the shit out of him on a regular basis.)

    She needs to talk to Sal, realize that Sal isn’t her enemy but a person with her own stuff going on. Perhaps she wouldn’t become Sal’s friend, but she could at least move on a bit from thinking that Sal needs to be defeated.

    But, yeah, professional help.

    1. AgentKeen

      Of course, now I’m imagining Sal doing a Zangief impression.
      “I say, Sal, you are bad guy, but this does not mean you are bad guy.”

      1. Jen Aside

        Zangief isn’t a bad guy, either! ONLY flaw of that movie.

        1. AgentKeen

          I know, he’s just a big bear… I mean, teddy bear.

  47. Shad

    I’m kinda wondering about the bandage on Amber’s leg. Conservation of detail usually means that stuff like that has a reason, did I miss something?

    1. Beige

      Malaya kicked it last night

      1. Swerve

        The good news is that Amazi-Girl gave Malaya some wounds of her own to lick.

        1. David

          Just a short while ago I ran out after a series of high-pitched wails and whammings (probably involving the barn wall as well as the antagonists). For all that noise, remarkably few open wounds and bruises. Mares will be mares.

          Humans will likely not do as much damage when they are just throwing their weight around without proper aim.

        2. John

          Ambiguous grammar meant that the first image that popped into my head from that was Amazi-Girl and Malaya licking each other’s wounds. It was weirdly not as sexy as I might have expected it would be.

      2. Shad

        Just went back to check, it looks like the only injury was getting kneed in the gut. Saw someone mention it might be a patch like with birth control or nicotene though.

  48. Clif

    I think Dorothy just got a coolness boost and didn’t even need Sal’s shirt to do it.

    1. Clif

      Dorothy. sigh.

      Four comics in a student newspaper, I can understand. What’s with no ability to edit comments?

  49. Philip Marlowe

    I want to say I called it, but I’m not sure if I really called it.

  50. begbert2

    I’ve got to give Dorothy props on being able to speak so clearly with a toothbrush in her mouth. That’s not something just anybody can do.

    1. Sambo

      +5

  51. Ridureyu

    The Thing?

    Is Dorothy going to explode into tentacles and spider legs until somebody sets her on fire?

  52. Acher4

    I knew this would happen….btu still.

    Woohooo!!!! for Dorothy!

  53. newllend

    Amber:”you know the thing about me being Amazi-Oooooh I get it.

    1. Kevin

      Amazi-Ooooh is Amber’s pornstar identity, and Dorothy doesn’t know about it… yet…

      Dan knows, though. But he’s not telling.

      1. David

        You mean Dan-neigh, as he is known in the business?

  54. Kiggy

    Whew

  55. Kevin

    And then Billie told everyone and many “damn you Willis”‘s were had by all

  56. Bagge

    “The thing we all agreed to forget about”

    “Uh, which one? We are amassing quite a few of those”

    Either way, Dorothy is best future president.

  57. Taigan

    Does Amber always get the school paper shoved under her door? Or was someone making sure she SAW that she wasn’t in it?

    1. Tenn

      That’s Dorothy doing the shoving.

      1. Gigafreak

        It’s being slid under the *bathroom* door, I think, which connects to Dorothy’s/Sierra’s room. Which means Dorothy retrieved a copy of the day’s paper, brought it with her to the bathroom, slid the paper under the door to Amber’s/Dina’s room, and then willingly feigned ignorance about any significance of the contents (or lack thereof) moments later.

        Dorothy is basically trying to make it very apparent to Amber that she KNOWS, but that she’s willing to keep it secret.

        1. Gigafreak

          Or, y’know, what John said half an hour ago. (Lousy lack of cellphone reception…)

    2. John

      That’s not the door to the hallway that the paper came under; it’s the door to the bathroom Amber and Dina’s room shares with Dorothy and Sierra’s room, and the only ways to access that bathroom are through one of those rooms. And Dorothy is in the bathroom brushing her teeth.

      So, yeah, this is definitely not IDS paper delivery service. Dorothy shoved the paper under the door of their shared bathroom, so Dorothy knows that Amber saw it, and Amber knows that Dorothy knows that she saw it.

  58. Tenn

    This might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Or a brutal beating for making Amber lose a whole night’s sleep over nothing.

  59. Arkadi

    C’mon guys what are you waiting for???? DOROTHY FOR PRESIDENT!!!!

  60. What was the question again?

    Is amber on the toilet while dorothy brushes her teeth?

    1. Jen Aside

      Why is there a toilet right by her bed?

      That’s like all of my nightmares =| [apparently NO ONE in my dreams has heard of putting a toilet in an enclosed room with door that closes all the way]

    2. Heavensrun

      Um….no? Amber is standing in the doorway to the bathroom.

  61. hack

    Dorothy: “now you work for me, Amber.”

    CUT TO END CREDITS w/ WANG CHUNG

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsYX-GE70o

  62. Axel

    “The thing about me being Amazi-Girl!”
    “Oh, well, I didn’t have any proof, of course… until just now when you admitted it in front of this tape recorder!”
    Then Dorothy runs away cackling and another chase scene ensues, with the roles reversed.

    1. timemonkey

      She’d need to talk about it for a while first, so as to have an actual story.

      1. Axel

        “It turned out we shared a bathroom this whole time!”
        “Wow, that must have been a shock after learning so much about her real identity, interacting on a regular basis.”
        “Uh… yeah. Definitely interacted. Like sociable people do.”

  63. John

    On the right thing/wrong thing question… remember, it’s a lot easier to publish something unpublished than to unpublish something published. This course of action allows Dorothy to change her mind. The other wouldn’t.

    (Of course, if she changes her mind, her future political opponents are going to accuse her of flip-flopping on the vigilantism issue.)

  64. OnnaStik

    Fingers crossed that Amber decides to talk to Dorothy now that she’s demonstrated her good faith. There is, as others have already noted, still the matter of the beating to resolve, but I think it can actually be sorted out if they do things right.

    Of course, this being Dumbing of Age, they won’t, but I can dream.

  65. Jack Finch

    I now think Dorothy might have the politic instincts she needs to become what she wishes to be.

  66. Ghola

    Is it wrong that the first thing I thought on panel three was that Dorothy and Amber finally got to the point of their dorm lives where they can poop in front of each other?
    Because that’s the only way to read a newspaper.

  67. Gigafreak

    It now occurs to me that Doroty and Amber can speak freely about Amazi-Girl at the moment. Walky and Sierra are elsewhere, and Dina already knows.

  68. Kirbilius Clausius

    Second chances are best thrown on the ground.

  69. halcyon1234

    Amber: I was awake all night worried sick about this. WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME EARLIER?
    Dorothy: Because then I couldn’t get that amazing shot of you laying awake worried.
    Amber: What?
    Dorothy: Nothing. I’m not making a found footage Amazi-girl movie.

  70. Perry

    You remind me of the thing.
    “What thing?”
    The thing with the power…

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