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Soap
Posted on October 14, 2017 by David M Willis

179 thoughts on “Soap”

  1. Ragnarok

    Carla is wonderful.

    1. Goshii

      Curse you for saying the same thing at the same time as me!!

      1. Ragnarok

        Gravatars lend drastically different tones to these statements.

    2. UltraKyrie

      +1

    3. HiEv

      I love her too, but… uh… is she going to put soap on her gloved hands?

  2. Goshii

    This is why we all love Carla!

  3. Ana Chronistic

    I like my girls like I like my knives

    STABBY

    1. Ana Chronistic

      fer scrapes, Japes, my iPad sucks since the lates update ?

      1. Arawn

        Ack, fer criminy sake, Ana, Yer four minutes late. It’s past time t’ dock yer pay.

        1. Goshii

          I can’t believe 2 people beat you to the punch Ana, you truly are slacking! Also gonna try some Gravroulette though i still love my Joyce face

        2. Goshii

          Wow went from excited to Sarah lol.

  4. Doctor_Who

    Man, I hate Minimalism Mirrors. It so hard to tell if my hair’s straight, or just occupying the right amount of volume.

    Can the university afford some good Cubism or Impressionism mirrors?

    1. Tacos

      Too expensive. It can only afford Dadaist mirrors.

      1. Doctor_Who

        Someone tried to sell me one of those once, but I say it was just a piece of cardboard with “This is not your reflection” written on it.

      2. Marsh Maryrose

        Pointillist mirrors are the worst.

        (My mom’s cousin was an art teacher, and he did a pointillist painting once. “Once” being the operative word. It was a beautiful painting, but, in his words, “it took forever.” Who knows how many paintings Seurat would have turned out if he had pioneered expressionism instead of pointillism?)

        1. Tacos

          Ah yes, Pointillism takes forever. It took me two weeks to make one for an assignment in one of my college classes.

    2. miados

      pixel mirrors?

      1. Ari

        That’s called a selfie camera.

  5. Screwball

    Could it be? Have I gotten a comment in before anyone else?

    No idea, so lets all stare at Stabby McStabstab… ?

    1. Meta

      Isn’t this basically a “first” comment

      1. Screwball

        I don’t know, maybe? All I know is I loaded the page, but no other comments. Figured if it was 1st post or not, least I could get some staring in. That’s what she wants, right?

  6. Danni

    carla, dont stare.

    1. Screwball

      But I’m not Carla…

    2. miados

      what about observe?

  7. Stu

    I genuinely don’t recall Amber having purple hair. I remember the “cleaning the head wound” bit, but not the color change.

    1. timemonkey

      That’s because purple hair girl is anouther character who also lives on this floor.

    2. Yumi

      I think it’s just that Carla’s created an amalgam of different girls on the floor, combining traits like “purple hair” and “gets into lots of scrapes” into one.

      Which, side note, would be a pretty accurate description of me in middle school.

      1. 3-I

        *STARES*

        1. Yumi

          …Hi

      2. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet

        You were an amalgam of different girls on Carla’s floor?

    3. Nono

      She’s thinking of Other Rachel. A few of the girls in the dorm thought she might be Amazi-Girl.

    4. Lizzie

      It does make sense that Carla mentions the Rachel with purple hair. She and dark haired Rachel walked in while Carla was helping Amber (this was all a bit after Becky’s dad showed up with a gun). Carla just recalled their positions in her memory incorrectly.

    5. Opus the Poet

      Other Rachel came in while Carla was cleaning Amber’s head wound.

      1. Opus the Poet

        Dagnabbit http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/necks/

    6. Swissaboo

      Pretty sure it’s less “Other Rachel walked in at the same time” and more “my memory does not destinguish between kinda-short, kinda-chubby girls.”

      1. ValdVin

        Yep, also, “and bespectacled”.

        Can someone as tall as Carla tell the difference between her hallmates who are, say, 5’2″ and 5’6″. (I am crap at that particular skill.)

  8. Yumi

    I’m just staring at the first two panels. Carla doesn’t seem to move, the camera doesn’t seem to move, but yet her reflection moves.

    1. Ragnarok

      Carla is possessed by a mischief demon. Thus, her reflection moves without her, animated by the awesome spirit of pranks within.

      1. Yumi

        I assumed it was something like that.

      2. Guerisso

        Makes sense, that’s also why her reflection decided to keep the text on her top readable from left to right instead of mirrored.

    2. Tacos

      Maybe that’s her superpower. Besides being awesome of course.

  9. AnvilPro

    Carla is an ace detective

    1. Yumi

      aaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

    2. BBCC

      did you just

      1. Opus the Poet

        Yes they did. And it was awesome.

    3. Cerberus

      That pun was trans-cendent.

      1. AnvilPro

        I am very tired. I posted that about an hour ago after work. What pun did I make?

        1. Yumi

          Oh my god, that was an accidental pun? That makes it even better.

        2. miados

          ok maybe i am blind. what pun?

        3. King Daniel

          Carla’s ace, this is known. And she is a detective per Anvil’s comment, which makes her…an ace detective.

        4. AnvilPro

          Lol, that is a good pun. I wish it was intentional

        5. APersonAmI

          Ace detective means a very good detective. But ace also means asexual. So one might assume AnvilPro had meant that Carla is an ace ace detective, but decided on succinctness.

        6. Kazumi

          I actually wasn’t aware she was asexual, or that ace was short term for that. I knew she was transgender, but that’s about it. Today I Learned.

        7. APersonAmI

          In Shortpacked!, Carla identified as a homoromantic asexual trans-chassis woman. Willis has stated that sexualities will remain consistent between DoA and Shortpacked!, with some changes to fit the different universe, so Carla is now a homoromantic asexual transwoman.

          Relevant comic: http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1994

  10. Derek

    who in the floor has purple hair?

    1. timemonkey

      Other Rachel.

      1. newllend(henryvolt)

        Rachel has blue hair, either that or somebody here needs their eyes check for color blindness and it’s sure not me !

        1. No Name

          Other Rachel’s hair is a weird brownish-purplish-grayish-blueish color that’s very hard to pin down. It’s not that anyone has to get their eyes checked, it’s that they have to get their brains checked!

        2. Tan

          It’s just phone hair.

        3. Fart Captor

          You’re thinking of Mandy. She’s the one with blueish/cyan hair. Other Rachel’s hair is very much purple

        4. timemonkey

          Turns out it is you! Surprise!

    2. Doctor_Who

      Everyone, once Carla’s latest prank takes effect.

  11. Stephen Bierce

    *plays Melissa Etheridge’s “I’m The Only One” on the hacked Muzak*

  12. Irredentist

    Carla once again showcasing her stellar social skills lol

    Also never use soap dispensers. Anti bacterial soap is bad for you.

    1. Dean

      It’s bad for everyone. Don’t get me started on hand sanitizer…

    2. Valerie

      Normal handsoap is fine, though.

    3. missilentmurmur

      Why do you assume the soap dispenser has antibacterial stuff? When the place is so cheap they have only one working soap dispenser? I’d say it must be the cheapest Tesco Value shit (insert the culturally appropriate equivalent)

    4. Vulcanodon

      Our university stopped using antibacterial soap because it contributes to resistant bacteria. It should only be used in a clinical setting.

      1. Positron

        I used to think this, but I don’t think it does any more. Hand sanitizers in particular rely on high alcohol concentrations to kill bacteria, a completely different approach to antibiotics. In theory bacteria can develop resistance to the additives used in liquid soaps but bear in mind that we’re yet to see even partial resistance to the additives used in hospital based soaps and that, unlike antibiotics, these antiseptic agents don’t have to be safe to consume, so you can use stronger/more poisonous chemicals and concentrations without making them unsafe.

        1. Positron

          Having said that, you still shouldn’t routinely use antimicrobial soaps if you have soap and water available because it will probably cause problems with your symbiotic bacteria and *may* change your immune system’s functioning.

  13. miados

    scrrrrrrrrrrrrape scrrrrrrrrrrrrape yeah thats the best way to say that word. its almost like a growl partway in the word. and if you can roll your r then even better.

    1. Tacos

      Say it long enough and then it starts sounding like “‘s grapes”
      .
      .
      .
      I may or may not be really hungry right now.

      1. miados

        awww that poor penguin.

  14. Kris

    Amber’s been known to have many a bout of fisticuffs yes.

  15. Passchendaele

    it *somehow* doesn’t surprise me that carla confuses amber for other rachel (like carla cares about most the dorm anyway). It woud be ironic, and surprising, if other rachel was also in the same stabby, sinking boat as amber, and carla isn’t misremembering at all. Other rachel is so inconspicuous, she could get away with anything. :p

    1. thejeff

      Headcanon.

      Not necessarily stabby, but at least that Carla cleaned her head wound too.

  16. Mr. Random

    The weird thing about life is realizing that despite childhood, nobody cares about you.
    Not in an hostile way.
    Just most people are apathetic.
    To the point where they’d barely register a blip if you died.
    Your family and friends will care, but the world will barely even pause.

    Amber.
    This works in the positive direction too.

    Nobody cares.
    It’s weird.
    But it’s oddly normal.

    1. Yumi

      I don’t know, I think you’d be surprised how big the ripple effect of people who do, in fact, care can be. Now, care about the smaller stuff you may obsess over? Care or judge you to the extent that you imagine? Probably not.

      And I suppose it also comes up in surprising ways, who among those ripples ends up really caring.

      Just to ramble a bit.

    2. nlips

      I’ve heard it said that:
      When you’re young, you worry about what others are thinking about you.
      When you’re older, you stop worrying what they’re thinking about you.
      When you’re even older, you realize nobody was ever thinking about you in the first place.

      Amber and her issues are very important — to herself. She’s having a hard time realizing how peripheral she is in other people’s lives. Most of us don’t spend a heck of a lot of time thinking about the peripheral people in our lives. We have a few friends and loved ones we think about more often, but even so, turn on a movie or start reading webcomics, and we’re not really thinking about them either. We’re too busy processing our own life experiences, moment by moment.

    3. Reltzik

      Eat at Arby’s.

      1. Needfuldoer

        Or don’t. We don’t care, neither will anyone else.

  17. Dean

    If Carla is waiting to wash her hands, why is she wearing gloves?

    1. Phil Dog

      She only needs to wash her fingers. She can keep the gloves on.

    2. Cerberus

      Because the blood is on the gloves and so both need to be washed and… listen, just don’t worry about it and give her a heads up if the cops show up.

  18. Keulen

    Amber’s gonna find out that a lot of people in her hall either don’t care or actually approve of her stabbing Ryan in self-defence.

    1. StClair

      and will ignore that, because everyone should hate her like she hates herself, and they would if they knew the whole story.

      (it’s never your self-assessment that’s wrong. that’s impossible. that would mean part of your brain is lying to you.)

      1. Deathjavu

        Poor Amber. She’s just not gonna get the hate she thinks she deserves.

      2. Cerberus

        Yep. Depression Brain is really good at going “yeah, sure, 99 people said glowing things about you, but this 1 chicken strangler said you were weak, so now it’s time to despair about how everyone hates you for a month.”

        It’s like a bigot. Only information that fits with what it wants to believe are considered worthwhile.

        1. Chris Phoenix

          It’s not only bigots who do that. Everyone does that. (Halfway through The Influential Mind by Tali Sharot, and finding it depressing. Very worth reading, but depressing.)

        2. CJ

          Reading books about how the brain works is always disconcerting.
          When I read that most of what we see is extrapolated by the mind from a rather low-res grany image (and there is a spot where we physically have no image of directly in front) it was like “really? The hell”.

  19. Kernanator

    Yeah well, I like saying the phrase, “Next question.”

  20. Dev

    It was driving me crazy so I went through the archives and it was the Rachel whose tag is “other rachel” who has the purple hair who came into the bathroom when Carla was helping Amber at the time.

    I realize this was specified but it might help people who wish to look at the strip again with the tags.

    It was still driving me nuts though.

    1. Inahc

      and the space turns into a dash for the tag url… and the incident in question was http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/necks/ 🙂 and the head wound was from rescuing becky.
      …that hair still doesn’t look purple on my monitor. I’m not sure what colour to call it. greyish brown?

      1. Leorale

        Perhaps mauve

        1. Leorale

          Or dark mauve. I’ma go with that.

      2. CJ

        Purple would be this, not?
        http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1929

  21. Stella

    !!! The friend-ship I wanted! It’s happening!

    1. Lingo

      Yes! Will we finally get the Marvelous team-up of Amazi-Girl and Spider-Carla? (Or Schtickshift perhaps?)

      1. miados

        i dont recall the name but didn’t carla like some sort of cartoon car character so maybe something closer to someone who drives a batmobile or super car?

        1. Lingo

          What, you mean like some sort of, oh what’s the term, some kind of … ultra …. car, like, thing?

          I have no idea what you’re talking about.

        2. davidbreslin101

          But hang on, isn’t Amber U-[gets squished into paste by a gigantic bare foot with MODERATOR tatooed on it.]

        3. Jhon

          To the tune of a Dr. Seuss march!

  22. darkoneko

    Wow, she just admitted being AmaziGirl to Carla withot a second thought.

    1. Sporky

      By now, I’m pretty sure she’s past the point of secret identities.

    2. Yumi

      Hm? No she didn’t? She was Amber when Carla cleaned her head wound.

    3. BBCC

      How? Amber was the one Carla patched up and the one who stabbed Ryan.

      1. BBCC

        I mean, she’s definitely figured it out – but Amber admitted nothing.

        1. Lingo

          What makes you think she’s figured it out?

        2. BBCC

          Just her demeanour when she says ‘You like getting into a lot of scrapes, do you? …Not that I care, of course.’

        3. thejeff

          Unless she’s completely lying, she didn’t even remember Amber was the one with the headwound. No reason to think she’s figured it out. “Get in a lot of scrapes” is just referring to the headwound and the stabby. The only two times she’s interacted with Amber.

        4. BBCC

          I just thought that, once Amber reminded her WHO had the head wound, she figured 1+1 = 2.

  23. Yotomoe

    I identify with Carla. I too really enjoy the phrase “getting into scrapes”

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      ….There’s a euphemism in here and I’m going to find out what it is.

    2. Remmington Steele

      The difficulty lies in pulling out.

  24. Bagge

    “No, wait, it was the blonde nerd the the clipboard. Which one of them is you again?”

    1. JessWitt

      I take for granted that there are four doppelgangers in this comic with different hair colors and it’s the most hilarious thing.

      1. Bagge

        Five!

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/02-i-was-a-teenage-churchmouse/reporter/

        1. JessWitt

          Oh I counted Rose among the four. Unless I’m missing another?

        2. Bagge

          …in order to save face and cling to the illusion that I can count, I will pretend to have counted Amber and Amazi-girl as separate people.

        3. JessWitt

          Aha, that’s what I thought (with AmaziGirl).

  25. Lordhaw

    The height difference between Amber and Carla is super evident in this one! Amber is a stabby halfling… so wait…Amber is Belkar from Order of the Stick! Stupid comparison…

    1. McBogue

      Thanks to Photoshop’s ruler tool and some basic mathematics: If Amber is (as stated) 5’2″ tall, then Carla is approximately 6’1″.

      1. ValdVin

        And she’s not even on her skates. Talk about a Giant Woman!

        1. 3-I

          She’s kind of sensitive about that.

  26. caesaria82

    I just love Carla so friggin much.

    1. miados

      she is currently my fave character. Although the fact i find red heads physically attractive and she seems fun as someone i would want to befriend but kinda be afraid to try makes it understandable.

  27. Cerberus

    Comic Reactions:

    Carla is joy.

    Panels 1-2: I’m loving the running theme of the hall being unwilling to play the part of the sneering fearful populace for Amber’s insecurities and fears.

    Because it’s a continuous undermining of Amber’s self-destructive worries, that they don’t view her as a monster or broken or like having mental health conditions is the beginning and end of the world.

    And that’s why I think this hall will end up being a healing place for her, because she’s grown up most of her life in an abusive pressure pit that saw being “crazy” as one more thing deserving abuse.

    Her finding a space to be “crazy”, to be erratic, to be flawed and broken when she needs to be, where that isn’t responded to with negativity but sympathy and love? I think that’ll be powerful when she lets it in and she’ll be more able to open up about her struggles and ask for help where she needs it.

    Panel 3: And I love the sign of hope in her apologizing for assuming Carla’s disapproval, because it shows she understands that this paranoia she is feeling is overwriting who they really are and shows a disrespect to the validity of the feelings of the people reaching out.

    Probably a key part of her knows she’s in a bad spiral. But I think with the hall continuing to undermine her narrative, it’ll help knock her out of it.

    Panels 4-5: I don’t for a second buy that Carla really did believe Other Rachel was AG. She’s too smart, too aware of her surroundings, and too empathetic and emotionally vulnerable in the moment she offered to take care of Amber’s head wound.

    Plus, she’s in the exact same position as that initial interaction.

    And it’s part of why Carla is awesome. This was a conversation guaranteed to end up awkward, likely in awkward silence that would have made Amber even more hypervigilant and self-conscious about her own actions.

    Instead, Carla tries to derail with several jokes, jumping all over the place to try and see what will help reach her.

    And it’s likely me reaching here, but I can imagine there’s some empathy and remembering of being in trapped, stared at, hated situations and feeling everyone’s eyes on you and judging.

    And that Carla is trying in her own way to say that there’s an exit on the other side of all of it.

    And that’s beautiful.

    1. 3oranges

      Not to derail your point, but in case I missed something – Carla cleaned Amber’s head without knowing any relation to Amazi-girl, at least as far as she let on. Have any people other than Dorothy, Ethan, Dina and Danny associated the stabbing with the superhero, do you suppose?

      1. Pat

        I’m not sure why they would. Amber was the victim, not the attacker. And Amazi-Girl doesn’t do a lot of stabbing.

        I don’t see any obvious reason they’d link those.

      2. No Name

        Mike, but only if he had the same prior knowledge as Ethan.

  28. newllend(henryvolt)

    Oh for fucks sakes Amber, I’m sorry to disappoint you but people aren’t lining up to mock you for putting someone in the hospital when they deserve to be in prison. Plus I think Carla despite the “I’m a asshole” act would ridicule anyone for feeling like a Alienated social outcast given some of the shit she’s probably put up with.

    1. Emperor Norton II

      You really think Carla would ridicule anyone for suffering severe depression issues (not to mention the other mental health issues Amber is having)? Because last time I checked, she called the emergency on a suicidal Ruth.

      Yeah no, ridiculing people for their mental health issues is on you. So don’t project that kind of behaviour on Carla.

      1. Chris Phoenix

        I’m guessing there was a typo and they meant “wouldn’t ridicule.” It fits better with the rest of the post.

        1. Kamino Neko

          Fits better with the rest of the sentence, even.

    2. Fart Captor

      Carla really doesn’t seem like the sort to begrudge other people feeling bad about something simply because she’s been through worse

    3. newllend(henryvolt)

      “Wouldn’t”

  29. Sporky

    I, too, enjoy saying cool-sounding phrases

  30. Aegon01

    Why is Amber under the impression that people wouldn’t like her for stabbing a rapist? Our society hates rape only slightly less than it hates murder, and men who rape women are only above men who rape children in the prison totem pole. Is she going to run into anyone who thinks Ryan *didn’t* deserve to get stabbed for brandishing a knife at at least several women?

    1. BenRG

      Because the assumption that she is a monster who should be feared, hated and avoided underpins her entire self-image and is the cause of her DID in many ways. She’s subconsciously avoided ever having to test that assumption by remaining socially isolated and treated as crazy those who won’t abide by it (like her mother, Danny and Joyce).

      The more she is failing to find people who are abiding by her assumption of how people are viewing her, the harder it is for her to continue to sustain her illusion of the bad person she honestly believes herself to be.

      1. Cerberus

        Plus, being a survivor of physical abuse and being DID, there’s also a lot of messaging about what you’ll become if you “give in to violence”, so having been violent (in order to save her own life and others) and enjoying that violence has raised all her fears that the messaging she’s received all her life is right.

      2. thejeff

        That’s only because they just see that she stopped the rapist, not how she lost control and how she enjoyed it and how she kept going when there was no more need. If they really knew… [/Amber’s brain weasel]

    2. CJ

      I always thought that the run of the mill rapist (the one who rapes his wife, lover, …) is down on the prison totem pole because he got into prison for it and usually has not criminal connections, not because he raped.

      And there will be people who will argue that she should have found a way to stop him without hurting him. (If they already managed to do so in a similar situation, it might be interesting to learn how they did it, but anyone who hasn’t is not worth listening to).
      But Amber expected people to react badly to her anyway, just now life has handed her a reason which serves to illustrate this view.

      1. thejeff

        Amber is one of those who will argue that she should have stopped him without hurting him – or at least without going all stabby.
        And to some extent she’s right: You can see it in her expression in those scenes – she was in the same state she was in stabbing Sal or beating Blaine into a pulp and that’s not healthy for her.

        This isn’t normal person in a desperate situation. This is a person with serious rage issues who’s also a ridiculously skilled fighter giving in to that rage when she didn’t need to.

        Which isn’t something anyone else in the dorm knows – maybe Danny has a clue, from pulling her off Blaine. Or even Dorothy, from watching her then and from knowing her as AG.

        Demonizing her for it certainly wouldn’t help, but neither does treating her like a hero for it. There is a problem and praising her for it isn’t good for her. It doesn’t help her deal with it.

        1. CJ

          It would be good if Amber, Dorothy and Becky would talk about the situation. Becky could provide the adoration, Amber the desperation about having lost control (which Becky wouldn’t care about) and Dorothy to hear it, confront her own fear and helplessness around the situation and start to relax around Amber again because when Amber herself knows she lost control, what she did becomes less scary to the friend who saw it. And then hopefully Dorothy could provide resources to get Amber some help.
          Not gonna happen, though.

        2. timemonkey

          It won’t happen because Amber never actually explains that she and Amazi-Girl are two separate personalities. She keeps acting like they’re merely different identities she uses and then gets mad when people don’t understand and treat her the same.

          well, not always mad but some flavor of upset

    3. Trolldrool

      Because to her, it doesn’t matter that she stabbed a rapist. What matters to her is that she stabbed someone. The fact that she made an effort to try to kill someone makes her believe she’s turning into a monster like her dad. Her fear of turning into Blaine completely overshadows any pride she might have for stopping Ryan.

    4. timemonkey

      We’ve had people in this forum (not necessarily this page) that defended him and condemned Joyce and Sarah for using violence against him.

  31. nightsbridge

    i choose to believe carla is getting her romantic (ace) flirt on.

    1. Inahc

      🙂 I was thinking the last panel she sounded flirty, although probably unintentionally.

    2. Cerberus

      “Girls are cute.” – Carla Rutten

      1. thejeff

        She should know. 🙂

  32. BenRG

    AMBER: “Yes, I do. I’m secretly a costumed vigilante.” <- What Amber is not going to say.

    That said, Carla isn’t an idiot and, frankly, it’s only Amber’s antisocial isolation that has stopped more people working out who is Amazi-Girl. Carla has at least some of the pieces to hand if she wants to solve this particular puzzle.

  33. Ryek Hvek

    hooray, it’s the return of Crazy Stabby Girl !!

    Who lives without hope,
    Can just barely cope,
    She thinks you’re a dope,
    Stabby !!

    (apologies to My Fair Lady’s “Show me”)

  34. NinjaNick

    Stabby Girl has a nice ring to it.

    1. UniqueSnowflake2

      Stabby Girl, Stab…by Girl,
      Why are creeps fighting you?
      Stabby Girl, Stabby Girl,
      It’s not your fault.

    2. davidbreslin101

      Hey there, Stabby Girl
      Walking down the street so fancy-free

    3. Lieutenant Dan

      I’ve been all ’round this great big world
      And I’ve stared at crazy girls
      but I couldn’t wait to get back into scrapes
      Back to the stabbiest girl in the world.

      I wish they all could be crazy stabby girl…

    4. Marsh Maryrose

      Stabby Girl, please look at me
      Stabby Girl, what do you see?
      We’ll travel round the world,
      Just you and me, Stabby Girl

  35. King Daniel

    In somewhat off-topicness, I was browsing earlier strips, and I came across this one (in which Amber remarks that she has a 120th-level Paladin), and someone there made a comment asking, “what, is this thirty years in the future?” since apparently the WoW level cap at the time was in the 85-90 range.

    Curious, I did some looking-up on what it is now, and apparently the current level cap in World of Warcraft stands at 110. Guess the sliding timescale is paying off with regards to that. 😛

    1. Eldritch Gentleman

      Yeah level cap got kicked to 110 in Legion expansion. Depending on how Blizzard tinkers with it the level cap will hit 120 within one or two next expansions.

  36. Eldritch Gentleman

    Carla is friends with Sal. Did Amber really think she is bothered with purposefully violent girls?
    It all kind of reminds me that comic where Deadpool stopped a girl from committing suicide by messing with her, making her evening fun and then sneak-delivering her to a hospital on a stolen motorcycle.

  37. Liliet

    …Purple-haired?…

    1. HeatherJean

      Other Rachel changes her hair color at intervals

  38. Bunivasal

    Ah, the total narcissism of anxiety.

    1. StClair

      Everyone’s looking at me! Staring at me, judging me!

      pfft, no. they’re all mostly focused on themselves, same as you. all of us in our own little bubbles that occasionally touch…

  39. Ryek Hvek

    She gets into scrapes
    She likes wearing capes
    Peels rapists like grapes
    Stabby !!

  40. Lieutenant Dan

    Scrapes scrapes scrapes scrapes…

    …and yet the title is “Soap”. o.ô

  41. Needfuldoer

    Smock smock smock smock smock!

  42. Varangian

    Carla you are constantly delightful.

  43. Ryek Hvek

    Even better than Georgy Girl for Stabby Girl music

  44. Scar Man!!!

    Unrelated, but in this strip below, is that Rachel laughing at the idea that Carla likes Ruth? Seems out of character for her now. Or maybe we’re just seeing a bad week for her?
    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/04-it-all-returns/sweet/

    1. Cerberus

      She also remembers that Carla is an asshole in this strip before that: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/suspects/

      So maybe it’s just Rachel laughing at two people she doesn’t like getting together.

      1. thejeff

        I never read that as hostility from Rachel. More like “Oh right, you’re supposed to be an asshole. We forget to play along. “

        1. ValdVin

          I concur, especially as (I think) they’re both sophs.

        2. ValdVin

          Also on the Carla scale is “acting more owned”, again, playing along.

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/framework/

  45. 3-I

    Carla, never change.

  46. Tenchan

    Trust me Amber, getting Carla’s admiration is like getting a cat’s attention: it’s a big freakin’ deal!

  47. PharmaDan

    Wow carla is really tall.

    1. buckybone

      Kind of…but Amber’s also fairly short.

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