One time when I was a kid, I smashed my toe against a fake rock. It was pretty bad, and the doctor prescribed me antibiotics. I never actually took the antibiotics because I couldn’t swallow pills at the time, and my first attempt got a pill lodged in my throat until I could cough it up. I remember shortly after thinking that I wasn’t going to take the pills because a stubbed toe wasn’t worth dying for. Not the best understanding of medicine.
Anyway, it looks like you can die from stunning your toe if it’s bad enough because there’s a risk of infection. But that would take longer than one scene to kill you, I assume.
There’s actually a second way that could kill you. The right kind of injury can lead to the formation of blood clots that can enter the blood stream and cause heart attacks or strokes.
I had a friend who broke her knee and was at risk for deadly blood clots, so I’m assuming a bad enough foot injury carries the same risk.
Miles
From stubbing your toe though?
Rose by Any Other Name
Yumi didn’t say “stubbed” – the word used was “smashed” which implies a broken bone.
A basic stub doesn’t carry any health risks that I’m aware of.
Xenocide
In the short term there’s a high risk of an embarrassing yelp!
Johnny Austin
Fake rock
1 star.
Would not kick again.
Some Ed
-379,216,591,999,463 stars. I *was* going to give it 0 stars, but after I managed to figure out how to hack the system enough to give it 0 stars, I realized it would let me give negative stars as well.
The person who made this system should’ve allowed no star reviews and saved us all this effort.
Miri
Are you sure that’s not more because inactivity puts you at a higher risk for clots?
When I couldn’t get myself to swallow pills I would chew them.
brumagem
Most pills are not designed to be chewed. Whatever medicine is in them usually needs to be absorbed at a specific point of digestion, or release slowly, sometimes leaving the body without digesting much at all.
He Who Abides
And if the doctor doesn’t warn you about that little factor, your future wife has a panic attack because she thinks she’s pooping little pieces of bone.
I mean I once got my toe badly infected (which can happen if you stub it and don’t treat it) and it got so bad that the infection was poisoning my blood and I could have lost my foot or died if it had gone on too long so
he could die
but not right away
I’m still a bit confused. What was Blaine’s plan, if not to send Amazigirl to get Becky? Would he be throwing such a fit if Amazigirl wasn’t Amber? Where’s the hitch?
Blaine’s plan was to send Amazi-Girl to get Becky. To let one of the kids contact Amazi-Girl, to send her to get Becky, more accurately. But he didn’t care about Becky, that was just a ruse. Partly for Ross and partly for Amazi-Girl herself, because he really wanted her to deliver herself to him.
These two are like a lamer version of Freddy vs. Jason.
“I, the smaller and slightly brighter misogynistic douchebag with a bad habit of preying on teenagers, will sic the beefier and dumber misogynistic douchebag with a bad habit of preying on teenagers on my enemies. Oops, douchebag 2 angered me, gotta fight now.”
You did read Willis’s warning at the beginning of the chapter, didn’t you?
elsendor
sorry where’s that warning? i must’ve missed it and i don’t see it on the first page of this chapter and i would very much like to read the warning because i’m pretty stressed!
Seriously. Best bit is that when Amazigirl, followed by the cops, shows up, there’s a solid coterie of witnesses to the assault/attempted murder/manslaughter (depending on the outcome for Toedad, which just needs to be horrible enough to get Blaine in jail for a long, long time).
Well if Toedad is dead then there won’t be anyone to take Becky away at least, and murder is a much harder thing to get away with than kidnapping. So maybe Blaine will shoot himself in the foot here and make life easier for everyone. Probably not but it is nice to hope right?
He reserved the right to change his mind, and commented even at the time that he might forego the rule for certain characters.
bryy
I don’t know if he’d actually kill ToeDad, though, because while I’m sure there is some kind of release in writing horrible religious characters, killing one of them would seem kind of gratuitous.
Plus, it would only validate Carol and her church further.
MatthewTheLucky
That he was killed by someone they all trusted as a representative of god would not validate them further, except in the sense of increasing their cognitive dissonance, which, to be fair, is what they think validation is.
Of the two, Toedad is the one who isn’t unhinged (in a “makes no attempt to exercise impulse control and is entirely self-serving” way, not disparaging people who suffer from mental health issues who are far more likely to be victims of violence) and doesn’t revel in violence. If I had to deal with just one of them it would be Toedad rather than the Ballpeen.
Yeah. Escapism is more of a neurosis and a matter of character, actually.
I wouldn’t describe Toedad as ‘simple’ , in this context, either. Joyce’s parents are more of an example of simple folks in a serious context. ‘Inept’ would better fit him in this context.
Also, good thing Blaine’s wearing gloves. Two murders and a mass kidnapping that provides no green to kick back up to his boss, plus there’s at least two hirelings who not only (probably) have no prior history as professional criminals, but even less incentive to keep cool about this when they find out the guy who hired them has both lost it and that they could be accessories to murder.
Ross is bafflingly weak for a man of his build, but Thing 1 and Thing 2 aren’t going down without a fight against the “man” whom is responsible for this whole B.S. caper in the first place……Too bad Blaine isn’t too proud to simply skip town on the spot without telling anyone and stay on the lamb….Oh, wait.
“Now he knows I’m not some innocent lamb
He sees me for what I am
Which is a horrible, stupid, dumb and ugly,
fat and stupid, simple, self-hating
Bongo.”
(Yes, I did type in the word “B o n g o” there. Why make the filter work any harder than needed?)
Well Bongo, you’ve done it now.
(Yeah, you guys know this one)
Karma’s come to tap you, on the toe.
All that religious shit youve been festering,
Plus attempted murder and kidnapping
Is coming now, to crush you like a toe.
You ruined everything… You stupid bongo.
276 thoughts on “Terrified”
Ana Chronistic
I mean, at least we know the next scene will be fine bc you can’t die from stubbing your toe
(maybe)
Johan
The toenail was foreshadowing.
clif
Not to be confused with forehead shattering.
Icalasari
Oh shit, maybe it actually was
Pablo360
This is some Homestuck-level shit right there
Yumi
One time when I was a kid, I smashed my toe against a fake rock. It was pretty bad, and the doctor prescribed me antibiotics. I never actually took the antibiotics because I couldn’t swallow pills at the time, and my first attempt got a pill lodged in my throat until I could cough it up. I remember shortly after thinking that I wasn’t going to take the pills because a stubbed toe wasn’t worth dying for. Not the best understanding of medicine.
Anyway, it looks like you can die from stunning your toe if it’s bad enough because there’s a risk of infection. But that would take longer than one scene to kill you, I assume.
clif
I think I speak for all of us when I ask, how did the fake rock make out?
RowenMorland
It made out with other rocks, but like Ruth felt a sense of imposter syndrome.
Rose by Any Other Name
There’s actually a second way that could kill you. The right kind of injury can lead to the formation of blood clots that can enter the blood stream and cause heart attacks or strokes.
I had a friend who broke her knee and was at risk for deadly blood clots, so I’m assuming a bad enough foot injury carries the same risk.
Miles
From stubbing your toe though?
Rose by Any Other Name
Yumi didn’t say “stubbed” – the word used was “smashed” which implies a broken bone.
A basic stub doesn’t carry any health risks that I’m aware of.
Xenocide
In the short term there’s a high risk of an embarrassing yelp!
Johnny Austin
Fake rock
1 star.
Would not kick again.
Some Ed
-379,216,591,999,463 stars. I *was* going to give it 0 stars, but after I managed to figure out how to hack the system enough to give it 0 stars, I realized it would let me give negative stars as well.
The person who made this system should’ve allowed no star reviews and saved us all this effort.
Miri
Are you sure that’s not more because inactivity puts you at a higher risk for clots?
temperaryobsessor
When I couldn’t get myself to swallow pills I would chew them.
brumagem
Most pills are not designed to be chewed. Whatever medicine is in them usually needs to be absorbed at a specific point of digestion, or release slowly, sometimes leaving the body without digesting much at all.
He Who Abides
And if the doctor doesn’t warn you about that little factor, your future wife has a panic attack because she thinks she’s pooping little pieces of bone.
Just me?
Astrid De Meester
I mean I once got my toe badly infected (which can happen if you stub it and don’t treat it) and it got so bad that the infection was poisoning my blood and I could have lost my foot or died if it had gone on too long so
he could die
but not right away
Joe Angel
Tjonge.
Twitcher
What exactly is happening in the fifth panel?
Buttery Commissar
It’s the hammer raised into the air, backlit by the door.
Twitcher
I’m still a bit confused. What was Blaine’s plan, if not to send Amazigirl to get Becky? Would he be throwing such a fit if Amazigirl wasn’t Amber? Where’s the hitch?
thejeff
Blaine’s plan was to send Amazi-Girl to get Becky. To let one of the kids contact Amazi-Girl, to send her to get Becky, more accurately. But he didn’t care about Becky, that was just a ruse. Partly for Ross and partly for Amazi-Girl herself, because he really wanted her to deliver herself to him.
He also wanted Amber of course.
Doctor_Who
These two are like a lamer version of Freddy vs. Jason.
“I, the smaller and slightly brighter misogynistic douchebag with a bad habit of preying on teenagers, will sic the beefier and dumber misogynistic douchebag with a bad habit of preying on teenagers on my enemies. Oops, douchebag 2 angered me, gotta fight now.”
Reltzik
And Freddy vs. Jason was pretty lame to begin with.
C.T Phipps
You hush your mouth!
“But I’m talking about Freddy vs. Jason!”
🙂
UncolaMan
Anyone following up on this? No? Fine.
*ahem*
“I can dig it.”
Punaparta
Did you prefer Sadako vs. Kayako?
K^2
Bang, bang Maxwell’s silver hammer came down upon his head.
Cholma
+1
Cholma
Back at school again
Blaine plays the fool again
Police all get annoyed
Julez
Times I wish there was a like button
Kravis
ToeDad?
More like ToeDEAD now, am I right?
JetstreamGW
Probably not.
Kravis
Oh no!
clif
A higher power will take care of him.
((Amazi-Girl counts as a higher power?))
Council
I mean like, vertically. She likes rooftops.
NelC
I hope not. Much as I hate Toedad, I don’t actually want to read a comic where he gets his brains splattered all over.
clif
You did read Willis’s warning at the beginning of the chapter, didn’t you?
elsendor
sorry where’s that warning? i must’ve missed it and i don’t see it on the first page of this chapter and i would very much like to read the warning because i’m pretty stressed!
He Who Abides
It’s on the front page, under the current comic.
Reltzik
He warned us there would be blankets.
Axel
I don’t care if he dies but I don’t want the kids, especially Joyce, who knew him, to witness it.
Strangeshapes
If you don’t want him dead, how about committed to a new church in which centipede aliens slither into his brain? (Like your avatar, btw)
Madock345
No, Dorothy, I think this is working perfectly
foamy
LetThemFight.gif
Freemage
Seriously. Best bit is that when Amazigirl, followed by the cops, shows up, there’s a solid coterie of witnesses to the assault/attempted murder/manslaughter (depending on the outcome for Toedad, which just needs to be horrible enough to get Blaine in jail for a long, long time).
Kyrik Michalowski
Well if Toedad is dead then there won’t be anyone to take Becky away at least, and murder is a much harder thing to get away with than kidnapping. So maybe Blaine will shoot himself in the foot here and make life easier for everyone. Probably not but it is nice to hope right?
Van Jealous
Ah, but remember Willis’ promise at the onset of DOA….”No one will die in DOA”.
King Daniel
He reserved the right to change his mind, and commented even at the time that he might forego the rule for certain characters.
bryy
I don’t know if he’d actually kill ToeDad, though, because while I’m sure there is some kind of release in writing horrible religious characters, killing one of them would seem kind of gratuitous.
Plus, it would only validate Carol and her church further.
MatthewTheLucky
That he was killed by someone they all trusted as a representative of god would not validate them further, except in the sense of increasing their cognitive dissonance, which, to be fair, is what they think validation is.
Needfuldoer
To paraphrase Willis’s Twitter about 3-4 months ago, “oops I broke one of my rules”.
Miri
Of the two, Toedad is the one who isn’t unhinged (in a “makes no attempt to exercise impulse control and is entirely self-serving” way, not disparaging people who suffer from mental health issues who are far more likely to be victims of violence) and doesn’t revel in violence. If I had to deal with just one of them it would be Toedad rather than the Ballpeen.
C.T Phipps
Amazing that we would be saying Ross is the less insane of the two.
DudeMyDadOwnsaDealership
Yeah. Escapism is more of a neurosis and a matter of character, actually.
I wouldn’t describe Toedad as ‘simple’ , in this context, either. Joyce’s parents are more of an example of simple folks in a serious context. ‘Inept’ would better fit him in this context.
Also, good thing Blaine’s wearing gloves. Two murders and a mass kidnapping that provides no green to kick back up to his boss, plus there’s at least two hirelings who not only (probably) have no prior history as professional criminals, but even less incentive to keep cool about this when they find out the guy who hired them has both lost it and that they could be accessories to murder.
Ross is bafflingly weak for a man of his build, but Thing 1 and Thing 2 aren’t going down without a fight against the “man” whom is responsible for this whole B.S. caper in the first place……Too bad Blaine isn’t too proud to simply skip town on the spot without telling anyone and stay on the lamb….Oh, wait.
Nono
YOU RUINED EVVVERRRYYTHING
YOU STUPID STUPID BONGO
YOU’RE JUST A POOPY LITTLE SLUT WHO DOESN’T THINK
AND DECEIVES THE PEOPLE HE LOOOOVES
Delicious Taffy
You what
Dr. T
Bongo.
It’s the filter for female dog, for those that don’t know.
Delicious Taffy
Why you gotta call me a percussion instrument, Doc?
Rectilinear Propagation
The song, for any confused folks:
https://youtu.be/zgUKQCVieWM
Northamptonier
“Now he knows I’m not some innocent lamb
He sees me for what I am
Which is a horrible, stupid, dumb and ugly,
fat and stupid, simple, self-hating
Bongo.”
(Yes, I did type in the word “B o n g o” there. Why make the filter work any harder than needed?)
Rose by Any Other Name
**squees!**
I have that song (that album, actually)! It’s on my writing playlist.
Zee
bongo
You’re a stupid bongo
And lose some weight
I love that song, CxG is one of my favorite shows
jufreire
Well Bongo, you’ve done it now.
(Yeah, you guys know this one)
Karma’s come to tap you, on the toe.
All that religious shit youve been festering,
Plus attempted murder and kidnapping
Is coming now, to crush you like a toe.
You ruined everything… You stupid bongo.
stiney
I always saw that song as more Amber’s internal monologue. Rebecca Bunch would have loved Garbage Roof.
jufreire
Oh God, true. And she would’ve seen Walky as Greg, too. Does that mean Ethan is Josh Chan?
Stephen Bierce
*the hacked Muzak snaps silent*
clif