I was under the impression that AG was the one who actually pilots the mech, so to speak, for roller derby, since ‘Slamber’ daubs a blue mask on for games.
Carm
roller derby is fer sher an amber gig. It’s an outlet for aggression, seeing as how the AG aggression redirection is woops a whole identity now.
Derby is a good Chaotic activity. AG would be good at it prolly, but it’s not so aligned with her lawful good alignment.
Daibhid C
All the roller derby strips have her tagged as Amazi-Girl.
Daibhid C
In fact, I’ve gone back and checked and at the end of the roller derby match AG mentions she’s “no longer a superhero”. So she probably does need an outlet for her aggression, and maybe isn’t as bothered about it being a chaotic one.
thejeff
It confused me a bit, because when they first talked about it, it seemed to be Amber who’d agreed to play.
A bank vault is pretty unusual shenanigans. But they don’t know about that yet. Wonder if Dina and Charlie have gotten into Area 51 yet. Or maybe Area 52.
Jennifer thought Sal was Amazi-Girl despite, uh, well, Sal being black.
She is just GENUINELY that oblivious.
clif
She’s not black until she takes the mask off. Don’t you know how masks work?
DailyBrad
Amazi-Girl is often seen at night, so I could see her ethnicity maybe being less obvious. A bigger issue would be body type. Amazi-Girl’s hips and ass have got to be like, twice the size of Sal’s. They are built very differently.
I guess the cape may make that less easy to spot in some instances, but even still.
BBCC
There’s also the very obvious accent Sal had that AG lacks.
Jay
Amazi-girl speaks in Batman voice; it would take a very good ear to work out what her accent is when she’s *not* doing the bit.
(Or catching her when she forgets to do the voice. But I think only the inner circle’s been there for that?)
Given that the only logical end case for this comic is for the cast to be a travelling Roller Derby team plus support, while solving crimes in each town… Well, yeah.
brionl
And their wacky animal sidekick is blowjob cat.
Jamie
I would have made it Fuckface. Malaya can come as the butler.
Needfuldoer
Does he walk upright with a shirt collar and tie, like Yogi Bear, or is he a talking animal with a speech impediment like Jabberjaw?
clif
Most butler’s don’t have a speech impediment.
Unless you’re willing to agree to count a British accent as one . But then Malaya doesn’t have a British accent as far as we know. Maybe Ruth’s boyfriend could borrow the iguana.
Needfuldoer
I’m debating which Hanna-Barbera non-human-talking-character category Fuckface would fall under. Characters with shirt collars who walk upright (Yogi, Snagglepuss, etc) get vaudeville/golden age of cinema celebrity impersonations. Characters that don’t (Jabberjaw, Scooby, Speed Buggy) get speech impediments.
Malaya can just do their own thing (because they will anyway).
brionl
Jabberjaw didn’t have a speech impediment. He’s supposed to sound like Curly of the 3 Stooges.
She could be a holistic detective. As Douglas Adams said, a for holistic detective to solve a case they’ll have to solve the universe – but that also works the other way around. Holisticism suggests that if you can see the whole of one thing, the entirety of any one phenomenon, that includes how it interconnects with every other thing, and so you will understand the entire universe. And Carla’s love for herself must surely approach that event horizon.
Carla would be a holistic Carla detective. She understands the whole universe that revolves around Carla, and if it’s not contained in that, then axiomatically it doesn’t matter.
I don’t expect she’d have many paying customers, but that doesn’t matter, she can do her own word-of-mouth advertising
If Carla doesn’t recognize Amber is Amazi-Girl I guess it’s plausible Asher didn’t either. I kinda thought she was caught on the news revealing her identity but kids don’t watch the news.
Yeah, but after Blaine got his face punched in, Amber very publicly walked away from that while taking the jumpsuit off.
It’s entirely plausible that no one could identify her (i.e. “Lex Luther possessing Barry Allen’s body and realizing he had no idea who it was”), but it was pretty damn public.
thejeff
Somehow it was not public enough for the police to figure it out.
You can do it with more than two characters as well.
True Survivor
Ohhhhh, you put into the url address! That makes sense. I was looking all over for some sort of secret search bar in the actual UI of the website. I am very grateful for you guys’ help and I am proud to say I am 65% sure I used at least one of those technical terms right.
Cattleprod
I make use of this a lot whenever I see two characters interacting and I can’t recall if they’ve actually met before.
I would wager that Robin is better at manipulating people and is probably a better problem solver in social context, but Carla is far smarter, especially in terms of technology and engineering.
115 thoughts on “The clock”
NGPZ
I can’t tell whether or not Carla is *genuinely* oblivious XD
Proxiehunter
Well, she’s genuinely Carla.
Lysbeth
She’s oblivious to the fact that Amazi-Girl does not at all “look just like” Amber. She has better hair, come on!
Smallmoon
I was under the impression that AG was the one who actually pilots the mech, so to speak, for roller derby, since ‘Slamber’ daubs a blue mask on for games.
Carm
roller derby is fer sher an amber gig. It’s an outlet for aggression, seeing as how the AG aggression redirection is woops a whole identity now.
Derby is a good Chaotic activity. AG would be good at it prolly, but it’s not so aligned with her lawful good alignment.
Daibhid C
All the roller derby strips have her tagged as Amazi-Girl.
Daibhid C
In fact, I’ve gone back and checked and at the end of the roller derby match AG mentions she’s “no longer a superhero”. So she probably does need an outlet for her aggression, and maybe isn’t as bothered about it being a chaotic one.
thejeff
It confused me a bit, because when they first talked about it, it seemed to be Amber who’d agreed to play.
Like when they first came to enlist.
Kazuma Taichi
the two of them may have discussed it ahead of time and Amber was in charge when they arrived but AG takes over when the skates come on
ValdVin
Yet she thinks.Joyce and Dorothy are the same person.
Needfuldoer
– Freshman
– Short
– Blonde
– Glasses
– Sweaters/Vests/Sweatervests
– Previously kidnapped
It adds up!
https://www.dumbingofage.com/hatted/
Kazuma Taichi
conversely:
– Freshman vs Superhero
– Short
– Brunette
– Glasses vs Mask
– Loungewear vs Spandex
– Previously kidnapped vs Saved the day
so like they look similar but totally different people
DJTsurugi
Carla is just reminding Amazi-Girl of the coolest person she ever met, Carla. ~<3
John
I think its less oblivious and must extremely self centered.
Newlland(Henryvolt)
Vintage Carla.
Taffy
Amazi-Gargoyle, that’s all.
Proxiehunter
Amazi-goyle?
Dday
Yeah, whatta lucky goyle…
Frelance
which bit of her are you calling the spout for water?
Decidedly Orthogonal
What a golden opportunity for puns.
Hastur
She’s a little teapot…
Needfuldoer
A song that’s actually about a kettle.
Michael Steamweed
Such a cute squirt!
Gilthwixt
Given the revelation yesterday that Gargoyle and Gargle share the same root word, what is Amazi-girl gargl- actually nevermind, forget I asked.
jeffepp
“Not missing missing. Shenanigans missing. Regular people shenanigans. Not our usual shenanigans. Probably. I think.”
Proxiehunter
A bank vault is pretty unusual shenanigans. But they don’t know about that yet. Wonder if Dina and Charlie have gotten into Area 51 yet. Or maybe Area 52.
Proxiehunter
I meant Area 52 to be a joke, but I googled it and apparently that’s actually a thing.
Jo_cubstar
Really? Now I’m curious lol
Daibhid C
Area 52 is where they sent Dan DiDio in the hope that banishing him from society would make DC Comics suck less. It was somewhat successful!
Needfuldoer
It’s where they do alien-adjacent research.
clif
Have a spare Internet.
Ray Radlein
She has the mask with her because Amazi-Girl is always prepared for anything
Thag Simmons
Did we ever get a definitive answer about whether Jen put the pieces together about Amber?
Yumi
I just want her to always be wrong about that.
Sirksome
I don’t think we’ve gotten the definitive answer on whether anyone’s put the pieces together on Amber…including Amber.
DailyBrad
Jennifer was explicitly told Amber is Amazi-Girl, wasn’t she? I think she either didn’t believe it or had by then lost interest.
It’s been a hot minute, so I could easily be conflating things.
C.T. Phipps
Jennifer thought Sal was Amazi-Girl despite, uh, well, Sal being black.
She is just GENUINELY that oblivious.
clif
She’s not black until she takes the mask off. Don’t you know how masks work?
DailyBrad
Amazi-Girl is often seen at night, so I could see her ethnicity maybe being less obvious. A bigger issue would be body type. Amazi-Girl’s hips and ass have got to be like, twice the size of Sal’s. They are built very differently.
I guess the cape may make that less easy to spot in some instances, but even still.
BBCC
There’s also the very obvious accent Sal had that AG lacks.
Jay
Amazi-girl speaks in Batman voice; it would take a very good ear to work out what her accent is when she’s *not* doing the bit.
(Or catching her when she forgets to do the voice. But I think only the inner circle’s been there for that?)
Tan
She was explicitly told, yes. And disbelieved. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/04-is-a-song-forever/whatnow/
Queezle
Oh Carla, you goofball.
butts
carla would be the world’s greatest detective, if she ever felt like doing it for more than fifteen minutes at a time
Newlland(Henryvolt)
If her, Amazi-girl, Sal, Dorothy, and Dina teamed up to be a crime fighting team they’d be unstoppable.
jeffepp
Given that the only logical end case for this comic is for the cast to be a travelling Roller Derby team plus support, while solving crimes in each town… Well, yeah.
brionl
And their wacky animal sidekick is blowjob cat.
Jamie
I would have made it Fuckface. Malaya can come as the butler.
Needfuldoer
Does he walk upright with a shirt collar and tie, like Yogi Bear, or is he a talking animal with a speech impediment like Jabberjaw?
clif
Most butler’s don’t have a speech impediment.
Unless you’re willing to agree to count a British accent as one . But then Malaya doesn’t have a British accent as far as we know. Maybe Ruth’s boyfriend could borrow the iguana.
Needfuldoer
I’m debating which Hanna-Barbera non-human-talking-character category Fuckface would fall under. Characters with shirt collars who walk upright (Yogi, Snagglepuss, etc) get vaudeville/golden age of cinema celebrity impersonations. Characters that don’t (Jabberjaw, Scooby, Speed Buggy) get speech impediments.
Malaya can just do their own thing (because they will anyway).
brionl
Jabberjaw didn’t have a speech impediment. He’s supposed to sound like Curly of the 3 Stooges.
3oranges
Wasn’t that the deal with Sherlock Holmes’s brother?
Michael Steamweed
Yep. Mycroft is more perceptive than Sherlock. But he’s also more apathetic, distractable, and lazy.
Hof1991
Mycroft is busy colonizing new countries while Sherlock finds missing horses.
Amelie Wikström
She could be a holistic detective. As Douglas Adams said, a for holistic detective to solve a case they’ll have to solve the universe – but that also works the other way around. Holisticism suggests that if you can see the whole of one thing, the entirety of any one phenomenon, that includes how it interconnects with every other thing, and so you will understand the entire universe. And Carla’s love for herself must surely approach that event horizon.
Jay
Carla would be a holistic Carla detective. She understands the whole universe that revolves around Carla, and if it’s not contained in that, then axiomatically it doesn’t matter.
I don’t expect she’d have many paying customers, but that doesn’t matter, she can do her own word-of-mouth advertising
Sirksome
If Carla doesn’t recognize Amber is Amazi-Girl I guess it’s plausible Asher didn’t either. I kinda thought she was caught on the news revealing her identity but kids don’t watch the news.
C.T. Phipps
Asher knows she is because of the suit in her closet.
Jamie
Yeah, but after Blaine got his face punched in, Amber very publicly walked away from that while taking the jumpsuit off.
It’s entirely plausible that no one could identify her (i.e. “Lex Luther possessing Barry Allen’s body and realizing he had no idea who it was”), but it was pretty damn public.
thejeff
Somehow it was not public enough for the police to figure it out.
Cattleprod
I checked ‘amazi-girl+carla’, the Walmart encounter was 10 years ago.
True Survivor
Wow. Also, How did you find it so fast? Is there away to search for strips using more than one character at once?
NGPZ
https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/amazi-girl+carla/
just enter multiple character tags seperated by plusle sign 😉
Yumi
Yeah, you just do it with the + between them, like Cattleprod said.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/amazi-girl+carla/
You can do it with more than two characters as well.
True Survivor
Ohhhhh, you put into the url address! That makes sense. I was looking all over for some sort of secret search bar in the actual UI of the website. I am very grateful for you guys’ help and I am proud to say I am 65% sure I used at least one of those technical terms right.
Cattleprod
I make use of this a lot whenever I see two characters interacting and I can’t recall if they’ve actually met before.
Carla's #2 Fan
This is the real hero work, pulling up the interaction!
Nono
Who’s more ‘self inflated ego but also kinda savvier than they let on’, Carla or Robin?
True Survivor
I would wager that Robin is better at manipulating people and is probably a better problem solver in social context, but Carla is far smarter, especially in terms of technology and engineering.
Michael Steamweed