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Gyrocopter
Posted on May 22, 2014 by David M Willis

181 thoughts on “Gyrocopter”

  1. Mr. Random

    Sounds like a good plan.

    1. David Herbert

      Hopefully she can find another truck to ride on.

      1. Mr. Random

        According to Willis, following Ruth will be pointless.

  2. Plasma Mongoose

    Meanwhile in Dotty’s room…

    1. Doctor_Who

      …Dotty runs around duckfacing and smacking her own butt.

      Her and Walky’s sexytimes have gotten more elaborate.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        What is it with kids and their gosh-dang kinky sex today, in my day we had the missionary position, the doggy position plus all the tricks you can find in the Kama Sutra and we were happy with it.

        1. JustCheetoDust

          Goddamn kids with their Portuguese Breakfasts, and Turkish Snowcones, and…their Rusty Ventures.

        2. Pan

          You’re my new favorite

        3. DFS

          What about an Action Johnny?

        4. Jen Aside

          Naw, a Rusty Venture is when you *bleep* your *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* and *bleep* the *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* on the *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* *bleep*

        5. Rutee

          That sounds way more inventive than Rusty Venture actually is.

        6. TheCerpent

          You have to understand that it can’t be intentional. You can’t know that you’ve done a Rusty Venture until after it’s happened. Planning to do one ruins the whole thing.

        7. Daibhid C

          The Congress of the Friendly Dog and the Two Small Buscuits.

        8. dehro

          I don’t think she has the yoghurt for that

        9. JWLM

          But what’s on the other forearm?

    2. newllend

      She’s totally about to do it but something’s holding her back.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Fear, concern and/or guilt.

  3. Stephen Bierce

    Where’s a mad technologist when you need one? The computer lab? The auto repair training shop? The Chemistry lab?

    1. Yotomoe

      Wouldn’t you know it. They haven’t gotten to that part of her programming class.

    2. Stephen Bierce

      As for my own attempt at building the Amazi-Mobile…
      http://24.media.tumblr.com/388855f82bf8525ddef31f81648069ba/tumblr_mw5zv38x481romh4yo1_1280.png

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Does it also mow lawns?

        1. JustCheetoDust

          If a Lambo can mow lawns, why not?

        2. Allcool-dontcare

          Five hundred amazi-dollars for a lambo-mower to mow down her enemies like she mows her problems down… and then there is sal

      2. Opus the Poet

        Except you put taillights in the front of the car, total faux pas dude!

    3. Just Here

      Try the anime club meeting, or the science fiction club.

    4. John

      Rooming with her boyfriend.

  4. Yotomoe

    MMMPH. I am compelled…to draw….the amazi-butt.

    1. Salmo

      I’ve seen it. Well, 20 years older, and in another universe, and on another website. But still.

      1. Maveric1984

        You have to admit, it is an amazing butt

      2. David M Willis

        Only twelve!

        1. Badeyes

          That this is the comment you unlurk to correct cracks me the heck up.

        2. Roborat

          Accuracy is important to The Willis.

    2. Maveric1984

      Butts Disease claims another victim…

      1. Doctor_Who

        Sad, isn’t it?

    3. Yotomoe

      http://i.imgur.com/etug9Tg.png

      quick sketch cuz I’m a lazy butt.

      1. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

        icwutudidthar

  5. MightionNY

    …what’s the bandage from?

    1. DailyBrad

      Might be a scrape or from chafing from all the fisticuffs she’s been engaged in as of late.

      Or she might’ve just cut herself shaving. Girl’s got a lot on her mind.

    2. Doctor_Who

      Convenience store down the street.

    3. Turbo Sexaphonic Delight

      Birth control maybe?

  6. Vile Gamer

    Dearest Amber, Sal is closer than you think…

    1. Yotomoe

      I think she went back to her own Dorm.

    2. newllend

      Nows not the right time, the battle betwt these two great rivals will take place when their at their best, over something that meaningful, at a place that will be known from that point on as the greatest battle field ever known.OTHER wise known as Danny’s room.

  7. Hoboturtle

    Oh good, she hasn’t fully been devoured by her dream world. Reality still is grasping onto her.

  8. Van Jealous

    This is where Dina pulls a pterodactyl from under her cap!

    1. Yotomoe

      Like the Bobobo fro.

      1. Doctor_Who

        I think adding Dina to that show might be the only thing that could possibly make it more surreal.

      2. Sageress

        SAY WHAT SAY WHAAT

  9. Packy

    And Dorothy’s not going to publish.

    1. Wack'd

      Of course not.

    2. newllend

      Could you imagine how mutch of a dick Move that would be if she did.

      1. timemonkey

        Not a dick move, considering she’d be exposing a violent nutjob. But a disappointing story since she has no real story other than ‘Amazi-Girl is my neighbor!’. That’s just a headline.

        1. newllend

          Billie would be so pissed if Daisy bought that over her story.

        2. Jerden

          Exposing a violent nutjob doesn’t sound like it’s going to make anything better. If you take everything away from someone, they’ve not got nothing to lose, and that can end badly even for sane people.
          I’m hoping she publishes.

        3. gka

          It can also get said nutjob ARRESTED.

          ‘m just saying.

        4. Jerden

          But if comic books have taught me anything, NO PRISON (or asylum) CAN HOLD A DETERMINED NUTJOB!

  10. Wonder Wig

    She might be overestimating the speed of school newspapers.

    1. Yotomoe

      Naw, she just sees the fire in Dorothy’s eyes. She knows she could make it happen.

    2. Wack'd

      The IDS publishes five days a week, actually, presumably with breaking news.

      I’ve just checked it’s website. It’s massive, up-to-date, and immaculately designed. Not so much a school newspaper so much as a massive statistical outlier.

      1. AgentKeen

        Man, my school’s newspaper is once a week, has a lot of fluff (there’s one dude with a ‘sports column’ that is usually him making random pop culture references and talking about his fantasy league, and a ‘dating advice’ column that makes me cringe), and a pretty poorly done website.

        I figured that’s what they were all like!

        1. David M Willis

          Journalism at IU is serious business.

        2. TRW

          The noise you just heard was the ghost of Ernie Pyle, saying “Damn straight!”

        3. Wack'd

          I figured that’s what they were all like!

          Well, again, massive statistical outlier.

        4. Pat

          Once a week? I think mine came out a few times a year. Maaaybe once a month. In a good month.

        5. MindLink

          I don’t even think I’ve attended a school that maintained a regular news paper. One school had a “news paper” of sorts, that was made by the entire class, but it was mostly just jokes and we spent most of the year working on the single issue. Another school I went to had some media classes, and I think they made an issue but I never saw it anywhere.

        6. Historyman68

          Oh does Chuck Klosterman write a sports column in your paper too?

        7. Roborat

          From what I have seen, they are. IU is apparently an anomaly.

        8. JWLM

          IU is world leading in a bunch of weird things: journalism, psychology, sociology, music (particularly voice and opera; the IU opera is the best professional troupe in the Midwest.)

          Bloomington is a great place to live.

  11. Kernanator

    Quickly, to the Amazimobile!

    I mean, unless you don’t have a driver’s license. That’s fine.

    1. JustCheetoDust

      License isn’t an issue as long as she doesn’t get pulled over. What’s one more rule to bend for a vigilante?

    2. That Damn Rat

      Quick! to the Amazi-Bus Stop!

      1. Jerden

        To get on the Amazi-Bus, where the Amazi-Wheels go round and round, round and round, all day long.

      2. John

        Cue four strips of Amber standing around with Aslan.

  12. John

    C’mon, Amber, get to work on that Amazi-Pole/Amazi-Gyrocopter setup.

    1. Yotomoe

      I mean, how else will you get to the Amazi-cave?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        By spreading her legs? 😀

        1. Bill

          Boooo!!!  You should be ashamed of yourself.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Shame? What is this shame you speak of? 😛

        3. dethtoll

          Bravo.

        4. Roborat

          Somehow, I knew you were going to say that.

    2. Jerden

      Or just the Amazi-Pole.

      What! We were all thinking it! Well, I was.

  13. Wack'd

    In which Amber momentarily confuses herself with Adam West’s Batman.

    1. Yotomoe

      Does that mean her and Dina are gonna dress like huge losers?

      1. Jay Eff

        Only if Amber gets to be a mayor in Rhode Island at some point.

      2. JustCheetoDust

        As long as they dance like it, too.

        1. Jay Eff

          I can see it now:

          The Amazi-Tusi!

      3. timemonkey

        It’s hard to get worse when your normal costume is primarily yellow.

        1. Jen Aside

          How about shit brown?

        2. Jerden

          Well, that would be good for camouflage, if you’re Sewer-Man or something.

        3. Chris

          Dina wears the brown one, I assume? Good colors for a duo. Certainly nobody would confuse who’s #1 and #2.

        4. garaden

          Well done 🙂

    2. Jerden

      Well, everyone does at some point.

      Hang on a moment, I can see the Jerden-signal!

  14. Lawzlo

    I’m not certain I understand… is she trying for an insanity defense or something?

    1. Doctor_Who

      I don’t see any pencils in her nose, and she has yet to say “Wibble”.

      1. chris73

        Well that would be a cunning plan all right.

    2. Yotomoe

      That’s what the voices in her head told her to do.

      1. Tom T.

        One does wonder whom she thinks she’s talking to.

    3. newllend

      Well at this point there is no Doubt that will work.

    4. 3oranges

      Plan B may not be a gyrocopter, but you never know, it just might twerk.

  15. DailyBrad

    Amazi-Girl, you’re doing it wrong. You wear tights under your panties to be a superhero(ine)!

    1. Doctor_Who

      Nowadays, in order to keep the Fedoras happy, most of them just go commando.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        I personally know that commando is the way to go.

    2. Yotomoe

      Adam West Batman (or Robin) didn’t wear tights under HIS panties.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        No, just his Y-fronts, the lacy panties were worn UNDER the tights. 😀

  16. Subb

    To be fair if she does that she could probably get away with diminished responsibility fairly easily.

  17. newllend

    OK first off amber looks attractive as hell in this strip,but more importantly she could just go with the classic plan of jumping out the window.

    1. Yotomoe

      She’s got Thighs for DAAAAAAAAAYS. She wouldn’t jump out a window cuz that is the technique of her arch enemy, SAL.

      1. newllend

        To defeat the enemy one must know the enemy, strength and weaknesses.

        1. Yotomoe

          This technique is helpful, but if not planned out and executed carefully, one may end up covered in shards of broken glass.

        2. Jerden

          That’s why you throw someone else out of the window first. That way, they are the ones that get injured. Their body also provides a soft place to land.
          Trust me, I know what I’m talking about.

        3. Campor

          Defenestration is an art.

        4. xKiv

          One can also end up covering the pavement …

      2. Tenn

        Sal: “The windows betray you, because they belong to me!”

        1. Sageress

          “You merely adopted the window… I was born in it!”

  18. Cholma

    The newspaper declares Amber is Amazi-Girl, and then while people swarm her with questions, Dina runs by wearing the AG outfit, confusing the hell out of everyone.

    1. Wack'd

      Ah, the “Bad Bet on a 459-Silent” trick.

      (Yes yes other shows have done the “alter egos show up at the same time to confuse the populous” trick but how fucking often do I get a chance to reference The Green Hornet, I mean really.)

    2. Tom T.

      I initially read Cholma’s comment to say “and then white people swarm her with questions.” Seemed to come out of nowhere. 🙂

      1. Wack'd

        Other people have more important things to worry about, I guess.

      2. Tenn

        Ditto.

    3. JWLM

      The newspaper outs Amber as Amazi-Girl, and everybody calls it a grand piece of front page comedy.

  19. Jay Eff

    *reads alt text*

    http://youtu.be/w9rwF2khUIY

    1. JustCheetoDust

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJBKyTfCjCc

      1. David M Willis

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rnw0D2AdYU

        1. Roborat

          Yea, my mental voice read the alt-text in that voice.

  20. AgentKeen

    Amber does like doing duck-lips and smacking her bum.

    1. Yotomoe

      Is there any one who doesn’t?

      1. newllend

        I know I do.

      2. AgentKeen

        Shhh! Only the NSA are supposed to know about that and the off-key ‘Let It Go’ singing.

    2. JustCheetoDust

      Looks like a hint about an update of that Amber dance animation.

  21. mathiasmindblade

    Now it will be obvious to everyone who Amazi-Girl is, including Sal, who will show up at her door and mop the floor with her for what she did in the parking lot. There is obviously going to be an unmasked showdown to end the Sal/Amber Arc.

  22. Ridureyu

    I make that noise all the time when I run away.

  23. Godozo

    You’re all missing something.

    In three of the last four comics Amber/Amazi-Girl has been holding her hand over her stomach. And in the comic without a picture of her holding her stomach, she’s too busy helping out Billie to worry about herself.

    Something’s wrong. Malaya did some real damage, don’t be surprised to find Amber in the hospital soon, doing some physical recovering of her own.

    1. Tom T.

      This is foreshadowing of Amazi-Girl’s pregnancy. Marcus Galassus kidnapped her to Limbo and wooed her with Shakespeare and Beethoven. Finally, after relative weeks of such efforts, and admittedly with a subtle boost from Galasso’s machines, she became his. The pregnancy will last three days of comic time (i.e., ironically, nine months of real time).

    2. Bill

      I’m glad you finally answered that phone, Godozo, because I totally called it three days ago…..

      1. John

        You don’t get to claim to have called it until it’s actually shown to be true.

        That looks to me like a totally normal resting pose, and far from indicating injury, I don’t think she’d be resting her hand on her belly if it were seriously injured.

        Like I’ve said a couple times already, getting nailed in the solar plexus like Amazi-Girl did can cause the diaphragm to spasm and make it difficult to breathe, which is fairly incapacitating in the short term, and matches the symptoms she was displaying, but soon goes away without any serious after-effects – and she hasn’t been displaying any while taking care of Billie.

        And for meta reasons, I’m pretty sure Amber is not getting hospitalized, jailed, expelled, killed, institutionalized, impregnated with xenomorphs, or anything of that nature here.

      2. Godozo

        I was there, at first as a reaction, thenwith a bit more detail.

    3. Jerden

      Nah, she’ll just ignore it. It’s not even a flesh wound!
      (Yes, I am aware that that is probably very bad for one’s health)

    4. begbert2

      Actually, in the first two comics you mention she was holding her left hand to her right side, in a way suggesting a possible rib injury. In this comic she’s resting her right hand casually on the center of her belly, indicating casual relaxation.

      Not to say she isn’t injured, but this strip doesn’t show it.

  24. Pyr05

    Another option: Whooping and clacking your claws as you scuttle away.

    1. Marianne

      (V)(;,,;)(V)

      1. CianM1301

        I knew that emoticon wasn’t dead!

  25. MrSirk

    I’m sure she could afford a gyrocopter if she really tried.

  26. newllend

    You know she could take this time to talk to Danny one last time.

  27. Chico

    Gif of this please

  28. SilverArrowArtemis

    No, Amber! They’ll Vine you!

  29. Idon'tcarenomore

    I notice how this chat forum seems to ebb and flow with current opinions.

    When Amazi-girl patrolled the campus and stopped creeps from beating up Danny, she was cool.
    But…then she wasn’t because she was violent.

    When Amazi-girl was going after the rapist going after Joyce, she was cool. But…then she wasn’t, because she got in the way.

    When she flipped her bastard father in the dorm hallway, she was cool.
    But, then she wasn’t because she was violent.

    When Amazi-girl beat the Hell out of the bastard father in the parking lot, she was cool.
    But, then she wasn’t because she was violent.

    When she ambushes 4 girls in a Wal-Mart parking lot: that was neither cool, albeit it violence answered with violence. It was desperation.

    So she’s lying in bed, considering her immediate future and talking to herself. Not so crazy, I do it all the time-and say I’m talking to my cats. She could be talking to Dina, who very well may be behind the door.
    She appears to be in touch with reality quite well.

    But as noticed by another in the thread, she’s been holding her stomach and may well be injured from dear Malaya’s sneak attack. (Malaya attacked her first and got smacked down for it, and saying clothesline sucks, so does 4 against 1).

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      We’re a fickle bunch ain’t we? 😀

    2. Jerden

      I’m consistently on the side of crazy. Amazi-Girl is always cool, it’s just she’s probably shouldn’t be emulated.

    3. kelticat

      Just as an aside, she punched her father in her room, in front of Dina’s family and then ran like hell.
      RUTH flipped Blaine in the dorm hallway in self defense, in front of Sierra and her family.

  30. Barf Ninjason

    Next on Kickstarter: Amazi-Girl Performs a Smacks Her Own Butt

    1. Barf Ninjason

      Dammit, meant to say Slipshine, not Kickstarter. Yet another Freudian slit.

      1. Lise

        You mean “slip,” yes?

      2. EEWWW

        Stretch goal on Kickstarter to get it on Slipshine, eh?

  31. Swerve

    Some of my best friends have gyrocoptor alt-modes. Unfortunately, so does one of my least favorite acquaintances. Whirl, you’re completely nuts.

    In my experience, it’s better to not make plans to run from authorities. It’s better to ‘fess up, and hope Ultra Magnus is in a good mood. It’s certainly not a good idea to make plans to escape before you know for sure if they’ve caught on to what you did. Long story short, Amber might want to talk to someone. Like Ruth.

  32. takashid

    I’m kind of surprised the idea of knocking on Dorothy’s door and asking her not to publish the story doesn’t even cross her mind. I know she’s not a very social person, but still…

    1. Jen Aside

      In her mind, that’s like asking the bully not to shove you in a locker and/or steal your lunch money.

      [butt-toucher]

    2. Jerden

      I’m kind of disappointed that she hasn’t at least considered dangling Dorothy from the roof of a building by her ankles. That’s a great way to get people to shut up!

      1. Historyman68

        Only if you drop them.

        1. JustCheetoDust

          “Remember Dorothy, when I promised to kill you last?”
          “I swear Amber, you did!”
          “I lied.”

        2. Jerden

          Actually, threats are much more effective at high altitudes.

  33. Jen

    Hi, Willis! 🙂 I sent a message to you through your store a few days ago regarding the order I placed. I just wanted to make sure you got the message. It was about Shortpacked! Book 3. Thanks!

    1. JeremiahTheBulldog

      You might want to use the “Contact” section in the store, instead of posting in random threads where he may or may not get back to you in a timely fashion. Also, your order should come with a receipt.

      1. David M Willis

        That’s probably what she used when she said “sent a message through your store.”

        But sometimes that thing doesn’t work, and I don’t seem to have received anything.

      2. Jen

        Jerimiah, yup, what Willis said. I used the Contact form on the store but since I got no response, I was worried the form didn’t work, so used this as a backup. And yes, I have a receipt but that doesn’t help me with my particular issue.

        Willis, can you see the email that’s attached to my comment posts? Is there another way I can get in touch with you? Thanks!

        1. Jen

          Sorry, I should say, I did get a receipt but I didn’t notice the issue until after I threw the receipt away, so if it had contact info on it, I no longer have it. 🙂

  34. Cal

    Dang amber. Whered that bandaid come from?

    1. Kennerly

      From CVS.

  35. Tomas

    Dina: “Question you about what?”

  36. Tenn

    Dina: “You need a firepole to the basement? I built one.” *opens closet, stands aside, gestures towards firepole*

    *beat*

    “For excavations.”

    *beat*

    “I have not built a gyrocopter.”

  37. XMinusOne

    When the cops came to question her she was lying in her bunk going “I’m in my gyro copter and you can’ t catch me ‘Wubwubwubwubwub.”

  38. OmegaDez

    Took me a while to realize it was Amber for some reason. D:

    1. Chris

      Me, too. Her hair looks redder somehow. Oh, and her eyes look different without her mask or glasses.

      1. David M Willis

        Everything’s redder. It’s sunrise.

        1. OmegaDez

          I should do that too in my comic. I tend to stick to my color palette all the time, sometimes adding a dark blue filter at night…
          I like to observe the way you work. 🙂

  39. JWLM

    @damnyouwillis — why didn’t you make panels 1 and 3 a stereogram? I would have loved seeing Amber sunk into her bed…

    1. David M Willis

      that second sentence is why not

  40. Eric D

    Or may be Buttfacing and Ducksmacking!? I’d do that!

  41. Deanatay

    Next… sympathy via light physical contact? Amber looks like she could use some.

  42. Gargamel

    Aww. :'(

  43. SilverArrowArtemis

    Comic Guide: And in Panel 1, you can see the Amazi-hips in all their glory.
    Me: Ooooooooooooh…

  44. Creaks

    Willis, you absolutely need to draw the events described in the last panel. Or perhaps animate it to the sounds of the Benny Hill song.

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