You think the Joker ever gets bored, doodles Batman masks on the pictures on the newspaper, does it to a Society page photo of Bruce Wayne, and goes “…Nah.”?
He’s doing it in alphabetical order. He hasn’t gotten to the ‘W’s yet. There’s a lot of people in Gotham. And whenever someone new moves in he has to start over.
MrSirk
Whose looking at Gotham and saying “Yeah that’s where I wanna live.”?
Yotomoe
I imagine Rent is like a Nickel there.
Dean
I know that the rent for your mom is a nickel.
TheZachariah
This gravatar+post wins the day.
Xerxes93
Well Oswald Cobblepot if “Gotham” is anything to go by.
Cybersnark
This reminds of those times in Arrow where someone needs to “lay low” and they move to Bludhaven.
How much shit do you need to be in for Bludhaven to look like the safer neighbourhood?
I feel like Joker wouldn’t care.
He doesn’t care about Bruce Wayne.
His focus is on Batman.
takashid
yeah, many variations of the comic have implied that Joker has figured out his secret identity and doesnt care. Attacking Bruce Wayne would be boring and end the game, and he wants Batman, not Wayne.
Though to counter that, my favourite argument is that Luthor willfully rejects evidence that Clark is Superman, because he can’t conceive of why a demigod like Superman would want to pretend to be a mere mortal.
Which neatly summarizes Luthor’s entire psyche.
(Plus, body-doubles are a thing; Presidents and celebrities use them all the time.)
JJ
There’s a reason facial recognition software is a thing. Given very high quality video or pics, a body double won’t fool a decent facial recognition scan (though there are false positives, but Metallo would still narrow it down to two or three faces – Clark among them – he can check for himself)
I remember an old Batman comic from the 70’s where the Joker knew there was this big party coming up where all of the rich men of Gotham would be, and that Batman would have to be among them. So he set Batman up to get hit in the face with this unremovable blue dye/paint before the party. Batman got out of it by convincing all of the other potential Batman candidates at the party to be sprayed with the same blue dye in order to preserve his identity.
Still, that was a pretty short list of possible Batman candidates.
Harley Quinn: (Re: the captured Batman) Ain’t you gonna take his mask off and find out who he is?
The Joker: And reduce my primal enemy to a mere man? Harley, dear, I’m so disappointed in you! Where’s the fun in that?
Supermarkets with elevators? What new spore of madness is this?
Dorje Sylas
Welcome to cities where “up” is the only direction you can sprawl. Its a strange concept once you get out of the major established urban hubs of humanity.
Maybe that used to be a hospital, hospitals have large elevators to accomodate patients and doctors and all that stuff between the room and surgery… or maybe I’m overthinking this.
Not that she seems upset by his complement… But I cannot help but be a bit worried that, even when they are alone, Amber seems to be putting up a boundary between herself (as Amber) and Danny, as if she is clinging to the fact, even when alone with someone who knows her secret, that “Amber” and “Amazi-Girl” are two separate identities, and Danny is not dating “Amber.”
Amber and Danny have been adorably flirty with each other these past couple strips, and I wish I could enjoy it without reservation, but Amber would have to attach a police siren to her head to be sending out more warning signals.
She might not feel ready to date as just “Amber”, but not being able to date as “Amber” at all is another thing, and not being able give Danny an articulate explanation about why is a third.
Well, to be fair, she’s got a very similar build and hair style to Amazi-girl, and Danny has put it out there with enough people that he’s dating Amazi-girl that if they started acting like they were dating when she was just Amber, I doubt very many people would have a hard time making the connection between the two. That does seem to be why she’s doing it; her reservations seem to have begun when they started acting like a couple in front of Joe, who knew Danny was dating Amazi-girl, and who also knows Danny well enough that he’d realize that Danny would be unlikely to cheat on his girlfriend. Assuming, you know, that h actually believed that Danny was dating Amazi-girl for realzies.
–I assume she’s keeping it up even now that they’re alone as it’s harder to slip up when you don’t drop the mask, so to speak, than if you try and assess, each time, whether or not it’s safe to do so.
So not necessarily so much a worrying behaviour, I think, as a reasonable precaution to avoid having her secret identity. Donning a pair of glasses and fooling everyone only works in the DC and Mystery Men universes. 😉
winter
Yes, this is a reasonable precaution to prevent her secret identity from slipping out.
But I think it’s more why is Danny getting dumped by Amazi-girl and going out with Amber not an acceptable solution? And why does she have a secret identity in the first place?
MrSirk
My guess is it’s to keep her from getting in trouble. Vigilantism is illegal and most likely against school rules. (I don’t know you can ask Willis) so regardless if people like her and she’s mostly stopping graffiti or whatever she could still be punished. Also it’s clearly a needed outlet for repressed rage issues. Plus secret identities are cool
Jen Aside
IU is a for-real place, so you can look up the for-real rules, but I’m pretty sure “playing Batman” is illegal EVERYWHERE on account of inventing one’s own laws and interference with police work and that kinda shit
Exactly! If she was just nervous when they were with other people, I wouldn’t think twice. But this is just the two of them, alone. And she’s still basically saying, “Don’t do that with me, ’cause the one you’re dating is Amazi-girl!” Yes, she’s saying it in a cutely embarrassed way… but I don’t get the sense that she is at all jesting when she expresses those sentiments… and that worries me!
are you implying that Amber is not mentally stable?
Because wow, a person who dresses in a yellow and blue costume and beats up graffiti kids because one time she saw a mugging sounds completely fucking rational to me
192 thoughts on “Clock”
David Herbert
Finding a loophole with a peephole.
Yotomoe
That’s how a lot of peeking on the girls locker room starts.
Clif
You’ve done a study? Or based on personal experience?
7
Plasma Mongoose
He did it FOR SCIENCE! 😛
Hanii Puppy
Someone’s an Imgurite 😛
Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
Can I have failed a test FOR SCIENCE?
Ahaha.
hahah.
because thatll help explain to my parents why i failed science please oh god please
MrSirk
That finger trick works surprisingly well.
Doctor_Who
You think the Joker ever gets bored, doodles Batman masks on the pictures on the newspaper, does it to a Society page photo of Bruce Wayne, and goes “…Nah.”?
Yotomoe
He’s doing it in alphabetical order. He hasn’t gotten to the ‘W’s yet. There’s a lot of people in Gotham. And whenever someone new moves in he has to start over.
MrSirk
Whose looking at Gotham and saying “Yeah that’s where I wanna live.”?
Yotomoe
I imagine Rent is like a Nickel there.
Dean
I know that the rent for your mom is a nickel.
TheZachariah
This gravatar+post wins the day.
Xerxes93
Well Oswald Cobblepot if “Gotham” is anything to go by.
Cybersnark
This reminds of those times in Arrow where someone needs to “lay low” and they move to Bludhaven.
How much shit do you need to be in for Bludhaven to look like the safer neighbourhood?
Navaren
Ask Nightwing…
Mr. Random
I feel like Joker wouldn’t care.
He doesn’t care about Bruce Wayne.
His focus is on Batman.
takashid
yeah, many variations of the comic have implied that Joker has figured out his secret identity and doesnt care. Attacking Bruce Wayne would be boring and end the game, and he wants Batman, not Wayne.
Questionor
http://donthatethegeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/559867_581261208561544_1148844426_n.jpg
Cybersnark
Though to counter that, my favourite argument is that Luthor willfully rejects evidence that Clark is Superman, because he can’t conceive of why a demigod like Superman would want to pretend to be a mere mortal.
Which neatly summarizes Luthor’s entire psyche.
(Plus, body-doubles are a thing; Presidents and celebrities use them all the time.)
JJ
There’s a reason facial recognition software is a thing. Given very high quality video or pics, a body double won’t fool a decent facial recognition scan (though there are false positives, but Metallo would still narrow it down to two or three faces – Clark among them – he can check for himself)
HiEv
I remember an old Batman comic from the 70’s where the Joker knew there was this big party coming up where all of the rich men of Gotham would be, and that Batman would have to be among them. So he set Batman up to get hit in the face with this unremovable blue dye/paint before the party. Batman got out of it by convincing all of the other potential Batman candidates at the party to be sprayed with the same blue dye in order to preserve his identity.
Still, that was a pretty short list of possible Batman candidates.
Jerden
Harley Quinn: (Re: the captured Batman) Ain’t you gonna take his mask off and find out who he is?
The Joker: And reduce my primal enemy to a mere man? Harley, dear, I’m so disappointed in you! Where’s the fun in that?
otusasio451
This is adorable.
Plasma Mongoose
That is one spacious elevator.
Historyman68
They are very tiny.
Doctor_Who
Yeah, seriously, you couldn’t fit 4 people in the elevators in my dorm unless they knew each other really well (or wanted to).
Yotomoe
We have become one.
brionl
Maybe it’s not an elevator, but is actually a TARDIS?
Vim-Hogar
The opposite, actually. It’s smaller on the inside, and it makes time stand still. Or maybe it’s just really slow?
Yet_One_More_Idiot
If you ever go in the lift/elevator at a supermarket, they’re generally about that size to allow people to get in with shopping trolleys. 🙂
Azhrei Vep
Supermarkets with elevators? What new spore of madness is this?
Dorje Sylas
Welcome to cities where “up” is the only direction you can sprawl. Its a strange concept once you get out of the major established urban hubs of humanity.
Cybersnark
Turns out IU gets its elevators from the same place that supplies NERV.
Hylleddin
Portland State has psuedo-cargo elevators that are this size in most of their buildings.
Roborat
Yea, I was thinking that too. Much bigger than any residence/apartment elevator I have ever seen. Maybe there are in a cargo elevator?
Bill M.
Maybe that used to be a hospital, hospitals have large elevators to accomodate patients and doctors and all that stuff between the room and surgery… or maybe I’m overthinking this.
Kernanator
I am now imagining heroes and villains clocking in and out old style and oh dear I can’t stop laughing.
Doctor_Who
Evening Sam.
Evening Ralph.
Rutee
…the sheepdog and coyote?
Opus the Poet
The very same…
MrSpkr
You win all the interwebs.
auron
congrats
Opus the Poet
The morning clock in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_u3YRZb74w
Dr. Zeus
“I’m crushing your head!”
“I’m pinching your face!”
“I’m masking your face!”
Björn
Thank you for that reference!
Dr. Zeus
Thank you for appreciating it. ^^
Roborat
Yay, someone else who watched Kids in the Hall.
Michael Steamweed
Awwww. 😀
dailybrad
And this is why they are my favorite. God, this is the cutest.
Archivist
NO, that’s so goddamn cute!
Yotomoe
If more people did this we woulda figured out Robin’s secret identity eons ago.
Doctor_Who
GASP! Representative DeSanto?!
Yotsuyasan
Gah, beat me to it! Obviously, you saw my (as of yet unmade) comment, liked it, traveled back in time, and left it yourself!
Bloody Timelords…
Jack Harkness
I’ll second that sentiment
Yotomoe
She’s not the woman you think she is.
Bill M.
She’s the senator we deserve, but not the one we need right now…
Yotsuyasan
Not that she seems upset by his complement… But I cannot help but be a bit worried that, even when they are alone, Amber seems to be putting up a boundary between herself (as Amber) and Danny, as if she is clinging to the fact, even when alone with someone who knows her secret, that “Amber” and “Amazi-Girl” are two separate identities, and Danny is not dating “Amber.”
MrSirk
I think that’s kind of exactly what’s happening actually.
takashid
Yeah, its kind of worrying.
Bagge
I’m not sure Amber is actually dating Danny. That’s Amazigirl.
winter
Amber and Danny have been adorably flirty with each other these past couple strips, and I wish I could enjoy it without reservation, but Amber would have to attach a police siren to her head to be sending out more warning signals.
She might not feel ready to date as just “Amber”, but not being able to date as “Amber” at all is another thing, and not being able give Danny an articulate explanation about why is a third.
Please let it not end in tears.
Kryss LaBryn
Well, to be fair, she’s got a very similar build and hair style to Amazi-girl, and Danny has put it out there with enough people that he’s dating Amazi-girl that if they started acting like they were dating when she was just Amber, I doubt very many people would have a hard time making the connection between the two. That does seem to be why she’s doing it; her reservations seem to have begun when they started acting like a couple in front of Joe, who knew Danny was dating Amazi-girl, and who also knows Danny well enough that he’d realize that Danny would be unlikely to cheat on his girlfriend. Assuming, you know, that h actually believed that Danny was dating Amazi-girl for realzies.
–I assume she’s keeping it up even now that they’re alone as it’s harder to slip up when you don’t drop the mask, so to speak, than if you try and assess, each time, whether or not it’s safe to do so.
So not necessarily so much a worrying behaviour, I think, as a reasonable precaution to avoid having her secret identity. Donning a pair of glasses and fooling everyone only works in the DC and Mystery Men universes. 😉
winter
Yes, this is a reasonable precaution to prevent her secret identity from slipping out.
But I think it’s more why is Danny getting dumped by Amazi-girl and going out with Amber not an acceptable solution? And why does she have a secret identity in the first place?
MrSirk
My guess is it’s to keep her from getting in trouble. Vigilantism is illegal and most likely against school rules. (I don’t know you can ask Willis) so regardless if people like her and she’s mostly stopping graffiti or whatever she could still be punished. Also it’s clearly a needed outlet for repressed rage issues. Plus secret identities are cool
Jen Aside
IU is a for-real place, so you can look up the for-real rules, but I’m pretty sure “playing Batman” is illegal EVERYWHERE on account of inventing one’s own laws and interference with police work and that kinda shit
Orangey
Yeah, I got completely the same feeling. Especially as they’re alone together in this lift and she’s *still* telling him ‘no save it for Amazi-girl’
Yotsuyasan
Exactly! If she was just nervous when they were with other people, I wouldn’t think twice. But this is just the two of them, alone. And she’s still basically saying, “Don’t do that with me, ’cause the one you’re dating is Amazi-girl!” Yes, she’s saying it in a cutely embarrassed way… but I don’t get the sense that she is at all jesting when she expresses those sentiments… and that worries me!
Hoop
are you implying that Amber is not mentally stable?
Because wow, a person who dresses in a yellow and blue costume and beats up graffiti kids because one time she saw a mugging sounds completely fucking rational to me
Catullus
I agree.
I mean, yellow and blue?
Malchus
Congrats, Amber, you gave Danny a mask fetish.