I am so sorry. Did the antibiotics they gave you not work? I hope I am not being rude by asking if you updated us on that earlier, I’ve been away from the comment boards for a while.
i took actually took my last antibiotic yesterday (making for two weeks of Keflex now), and thankfully they’ve been helping reduce the redness and swelling without any lethal side effects
of course i also gotta rebuild my gut microbiome as well as iron levels on account of being anemic, and im also underweight now having lost a few pounds, but at least cannabis and ice packs still work to mitigate the worst of the pain
glass half full ;-;
anon
good luck! hope you can #treatyoself to a nice buffet of your fave food/drinks after you recover
Take it from our drummer, “Puff”
Being good it gets you stuff
such effective stuff, one of the only real treatments for lower back pain that doesn’t have possibly lethal side effects. said as a sufferer from a 27deg curve in his spine that want diagnosed till he was 39
i find it “interesting” that 2 months after a study comes out showing THC medical effectiveness in treating lower back pain, Drumpf signs an order to reclassify it as less dangerous.
i bet hes using it for his back
yeah Dina already has her pain to deal with rn TT~TT
ZombieKyrik
Dina has been taking care of Amber already. She’s not obligated to do so, but speaking from experience she might be doing this to not think about Becky right now.
…. I think that may be a wee bit too snooping for Dina to have figured that sort of thing out, who in the building gets pain meds and doesn’t actively require them to function on a daily basis… or at least also doesn’t hate the gays and or does stuff Dina totally judges them as a bad person for.
Because the other sort of source for that kind of thing would be uh, the illegal trade, and right now the illegal pain med trade is, I’m pretty sure, verrrrrrrrrry dangerous especially for those with day zero chemical tolerances, due to the absolute proliferation of cheap as cheapo Fent in their production.
I don’t know about pain med knockoff pills specifically but I have seen recent documentaries of how it’s creeping into ecstacy supply from Amsterdam, and acid supply from similar places.
I mean, she is. That’s why she’s merely in a lot of pain and not screaming in agony, tbf. I don’t think you want to double up on pain meds when you already took one.
Yeah its a fun outfit. Which makes we wonder why she took her pants off. Seems an odd thing to do, especially in another persons room while dealing with a would that is not conductive to bending over to pull pants back on.
That’s the part they don’t tell you about the star: you still feel it. The spikes, the fire, the koopa bites, the hammers… you feel them all.
cbwroses
I feel like this is a reference to something (other than Mario).
I want to say Wolverine has said something like this before, but it definitely feels like a reference I should recognize.
Sarah
Feel familiar to me, and I’ve seen zero Wolverine movies (and just maybe one old X-men movie).
cbwroses
My memory regarding Wolverine is leaning more towards the comics: either when he was mind controlled by the Hand or Wolverine: Civil War.
I have a friend that is allergic to many pain meds (from anesthesia to ibuprofen as far as I know of). The pain that she can withstand always amazes me.
You may amaze yourself someday, though getting there is no fun. After some painful injuries, numerous kidney stones, and a catastrophic internal surgery followed by peritonitis, my pain threshold is stretched much farther than it was when I was young.
Srsly. It’s gotta suck to wake up in a body that has been sliced and glued and is now wanted for assaulting the cops.
Do we know how Amber currently experiences AG-time? Is she asleep, and gets filled in later? is she kinda watching from the back seat, able/unable to comment?
Because, Amber might strongly prefer that AG did not get her into this much pain and difficulty today.
The pain meds have worn off, she climbed through a window, and climbed up to Walky’s bed. Amber is one tough cookie, but eventually that stuff catches up with you.
Now would be a good time to call Dina, and get Amber some more pain relievers. The questions are: Does Walky know Dina’s number? And has Amber made things worse by climbing around?
Of course, the way these cops have been going, if they’d caught her still in her own bed, she probably could have just told them she had the flu and they’d have left her alone to rest.
I will admit that I have not been completely in love with the Keystone Cops routine. But as a mechanism to put these two in a room together (and to give Jennifer some well earned flowers), I like it.
Just feels so weird to introduce the police raid as this serious, dangerous thing, and then have the cops act as bumbling comic relief. Feels like there’s a lot more tension that could be wrung. But the whole sequence might not be done, so I’ll reserve judgement for now.
Yeah. It felt like the soundtrack went from Jaws to Yakity Sax. I don’t mind when a looming threat ends up not being as bad as the build up when that build up is carrying some narrative weight. So if this leads to some good screen time for Walky and Amber, I won’t complain too loud. I’m just a little afraid that this will end up being another case of “Gosh these two sure do have some issues to work through. Maybe they will someday. Anyway, here’s JoyDot.”
thejeff
“Here’s JoyDot” who run straight into the Keystone cops exiting the building and are promptly recognized as the protestors from the photo and arrested and questioned about the vigilante who helped them get away and who they apparently knew.
Dandi_Andi
Well, that would make this a proper comedy of errors, I suppose.
it’s a roguelike platformer thats like Indiana Jones meets the Binding of Isaac
Lovecraftian horror? I mean besides the Hell level, there’s one where you go inside a giant worm if that counts? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
C.T Phipps
I suggest she plays something beautiful and relaxing.
Like DREDGE!
Yes, fish those abominations out of the New England sea.
cbwroses
I mean, if we want to go old school and have her frustration keeping her awake, she could always play some NES TMNT; just replay the underwater bombs stage over and over.
161 thoughts on “Non-passive resistance”
NGPZ
OMG im still bedridden with my leg in AGONY
was not expecting today’s strip to be a MOOD
X~X
True Survivor
I am so sorry. Did the antibiotics they gave you not work? I hope I am not being rude by asking if you updated us on that earlier, I’ve been away from the comment boards for a while.
NGPZ
hey dont worry bruh
i took actually took my last antibiotic yesterday (making for two weeks of Keflex now), and thankfully they’ve been helping reduce the redness and swelling without any lethal side effects
of course i also gotta rebuild my gut microbiome as well as iron levels on account of being anemic, and im also underweight now having lost a few pounds, but at least cannabis and ice packs still work to mitigate the worst of the pain
glass half full ;-;
anon
good luck! hope you can #treatyoself to a nice buffet of your fave food/drinks after you recover
Embe13
Take it from our drummer, “Puff”
Being good it gets you stuff
such effective stuff, one of the only real treatments for lower back pain that doesn’t have possibly lethal side effects. said as a sufferer from a 27deg curve in his spine that want diagnosed till he was 39
Embe13
wasn’t*
satan damn it
Embe13
i find it “interesting” that 2 months after a study comes out showing THC medical effectiveness in treating lower back pain, Drumpf signs an order to reclassify it as less dangerous.
i bet hes using it for his back
in case anyone missed it
https://apnews.com/article/trump-reclassify-marijuana-cannibas-legal-marijuana-federal-ab2aec5865dd140bac00b7cef5de89c5
Wizard
Even Donnie gets something right every great once in a while. You know what they say about stopped clocks and blind squirrels.
Clif
A blind squirrel might as well use a stopped clock?
Laura
Yogurt for you, dear! Sending healing vibes your way…
⚕️????????❤️?
Joe Moose
Time for Dina to mysteriously appear with a dose of prescription painkillers
Ray Radlein
That… may not be a great idea right now
NGPZ
yeah Dina already has her pain to deal with rn TT~TT
ZombieKyrik
Dina has been taking care of Amber already. She’s not obligated to do so, but speaking from experience she might be doing this to not think about Becky right now.
geno
Dina likes helping her friends
Biblioholic93
…. I think that may be a wee bit too snooping for Dina to have figured that sort of thing out, who in the building gets pain meds and doesn’t actively require them to function on a daily basis… or at least also doesn’t hate the gays and or does stuff Dina totally judges them as a bad person for.
Because the other sort of source for that kind of thing would be uh, the illegal trade, and right now the illegal pain med trade is, I’m pretty sure, verrrrrrrrrry dangerous especially for those with day zero chemical tolerances, due to the absolute proliferation of cheap as cheapo Fent in their production.
I don’t know about pain med knockoff pills specifically but I have seen recent documentaries of how it’s creeping into ecstacy supply from Amsterdam, and acid supply from similar places.
noisy
Pretty sure Dina used her own superpowers to get them from a pharmacy.
DashWallkick
I mean, she is. That’s why she’s merely in a lot of pain and not screaming in agony, tbf. I don’t think you want to double up on pain meds when you already took one.
Amós Batista
Wait, wasn’t she already on painkillers?
jeffepp
She needs a cuddle. A very gentle cuddle. Also, remember she’s strong enough to snap you in half.
Tequila Mockingbird
A cuddle from a woman strong enough to snap me in half… Dammit, I’m supposed to be sleeping, but that’s the last thing on my mind now. ?
jeffepp
See, he’s got to be the big spoon this time.
HueSatLight
uh, he was a kitchen doctor, don’t make assumptions. That makes an ass out of u and mptions.
Taffy
I like her shirt.
True Survivor
Yeah its a fun outfit. Which makes we wonder why she took her pants off. Seems an odd thing to do, especially in another persons room while dealing with a would that is not conductive to bending over to pull pants back on.
NGPZ
when you’re dealing with an injury of her caliber, pants are… more of a liability than an asset o3o
Doopyboop
Backing up what NGPZ said above, going by what we can see of her wound, such as in this strip ( https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-16/01-not-so-smooth-criminals/civvies/ ) I’d say it definitely is an area that would be touched by the waistband. Although it is sealed with surgical glue, it’s still a very sensitive area.
not someone else
Probably related to her saying she really, really needed to pee earlier, as a wild guess. Might not have been easy to get them back on.
True Survivor
You all make good points.
Thing 2
To make sexual shenanigans seem more plausible? Clothes on the floor?
3oranges
Her shirt looks nice but seems ineffective…you shouldn’t be able to feel pain with that on.
jeffepp
That’s the part they don’t tell you about the star: you still feel it. The spikes, the fire, the koopa bites, the hammers… you feel them all.
cbwroses
I feel like this is a reference to something (other than Mario).
I want to say Wolverine has said something like this before, but it definitely feels like a reference I should recognize.
Sarah
Feel familiar to me, and I’ve seen zero Wolverine movies (and just maybe one old X-men movie).
cbwroses
My memory regarding Wolverine is leaning more towards the comics: either when he was mind controlled by the Hand or Wolverine: Civil War.
Tequila Mockingbird
Amber here displaying more resilience to pain than I ever will. That lady’s a trooper. God bless ‘er.
Kimi
I have a friend that is allergic to many pain meds (from anesthesia to ibuprofen as far as I know of). The pain that she can withstand always amazes me.
Vulcanodon
You may amaze yourself someday, though getting there is no fun. After some painful injuries, numerous kidney stones, and a catastrophic internal surgery followed by peritonitis, my pain threshold is stretched much farther than it was when I was young.
Leorale
Srsly. It’s gotta suck to wake up in a body that has been sliced and glued and is now wanted for assaulting the cops.
Do we know how Amber currently experiences AG-time? Is she asleep, and gets filled in later? is she kinda watching from the back seat, able/unable to comment?
Because, Amber might strongly prefer that AG did not get her into this much pain and difficulty today.
Astariel
Oh man, poor Amber! Looks like she’s gripping her wound in the last panel.
ZombieKyrik
The pain meds have worn off, she climbed through a window, and climbed up to Walky’s bed. Amber is one tough cookie, but eventually that stuff catches up with you.
Now would be a good time to call Dina, and get Amber some more pain relievers. The questions are: Does Walky know Dina’s number? And has Amber made things worse by climbing around?
Clif
She certainly hasn’t improved them, but neither would being caught by the cops.
Walky probably has Dina’s number or can get it easily. What he doesn’t have is the knowledge that Dina has drugs that could help Amber.
ZombieKyrik
That I had not considered; maybe Dina will figure out that Amber is in Walky’s room somehow, and bring some pain meds.
thejeff
Of course, the way these cops have been going, if they’d caught her still in her own bed, she probably could have just told them she had the flu and they’d have left her alone to rest.
Ray Radlein
I’m genuinely concerned that Amber might still wind up in the hospital
Queen Anthai
AMBER PLEASE SURVIVE THIS
Dandi Andi
I will admit that I have not been completely in love with the Keystone Cops routine. But as a mechanism to put these two in a room together (and to give Jennifer some well earned flowers), I like it.
C.T Phipps
I hate to suggest it but I kind of hope we get a time skip so Amber can recover.
thejeff
“Consequences!”
Police raid that leads to nothing but rekindling a ship and confirming Jennifer’s belief that Sal’s Amazi-Gril
Sarah
I don’t know that the whole raid is over yet.
thejeff
True, but they seem to have addressed the two big dangers: finding the costume and finding the injured Amber herself.
zee
Bit of tonal whiplash but I’ll take it over more police brutality ig
Dot
Just feels so weird to introduce the police raid as this serious, dangerous thing, and then have the cops act as bumbling comic relief. Feels like there’s a lot more tension that could be wrung. But the whole sequence might not be done, so I’ll reserve judgement for now.
Dandi_Andi
Yeah. It felt like the soundtrack went from Jaws to Yakity Sax. I don’t mind when a looming threat ends up not being as bad as the build up when that build up is carrying some narrative weight. So if this leads to some good screen time for Walky and Amber, I won’t complain too loud. I’m just a little afraid that this will end up being another case of “Gosh these two sure do have some issues to work through. Maybe they will someday. Anyway, here’s JoyDot.”
thejeff
“Here’s JoyDot” who run straight into the Keystone cops exiting the building and are promptly recognized as the protestors from the photo and arrested and questioned about the vigilante who helped them get away and who they apparently knew.
Dandi_Andi
Well, that would make this a proper comedy of errors, I suppose.
Bill Erak
Amber, girlie…
Due to Comic Time I can only assume you’re playing Mario Kart World. It’s time to drop that shit and start playing Kirby Air Riders
dorothy keener's left doinker
the most important thing for amber to do right now is to start grinding city trial tbh
NGPZ
oooooo i been wondering where Dorothy’s doinker went!
how goes yur quest for burger? :9
Sarah
*Takes furious notes on which games she should be guying next*
Icalasari
She should have done Dark Souls. Now THAT will keep you up from pure rage
Tequila Mockingbird
Superman 64. She won’t sleep for days.
NGPZ
Spelunky, real lasting jaw breaker of a challenge
Tequila Mockingbird
I have never heard of this title, which makes me suspect the horror contained within it is cosmic Lovecraftian in severity.
NGPZ
it’s a roguelike platformer thats like Indiana Jones meets the Binding of Isaac
Lovecraftian horror? I mean besides the Hell level, there’s one where you go inside a giant worm if that counts? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
C.T Phipps
I suggest she plays something beautiful and relaxing.
Like DREDGE!
Yes, fish those abominations out of the New England sea.
cbwroses
I mean, if we want to go old school and have her frustration keeping her awake, she could always play some NES TMNT; just replay the underwater bombs stage over and over.
Kimi
More or less than Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy? I have also heard things about your “friend” in The Last Guardian.
StClair
mission accomplished, passing out now
Andy
She needed to make sure no one called 911 or involved the authorities. Having done so she can pass out.
Clif
Walky is easy to update. Most people would have a jillion questions.