Not being american, with y’all’s made up numbers, I have no idea what the weight means at all.
Kyrik Michalowski
130 pounds is roughly 59 kilos, hope that helps.
Doctor_Who
Are you English? Then she’s just over 8 stone.
Canadian? She’s 2,260 Timbits.
Cybertronian? 1 Roberts.
Pandoran? The shiniest meat bicycle!
Agemegos
One hundredweight and one pound!
Lieutenant Dan
Not all Timbits are created equal. A Honey Dip Timbit will blow away in a light breeze, while a Chocolate Glazed could anchor a small boat.
Are you proposing a Standard Reference Timbit?
BarerMender
Our numbers were made up before yours.
Ob
With that logic we should alll still be using the lunar calendar because it was made up before greg’s version.
K^2
To be fair, gram vs pound is an entirely arbitrary distinction. It’s only when you consider the entire system that there is an improvement in going metric, and by that point, you’re definitely not discussing how much a person weighs. And even then, the arbitrary choice of units in metric is the reason things like eV and natural units exist – we seriously could do better, we just chose not to, because everything being a power of ten feels like a huge improvement at a glance.
Agemegos
Donkey carts were invented before motorcars.
Trepanning was invented before paracetamol.
me
Now you know how we feel all the time. I have an old American pickup with an American made Diesel engine. All the engine fasteners are metric! I feel so betrayed. Part of why we hate them-SAE bolts $3.00 a pound. Metric bolts-$3.00 each.
Bruce Wayne, most famous person in Gotham, also spent his first night as a crimefighter in Batman: Year One wearing a “disguise” consisting of some foundation, a fake scar, and a beanie. He then proceeded to get stabbed by a 12 year old, shot by the cops, crash a car, and nearly bleed to death because he was too stubborn to call Alfred for medical assistance.
Maybe take your cues from a more competent version of Batman, Amber. Like Adam West.
Adam West was the one that beat crime so hard that Gotham was a clean, bright place, and who was able to be recognized for his work enough to be accepted by society and the police and able to work completely in the light. The one Batman who wouldn’t have been smarter to solve crime by using his money to improve society, because he’d done so ridiculously well Batmanning it that there was nothing left to improve.
All other versions of Batman only wish they were as good as Adam West Batman.
To be honest, Bruce could have used that technology he develops in secret with his company’s money and improve the security of Gotham without his super hero activities.
He could’ve invested in positive social programs, to keep the vast majority of those baddies off the streets in the first place. And some mental healthcare initiatives for his gallery of villains.
But, Batman.
I mean he did in the new Harleen comic it is shown that he funds research to help the inmates at arkam. Its not his fault the psychologist went insane.
Matthew E Davis
He does. It just doesn’t get a lot of play in the movie versions of him, or in the memeverse.
vlademir1
Batman directly fighting one symptom of social ills sells media. Bruce Wayne funding programs that help solve the underlying causes of social ills, and handling funding campaign to get others of his social class to do the same, comparatively doesn’t. The latter is therefore largely depicted as set dressing or as a narrative complication by the writers of Batman comics, while the former is basically the meat of their narrative arcs.
Oh boy are we seeing the development of Amazigirl and her split from Amber? This has nothing to do with Mike but I’m still interested in this story too.
It probably does have something important to do with Mike.
Unless you are just trying to confuse your readers, flashbacks have a specific purpose in a dramatic story. You use them when a character is about to do something (or something is going to happen) that would strike the readers as not right because the don’t know about something that happened, which you couldn’t fit in earlier (as, for instance, because it happened before the initiating incident of the main plot).
That being the case, this flashback is probably occurring now so that we will learn something about Amber and Amazi-Girl that enables us to realise that the next thing she/she does is in character for her/her. This is going to explain why Amazi-Girl incarcerated the Evil Dads in that dry well, and set Mike to guard them with the gimp mask and the hose-pipe. If that just happened now we would say to ourselves “That’s not right. the Ambi-Girl I know wouldn’t do that!” This was its going to feel real to us.
Not sure how long ago this flashback is, though it’s looking to be sometime during their high school years if I had to guess (i.e. after the gas station incident).
Given the sliding timescale of this webcomic: Batman Year One was printed way before they were born, but the animated movie was made in 2011, when they’d be about 9 years old.
I think this is near the beginning of the course of events and developments that led to Amber and Amazi-Girl splitting, but I suspect that the split is a lot more recent than this. I think that maybe we still had Amber playing at being Amazi-Girl as recently as the first week of semester.
It could also be a not-yet-retconned bit of Early Installment Weirdness with the art; one of the early chapters also had Sal going around gloveless in the mornings, until Willis went back a few years ago and drew gloves in.
The split wouldn’t be recent. DID can only develop up until a certain point in childhood due to the way a personality develops to my knowledge but it is likely AG was taking cues from Amber and pretending to be Amber as much as possible until she started to question Amber’s judgement e.g. AG doesn’t see Sal as dangerous, so she must not be dangerous, even though Amber was still terrified of her. It is possible that sometimes it was Amber, sometimes they were co-conscious and sometimes it was AG and because memories were shared, to Amber it just seemed like it was her the whole time when it wasn’t just her.
So because of Blaine’s horrible parenting Amber “split”. I know child abuse caused mental health problems, but he must have been really fucking horrible for Amber to get a vigilante personality.
The Joker was wrong about Batman and Commissioner Gordon, but Amber probably fit what the Joker was trying to get.
115 thoughts on “Year One”
Ana Chronistic
at her height I weighed 130 =p
I… still do actually =_=
Felix
You’re still at her height?
Leorale
That’s a perfectly good weight, too.
Mr D phone posting
Not being american, with y’all’s made up numbers, I have no idea what the weight means at all.
Kyrik Michalowski
130 pounds is roughly 59 kilos, hope that helps.
Doctor_Who
Are you English? Then she’s just over 8 stone.
Canadian? She’s 2,260 Timbits.
Cybertronian? 1 Roberts.
Pandoran? The shiniest meat bicycle!
Agemegos
One hundredweight and one pound!
Lieutenant Dan
Not all Timbits are created equal. A Honey Dip Timbit will blow away in a light breeze, while a Chocolate Glazed could anchor a small boat.
Are you proposing a Standard Reference Timbit?
BarerMender
Our numbers were made up before yours.
Ob
With that logic we should alll still be using the lunar calendar because it was made up before greg’s version.
K^2
To be fair, gram vs pound is an entirely arbitrary distinction. It’s only when you consider the entire system that there is an improvement in going metric, and by that point, you’re definitely not discussing how much a person weighs. And even then, the arbitrary choice of units in metric is the reason things like eV and natural units exist – we seriously could do better, we just chose not to, because everything being a power of ten feels like a huge improvement at a glance.
Agemegos
Donkey carts were invented before motorcars.
Trepanning was invented before paracetamol.
me
Now you know how we feel all the time. I have an old American pickup with an American made Diesel engine. All the engine fasteners are metric! I feel so betrayed. Part of why we hate them-SAE bolts $3.00 a pound. Metric bolts-$3.00 each.
Doctor_Who
Bruce Wayne, most famous person in Gotham, also spent his first night as a crimefighter in Batman: Year One wearing a “disguise” consisting of some foundation, a fake scar, and a beanie. He then proceeded to get stabbed by a 12 year old, shot by the cops, crash a car, and nearly bleed to death because he was too stubborn to call Alfred for medical assistance.
Maybe take your cues from a more competent version of Batman, Amber. Like Adam West.
He Who Abides
No one can be as good as Adam West, though. Not even Adam West.
StClair
what about Adam We?
ValdVin
He did once wear bulletproof armor the exact size of a bullet, which takes a lot of stones.
Deanatay
His name’s not Adam We!
…OR IS IT??
He Who Abides
Nobody messes with Adam We!
William A Egbert
Adam West was the one that beat crime so hard that Gotham was a clean, bright place, and who was able to be recognized for his work enough to be accepted by society and the police and able to work completely in the light. The one Batman who wouldn’t have been smarter to solve crime by using his money to improve society, because he’d done so ridiculously well Batmanning it that there was nothing left to improve.
All other versions of Batman only wish they were as good as Adam West Batman.
abysswatcher1993
To be honest, Bruce could have used that technology he develops in secret with his company’s money and improve the security of Gotham without his super hero activities.
Geneseepaws
But where’s the fun in that? I mean, Batman!
ValdVin
When someone says “Batman doesn’t have any superpowers” I regularly respond “Bruce Wayne’s wealth is a superpower.”
Leorale
He could’ve invested in positive social programs, to keep the vast majority of those baddies off the streets in the first place. And some mental healthcare initiatives for his gallery of villains.
But, Batman.
Mariah Hardnett
I mean he did in the new Harleen comic it is shown that he funds research to help the inmates at arkam. Its not his fault the psychologist went insane.
Matthew E Davis
He does. It just doesn’t get a lot of play in the movie versions of him, or in the memeverse.
vlademir1
Batman directly fighting one symptom of social ills sells media. Bruce Wayne funding programs that help solve the underlying causes of social ills, and handling funding campaign to get others of his social class to do the same, comparatively doesn’t. The latter is therefore largely depicted as set dressing or as a narrative complication by the writers of Batman comics, while the former is basically the meat of their narrative arcs.
KSClaw
He said different, not dumbass
abysswatcher1993
That is a way to be different, but the wrong one, and appropriate for the title of this comic.
PHNX
So, it’s HIS fault!
Miri
That was my response!
Fiiiiilo
man, I love melee
Wraithy2773
…Amber, don’t take advice on
crimefightinganything from Frank Miller…Doctor_Who
Someone get her a What Would Frank Miller Don’t wristband.
Lokitsu
The wristband just says “Whoreswhoreswhoreswhores”
Stephen Bierce
Today’s strip is sponsored by Nutrisystem. Which I find deplorable on a societal level.
All-Purpose Guru
I’m getting Home Chef. Nutrisystem would be more appropriate.
Oh, and Arrow Electronics.
Agemegos
I’m getting photos of young women cropped at the jawline and mid-thigh. That are apparently “Annie Cloth” brand. But I have no inclination to buy one.
Kyrik Michalowski
Oh boy are we seeing the development of Amazigirl and her split from Amber? This has nothing to do with Mike but I’m still interested in this story too.
Agemegos
It probably does have something important to do with Mike.
Unless you are just trying to confuse your readers, flashbacks have a specific purpose in a dramatic story. You use them when a character is about to do something (or something is going to happen) that would strike the readers as not right because the don’t know about something that happened, which you couldn’t fit in earlier (as, for instance, because it happened before the initiating incident of the main plot).
That being the case, this flashback is probably occurring now so that we will learn something about Amber and Amazi-Girl that enables us to realise that the next thing she/she does is in character for her/her. This is going to explain why Amazi-Girl incarcerated the Evil Dads in that dry well, and set Mike to guard them with the gimp mask and the hose-pipe. If that just happened now we would say to ourselves “That’s not right. the Ambi-Girl I know wouldn’t do that!” This was its going to feel real to us.
clif
You left out the lotion, but yeah.
Agemegos
Also, I made about a dozen typos. Blame the fever, headache, and coughing.
Tirachokko
On one hand, you kick trees long enough, you might learn how to kick properly.
On the other hand, this is a recipe for micro fractures and/or an actual broken foot :/
Doctor_Who
On the other other hand if you kick trees long enough, they may learn to kick back.
This isn’t Amazi-Girl’s origin story – it’s Groots!
clif
We can at least agree that Amber groot into a different person.
Dunamis
This made me lulz
FacelessDeviant
Or Treebeards origin story. Burárum!
Suet
Year Three: Amber becomes the tree
Ya tried tah work on being like James Roberts an’ what did ya do, yah surpassed it by miles
StClair
“Different person.” “Working on it.”
ouch
Agemegos
☹︎
Sirksome
What do you mean this chapter didn’t start with the corpse of Mike rising from the ground cause hell sent him back as his work remained unfinished!?
abysswatcher1993
So he was the Doom Slayer all along?!
clif
Only if you don’t want him to be.
bejouled
How tall is Amber?
King Daniel
In the present day, she’s five feet and two inches: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/find/
Not sure how long ago this flashback is, though it’s looking to be sometime during their high school years if I had to guess (i.e. after the gas station incident).
bejouled
Awesome, thanks. I’m 5 ft 0 and 113 on good days. It’s cool to see a character built a lot like me!
Leorale
If she’s already her full height, she’s like 5’3″, iirc.
119 is a skinny girl, but it’s reasonable for her pre-curvy and pre-muscled height/build.
witwicky
119 isn’t particularly “skinny,” that’s like the midpoint of normal range for her height.
Leorale
Ah, yeah, I didn’t mean that Amber looks skinnier than an average 14-yr-old who is 5’3″.
I meant, I think that this drawing and these numbers reasonably reflect a 14-yr-old of her height and build.
Agemegos
113 lb is about 51 kg, and 5’2″ is about 157 cm: BMI 20.6
ValdVin
Here, in this flashback? Good question. I’m still trying to figure out how old they are.
College-age Ethan has a lot more height over Amber https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-9-comic/01-flyin-to-the-red/organically/ , so this must be at least before he was 16 and “suddenly became hot”.
Given the sliding timescale of this webcomic: Batman Year One was printed way before they were born, but the animated movie was made in 2011, when they’d be about 9 years old.
Needfuldoer
I’d guess this is within a year after the gas station incident.
ValdVin
I concur. That was at thirteen for Amber IIRC, so this was about four of their years ago.
BBCC
Ahhhh, baby Amber and presumably the start of the baby Amazi-Girl
Agemegos
I think this is near the beginning of the course of events and developments that led to Amber and Amazi-Girl splitting, but I suspect that the split is a lot more recent than this. I think that maybe we still had Amber playing at being Amazi-Girl as recently as the first week of semester.
See panel three of the strip in which AG introduces herself. I’m not certain. They could be the shadows of the mask. But I think those are cheek blushes.
King Daniel
It could also be a not-yet-retconned bit of Early Installment Weirdness with the art; one of the early chapters also had Sal going around gloveless in the mornings, until Willis went back a few years ago and drew gloves in.
Sam
The split wouldn’t be recent. DID can only develop up until a certain point in childhood due to the way a personality develops to my knowledge but it is likely AG was taking cues from Amber and pretending to be Amber as much as possible until she started to question Amber’s judgement e.g. AG doesn’t see Sal as dangerous, so she must not be dangerous, even though Amber was still terrified of her. It is possible that sometimes it was Amber, sometimes they were co-conscious and sometimes it was AG and because memories were shared, to Amber it just seemed like it was her the whole time when it wasn’t just her.
abysswatcher1993
So because of Blaine’s horrible parenting Amber “split”. I know child abuse caused mental health problems, but he must have been really fucking horrible for Amber to get a vigilante personality.
The Joker was wrong about Batman and Commissioner Gordon, but Amber probably fit what the Joker was trying to get.
JessWitt
I wonder how much time has passed in this flashback strip since the convenience store holdup.
Lingo