Burst
Posted on July 9, 2014 by David M Willis

197 thoughts on “Burst”

  1. An Average Loser

    Hilarious.

    1. Hinoron

      To be fair, I wouldn’t be able to accept AG’s condition either. ^_^

  2. Jen Aside

    Other Rachel has purpler hair than I expected, TBH

    1. -Sentinel-

      What strikes me is those huge, bug-like eyes. *shudder*

      1. Doctor_Who

        She was tragically born without eyelids. The glasses keep them from falling out.

      2. LeslieBean4Shizzle

        I did not place that as Other Rachel until it was stated here (and then I looked at the tags). Yikes indeed.

      3. J_Excelsior12

        Its obvious that she has reached important character status due to her colored eyes.

    2. Nono

      I’m getting a weird, Velma-like vibe from her, but it’s not quite it – I can’t place my finger on what cartoon character she reminds me of.

      1. LiaHansen

        I think it helps that she’s standing next to Fred and Shaggy

        1. Anarchy 101

          Other Rachel = Velma, Joyce = Shaggy, Walky = Scooby, idk bout the rest

        2. The Steve

          Which Scooby Doo character does Mike correspond to?

        3. gwalla

          Scrappy.

        4. Jen Aside

          one of the villains saying, “If it weren’t for those meddling kids and their dog”

        5. Rutee

          Batman. He’s overrated, kind of an ass, nominally working for a greater good, and he annoys me.

          Batmans a Scooby doo character, look up the crossovers.

      2. LockeZ

        She’s Oblina from AAH, Real Monsters!

        For reference.

      3. Lieutenant Dan

        It’s Carol, from Girls With Slingshots. 🙂

  3. Mr. Random

    Are We free to use those easy set-ups?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Try it and find out. 😀

      1. Mr. Random

        Nah, it’d be just as easy as that set-up.

        1. Mr. Random

          ˢʰᵉ’ˢ ᵍᵒᶰᶰᵃ ˢᵗᵃʳᵉ ᵃᵗ ᵃᶫᶫ ᵒᶠ ᴹᶦᵏᵉ’ˢ ᵈᶦᶜᵏˢ⋅

        2. Mr. Random

          Boooo.

        3. LiaHansen

          Which is almost as easy as your mom

    2. nothri

      Your mom’s an easy set-up. Or maybe just easy.

  4. Doctor_Who

    I think Carla is the comment section in human form.

  5. MrSirk

    If only she had some Amazi-crime tape.

    1. Darwin

      Is the crime tape immune to criticism, too? Or is it only supposed to be used with Amazi-Girl level crimes?

  6. QuantaCat

    Carla is amazigirls window, obviously.

    1. ninja_jesus

      Is she the chest window, tho?

    2. Deanatay

      Aha! Amazi-Girl came out of Carla’s room! That means Amazi-Girl is probably – oh, wait, Carla’s right there. Damn!

      1. Lord Geovanni

        You can’t mean her lover can you

        1. Lord Geovanni

          Carla’s got game getting local celebrities and urban legends all at the same time

  7. Sensedog

    That’s what she said.

  8. Wack'd

    So I take it at least a day’s passed for Dorothy to run that by editorial and so forth?

    1. David M Willis

      Editorial works quicker than that!

    2. Yotomoe

      Daisy read it over and added sexy descriptions for Amazi-girl, (and for a brief period Dorothy)

      1. Doctor_Who

        Dorothy (reading article): Hey…me and Amazi-Girl didn’t stare breathlessly into each other’s eyes, our lips quivering with desire as we contemplated forbidden thoughts!

        Daisy: Trust me, it will sell more copies this way.

        1. Yotomoe

          The newspaper sales and the Tissue sales both experienced an equivelent skyrocket.

        2. Aizat

          And people haven’t left their bunks ever since.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          Doctor_Who, that is my new canon.

        4. 3oranges

          Or at least, not that Dorothy would have written down.

        5. Ancestral Hamster

          What about the “heaving bosoms” and “quivering thighs”, eh, eh? Wink wink nudge nudge, say no more, say no more!

        6. hof1991

          Campus paper is probably free. Not to say that they aren’t competing for eyes and market share, just that no one actually pays for the right to read them.

  9. Plasma Mongoose

    For some reason, I’m having a hard time thinking of a good retort.

    1. KingMabel

      “Hey Amazi-Girl, investigate any good penis lately?”

      1. Aizat

        “If you want to investigate penises, go check Dorothy’s room. There’s a penis pointing at the ceiling”

        1. KingMabel

          “That’s just her “friendship compass”. It’s pointing towards Jesus.”

        2. JessWitt

          Walky’s the Messiah? Praise be indeed!

        3. Rabid Rabbit

          The worst thing is that in another universe, he is.

          Yeah, sometimes I like this universe better.

        4. Aizat

          He’s not the Messiah, he’s a really naughty boy.

        5. Roborat

          Awesome.

    2. KingMabel

      “Hey Amazi-Girl, investigate any good penis lately?”

      1. Aizat

        That’s something Joe would say.

        1. KingMabel

          “Try the next floor. Plenty of penis there.”

        2. Aizat

          “Well, Johnson’s room is down the hall”

    3. Aizat

      Well, I do. Here goes: How did you even know about all this? We’re just complaining about permanent dongs on our whiteboards just a few minutes ago.

      1. Camachri

        Not that surprising in the age of Twitter. Being faster than a speeding bullet is nothing when you consider Twitter is faster than a speeding earthquake.

    4. Doctor_Who

      This help?

    5. Suitora

      “Would you like to investigate mine? *wink wink*”

      “What are you, a urologist?”

      “You know, there’s this great online site we could investigate together. *wink wink*”

      “Ding dong, Amazigirl’s looking for some schlong!”

      “You know, a chest window would help immensely. *hint hint* (Leslie or Faz would totes say this)”

      1. Aizat

        Hey, looking for something stiff and long?

    6. Aizat

      Oh, I got one. You thought you’d be investigating penises but it was I, Dio!

    7. Kryss LaBryn

      I’m having a good time thinking of a hard retort.

      Heh. Hard.

    8. Roborat

      Hey Amazi-Girl, looking for some dick are you?

  10. Just Me

    So Carla has a picture of Ultracar on her door. Maybe it was Ultracar who drew the you-know-whats on the doors.

    1. Yotomoe

      Maybe Carla thinks cars are flippin’ cool.

      1. Aizat

        Or Carla is a Pretender.

        1. KingMabel

          Maybe Carla donated to a kickstarter.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          A Pretender like Jarod?

        3. Aizat

          Haven’t seen that show since I was 8..or was it 6, I can’t recall.

      2. JessWitt

        Carla’s such a flipper-tigibbet.

    2. saltchocolate

      I was wondering why UC got tagged!

  11. Yotomoe

    If there isn’t a series of shirts that Say Proffessional Penis Inspector then there is no hope for this world.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Do you want to wear that shirt Yotomoe? Cos if you do, people just might be questioning your sexuality whenever you want them to or not.

      1. JustCheetoDust

        I think a guy can inspect his own penis professionally. Quandary solved.

        Maybe.

        1. Deathjavu

          It seems difficult to make a profession out of doing your job in only one occasion.

      2. Yotomoe

        Just cuz I want it to exist doesn’t mean I wanna wear it. Although if I was a straight girl I’d DEF wear it. Or a gay guy. Or even a Bi guy. Hell, if I was any sexuality but a straight dude I’d wear that shirt.

        1. John

          It might cause awkward misunderstandings for lesbians, too.

        2. Rheinman

          Well, it would be an unbiased, neutral opinion

  12. newllend

    People your cramping her style.

  13. Yotomoe

    Best Character’s back.

    1. lejwocky

      My thoughts exactly

      1. Jay Eff

        ^^^ lejwocky’s avatar makes his comment that much better!

  14. AgentKeen

    The twist in this chapter: Carla becomes Amazi-Girl’s sidekick, not Dina.

    1. Aizat

      Who says a hero can’t have more than one sidekick?

      1. JustCheetoDust

        Amazi-Girl, Inc.

      2. JessWitt

        Hell, she can head her own superhero team: The Amazi-Girl Alliance.

        1. Nono

          Amazi-Girl!
          Dinasaur!
          Bible-Thumper!
          Snarkus Woman!
          Yale Placehunter!
          Tarantuguns!
          Head Cheerleader!

          Together they are… the Amazi-League!

        2. Aizat

          And then after the Thanagarian invasion, they opened up membership to everyone.

        3. timemonkey

          Head Beerleader.

        4. JessWitt

          Carla even has her own alias in Shortpacked: Schtickshift. It all clicks together perfectly now!

        5. Amazistool

          Bible-Thumber?
          More like “Bible-Belt – Girl of Ministry”!

  15. Just Me

    If Amazi-girl wants to investigate Penises, she is on the wrong side of the dorm.

  16. KingMabel

    “No fair. You don’t have to find the bad guy now, let me make my penis jokes.”

  17. Nono

    This is Joyce’s first real encounter with Amazi-Girl, right?

    Will she find a new cool hero to replace Sal?

    Or… will she and Dorothy fight over who is cooler, Sal or Amazi-Girl?

  18. JessWitt

    What do Amazi-Girl fans call themselves exactly?

    1. Nono

      Fanmazi-girls.

      1. Kiggy

        Amazi-Fans

        :3

    2. timemonkey

      People who can’t recognise a deeply unbalanced person.

      1. Leorale

        I think everyone in the comments recognizes that Amber/AG is crazybonkers and needs help. Amazi-Fans just also happen to like her. 🙂

        1. Jerden

          I can accept that someone needs psychological help, while also aspiring to be more like her! Right? Is that allowed?

        2. David M Willis

          Sometimes crazy works.

      2. Rabid Rabbit

        Not snappy enough.

      3. Deanatay

        Tell that to Batman fans.

        1. timemonkey

          I do, nobody listens.

      4. Jerden

        You really think that people can’t like the insane? THAT’S PREJUDICED!

  19. Plasma Mongoose

    If AG spends enough time climbing in and out of windows, she might bump into Sal.

    1. Yotomoe

      They’re always entering and exiting windows simultaneousely like a scooby doo chase scene.

      1. JessWitt

        Man, I’d love to see a GIF of that – plus the rest of Sal’s posse as well.

    2. newllend

      IKR?

    3. Roborat

      Well, they are both professional fenestraters, after all.

  20. LiaHansen

    I saw that this was tagged ultra car and I was like WHAT DID SHE HOP DIMENSIONS BECAUSE THE WALKIVERSE IS ENDING AND THEY NEED TO TEAM UP WIoh wait ultra car’s on the door

    1. Wack'd

      Crisis on Infinite Walkyverses is already a thing that exists!

      1. LiaHansen

        I KNOW and before I started DoA I thought it was canon and I was super excited to read it!

        1. Wack'd

          For a while, Willis was insisting all his print arts had to be canon. Really sad that insistence didn’t last once that print happened.

  21. Tamar

    Amazi-Girl seems saner and more functional lately. Should we be relieved, or very, very worried?

    1. ShaggyDonahugh

      Probably worried. I feel like she’s just found another reason to cling to the whole “amazigirl” personality. Yes she seems better, but in reality it’s far less than one would hope.

  22. Aizat

    Panel 1: Nobody expects Amazi-Girl!

    1. lejwocky

      Except for perhaps Ultra Car, given its blase expression

      1. Aizat

        Well, maybe she’s immune to surprise…surprise and fear.

  23. caesaria82

    Look at all those amazing ladies in one panel. ALL THE LADIES. I just. Ladies, man. I love ladies.

    1. Aizat

      Don’t we all?

      1. Chris

        If by “all” you mean about 50% of the population, approximately, then yeah, I guess so. 🙂

        1. caesaria82

          But why would the other 50% not love ladies? Doesn’t have to be romantic or sexual. But ladies. Ladies are awesome! And gentlemen are awesome. And non-binary folk are awesome. And people are awesome.

    2. Yotomoe

      Girls, Girls, Girls!

      1. JessWitt

        Girls being girls being girls being girls. Girl group!

    3. Carriethedragon

      My brain interpreted your comment as having been said by your Danny gravatar, and it really weirded me out, let me tell ya.

      1. Aizat

        And my brain interpreted your comment as having been said by your Dorothy gravatar…which is somewhat fitting.

      2. caesaria82

        The struggle of the Danny avatar is definitely real.

  24. Dedlok

    Am I the only one that thinks Willis had Amazi-Girl come out of Carla’s room to bait out and or reference the “Amazi-Girl is Ultra-Car” running joke posts?

    1. Robin

      Given how Willis has said at various times that assaulted equine is definitely six feet under, I doubt that’s what he intended when he drew this comic.

  25. Wonder Wig

    You ever notice that Amazi-Girl and Obama are never seen together at the same time?

    1. Aizat

      Why Obama? Why not Willem Dafoe?

      1. LiaHansen

        Because Willem Dafoe voices Blaine, obviously, so they pretty much have.

        1. Aizat

          Wait, I thought we were going with Tim Curry?

        2. Jay Eff

          Naw, I think we went with Inspector Gadget Sean Hannity.

        3. Jay Eff

          Correction: Inspector Gadget Sean Hannity.

          I have no idea who Inspector Gadget Sean Hannity is…

        4. LiaHansen

          I dunno what it is, but I wanna see it on the big screen

        5. Wack'd

          I tried recording some of Blaine’s lines with a Don Adams impression but it came out sounding more like Frank Oz.

    2. Yotomoe

      Have you ever noticed that you never see Colonel Sanders and Benjamin Franklin at the same time?

      1. Aizat

        Well, duh. Colonel Sanders was on board the Spaceball One.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        Same time? They weren’t even in the same century.

        1. Gigafreak

          That’s what he WANTS you to think!

        2. Kryss LaBryn

          Well, except for his clone which is hanging out with Dr. McNinja…

        3. JessWitt

          I heard Dr McNinja had a thing for Nurse Ratched once. CreEpy.

      3. Swerve

        You notice how Megatron never seems to recognize Verity Carlo? Even when she’s as big as Metroplex?

        1. Megatron

          Now you’re just being ridiculous.

        2. David M Willis

          I’m pretty sure he explicitly recognizes Verity Carlo.

        3. Swerve

          Maybe subconsciously he does. 🙂

  26. newllend

    You know what Joyce might be a suspect unlike everyone else (besides mike) she has a motive , Revenge.

  27. GoogerGeiger

    Huh. Joyce was completely oblivious to Amazi-Girl until this very moment.

    1. newllend

      Doesn’t she read the papers ?

      1. Wack'd

        Yes, but only for Help Me, Harlan.

      2. Deanatay

        As often as Sal does (although probably for different reasons).

  28. saltchocolate

    Willis, hi! I hope it’s okay to ask you this here: What’s going on with the Roomies/It’s Walky site? A couple days ago, the header changed from Roomies to It’s Walky, but the strips reverted back to the begining of Roomies— and the comments are all dated from 2 years ago… Is this what I should be seeing?????

    1. Wack'd

      Back in September 2012, for the Roomies! 15th anniversary, Willis started reuploading everything to a new site, a day at a time, with commentary. Now that Roomies! is finished, the It’s Walky! domain now also houses that project–but don’t worry, the old site is still available here.

      1. saltchocolate

        Hey, Wack’d! Thanks for replying. I’ve been reading along with the daily Roomies strips since Willis began uploading them along with the new “director’s cut” commentary. But now that Roomies is over, I thought he was going to take us all through It’s Walky, the same way, next. Isn’t that what the recent poll about redrawn strips was for? In any case, the link you posted didn’t work for me… Sorry if I’m missing something obvious!

        1. showler

          First page of the redrawn It’s Walky was posted today. You should be seeing that now.

        2. Wack'd

          He is taking us all through It’s Walky!.

          I’m trying to parse your original post, and I suspect the problem is that you’re clicking the Roomies! button on the side of the page, which takes you back to the start. Click “Home” or on the banner once you’re there to see today’s comic.

          The link doesn’t work because I forgot the http:// at the beginning, this should do it.

        3. saltchocolate

          Thanks, Wack’d and Showler! I’m all clear, now.

  29. Plasma Mongoose

    I don’t suppose that Carla has a brother with an bionic arm by any chance?

    1. Aizat

      Cable?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Unexpected answer that was.

        1. Swerve

          Nobody ever expects Cable! He’s the Spanish Inquisition of time-traveling mutants! (Although he’s not a cyborg. Never was, certainly isn’t now.)

    2. Kamino Neko

      It’s only a hand, silly.

      1. Roborat

        And his name is Clinton?

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        It has to be an entire arm just to be lawyer-friendly.

  30. Aizat

    Wait, is Carla flipping the bird in panel 4?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Well spotted! 😀

    2. 3oranges

      I think that’s my favorite part. Amazi-Girl may have fans, but she earned that bird.

    3. Chris

      Yup, Carla remembers.

  31. Megatron

    Carla is now the fleshling I dispise the least, just ahead of Frank Welker. Of course, Ultra Car back over in the Walkyverse is even better, but at least Carla knows what’s what.

    1. Wack'd

      Big Scooby-Doo fan, I take it? 😛

      1. Megatron

        The dog is o.k., can’t sand the guy with neckerchief ascot. People always want to know why I have a fusion cannon stepped to my arm. My answer to them is, why does Fred wear an ascot? That’s the question you should be asking.

        I’m ignoring Swerve.

        1. Wack'd

          So why do you like Frank Welker so much? Inspector Gadget? Jabberjaw? The Real Ghostbusters? Futurama?

    2. Swerve

      Despising “fleshlings” huh? Did you even bother to read the Autobot Code? Seriously, of all the ex-Decepticons to be trapped on the Rodpod with, why couldn’t it be Drift?

  32. Gigafreak

    Carla’s acting fairly calm about Amazi-Girl’s presence considering their altercation the other day. Then again, maybe that altercation dispelled the awe that Carla previously had for her.

  33. Rutee

    …I like how mad Carla is at Amazi-girl being in her room. I <3 you Carla.

  34. Orangey

    I love everything about this page.

  35. Angel

    the boys dorm is downstairs…dammit T_T

  36. Idon'tcarenomore

    So where’s Ultra Car? She’s in the tags 🙂
    Great punch line.

    1. caesaria82

      On the door 😉

    2. John

      … Are “Ultra Car is Amazi-Girl” jokes funny again yet?

      1. timemonkey

        They weren’t to begin with so no.

      2. davidbreslin101

        I think it’s one of those things where the first couple of times were funny, the next 27,391 times less so.

  37. Lord Geovanni

    So who doesn’t have a deal

  38. TJ Baltimore

    What does Amazi-Girl have against resident aliens who aren’t citizens? Xenophobia!

  39. OmegaDez

    I kinda forgot. Is this specifically a girl’s dorm?
    Don’t we sometimes see the guys in there?

    …I gotta admit, I have no idea how dorms work, having never lived in one.

    1. John

      Read Hall is a coed dorm, with four wings connected through a central lobby. Clark and Landes Wings are all-girls, Beck and Curry Wings are all-boys. The DoA ladies mostly live on the third floor of Clark Wing. The guys mostly live on the third floor of Beck Wing. There’s nothing particularly preventing people from wandering between wings.

      1. davidbreslin101

        Don’t the stairs to the girls’ wings magically turn into a really slippery slide if a boy tries to go up them? I’m sure somebody told me that….
        (The Halls of Residence where I lived first year of my degree were mixed. And yes, it was often very hard to sleep as a result.)

      2. Amazistool

        Hence the name of chapter 3 – as seen in the archive.

      3. OmegaDez

        Oh yeah, I keep forgetting this is based on a real place. 🙂

        It does make it easier to draw a comic when you use real locales, that’s for sure. And it’s cool when you recognize things too. 🙂

    2. timemonkey

      This is the girl’s wing of the dorm but the boys are free to enter if they want and the girls can do the same.

  40. Alexx

    Carla is flipping the tiniest bird, back there, but the sentiment is understood. Aye, it got through, Carla. It got through.

  41. Maycroft

    Imunne to criticism and double entederings.

  42. Tenn

    Now I’m imagining Christian Bale growling “Where is the penis?! WHERE IS IT?!”

    And the terrified random thug whimpers and slowly points down towards Batman’s crotch area.

  43. man in black

    But you left yourself wide open there Amazi- girl

  44. Jonathan Woodward

    Ah, Agatha and Carla are not roommates! [furiously updates chart]

  45. Onion

    It’s probably mike.

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