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Good deeds
Posted on August 16, 2019 by David M Willis

115 thoughts on “Good deeds”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    I feel like that’s a panel at Otakon: “Calculus and Cosplay”

    1. Lokitsu

      Followed by “Geometry and Gundam” and for adults only “History and Hentai”.

      1. Clif

        So where is the enrollment information for this Otakon University again. 🙂

        1. Delicious Taffy

          Time to learn about some bones, am I right?

        2. Geneseepaws

          Bones? I think that’s today’s Wilde Life comic.

        3. DarkoNeko

          omg spoiil

        4. Br44n5m

          When you find it come get me, let’s be classmates

      2. Elisto

        Pretty sure we actually did just have a History of Hentai panel this year at Otakon.

    2. All-Purpose Guru

      I think in this case it’s “Calculus and Foreplay.”

      1. Killer Klown

        That’s across the hall; Trigonometry and Titilliation

      2. Ana Chronistic

        I guess Ruth’s taking Femurs and Foreplay

  2. butts

    Walky Performs a Death-Defying Parkour Stunt

    1. Marsh Maryrose

      Based on a reference photo I finally found, and depending on which corner of the wall he’s standing at, Walky is at most six feet off the ground, if he’s not at the three-feet end.

      So I’ll give you Wrist-Break-Defying Parkour Stunt. Death-Defying? Only in his own mind.

      1. King Daniel

        If he rolls a natural 1, it could be Death-Defying.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Walky will be like a cat, lots of hissing and scratching but be very thankful once he is down.

    3. Shane

      Or at least twisted ankle defying.

  3. newllend(henryvolt)

    Who says the only thing Amazi-girl is good for is punching people ?

    1. Stephen Bierce

      I don’t.

    2. Doctor_Who

      “I punch the calculus!”

      Great, now I imagine Amber’s Amazi-Voice sounding like Brick from Borderlands.

      1. RicardtheDragoon

        Brick would be encroaching on Zed’s turf with that. On the other hand, Brick’s version of “extracorporeal shockwave therapy” would probably be still be safer than what Mr. “I don’t have a medical license” would likely suggest.

      2. Chris

        Is a calculus more or less dangerous than a gazebo?

        1. thejeff

          Hard to say. What’s the gazebo doing?

  4. Nono

    Amazi-Girl’s final form: Danny.

    1. Juanoku

      I fucking knew it

  5. Jess

    This is…surprisingly sweet. Might be good for both of them.

    1. Gigafreak

      I don’t want them to, but if they started banging,
      Amazi-Girl would be the new sidechick to her new sidekick
      and I couldn’t just let that pun go unstated

  6. Kyrik Michalowski

    Amazi-girl does a tutoring, the best thing she ever did.

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      Well not to knock on Amazi-girls work but it does hold more value than beating up some random punk on the street.

  7. Alanari

    So they did share memories up to some point. She remembers having learned calculus.
    Also, wise words, ag. Now tell that to Amber.

    1. noiob

      I read somewhere that there’s a difference between skills and personal memories

      1. Alanari

        We’re talking about high level math. At least in my country, that’s stuff where you usually have to dig around in your memory to find an answer. And you need memories to do that.

        1. not someone else

          Calculus is around the time where, at least for some people, math stops being about memorization again, so it could go either way.

        2. Alanari

          It never did that for me, and I’ve a computer science degree (so, a lot of math). Over time, memory migrates into skill, yes, but there always is a part that requires memories. Usually that part that is either rarely used or relatively new.

      2. Inahc

        There is a difference, but both can be dissociated away.

  8. Stephen Bierce

    I saw a man walkin’ upside down
    My TV is on the blink
    Made Galileo look like a Boy Scout
    Sorry ’bout that–Let It All Hang Out

  9. etherealdesiign

    good advice, ambermazigirl, maybe you should follow it once in a while

  10. DailyBrad

    I am just picturing this playing out like Moetan, except super differently. Still, it’s a superheroine-kind of tutoring a dude.

  11. General Tekno

    Good moment, until Amazigirl realizes she doesn’t know calculus anymore because she’s partitioned that into the Amber half.

    (Granted that’s totally not how this stuff works I imagine)

    1. nlips

      I think skills carry over, otherwise the new personalities would need to learn to talk and walk.

      1. Hoboturtle

        “Listen Amazigirl I want you to forget about everything that doesn’t have to do with crime fighting… and breathing.”

      2. Inahc

        It can go either way.

        Watching your brain snatch random skills like speech away from you in realtime would be fascinating if it wasn’t so damn terrifying.

  12. BBCC

    I mean, you’d probably get a medical accommodation for your calculus exam date if you broke both your legs. Extra study time. Eh? Ehhh?

    1. Reltzik

      But if both his legs were broken he wouldn’t be very Walky.

      *flees for dear punning life*

    2. Delicious Taffy

      Both his arms, better yet.

  13. Suitora

    Amazi-Girl Performs A Good Deed

  14. Diner Kinetic

    It will literally take a superhero to save Walky from flunking math- except for the fact that Midterms don’t really matter, of course. (I assume, it’s been less than a year since the last one I took but I also took about as much care of my academics as Walky does of hsi)

    1. TemperaryObsessor

      Even if they don’t math builds on itself a lot.

  15. abysswatcher1993

    If only Amber could hear you Amazi-Girl, only then she would reconsider her own self hatred and try to accept her flaws. If only. Now I understand why Willis causes the “Damn you, Willis!”.

  16. John

    Amazi-Girl trained and practiced for years to be the best at tutoring calculus.

    She can also beat Batman at DDR.

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Unless it’s Butterfly. He’s just got this knack she can never match.

    2. Juanoku

      At DDR? But that’s his specialty!

  17. Transgressingwaffle

    The line no one should feel too far gone really hit me. Thanks, I needed to hear that and didn’t even know it.

    1. JessWitt

      Agreed, that was an affecting panel. Makes me feel a little better about stuff.

  18. Delicious Taffy

    Yeet the whole man off the structure

  19. Bagge

    I love that Walky’s curse is that whoever he turns to, whatever he does, no matter how stupid or ridiculous, he never ever can escape math.

    Pretending to be a superhero? SURE, now you will get mentored by a more experienced superhero… in math.

    1. Marie

      A++

    2. newllend(henryvolt)

      It’s ironic that this reminds me of a scene where in that new ps4 Spider-Man game there’s a scene where Peter Parker tails and Miles Morales that the reason why so good at being Spider-Man is because he does calculations in his head all the time when he’s web swinging around.

  20. Black Bumblebee

    What if both Amazi Girl AND Amber fall in love with Walky? Will they have to fight over him?

    1. Keulen

      How would that even work, since they’re both in the same body?

    2. Khantalas

      I mean, not necessarily, but Amber might have difficulty being in a poly relationship, given her past reactions to Danny danning it up with her and AG.

  21. ReverendJ

    She should text herself. “Met Walky, assisted with calc. Please wash uniform and use protection.”

    1. Juanoku

      “i want you in bed by 8”- AG
      “Oh goddammit”

  22. Tacos

    HARDCORE PARKOUR!!!

    1. LeslieBean4shizzle

      I’m glad someone else said it. Cause if you didn’t, I was going to. A day late when I remembered I went to bed early last night and missed the update.

    2. LeslieBean4shizzle

      Also:
      Hardcore Parkour!

  23. JohnInCA

    How many women are going to try and tutor Walky in calculus before he learns about dropping classes.

    1. JessWitt

      Isn’t it a little late for him to do that? The grace period must have been weeks ago in comic time. He could get a mark on his record if he drops now.

      1. Marsh Maryrose

        In the real-world IU academic calendar for Fall 2019, students can drop a course up until Oct. 27 with an “automatic W.” A grade of W (for “withdrawn”) does not count on your GPA; it’s basically like you never took the class, except that anyone looking at your transcript knows that you took it and dropped it.

        Of course, if Walky did do that, it might affect any scholarships he has, and if and when his mom finds out, she will go through the roof.

        1. BBCC

          It’s only the middle of October in comic.

        2. Alanari

          According to Jason, it’s too late for that now:
          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/deadline/

    2. Clif

      To the best of my knowledge, only Jason has made any kind of effort to tutor him till now, so I don’t know what you’re talking about. If you’re already at mid-terms it’s probably too late to drop.

      1. Sol Karas

        Didn’t Dorothy also try and help him with his grades for a while?

    3. thejeff

      At some point Walky’s going to have to learn to study. Not sure that postponing that by dropping Calc is the best plan.

  24. JessWitt

    All good deeds, big and small, are equal to Amazi-Girl.

  25. Zero

    Walky, you’re not that high up. Just hop down.
    The end over the top of the stairs, of course.

  26. Well_Played

    The only time you’re too far gone is when they’re lowering you 6ft underground.

  27. 3oranges

    “I’m Amazi-girl, and I can derive elements in a tangent space.”

  28. Proto

    Didn’t Amber hack Walky’s grades? I forget.

    Although I guess even hacked can’t prevent him from bombing future tests… too bad it’s not one of those classes that lets you exempt midterms/finals if your grades are good enough!

    1. Marsh Maryrose

      He asked her not to. But without his knowledge, she scooched his grades up “just enough to keep him off academic probation.”

      But that won’t help him if he blows the midterm.

  29. ktbear

    So any moment now the fact Walky’s grades have been altered will edge its way into the scenario. Although, if he still thinks he’s failing…

    1. BenRG

      It might be that, after being tutored, his actual performance meets his grades half-way, so the whole thing never really comes out.

  30. Piotr W

    I admit I still can’t get over how chill Walky is with the realization that Amber and AG are separate personalities. He seems to think it’s a cool thing… Dude! It’s not. She’s really messed-up and she needs help…

  31. Marsh Maryrose

    Just for fun I’ve been looking at reference photos for this library, and now I’m wondering: WHAT KIND OF MONSTER ARCHITECTED THIS BUILDING? WHAT KIND OF BOARD APPROVED IT?

    It’s a pair of towers, NEITHER OF WHICH HAS ANY WINDOWS ABOVE THE SECOND FLOOR! Even Rapunzel’s tower had windows on the top floor. I can only guess that the building was designed by the Morlocks to efficiently pen up the Eloi.

    1. BenRG

      Buildings in academic campuses often tend to be contemporary art horrors because the board feels that they are obliged to promote new ideas in the arts. For example, there’s a building a Berkley that was so badly designed that climate control is essentially impossible and, in winter it’s various overhangs on the exterior becomes a lethal icicle launching arrays to potentially impale students walking below.

      1. Warren

        On the plus side, if you’re slain by an icicle, you don’t have to repay your student loans.

      2. Norah

        Where is this Berkley located? I was thinking of the one in California, but I can’t imag there’d be many instances of icicles there.

    2. Liquid Len

      Looks like it was built in 1969. Brutalist Architecture was a thing then, so lots of big concrete buildings.

      Where I went to college was no different: Folsom Library, 1976

      1. kgy121

        The nice thing about Brutalist Architecture is that improving its design with a sledgehammer is within line of it’s original ascetic.

      2. Marsh Maryrose

        As it happens, McMansion Hell has up part one of a five-part series on Brutalism.

  32. BenRG

    There’s the key to Amazi-Girl, IMO: She’s Amber’s desire to do good instead of harm, something that she’s genuinely afraid is all that she can do (and is slowly learning isn’t the case). A reminder that Amber really does find joy in helping people, no matter how awkward she is on a social level.

    There is also so much sweet in this and it makes sense that, as Amber and Amazi-Girl both originated from the same root psyche, the two of them should both consider Walky attractive on a certain level. Not a ship, not yet, but Amazi-Girl sees the same things in Walky that Amber sees.

    1. Sam

      That’s a bit iffy to be using the word ‘should’ there. For some people with DID, yes, their alters will be attracted to the same people as them and have the same orientation, but that isn’t true for all alters or for all partners, especially because Protector alters can see partners as ‘potential threats’ and as such, be far pickier, and because some alters aren’t suited for dating like child alters for instance, which are common in systems.

      1. BenRG

        I’m not making a generalisation; I’m specifically talking about what I deduce from Amber/Amazi-Girl’s specific case as we’ve seen it portrayed so far.

  33. brasca1

    I hope this doesn’t make Dorothy jealous. It’s one thing to pick Walky up on the rebound, but succeed at tutoring him when she couldn’t might cause her to snap.

    1. BenRG

      Dorothy has had lots of causes to snap recently, this is just another one. I’m still expecting an eventual scene where Joyce has to deal with her having an emotional breakdown (possibly lubricated with Billie’s ‘secret’ stash).

  34. Keulen

    How did Walky get up there so easily without figuring out how to get down? Is he a cat?

    1. BenRG

      From personal experience, I can confirm that it is easier to climb up stuff than it is to climb down. Something about not having to look down whilst going up, IMO.

  35. C.T. Phipps

    Walkerton doesn’t know Amber upped his Math grade to passing.

    1. thejeff

      Nor does Amazi-Girl.

      Still not going to help if he doesn’t catch up and start passing the rest of the semester.

  36. Shane

    Walky, accepting help is a legitimate way to pass your stated problem, PLUS you get to spend time interacting positively and HEALTHILY with someone you both like and who badly needs normal interaction.

    Are you working at shooting down a win-win-win situation because you actively hate success and succeeding?

  37. Zaxares

    Do a reverse dismount, Walky. Turn around, brace your arms on the edge of the ledge, then hop off to catch your weight on your arms (don’t worry if you wind up belly-flopping against the wall. Happens often if you’re not used to this maneuver), then drop to the ground below. Cuts down on the height you have to drop by a good amount.

    1. ischemgeek

      Just don’t catch your jaw on the wall, knock yourself out, and Jack up your ankles when you plummet like a rag doll to the ground.

      … N-not that I am talking from experience or anything.

  38. TemperaryObsessor

    Please include Amber in that statement Amazigirl.

    1. BenRG

      I doubt that she’s ready to do so. Amazi-Girl exists because of the fact that Amber believed herself to be a bad person and wanted to have a part of her that tried to turn her bad qualities to good deeds. So, right now, it’s a founding assumption of the Amazi-Girl psyche that Amber is beyond help. It will take a lot of evidence for her to believe otherwise and would probably spark an existential crisis for her.

      Curiously enough, I interpret Amazi-Girl’s words as meaning that she hopes that, by doing good deeds as much as possible (or, at least, what she perceives to be good deeds), she will prove that she was not ‘too far gone’.

      1. SpaceshipPilot

        If Amber ever does accept that she’s not beyond help… will AG cease to exist?

        1. Jhon

          NO
          Alters fight for their survival – just as you would.

          … if Cerberus has taught me one thing…

  39. James Rye

    I bet those two gonna do the hanky-panky in the library. Amber gonna be shocked her alter ego also goes for Walky.

  40. Rabisch

    I wonder if Amazi-girl wants to help Walky because Amber like him or for a personal liking for him. However, it would be a nice thing to see.

  41. hof1991

    Oh AG, you can’t make Walky think. You might be able to get him through Calc 1 though.

  42. Skeptible

    I would counter that knowing when to give up is a valuable skill. (Not that Walky has this skill.)

  43. HeatherJean

    Doesn’t Dorothy hang out at the library? Dorothy who broke up with Walky like two days ago in comic time? If so, will she be in costume?

  44. BenRG

    Here’s what I’m hoping to see here: Amber wakes up tomorrow morning with a voice mail on her ‘phone from Amazi-Girl telling her about Walky’s situation regarding calculus. “Help him learn. This is your chance to prove that you’re not beyond hope,” her alter-ego announces.

    1. thejeff

      Amazi-Girl and Amber aren’t on speaking terms. Not even leaving each other messages terms.

  45. Rosicrucian

    This is like a Goofus and Gallant strip.

    Amazi-Girl helpfully tutors you in Calculus.

    Amber hacks your grades.

  46. ego

    this just HAS to be set-up for AG finding about Amber changing Walky’s grades, doesn’t it?

    that or the weirdest of threesomes.

  47. Treita

    I think I needed that line today.

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