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Posted on June 3, 2020 by David M Willis

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Tags: amber, becky, carla, dina, faz, joyce, sal
Wack'd's Best Dumbing Of Age Character poll CONTINUES! The entire first left hand side has gone through its first round of battles, with ... everything being pretty lopsided along expected routes (Dina versus Raidah?  GUESS!!!!), except Leslie/Ethan which is... dang close as I write this. I believe the first column of the upper right quadrant goes live today!  It's, what, Becky/Faz, Penny/Jacob, Galasso/Sierra, and Carla/Robin? LET THEM FIGHT.

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  1. OtterBoy1

    06/03/2020, 12:04 am
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    Jump! (clickme)

    1. clif

      06/03/2020, 1:10 am
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      Be damned. Becky wasn’t bluffing.

      I’m despondent over being wrong, of course, but not nearly enough to jump.

      1. Jeff K!

        06/03/2020, 1:56 am
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        If every clif was jumping, would you, too?

        1. Geneseepaws

          06/03/2020, 7:36 am

          If every jump was Cliffing, would you, too?
          Wait, …wrong comic. Sorry.

        2. Sunny

          06/03/2020, 8:02 am

          Oh jeez. Probably.
          https://xkcd.com/1170/

  2. Ana Chronistic

    06/03/2020, 12:04 am
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    “An’ I don’t mean like eatin’ cans or nothin’, THE GOATEST OF ALL TIME 4/?”

    1. Bajja

      06/03/2020, 2:06 am
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      Ya but does anyone but you know what this means?

      1. Geneseepaws

        06/03/2020, 7:37 am
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        Yeah, Maybe? Cause she’s the bait in the trap?

  3. Doctor_Who

    06/03/2020, 12:04 am
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    Good plan, Joyce. Anything Faz comes in contact with instantly becomes sticky. Less chance you’ll fall off when it’s your turn.

    1. OtterBoy1

      06/03/2020, 12:13 am
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      Not a fan of sticky Faz

      1. Doctor_Who

        06/03/2020, 12:16 am
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        He has many practical uses!

        If you roll him on the floor of a barbershop, not only does it become clean, but now you can use him to stage Sasquatch sightings!

        1. sharktrs

          06/03/2020, 12:18 am

          don’t do that unless you want your floor feeling like someone spilled room temperature soda on it and forgot to clean it off

        2. Johnny Austin

          06/03/2020, 12:38 am

          Practical uses…

          Like testing how likely it is to jump from a moving van onto a motorcycle carrying two people…

          It is unlikely this would be joyce’s intent, but it is happy chance that there is a disposable body available to do a little beta testing…

        3. Johnny Austin

          06/03/2020, 5:09 am

          Oops. One person.

          Didn’t notice amber had made the leap onto the dadmobile.

          Everything’s happening so quickly…

      2. Bunny

        06/03/2020, 1:00 am
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        He’s a refugee too.

        1. Needfuldoer

          06/03/2020, 5:51 am

          But he don’t have to live like one.

    2. Some1

      06/03/2020, 12:34 am
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      Faz is the Mineta of this comic.

      1. sharktrs

        06/03/2020, 12:52 am
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        I hate how right that statement is

    3. Bajja

      06/03/2020, 2:07 am
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      …you are imagining four on a motorcycle ..?? Ummmmmmm

  4. danielle

    06/03/2020, 12:05 am
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    ooh beckys the greek chorus!

  5. Shen Hibiki

    06/03/2020, 12:06 am
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    …I’m trying to get what “goat” means in this context…
    “greatest of them all”?

    1. Chris

      06/03/2020, 12:06 am
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      Greatest of all time.

    2. Shen Hibiki

      06/03/2020, 12:07 am
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      … nope, I’m dumb, that’d be backwards… And the comment up there explains it XD

    3. K

      06/03/2020, 12:09 am
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      Grammy
      Oscar
      emm -uhhhhh- Amy
      Tony

      1. Bicycle Bill

        06/03/2020, 12:25 am
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        You’re thinking of EGOT, the term given to people who have personallyu won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, AND a Tony (theater award).

        1. davidbreslin101

          06/03/2020, 6:28 am

          …please tell me their jealous rivals call them “EGOTists.”

        2. a/snow/mous/e

          06/03/2020, 11:21 am

          I’ve definitely seen that used in crosswords.

    4. butts

      06/03/2020, 12:22 am
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      God Over All Things, this is a good christian twitter account yo

    5. Sombrero

      06/03/2020, 5:57 am
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      Great Omnivore Animal on Twitter

    6. Ryek Hvek

      06/03/2020, 6:39 am
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      GOlly, A Turnip

    7. a/snow/mous/e

      06/03/2020, 11:22 am
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      Goat On A Tricycle

    8. a/snow/mous/e

      06/03/2020, 11:23 am
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      Getting Onto A Truck

  6. Chris

    06/03/2020, 12:06 am
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    As I thought. Not a bluff.

    1. Yumi

      06/03/2020, 12:11 am
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      *stares at a certain commenter; you know who you are*

      1. BBCC

        06/03/2020, 12:13 am
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        If it makes them feel better, they GREATLY amused me on Patreon last night.

        1. clif

          06/03/2020, 1:14 am

          Practices innocent who-me look.

        2. Rabid Rabbit

          06/03/2020, 1:42 am

          It’s his phone!!!

        3. BBCC

          06/03/2020, 2:03 am

          PFFT, every time I remember that it gets funnier.

        4. Deanatay

          06/03/2020, 9:44 am

          You’ve probably seen The Exorcist 157 times.

        5. BBCC

          06/03/2020, 1:18 pm

          HAven’t even seen it once.

    2. sharktrs

      06/03/2020, 12:13 am
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      I was originally in the “not a bluff” camp, but that first panel could very easily be Becky compensating for a bluff by tweeting out the “scheduled” tweets manually

      1. BBCC

        06/03/2020, 12:14 am
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        Nah, there’s no point bringing up her dad in that case, considering he’s worm chow.

        1. sharktrs

          06/03/2020, 12:18 am

          Could be that she’s mentioning him to dupe Blaine- eh, you’re probably right anyways

          Does raise the question, though: what’s going on in panel 1?

        2. showler

          06/03/2020, 12:20 am

          Carla is showing them the tweets going out because she’s the only one with a phone.

        3. sharktrs

          06/03/2020, 12:51 am

          Ah, that explains it then

          Thanks for clearing that up

      2. NelC

        06/03/2020, 6:02 am
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        Except that Becky’s there in the first frame, not manually tweeting.

  7. Nono

    06/03/2020, 12:07 am
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    Amber: standing on all vehicles.

    1. Doctor_Who

      06/03/2020, 12:13 am
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      You might assume she models herself on Batman, but this is her true idol.

      1. Opus the Poet

        06/03/2020, 1:09 am
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        How did he not fall though the roof during that sequence?

      2. J. L. Brown

        06/03/2020, 1:56 am
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        Could be worse, could be cheesier. Like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw4jftccllk

  8. 3oranges

    06/03/2020, 12:07 am
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    Everyone has the potentialities of a hero or a goat lying within them. Either you die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the goat.

    1. chris2315

      06/03/2020, 12:10 am
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      But at what point are you a hamster?

      1. Reltzik

        06/03/2020, 12:31 am
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        When you end up being the strategic genius chief warlord commanding the goat’s armies.

  9. Dean

    06/03/2020, 12:07 am
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    Follower be all, ‘ So is she a hamster or a goat? This Animal Crossing fanfic is hard to follow.’

    1. Tan

      06/03/2020, 12:18 am
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      The twitter followers are generally not aware that Amber and Amazi-Girl occupy the same physical body. Amber is the hamster, Amazi-Girl is the goat.

      1. Jess

        06/03/2020, 1:40 am
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        this raises some really horrifying questions, thanks

        1. King Daniel

          06/03/2020, 2:09 am

          goatster?

        2. clif

          06/03/2020, 2:35 am

          Better than Goatse or whatever that thing was.

        3. Chris

          06/03/2020, 3:13 am

          Yep, Goatse. Easier to remember if you know that its original top level domain was “.cx”.

        4. Needfuldoer

          06/03/2020, 5:43 am

          How could anyone forget that? Kids these days must have no idea how widespread it was back in the early 2000s.

        5. NelC

          06/03/2020, 6:05 am

          2000s, that’s like the dawn of history. No-one really knows what happened back then, all we have are exaggerated legends, fossilised Blackberries and Tamagotchi.

        6. Needfuldoer

          06/03/2020, 6:44 am

          Newgrounds, Something Awful, Fark, Weebl’s Stuff, Ebaum’s World, goatse, lemonparty, phpbb, Tourette’s Guy, Foamy, YTMND, Arfenhouse, Napster, Limewire…

          It’s true. All of it.

        7. davidbreslin101

          06/03/2020, 6:30 am

          I am the goatgirl
          I am the hamster
          I am the goatster
          goo-goo-goo-joob

  10. Lawzlo

    06/03/2020, 12:08 am
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    THE HAMSTER?!

    1. Bicycle Bill

      06/03/2020, 12:13 am
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      When I was in college and pledged a fraternity, I learned the first rule of nicknames —
      You get the nickname you are given, not the one you want for yourself.

      1. Reltzik

        06/03/2020, 12:34 am
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        If you’re clever, you tell them on pledge day “just don’t call me ____” and end up being called that. Briar patches, etc.

      2. Lawzlo

        06/03/2020, 1:09 am
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        https://youtu.be/OKvq-GlvXb4?t=37

    2. Keulen

      06/03/2020, 12:47 am
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      Yeah, Becky first called her that back in this strip, I believe.

    3. a/snow/mous/e

      06/03/2020, 11:27 am
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      It’s on Twitter, so it’s officially her nickname now!

  11. Mehe

    06/03/2020, 12:08 am
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    Oh, Joyce, you sweet woman.

  12. Stephen Bierce

    06/03/2020, 12:09 am
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    *plays the INDIANA JONES/RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK theme on a nearby car radio*

    1. Stephen Bierce

      06/03/2020, 1:19 pm
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      OR THIS.

  13. C.T Phipps

    06/03/2020, 12:09 am
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    This is how Robin wins the election!

    1. thejeff

      06/03/2020, 7:42 am
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      See, Becky is evil for working for her.

    2. Meagan

      06/03/2020, 2:35 pm
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      My thoights wxqcrly

      You know what i mean. Damn keyboard.

  14. Lumino

    06/03/2020, 12:10 am
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    Joyce is pure, even when being kidnapped. I wish more people were like Joyve, with everything that entails.

  15. Hex Hornet

    06/03/2020, 12:11 am
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    So much going on here at once.
    Let’s just hope social media is as powerful a force for good that everyone seems to THINK it is.

    1. woobie

      06/03/2020, 12:20 am
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      Only if one isn’t preaching to the choir.

    2. Wizard

      06/03/2020, 2:31 am
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      Social media is a powerful tool, but like any other tool, it has no inherent morality. Good or evil is determined by how it’s used.

      1. thejeff

        06/03/2020, 7:45 am
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        Yeah, but some tools lend themselves more readily to abuse than others.

  16. BBCC

    06/03/2020, 12:12 am
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    Joyce is a good person.

    1. Bagge

      06/03/2020, 1:47 am
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      True.

  17. Iggzy

    06/03/2020, 12:13 am
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    God damnit Willis!

    I know you. You better not do what to know you will and kill someone!

    It’ll be well done and emotionally devastating and I am bit ready for that, even knowing it is coming!

    1. Reltzik

      06/03/2020, 12:37 am
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      Let’s see. I’m counting death flags for…

      Blaine, Faz, Amber/AG, and Joyce. Sal… maybe, but I can’t see this as her at the end of a complete arc. Death doesn’t happen unless it makes narrative sense. That’s how the world works, right?

      1. Some1

        06/03/2020, 12:42 am
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        Faz is a sympathetic villain in the middle of a redemption arc. That’s like the narrative equivalent of walking down a fire escape carrying a box of broken glass and knives.

        1. sharktrs

          06/03/2020, 12:49 am

          There’s also no way Joyce will die without confronting her parents first

        2. Opus the Poet

          06/03/2020, 1:14 am

          And DYW posted a Tweet with a panel of Joyce interacting with someone in a September strip well after this arc is complete. My memory is not real good on this but there was something blue on her forearm, maybe? Anywho, alive and conversing.

        3. Reltzik

          06/03/2020, 8:08 pm

          Obviously a flashback panel.

      2. Needfuldoer

        06/03/2020, 5:41 am
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        This world works however Willis wants it to.

        We should be very afraid.

      3. davidbreslin101

        06/03/2020, 6:23 am
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        That is indeed how the world works! I have been carefully maintaining a tense unresolved love triangle in my life so I can continue wingsuit-jumping with no consequences.

        1. Reltzik

          06/03/2020, 6:59 am

          …. but couldn’t your untimely hospitalization bring the conflict between the other vertices of your triangle to a head?

        2. Needfuldoer

          06/03/2020, 7:30 am

          Nah, that’s how soap operas work.

  18. Amara Rezby

    06/03/2020, 12:14 am
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    Oh. This page has some dark dark narrative foreshadowing. I hope amber ends up okay and not super wounded by the end.

    1. sharktrs

      06/03/2020, 12:15 am
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      Yeah, the physics of that jump can’t exactly be the most comfortable

      1. Insanenoodlyguy

        06/03/2020, 12:45 am
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        Or possible.

        1. sharktrs

          06/03/2020, 12:55 am

          Wait yeah, what the hell is she standing on to get a jump that clear from a moving motorcycle?

        2. clif

          06/03/2020, 1:32 am

          Stuff happens between panels. One possible scenerio is Amber stands, places her hands on on Sals shoulders and launches herself forward with a double flip, grabbing the van just before the last panel. Sal doesn’t have a wreck because she is just that good.

        3. a/snow/mous/e

          06/03/2020, 3:47 pm

          Or she climbs onto Sal’s helmet and jumps off from there but it’s EXTREMELY well padded inside so she doesn’t break Sal’s neck doing that.

    2. bryy

      06/03/2020, 12:15 am
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      We still have yet to wrap around back to the flashback.

  19. Touchfuzzy

    06/03/2020, 12:15 am
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    So where is that person who insisted it was a bluff and that there was no way she had scheduled the tweets.

    1. Axel

      06/03/2020, 12:22 am
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      They were on yesterday’s comic saying they were just enjoying annoying everyone, so I’m sure they’re around

      1. clif

        06/03/2020, 1:35 am
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        That was more of a side benefit, but I would have bet she was bluffing.

        1. clif

          06/03/2020, 1:58 am

          Bet money she was bluffing. Damn you lack of edit.

        2. SillyGoose

          06/03/2020, 2:23 am

          That’s ok, you got to annoy the comment section for a week, and we get to lord it over you for eternity. Mwahahaha.

        3. clif

          06/03/2020, 2:46 am

          Seems fair.

    2. davidbreslin101

      06/03/2020, 6:24 am
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      Up near the top, saying “Oops, I was wrong.”

      1. He Who Abides

        06/03/2020, 6:48 pm
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        “It was Earth, all along”

  20. Axel

    06/03/2020, 12:20 am
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    I’m starting to guess Amber’s going to get thrown off a vehicle again, and this time while Sal’s got Faz and/or Joyce on the bike in a non-Amazi-rescue position.

    (I don’t think she’ll be thrown in front of a semi again, but a number of broken bones incoming sometime between tomorrow and June 23)

  21. adam Black

    06/03/2020, 12:25 am
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    Faz betrayed them twice.

    Joyce is kidnapped because of Faz. This is foolish.

    1. Jamie

      06/03/2020, 12:32 am
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      Of course it is. That’s the point.

      1. Some1

        06/03/2020, 12:34 am
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        A true hero rescues everyone they can, even if they don’t deserve it.

    2. AntJ

      06/03/2020, 12:33 am
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      Faz is an abused child being manipulated by Blaine. He’s annoying, yes, but he doesn’t deserve to live in an unsafe household

    3. NinjaNick

      06/03/2020, 12:35 am
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      Even a little knucklehead like Faz deserves a second chance. Question is: can he leap?

    4. sharktrs

      06/03/2020, 12:48 am
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      ah yes, sacrifice the emotionally damaged child

      it’s not like people can grow and learn from their mistakes given time or anything

    5. jmsr7

      06/03/2020, 12:55 am
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      FAZ is clearly dissociating like Amber did/is. The plastic smile he wears and the cheery personality is the outer shell of an incredibly abused child doing the best he can in an awful situation. Self-preservation is the main motivation of such children; and by trying to help others against his father is an awful risk. I can’t believe it took me this long to see that he’s not actually an annoying little shit. Never mistake the persona a person presents to the world as their genuine personality.

    6. Chris Phoenix

      06/03/2020, 1:36 am
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      Agree. Blaine is much less likely to kill Faz than Joyce – in addition to the fact that Faz is in the van by choice (he could have run, knowing that Blaine will go to jail by the end of the van ride). If you can only get one person out of the van, it had better be Joyce, and ASAP.

      1. He Who Abides

        06/03/2020, 6:12 am
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        It’s been heavily implied that Faz is being physically abused by Blaine. I think that he’s got lower odds of surviving being alone with Blaine at this point.

      2. NelC

        06/03/2020, 6:15 am
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        But Joyce disagrees.

      3. Reltzik

        06/03/2020, 8:11 pm
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        If you only get one person off the van, get Faz, because if you try to get Joyce first she’ll waste so much time arguing about it that you will lose any chance you had of getting both of them, and maybe any chance you had to get either of them.

    7. Bagge

      06/03/2020, 1:46 am
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      Joyce will always have capacity for kindness.

    8. Axel

      06/03/2020, 2:51 am
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      she’s kidnapped because of his piece of shit father

      1. thejeff

        06/03/2020, 7:48 am
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        And his piece of shit father isn’t still tied up on the floor because of Faz.

        1. Axel

          06/03/2020, 4:53 pm

          he’s a kid who is heavily implied to be abused and has to live with Blaine, and he wouldn’t have had to make that decision if Blaine wasn’t on a rampage

        2. thejeff

          06/03/2020, 9:46 pm

          That is also true.

    9. davidbreslin101

      06/03/2020, 6:25 am
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      Well, if Faz goes splat on the tarmac, Joyce has more info on how to make the jump safely….

  22. DailyBrad

    06/03/2020, 12:28 am
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    I am proud of Joyce, as well as Amber here. Err, Amazi-Girl, I guess, but she seems perfectly aware of Faz’s significance and willing to help him.

    1. Yumi

      06/03/2020, 12:35 am
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      That’s Amber! I got confused for a minute yesterday, but she’s stayed Amber since Dina was talking to her on the stairs.

      1. Kamino Neko

        06/03/2020, 1:30 am
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        And Amber and Amazi-Girl were sharing memories until very recently, so Faz was no stranger to AG, anyway.

  23. NinjaNick

    06/03/2020, 12:29 am
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    One of the handful of tweets: Amber’s dad is a notorious domestically violent psychopathic loser. *L hand gesture*

    Go, Amazi-Girl.

  24. Newllend(henryvolt)

    06/03/2020, 12:33 am
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    I just thought of something, should Robin be tagged in this since her face is in this strip?

    1. sharktrs

      06/03/2020, 12:56 am
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      We’ve tagged an imaginary hat before, so probably

      1. Bicycle Bill

        06/03/2020, 2:18 am
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        An imaginary hat?

        1. SuperFroakie82

          06/03/2020, 4:19 am

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/02-but-the-sun-still-shines/guys-2/

        2. a/snow/mous/e

          06/03/2020, 3:50 pm

          Don’t forget Ryan’s blood.

  25. Keulen

    06/03/2020, 12:37 am
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    I guess Becky wasn’t bluffing.

    1. clif

      06/03/2020, 1:54 am
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      I knew it all along.

      No?

      Um, it’s clear that Becky’s alleged tweets are actually a mass hallucination caused by something Blaine put in the drinking water?

      No?

      Well, you see the Head Alien…

      1. LaShawn

        06/03/2020, 12:05 pm
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        So the past few days has really, really sucked for me with all the turmoil and unrest and the protests and the police coming out in full force. Ducking into DOA is one of my distractions (which is funny because of all the sustained danger here). But seeing you, clif, respond to you being wrong with humor and grace gave me a much needed laugh.

        Thank you so much.

  26. Chaucer59

    06/03/2020, 12:48 am
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    No. Don’t want no scrubs.

    1. JessWitt

      06/03/2020, 12:51 pm
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      Amazi-Girl’s hanging on the outside of his jerk dad’s ride.
      Trying to rescue Joyce (and Faz).

      1. woobie

        06/03/2020, 11:19 pm
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        heh

  27. Cyrus

    06/03/2020, 12:51 am
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    That’s a really convenient panel skip between 4 and 5. How exactly did AG get from the bike to the van? Uuuh… Look over there! …… Oh hey, she made it!

    1. Bagge

      06/03/2020, 1:45 am
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      Nice try, but amazigirl is immune to criticism

      1. Needfuldoer

        06/03/2020, 5:36 am
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        And selectively immune to Newtonian physics.

        Superhero stuff is just cooler that way.

        1. Puckish Rogue

          06/03/2020, 5:49 am

          Mind you it does drain away any tension in the strip

        2. Sombrero

          06/03/2020, 6:05 am

          Tension here is about Faz, not action. Action is played for fun.

        3. Puckish Rogue

          06/03/2020, 6:10 am

          Naah its going to work out all right for everyone (bar Blaine) so theres no need to worry

        4. Cyrus

          06/03/2020, 12:55 pm

          Yeah, I’m glad some of y’all are feeling the tension, but for me, all the narrative tension vanished when a bunch of kids got abducted by invisible, teleporting ninjas. I might even have reached the negative tension zone.

        5. Sombrero

          06/03/2020, 3:41 pm

          Britjas?

  28. Ashley

    06/03/2020, 12:59 am
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    If you had sent me this comic months ago and told me stuff was gonna be crazier IRL I would’ve just laughed and said “how?”

  29. Chris

    06/03/2020, 1:16 am
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    It has occurred to me that most of the people reading those tweets will have no idea who Amazi-Girl is.

    1. clif

      06/03/2020, 1:44 am
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      Kidnapping on college campus by a man with a gun thwarted by masked vigilante, not making the news? Becky becomes campaign manager for a contoversal congress critter and it doesn’t get rehashed? I suspect some of them have heard the name before.

      1. King Daniel

        06/03/2020, 2:10 am
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        Amazi-Girl wasn’t found anywhere near the original kidnapping, thanks to Sal; unless Becky or Ross made mention of her in the police report, her involvement would’ve been unmentioned there.

        1. clif

          06/03/2020, 2:42 am

          Becky and Ross didn’t know Sal had spirited her away. But there were other witnesses such as the driver of the car that Amazigirl landed on. Hard to imagine it didn’t come up.

        2. a/snow/mous/e

          06/03/2020, 3:53 pm

          Maggie!

    2. Sombrero

      06/03/2020, 6:08 am
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      But they will know that Amazi-Girl is trending.

  30. Steelbright

    06/03/2020, 1:24 am
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    T-T Joyce has a good heart.

  31. Bagge

    06/03/2020, 1:41 am
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    To be technical about it, this is the third time he tried to kidnapp you, counting when he tried to get you in the car after dragging you out of andersons.

    Toedad was not a very good father, is what I’m saying.

    1. Rabid Rabbit

      06/03/2020, 1:50 am
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      No, that wasn’t a kidnapping attempt. That was just a father showing up and saying “Come home.” It’s not until she said “Oh hell no!” and ran away that hs insisting became criminal.

      1. Bagge

        06/03/2020, 6:39 am
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        Sice we haven’t really seen the details of after what happened after panel 3 in this comic we can’t tell for sure, but I would like to point out how neither Becky nor Ross showed the least bit of surprise when he went straight to kidnapping when he found Becky and Dina on the sidewalk.

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/fix/

  32. Ray Radlein

    06/03/2020, 1:56 am
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    This sure seems to be a really long drive on surface streets in a residential area with no stop signs or traffic lights.

    Or is Blaine stupid enough to go blowing through stops despite not thinking anyone is pursuing him?

    Wait, never mind. Yes, he’s that stupid.

    1. sharktrs

      06/03/2020, 2:10 am
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      I assume that traffic laws are not the first thing you’re concerned about when you’ve just murdered someone

      1. thejeff

        06/03/2020, 7:56 am
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        If you’re smart you do. Especially with a kidnapped victim in the back. Last thing you want is to be pulled over for a routine traffic violation.

        1. Chris

          06/03/2020, 8:39 pm

          As the saying goes, never commit a crime while you’re committing a crime.

    2. Axel

      06/03/2020, 2:36 am
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      he definitely went the wrong way up a one-way already, as Sal pointed out

    3. Bicycle Bill

      06/03/2020, 2:42 am
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      We already know from Rotunda’s sleuthing that the kidnap house is on South Lincoln Street.  Blaine drove south on S. Lincoln (the wrong-way on a one-way street) to where it intersected with East Hillside Drive and then turned left (east) onto Hillside Drive.  Using Google Streetview, Hillside Drive appears to be an arterial street; side street intersecting it all have stop signs.

      There are three points at which there are traffic lights — Hillside and Henderson; Hillside and High (at which point Hillside Drive becomes Moores Pike); and if one continues east on Moores Pike the third light is at Moores Pike and the intersection of Sares Road/College Mall Road — so if he gets lucky and hits the lights just right he doesn’t have to stop or slow down.  The first actual stop sign comes at the intersection of Moores Pike and Smith Road, and this is something like three miles from where he first turned onto Hillside Drive.  And the speed limit is posted at 30 mph, so estimate he can drive for maybe six or seven minutes before he would HAVE to stop for a stop sign.

      1. Axel

        06/03/2020, 2:48 am
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        this is making me mildly weirded out because I lived on the corner of Hillside and Henderson in Victoria for a year (and nearby for another)

        1. a/snow/mous/e

          06/03/2020, 3:55 pm

          Maybe we’ll see your old house/apartment building!

      2. NelC

        06/03/2020, 6:21 am
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        Except that after murder and driving the wrong way, you think he’s going to balk at speeding?

    4. Jhon

      06/03/2020, 11:41 am
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      Blaine is also ignoring what is going on in his mirrors. My head canon is that he is focused on escape to the extent of tunnel vision.

  33. BenRG

    06/03/2020, 2:02 am
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    *Action sequence music plays*

    Yeah, it always made sense that Willis would have to get the bystanders out of the way before Amber and Blaine had their final confrontation.

  34. abysswatcher1993

    06/03/2020, 2:04 am
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    This is the best political twitter ever!

  35. Juanoku

    06/03/2020, 2:20 am
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    What the FUCK is goat?

    1. vlademir1

      06/03/2020, 2:32 am
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      “greatest of all time”

      1. bcb

        06/03/2020, 11:47 am
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        Thanks, I was just as confused.

    2. Axel

      06/03/2020, 2:55 am
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      I too learned this only recently and now I see it everywhere.

    3. Chris

      06/03/2020, 3:09 am
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      The exact opposite of what Charlie Brown meant when he used that word to describe himself.

    4. RedCat

      06/03/2020, 3:21 am
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      I thought it was an Overwatch strat

    5. Needfuldoer

      06/03/2020, 5:33 am
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      *Smugs in Patriots*

      (And now Tampa, I guess.)

    6. Bagge

      06/03/2020, 6:41 am
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      Which means that a really great goat is officially a GOAT goat

    7. Skemono

      06/03/2020, 6:40 pm
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      A goat is a bovid in the genus Capra. Unlike their closely-related bovid cousins, the sheep, they have scent glands near the feet and groin, whereas sheep have scent glands in the face.

      I trust this clears everything up.

  36. Nah

    06/03/2020, 3:37 am
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    At least saving Faz will give Amber one less thing to feel garbage about when rooftime comes.

  37. SDGlyph

    06/03/2020, 4:10 am
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    Genuinely surprised Willis didn’t actually schedule these tweets on @repdesanto’s page 🙂

    (But then, I guess laws about online threats of violence and stuff being what they are…)

  38. SDGlyph

    06/03/2020, 4:12 am
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    Uh… There was a smile in the first sentence, but it got turned into a non-printing character and made the tone ambiguous.

    1. Needfuldoer

      06/03/2020, 5:31 am
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      On Android, I see the default gumdrop-shaped emoticon.

      I guess it depends on how your browser parses the page? IDK I miss regular emotes written in text characters. Why overcomplicate things?

      1. Chris

        06/03/2020, 8:41 pm
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        I’m seeing a round yellow smiley face.

    2. Axel

      06/03/2020, 5:44 am
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      it’s a smile for me

  39. Valerie Holt

    06/03/2020, 4:32 am
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    See, when this comic started, I would have been like “Yeah, Joyce can handle herself, she’s a grownup!” Now, five years out of college, I’m like “JOYCE YOU’RE 18 YOU ARE ALSO A KID”

  40. Shariku

    06/03/2020, 5:39 am
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    At the moment most of the Twitter polls are fairly obvious wins, so i’m loving the ones where the answer is more uncertain. Galasso verses Sierra and Ethan verses Leslie have been the most interesting polls so far.

    Other interesting match ups are going to probably be:

    Sal verses Dorothy
    Dorothy verses Billie
    Mike versus Walky
    Ruth verses Amber
    Amber verses Joyce
    Dorothy verses Becky (i’m really hoping this happens!)
    Becky verses Dina (this one too!)

  41. Nenja

    06/03/2020, 6:09 am
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    Well this looks dangerous. I hope none of them get seriously hurt.

    1. BenRG

      06/03/2020, 8:23 am
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      With Blaine’s current state of mind, any outcome other than ‘dead’ is probably a win.

    2. thejeff

      06/03/2020, 2:55 pm
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      Faz could probably get seriously hurt without screwing up the comic entirely. There’d be some guilt and grieving, but it wouldn’t overwhelm the comic or sideline a major character for years of real-time.

      The others might get hurt, but not anything that’s going to leave them in hospital or out of school for weeks. Might as well just kill them at that point.

      1. He Who Abides

        06/03/2020, 6:51 pm
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        It’d definitely fuck up Joyce. Amber too, possibly.

  42. DarkoNeko

    06/03/2020, 6:12 am
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    …Joyce…damnit, Joyce.

  43. NelC

    06/03/2020, 6:18 am
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    However Amber got up there, she probably made a hell of a noise doing it. Can’t count on Blaine ignoring the back of the van for long.

    1. BenRG

      06/03/2020, 8:25 am
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      Blaine is strongly into a fight/flight response now. He’s basically fleeing in terror from only partially-real threats and I think that his most likely response is going to be to start swerving to try to shake off the monsters on the roof/back of the van. The most likely outcome from that will be flipping the van.

  44. Zaxares

    06/03/2020, 6:35 am
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    Guys (Girls? Whatever)… Guys, NO. Do NOT try to jump/cross from a moving vehicle onto another moving vehicle, no matter what the Fast franchise and Mad Max movies have taught you. That is INSANELY dangerous. Keep tailing Blaine; he HAS to slow down at some point or hit a red light/stop sign. THAT’S when you make a break for it.

    1. Bagge

      06/03/2020, 6:42 am
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      Eh, it went pretty well last time.

      1. Khyrin

        06/03/2020, 6:58 am
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        I maintain that Joyce and Amber/Amazi-Girl have Abductee powers. Joyce can and has teleported, and Amber/Amazi-Girl keep making these improbable leaps AND I think their Iron Will might be backed up by a Body of Iron too, e.g. the I in FISS (Flight. Invulnerablity. Super-Strong)

        1. Chris

          06/03/2020, 3:24 pm

          FISS is Flight, Invulnerability, Strength, and Speed- at least according to 84.

    2. Jhon

      06/03/2020, 11:45 am
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      We’re doing this the hard way. For the sake of Max Drama. Because that van is not stopping.

    3. a/snow/mous/e

      06/03/2020, 3:57 pm
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      i’m in favor of gender-neutral use of “guy(s)”

    4. woobie

      06/03/2020, 11:23 pm
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      F&F taught me that transport aircraft take, like, 8 minutes to fly the length of a runway.

  45. Butt Sir

    06/03/2020, 7:37 am
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    Hey! Scrubs is (was) awesome, dont @ me.

  46. BenRG

    06/03/2020, 8:35 am
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    I’m sticking with my theory that Faz will get onto the bike and Blaine, hearing the noise, panics and contrives to crash the van. Joyce and Amber/Mazie drag each other out of the wreck and Amazi-Girl is about to go back for Blaine (because heroes don’t leave people to die, even monsters like her father) when the van blows up.

    Everyone is going to need a long time to get over this.

    Long-term? My fanon is that there will be a phase where Joyce tries to confront her own anger at everything that’s happened by hunting bad-guys herself. Amber & Mazie will probably surprise themselves by trying to stop her. I also wonder if Amazi-Girl will officially retire, at least for a while, on the grounds that too much bad has happened. Then Ryan emerges as a threat and the four-girl team of Amazi-Girl, Spyder (Sal), Raguel (Joyce) and Delphi (Dorothy) and with Carla providing tech support set out to bring down the Entitled Guys Club and expose the corrupt cops in Bloomington. Sal’s mostly in it to keep the other three safe but will be there in the fights because… well, sometimes there’s a fight to be fought.

    Fortunately, Leslie works out what the girls are doing and manages to talk them down before anyone gets hurt (maybe delivering an impassioned speech about how she’d love to beat her parents and their equally-smug friends to paste some days but it wouldn’t fix anything). At least none of the girls get hurt; several of Ryan’s clique manage to get new joints added to their long bones and free facial restructuring work and the aftershocks of Dorothy’s expose in the College news blog of corruption in the local PD promise to rumble on for years.

    1. BenRG

      06/03/2020, 8:38 am
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      Thinking about it, Willis could do an entire blue panel chapter of the adventures of Bloomington’s own superhero team before going back to ‘normal’ and having Leslie persuading the five of them to stand down.

      1. Puckish Rogue

        06/03/2020, 9:49 am
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        I just want to see Joyce and Joe have some more interactions, maybe a quiet date (as friends maybe) at a coffee shop and have a much needed talk

      2. Jhon

        06/03/2020, 11:49 am
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        You neglected to mention Night Guy (Stalks the night! Destroys evil dreams!) and SideKick Man (When you need a sidekick, he’s there!).

  47. thumb

    06/03/2020, 9:01 am
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    This is starting to sound suspiciously like an obituary.
    Which, I hope not.

    1. BenRG

      06/03/2020, 10:59 am
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      My guess is that, one way or another, Amazi-Girl will never be seen again.

      1. woobie

        06/03/2020, 11:25 pm
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        I’m worried that the dark circles and other references to Amber’s fatigue are foreshadowing a fatal mistake.

  48. Rabisch

    06/03/2020, 10:07 am
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    Joyce is really too good for this world. I hope this will totally change Faz’s life.

  49. JessWitt

    06/03/2020, 12:38 pm
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    I’m Twitterpated by how this will be resolved.

    That is, nervously excited and not infatuated or obsessed.

  50. BlackScarabZ

    06/03/2020, 12:56 pm
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    “At the end of the day, sometimes you have to recognize that you need help, whether it be to rally support for your cause, to realize that a seeming accomplice might be just as damaged as you are, or to get off a moving van to escape being kidnapped by the father of a vigilante. The most important thing you can do is just ask.”

  51. Stanistani

    06/03/2020, 1:55 pm
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    Priorities slowly reestablish themselves.

  52. Roborat

    06/03/2020, 3:02 pm
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    Okay, how is Blaine not hearing the conversation in the back, and he most definitely would have heard Amazi-Girl climbing onto the roof. And now that I think about it, how is she managing to get up there, it is all smooth, slippery metal, and there is nothing to grab onto.

    1. Roborat

      06/04/2020, 4:04 pm
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      I just realized that I should be calling her Amber, not Amazi-Girl.

  53. Rikunda

    06/03/2020, 3:43 pm
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    So it wasn’t a bluff. Interesting.

  54. Willo

    06/03/2020, 3:54 pm
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    Oh come on AmaziGirl…there’s no handhold up there. You could have at least gotten in the back, not on top of it. Goober.

    1. a/snow/mous/e

      06/03/2020, 4:00 pm
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      What if there’s an eject button on Sal’s motorcycle that released a cartoon spring that thrust her into the air, and now she’s climbing down?

    2. Alaric

      06/03/2020, 5:13 pm
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      1: This is technically Amber, not Amazi-Girl, and 2: Getting on top of a moving van is much, much more Amazi-Girl than getting in the van.

  55. Rartorata

    06/03/2020, 4:11 pm
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    Funny enough, in between the “Becky’s bluffing” debate and now, Twitter rolled out the ability to schedule tweets at least to mobile web users!

    1. DailyBrad

      06/03/2020, 7:58 pm
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      You can do it on desktop, too.

      1. Rartorata

        06/05/2020, 11:55 am
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        Well there you go!

        (I don’t use desktop generally so I couldn’t speak to that.)

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