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Cry for justice
Posted on August 6, 2014 by David M Willis

154 thoughts on “Cry for justice”

  1. An Average Loser

    Amazing, isn’t it.

    1. GoldStarz

      No, it’s /Amazi/-Girl.

      1. Rachel Roth

        This system uses and (no spaces) for italics. (the slash ends it. If it shows up in this comment, use the other one; I often forget which to use)

        1. Rachel Roth

          Crud, it interpreted it.
          Okay, I’m going to run a quick test to see how this system will interpret things.
          a a b b
          If the second a is normal in the above statement, the correct end slash is /. If not, then you use \.

          IF this shows up right, then the correct combination will be the above, but without underscores or hashtags, both of which I added to avoid doing exactly what my last comment did.

        2. Rachel Roth

          Oh you have got to be kidding me! I screwed up that one so it would show up! Okay, let’s try this: statement

        3. Rachel Roth

          Okay, does ANYONE know how to type literal html on this thing? If so, please help!

        4. Null Set

          <i>Like this maybe?</i>

        5. Rachel Roth

          YES! What’s the secret to making it do that? seriously, it interpreted it with _# in the way!

        6. Null Set

          Replace < with &lt; and > with &gt;

        7. Rachel Roth

          Ah. I forgot about the &ampamp codes.

        8. Rachel Roth

          It’s &amp isn’t it? Not my favorite part of HTML.

        9. BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!

          They’re called entities. They all start with “&” and end with “;” (you forgot the “;”, Rachel). In between is the mnemonic: amp for “ampersand”, lt for “less than”, gt for “greater than”, etc. etc.

        10. ░▒▓█│【Walkman】│█▓▒░

          Don’t forget nbsp: non-breakable space:  ,  

  2. Tunaro

    Wait, how did she get in front of them?

    1. Carriethedragon

      She’s Amazi-Squirrel, remember?

    2. Kernanator

      The same way cats can get in front of you unexpectedly: she teleported.

    3. nothri

      There’s more than one!!!!!

      1. TheSpectre

        The other is Dorothy in a wig, of course. 🙂

    4. Yotomoe

      Stunt double.

    5. Cheryl

      the fucks a sidewalk?

  3. Mr. Random

    Nice of the dick bandit to let everyone know.

  4. Jen Aside

    She had the most door DICKOR

    1. J-Debs

      I get it! I’m not laughing, but I’m proud.

    2. OsoPescado

      The Bandit is simply showing off their skills as an interior DICKerator. That amount of detail must have taken a LONG time. The GIRTH of their knowledge must have been a BIG help. They did a good job though. I bet this hallway will be the CLIMAX of their career. They are so humble that they wanted to be anonymous though. Wouldn’t want the fame to go to their HEAD and make them COCKy.

      I’m so sorry.

      1. Mass Confusion

        I just think the bandit is a PRICK

      2. Roborat

        The pun police have been notified, expect the ninja’s to appear momentarily.

        1. Betty Anne

          A ninja’s pun will appear momentarily? How will we know? Won’t it also be invisible?

  5. March

    “We both care about this sweet girl, does that work better than threats?” Amazingly, yes.

    1. Yotomoe

      “If not I can combine the two. If you ever wanna see Joyce again…”

      1. Usayasha

        “Help me find the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit, or I swear to Joyce’s God that that girl will see an actual penis!”

        1. Yotomoe

          “Don’t believe me? I’ve got 100s Hardrives just FULL of Man on Man Comic Book art. NO, don’t ask why I have it!!!”

        2. Rachel Roth

          Says the sock on the door. . . which you would think someone would have warned her about by now.

  6. Shadic

    Amazi-Squirrel.

    1. Shadic

      Annnd somebody made this joke at the exact same time as me. Damnit.

      1. Carriethedragon

        Uh… great minds think alike…?

      2. David

        Nuts. Not damnit. Nuts.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Amazi-Squirrel VS Rocket Raccoon.

      1. Tunaro

        Why has there not been a Squirrel Girl movie yet?

        1. begbert2

          Because she would defeat all the villains ever in twelve minutes, ending the Marvel movie franchise for good?

        2. Beachfox

          If the inevitable “Thanatos has all the Infinity Gems” movie doesn’t end with Squirrel Girl showing up and punching him out, Marvel just doesn’t -get- it’s fan-base.

        3. gwalla

          Squirrel Girl will be in Iron Man 4. You heard it here first.

        4. Rachel Roth

          Multiverse fallback?

  7. jose231ful

    The detail :3

  8. Wonder Wig

    Sarah would have a better chance escaping a cave full of zubats.

    1. timemonkey

      I wonder if Amber knows Supersonic?

  9. MrSirk

    Joyce knows here wing wangs…I guess that’s a win. Also stop making me remember Cry for Justice.

    1. Swerve

      WE CAN BE JUSTICE! (Sorry, couldn’t help it.)

      1. MrSirk

        “Justice” funny how a lot of people are throwing that word around lately.

        1. xKiv

          And not very many of them are Bufford T.

  10. Plasma Mongoose

    AG has learnt all her questioning techniques from watching Nolan’s Batman and Amelia from Slayers, I just know it.

  11. Romanticide

    Well that was way better.

    And god “Cry for Justice” was a really shitty comic >.<

    1. Kernanator

      At least it wasn’t Identity Crisis?

      1. StClair

        Or Flashpoint.
        Or…

        (We’re really scraping the bottom of ‘faint praise’, aren’t we?)

        1. Karfsma778

          Not yet.

          At least it wasn’t One More Day, Amazons Attack, Mar-Ville, or Superman at Earth’s End.

          Now we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.

        2. timemonkey

          At least it wasn’t anything Linkara’s done a multi-episode review on. There, that should cover just about everything.

        3. gwalla

          I’d successfully forgotten Marville, you bastard.

  12. Emperor Kiva

    Find the culprit and put them in the hospital.

    1. newllend

      Right next too her dad.

  13. Opus the Poet

    Sarah has the Feels for Joyce, well not those Feels, the platonic kind of Feels. Crap none of this makes any sense!

    1. MrSirk

      How long’s it been in universe time because these characters are showing a lot of personal growth. Or maybe it’s just the sudden penis vandalism that has them maturing?

      1. newllend

        A Month and 1/2

        1. Catullus

          That seems a bit high, by my count it’s only been a little under a month.

        2. Bill

          You’re right, at least according to the Walkypedia.  Go to http://walkypedia.com and scroll down to “Dumbing of Age” — click on timeline.  Basically, each chapter occurs in a single day, and Willis skipped a few days in the second and third weeks.

        3. MrSirk

          Wow! I think I got whiplash from that info! I’m probably not the first, web comics reside in a weird dimension where a month passes in four years. I remember thinking it was cool I started college around the same time Joyce did.

        4. Roborat

          And your kid will be graduating the same time she does.

  14. Kernanator

    If I could jump from tree to tree, I’d never walk anywhere. I mean, except for places that didn’t have trees.

    1. Swerve

      Spider-Man hates having to go to the suburbs; there are no buildings to swing from, and not enough trees. Guess the Spider-Mobile doesn’t seem like such a bad idea know, does it?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        As this video proves 😛

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE2rGdRUP6w

      2. Yotomoe

        That’s why japanese spiderman has the Spider-Machine.

      3. Michael Steamweed

        Dunno, I still think it was a bad idea. Jus’ look at the thing.
        http://boards.theforce.net/threads/debos-attic.50008474/page-3

      4. Roborat

        I always thought he used clouds.

  15. Nono

    It’s the most cunning criminal and least socially aware of all, with a cause to hate Sarah.

    …It’s Char, isn’t it.

    1. Catullus

      This is my new favorite theory

    2. Yotomoe

      Naw, she would’ve just written very politically incorrect things on all the boards.

    3. Ivan

      Who?

      1. Amazistool

        All appearances of Char in the comic..

        While her first appearance is a bit short of context, the comics following her second appearance are a bit more explanative.

    4. Roborat

      I still think Willis is going to pull an Agatha Christie, and it will be someone we haven’t even seen yet.

    5. Inlaa

      My bet is on Dina. Dina trying to fit in.

  16. MsSchiff

    So no one else thinks it’s a little odd that each wang was drawn differently? Yes, they’re all facing the same way, but each one is different, from what I recall. Your ‘average’ vandal might have just drawn the same dong on each door, especially if they were pressed for time and worried they might get caught.

    Am I overthinking this? Do I need to cut down on the caffeine?

    1. Carriethedragon

      No, I totally thought about that too. Maybe they wanted it to look like it was more than one person? But it doesn’t seem to have accomplished that at all. Maybe it WAS more than one person. But that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me either. What the heck kind of group of people would bother to do that all in the same night?

    2. newllend

      Like four use already called that out.

      1. newllend

        Us

    3. khambatta

      Nah; it was Sarah. She drew the one on her own door the best because it’s her own door. And to wind-up/provide-shock-therapy-for Joyce. The variety is just an outlet for her suppressed artistic side.

    4. HeySo

      It’s how I would have done it.
      If you’re not doing it to troll or insult, but just to be mischievous, you tend to have a bit of fun with it.

      I’m surprised none of them were overly exaggerated in any way.

      Like, ‘here’s a big, strangely curvy one’ and ‘here’s an itty bitty one’.

      I, er.
      I’m not saying I’m the whiteboard dingdong bandit or anything, though.

  17. Nagash1959

    I’ll admit I haven’t read the comments sections for this entire storyline, but has anyone actually told Willis that permanent marker on a dry/wet erase board is EASY AS HELL to remove?

    All you do is get the correct dry/wet erase marker, scribble heavily over the permanent marker and then remove it as normal for the correct kind of marker.

    I’d imagine SOMEONE in the DoA universe would have the sense to google that on their phone.

    1. Carriethedragon

      Yeah, I’m pretty sure he’s been told that many, many times. But he didn’t see fit to give that knowledge to any of the girls. Either that, or they just find it more important to stop whoever did it than to just erase the dicks and go about life as usual

      1. Swerve

        It seems like everyone’s trying to go on with life, while Amazi-Girl is missing class (and raids) to solve this case.

      2. timemonkey

        They could be erasing them as we speak, the act of vandalism still happened and still needs to be punished.

    2. Dreizehn

      Or lightly scrub it with a piece of cotton moistened with rubbing alcohol…or any alcohol.

      1. Rachel Roth

        Like drinking alcohol?

    3. Yotomoe

      ONLY 1,000 PEOPLE.

    4. Plasma Mongoose

      Nagash1959, clearly you never read the comments of past comics, for example: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/permanent/

    5. David M Willis

      You say “it’s super easy to google how to do it,” I say “it’s super easy to find out it’s been commented on every thirty seconds for the past month or so.” And yet!

      1. BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!

        Law of Unintended Consequences, DW. You created “The Whiteboard Ding-dong Bandit” meme. Along with that meme comes this one, like a remora clinging to your Frankenstein shark.

        Have a nice day. 🙂

    6. Willoughby Chase

      The comic is called Dumbing of Age, so it’s appropriate IMO that none of it’s characters know such a simple fact or have trouble using Google.

      1. DSL

        You’d be surprised at the number of people inclined to draw dicks who have no idea how to draw dicks. Actually had a co-worker ask me to draw what he called “cock-an-balls” on a card for someone he didn’t like. Married father of two in his late thirties and the card was for a departing lady co-worker in her twenties. Some people never grow up. I told him to draw his own damn cock-an-balls and have the guts to sign it. You would be correct in assuming he did not follow through.
        Visits to a urologist have recently became part of my life. The medical illustrations on the wall of his exam room are … amazing in the level of detail and disturbing, because viewing (and producing, I imagine) them require you to imagine a penis wedge-sliced like they used to do the buns at Subway.
        On a non-dick note, I wonder if Amazi-Girl overheard Sarah talking to Jacob about being fair to Joyce, resulting the kinder, gentler, interrogation 2.0 with added plea to empathy. Only Willis knows for sure, I guess.

        1. DSL

          My comment seems doubly strange with a Joyce avatar.

        2. Ivan

          Seems even stranger that you speak of these peenee drawings cut along a saggital plane like a “Sandwich Artist” did it – without cringing!!

          ADMIT YOUR TRUE IDENTITY, LORENA BOBBIT!!!!

    7. Ivan

      I made it easier than your method in a post 2 weeks ago — Mr. Clean White Sponges – good for walls, white boards, white polycarbonate plastic (like MacBooks) and any color countertop to remove marker in a few seconds without scratches.

    8. Roborat

      I suspect you just earned yourself a hit contract from Sir Willis, enjoy what time you have left.

  18. newllend

    It would do Joyce some good if she learned to overcome her little fear of anything sexually related, its not like someone left a goat corps slathered with blood at her door.

    1. Swerve

      Wait… you know the location of the G.O.A.T. C.O.R.P.S.? They’ve been missing in action for 2 million stellar cycles!

    2. ninja_jesus

      Yes, Joyce should learn to face her fears, but it’s no one’s place to force help onto her. It’s something she needs to do on her own, at her own pace.

      1. Ivan

        Well, her fear of tasting one has to be greater than touching one… so let’s go with THAT particular arc – just for laughs!

  19. CartoonChick

    Found the Whiteboard DingDong Bandit. She’s moved on to something bigger! http://jezebel.com/female-runner-who-uses-nike-to-draw-dicks-is-an-americ-1616462580

  20. Frostwood

    I got a bad feeling that it might be the rapist-dude…. As this seems targeted against Joyce…. or Faz.

    1. JacHunter

      Somehow, this doesn’t seem like something that guy would have done. It’s good to see you considering all the options, though.

    2. Bill

      I don’t think so either.  I believe he was a one-off, like one of the soldiers who passed through the ER/Post-Op ward in M*A*S*H.  They were necessary to that particular story line and never resurfaced again.

      Besides, how would he know where to find Joyce?  They didn’t converse all that much, and other than her name I don’t recall Joyce giving him any really pertinent information.

  21. Yotomoe

    I mean, to be honest,since we’re cartoons, a childish doodle of a dick is PRETTY damn realistic in the first place.

    1. newllend

      There should be an extra panel that cuts away to Joyce getting back to her room and See’s the door again and whimpers as she looks at a picture of a real life existing penis on her white borde ( censored in blurted out form of course)

      1. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

        YES

  22. Darwin

    Amazi-Girl needs no sidewalks! Amazi-Girl has trees! I’m just curious if the DoA Amazi-Girl is immune to criticism.

  23. Leorale

    Those bravery points sure come in handy.

  24. Idon'tcarenomore

    Amazi-girl IS immune to criticism. She can use trees, windows, telephone wires, and speeding truck tops when ever she choses.
    Sidewalks are only to talk on, as everyone knows.

  25. Barf Ninjason

    Your mom cried for justice…

    …when I fucked her.

    1. Ben

      For a Nickle?

      1. Ivan

        for a nickel.

    2. Roborat

      You were that bad huh?

      1. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

        Your gravatar just makes this comment so much better.

  26. Ben

    That… was about the most tactful thing I think I’ve ever seen from Amazi-girl…

  27. Walking Profanity

    Acetone will take the dongs off of the whiteboards very quickly. One of those girls should have fingernail polish remover. Problem solved.

    1. ninja_jesus

      Except the same person could just do it again and again. The problem’s not solved until the one who did it is caught.

      1. Ivan

        The problem is NOT solved until someone looses an eye! Until then, it’s just fun and games!

        1. Ivan

          LOSES! (or finds)

  28. Animal

    So, Joyce is one step closer to “flipping” and becoming an insatiable hose-beast.

  29. Charlie

    I’m in love with AmaziGirls face in the third panel.

    1. Ivan

      a lost waif hoping someone makes them their sex slave?

  30. Kennerly

    To get rid of permanent marker on a white board is scribble all over it with a dry – erase marker, then use a normal white board eraser or damp paper towel to erase it.

    1. gwalla

      You’re trying to give him a nervous breakdown, aren’t you?

      1. Tenn

        My headcanon is that by now, at least half of them are either trolling or being not-obviously-enough sarcastic. It lets me keep some faith in humanity.

        I wanted to do it sarcastically for this strip, but I don’t feel like it any more.

        1. Betty Anne

          Oh, you guys know six months from now someone will leave a message on a white board in the strip and there’ll be a comment that says, “Was that in permanent marker? If so, just scribble over it with a dry erase marker and erase it like normal.”

  31. Adork

    I don’t know if anyone has already said it but I’m putting my money on Joyce is the bandit. Like she’s doing it in her sleep or something.

    1. Tenn

      I think some people said it on the very first page of the chapter, and it’s been my #1 theory ever since. I wish I had thought of it myself.

  32. FuryOfFirestorm

    Next week: Amazi-Girl loses an arm, gets addicted to heroin, and uses a dead cat as a weapon.

    Also, she teams up with a talking gold gorilla and a gay blue alien.

  33. Rikonius

    I guess AmaziGirl won’t leaf Sarah alone about this?

  34. Deanatay

    More evidence pointing towards Anti-Joyce as the WDDB. The most detailed penis was on her door? Joyce had the strongest reaction to it, demanding justice? Repression leads to compartmentalization, which can lead to fragmentation.

    1. BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!

      …which leads to the Dark Side.

      1. Ivan

        You mean she will be wanting exclusively dark meat?

        I guess those eye glasses worked on more than Ethan and Sarah!

        1. Ivan

          or… she man-rapes Walky “in next’s week’s hilarious episode of “The Dark Side of the DingDong Bandit! Only on DoA-TV!”

  35. Ivan

    Joyce: I’m the rapist here! Tell me where it goes, Walky, or I’ll cut you!”

    1. Roborat

      Nah, she would just rub it on her tummy.

  36. Lord Geovanni

    Sarah and Joyce’s door must have had the most wood

  37. syd

    Amazi-Girl uses APPEAL TO DECENCY!

    It’s… surprisingly effective?

    1. BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!

      After Amazi-Girl’s use of THREAT was effectively countered by Sarah’s SHIELD OF DISDAIN, using AG’s ATD was a pretty brilliant judo reversal move given the GUILT backlash that can accompany SOD (and clearly did in this case).

      Sure it could have backfired if Sarah had countered with CLOAK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS instead of SOD, but Sarah’s COR is nearly useless these days, especially after she started rooming with Joyce.

  38. Los

    For some reason I think it’d be endlessly cool (and entertaining) to know someone who would stick to that hero bit so hard they could seriously, without a single hint of irony, say the phrase “cry out for justice”. Just use it in a sentence as if they asked you to pass them a napkin. That’s really something.

  39. Sir Robin

    So Amber ran ahead, climbed a tree and waited for them before they even noticed? The girl does do her cardio

  40. HeySo

    Has anyone considered that it might be one of the school’s biology teachers, trying to make sure the student populace is well-educated in anatomy?

    They would have tagged the male section as well, but lack of whiteboards and all.

  41. Bill

    “There are unremovable penises drawn on all the whiteboards.”

    If a penis was removable, would you call it a Snap-on Tool?

    1. gwalla

      I woke up this morning with a bad hangover
      And my penis was missing again
      This happens all the time
      It’s detachable
      This comes in handy a lot of the time
      I can leave it home when it think it’s gonna get me in trouble
      Or, I can rent it out when I don’t need it
      But now and then I go to a party
      Get drunk
      And the next morning, I can’t, for the life of me
      Remember what I did with it

  42. M-M

    Walked into a classroom today for orientation and there was a whiteboard dingdong present. Twas erasable, thus, no pic.

  43. rayrayravona

    Typo? “Your door’s was?”

    1. Jen Aside

      “Your door’s [dick] was…”

      1. rayrayravona

        Ooooohhhh thank you

  44. Aisling

    I think Jocye is sleep-drawing, shes SO repressed after all.

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