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Doxing
Posted on September 4, 2018 by David M Willis

207 thoughts on “Doxing”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    Knives will be sad to hear that

    (j/k Sal isn’t Scott so w/e)

    1. Sunny D

      Knives Chau
      17 years old

      1. LeslieBean4Shizzle

        Gods dammit. Now I’m picturing Knives Chau in an AG-esque costume as AG’s sidekick. Thanks you two. :p

        1. Betty Anne

          I’m too old. 🙁 I thought this thread was going to be about Knives.

    2. AbacusWizard

      I would pay cash money for this crossover.

      1. Cody

        I would pay cash for most any Scott Pilgrim cross over.

      2. Ana Chronistic

        You’re in luck! lol

    3. Doctor_Who

      Do you think Knives is friends with Guns?

      1. HeySo

        Everyone always makes fun of me when I try to take Knives to a fight with Guns, though? :/

        1. LookingIn

          you never take Knives to a Guns fight- she is just too sharp on her wit and always to the point!

        2. RicardtheDragoon

          Gun fights always seemed to be Knives’ forte.

        3. Marsh Maryrose

          Ironically enough, if Guns did exist in the Dumbiverse, those sweet biceps would be really useful to AG and Sal right now.

        4. DSL

          You Knives people are so edgy.

      2. Schol-R-LEA;2

        NO GUNS EVER.

        (David Willis quoting Batman (who can breathe in space, donchanau))

        1. HeySo

          Dave Willis is Bruce Wayne.
          You can tell because the names are similar, and because they’re both Batman.

    4. Kabo

      Knives to meet you

    5. Daisy

      Knives is SUCH a Lucy, guys. It’s her destiny.

      AG is Scott and Sal is Ramona. Lucy gets jealous over this anti-hero cool girl her hero keeps hanging around with. Sal probably doesn’t have a collection of evil exes though, so maybe it’ll be seven evil dads.

      1. Lone Duck

        Seven evil parents, there’ll be an evil mom too.

  2. AnvilPro

    Is the story going to be that Amber and Walky are banging, but “Amazi-Girl” has the hots for Sal?

    1. Kris

      That would not workout for Amazi-Girl. In fact that might be the worst thing to happen for her….which means of course that’s where this is going!

    2. BenRG

      I suspect that Sal would be gentlewomanly enough to politely turn her down. However, I’m not sure how the ‘hand-off’ between the two personae might go if Amber steps back to the steering wheel in the middle of an intimate conversation between Sal and Amazi-Girl!

    3. Daisy

      Seeing the last panel in the corner of my eye, I thought it was a ‘chance moment when our faces are really close’ pre-kiss between Sal and AG.

      But instead we’re gonna get a flashback to Marcie’s throat (could’ve been a knife??)/Sal’s hand.

  3. jeffepp

    And, flashback:

  4. Sunny D

    hmmmm i wONDER WHY THAT MIGHT BE, THAT’S SO STRANGE
    AMAZI-GIRL, HAVE ANY IDEAS?????

    1. Doctor_Who

      Sal just didn’t like Trigun very much.

      1. Cholma

        Blasphemy!

  5. Yumi

    Oh, okay, fuck these guys. Like, I figured, but it’s good to know why they’re getting beaten up.

    1. Shiro

      Same. Destroy them without qualm or mercy, y’all.

    2. Regalli

      Yep. At least if Sal and AG are apparently regularly teaming up to beat down on people, said people are assholes who deserve every punch they have coming to ‘em. Also, Gashface as a name is now in-universe. Delightful!

      1. Homer Sexual

        Druggo McStabbed was better IMO. Because Joe.

    3. Keulen

      I was wondering why Sal and Amazi-Girl were beating these guys up. Glad to see that they’re assholes who deserve it.

    4. Abel Undercity

      Yeah, I thought I’d missed a strip somehow, at first.

      1. Deanatay

        Nope, Willis is just using some o’ dat sweet ‘In Medias Res’.

  6. Shiro

    Oooooooooh. I like this strip. I like it a lot. If only Sal knew half of the info being played on here.

    1. BBCC

      I know! There’s SO MUCH GOING ON!

      Also, is it me, or has the strip’s art been on fire lately? Like, it’s looking a lot crisper and the colouring’s been outstanding.

      1. ShinyNeen

        Oh my gosh, yes! What you said, and the characters have felt extra expressive, and also the framing’s been really cool lately. Like, the jump kick yesterday was sweet! Panels 2-3 today are really neat, too!

  7. Foxhack

    Oh boy, doxxers.

    BREAK THEIR KNEECAPS, GIRLS.

  8. Mr D

    Jesus fuck how many fans did Gashface have?

    1. Gojira

      The Patriarchy has an army of millions!

    2. Shiro

      I shouldn’t be surprised that a rapist would have supporters willing to dox or physically attack his victims, but somehow 1.) it never crossed my mind and 2.) now that it has, I’m grimly certain that bit’s taken straight from RL

    3. Some1

      Really only like 4-10, its just that they keep fighting the same guys every night because Amazi-Girl never actual bothers to arrest anybody.

    4. Mollyscribbles

      Not fans of the guy himself, just scumbags who don’t want a trend started of rapists getting caught and charged.

      1. thejeff

        I suspect that’s it. They don’t need to be tied directly to Ryan. This kind of doxxing and harassment happens to accusers pretty regularly.

        Possibly with a more openly violent turn here, to generate action scenes for Amazi-Girl. Often it’s “just” internet harassment and threats. But you never know when one of those will turn physical.

        And Ryan did have the bros and whoever it was that picked him up in the car on his side. That seemed suspicious at the time – especially that we never saw the driver.

    5. Dafydd

      These may simply be friends of his. He had bros at the rally who were willing to fight for him, after all; maybe they’re out for revenge.

      1. BBCC

        Maybe he was a popular member of a fraternity?

        1. Regalli

          Or REALLY active in some campus political group.

          Or the campus MRA group.

        2. Knayt

          Probably not a campus MRA group – I’d expect a lot less fighting and a lot more running and whimpering from them. MRAs tend to produce the occasional mass shooter and the depressingly common abusive asshole, but people willing to fight against people who can actually fight back? Not so much.

    6. Marsh Maryrose

      To quote Neil Gaiman, in an ancient tweet already seven hours old, after some comicsgate randos showed up in his twitter:

      “I don’t think they’re my fans. They arrived, sent by someone else, who doesn’t quite get it.”

    7. Gojira

      What I find odd isn’t that a group of people would try to attack women who report rape, its that they would appear to be otherwise normal college students and they wouldn’t be wearing white hoods and tiki torches.

      1. MatthewTheLucky

        They started leaving those behind when AG started threating using them for the beatdowns.

      2. Bruceski

        The tiki torches were inside them all along.

        1. thejeff

          Not really.

          But we can arrange that.

    8. LookingIn

      never underestimate the power of frat boys willing to rally around one of their own…unwritten code among them, lie about sexual encounters and blame the women until they recant. If all else fails, intimidate them into submission

    9. Stu

      One thing that should be mentioned is that, iirc, Gashface was an intern on a political campaign, and likely has some political connections through his family to boot. So you get routine “This claim of rape is suspect!” claims coupled with “They’re just trying to smear the name of a good family!”

      1. thejeff

        Maybe. Unpaid intern handing out flyers at a rally isn’t really a prestigious position. Son of a preacher likely gives him more clout, especially with Robin denouncing him.

  9. ShinyNeen

    I’m really looking forward to a day when Ryan stops darkening the lives of the cast. Whenever the hell that may be.

    1. Jamie

      Why? That would mean something worse has taken his place.

      1. Some1

        Nah, the relative badness of the villains is all over the place, we got Blaine before Mary for god sake! I wouldn’t worry to much.

      2. HeySo

        We all know the final boss is Galasso, anyway. 😛

        1. Cholma

          Many Fools and Doxxers will know what it is to be roasted in the depths of a pizza (and sub) that day, I can tell you!

        2. Matthew Davis

          Galasso would never doxx anyone. Resorting to subterfuge like that is beneath him. If he cannot best an adversary in honorable combat (or, at least, if his minions cannot best that adversary) then he has found the one to give him an heir.

        3. HeySo

          I didn’t mean the final boss of this whole [doxxing, etc] mess, we all know that’s Ryan. Much like Blaine, he’s a reoccurring villain, while Toedad was a one-off. I mean, Galasso is the final boss of the entire comic. 😛

          Basically, if Amazi-Girl is Batman, then Ryan is Two-Face, Blaine is Hugo Strange, Toedad is Humpty Dumpty, and Galasso is Ra’s al Ghul. Mike, in his antagonistic-yet-oddly-helpful way, is likely The Riddler. Naturally, Sal is Catwoman.

        4. Daisy

          I like this assessment a lot!!

          AG: I work alone.
          Danny, Dorothy, Walky, Sal, Dina and Joyce: Hi!!

        5. LookingIn

          OK who is Robin, Red Robin, Red Hood, Oracle, Batgirl, and Huntress? 😀

        6. Brotato

          Robin is Robin, duh. Just kidding, Robin is Walky, Malaya is Huntress, Dorothy is Oracle, Marcie is Batgirl, Red Hood is Mike, Red Robin is … eh … Jacob? Idk. Other than Mike, not a lot of smartypants mcgees…

        7. ischemgeek

          Joyce isGolden Age Robin. :p

        8. HeySo

          I was thinking Dorothy was Vicki Vale, but I guess I probably shouldn’t be shipping her and Amazi-Girl. >.>

        9. Regalli

          Also Galasso has only recently been informed, after great struggle, what an ‘internet’ is. In celebration, he has designed a new ‘web site’ for Galasso’s Pizza (and Subs), the better to spread its glory!

          Its glory mostly consists of ugly animated backgrounds and jpegs from the late 90s/early aughts. A midi of the Batman Animated Series theme plays. There is a hit counter. Terribly ornate vaguely-gothic font, in colors that clash with the background. The employees are all too young to realize history is repeating itself.

          (All except for Pamela, of course, who has been quietly managing their web presence for well over a decade. Conquest helps.)

        10. Ellegos

          He has also added a pizza shaped like the internet to the menu.

        11. Regalli

          … I really, really want to see what Galasso’s idea of an Internet-shaped pizza looks like, and at the same time really, really don’t.

      3. LookingIn

        there are already two who have: Toe Dad and Blaine. Blaine is still out there plotting something and Toe Dad could always make an appearance because of some technicality…

  10. BBCC

    A) Yes, please, god, punch them. I do not want to know what they were planning to do in that house.

    B) I like how Sal’s punching with the hand she was stabbed in in the last two panels. Nice touch.

    C) Sal’s eyes are bigger and more emotional when she says she’s not a fan of knives. Always nice, reader wise, to get more elements of character’s trauma.

  11. Kris

    It’s weird that I actually kinda missed shades guy. Nice to see he’s doing well. Does he still work the word “gay” into every sentence? Also why are they even still attacking people on campus?

    1. HeySo

      Well, according to today’s comic, they’re in league with Ryan, and trying to harass women who were speaking out in regards to Ryan’s abuses toward them..

  12. DailyBrad

    Oh man.

    Also now I wish this was a legit beat ’em up game. Amazigirl, Sal, Sarah with the Bat, uhh, Joyce cold-cocked Toedad, so sure, he’s in.

    1. Kris

      Don’t sleep on Joyce. She’s physically the strongest girl in this comic. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong on this!

      1. cbwroses

        Ruth and her femur collection would disagree.

        1. Kris

          Yeah, but see that’s been established as a lie. Ruth admitted it’s an intimidation tactic and while her intimidation stats are maxed she doesn’t actually have any femurs. Ruth’s impressive. She flipped Blaine that one time. But I’ve seen Joyce send a man stronger and heavier looking than Blaine flying off the ground in one punch! And no I don’t believe god funneled his strength into her, because I also saw her kick in a window frame like a week later!

        2. Regalli

          I will say, Ruth flipping Blaine was especially impressive given she was in unsupported withdrawal at the time. Given how fucked she was after that must’ve taken a lot out of her.

          That said, the most powerful person in this comic is clearly Asma, who deals with heavy packages and bullshit all day long (and according to a Patreon strip, apparently carries those packages on her person during non-work hours.)

        3. Rowen Morland

          One Punch Joyce?

        4. BBCC

          Kicking in a window frame isn’t actually that difficult apparently. And I’d like to note that in both instances, Joyce is angry and anger can fuel a lot of adrenaline and strength. See also why Amber seems a lot stronger when she’s pissed off. We don’t know what her baseline is.

        5. SillyGoose

          Some people here seem to have forgotten that Joyce is a Fitness Conquistador.

        6. BBCC

          Only recently. 😛

        7. thejeff

          Joyce isn’t actually normally that strong, but she’s a barbarian and gets a big strength boost while raging. 🙂

          No fighting skills though. Someone teach that girl how to throw a punch, so she doesn’t break her wrist again.

        8. Deanatay

          So, Joyce is The Hulk?

        9. Emperor Norton II

          Wouldn’t strength boost while raging make her a Berserker rather than Barbarian?

        10. Brotato

          Depends on the edition of d&d/pathfinder.

    2. AbacusWizard

      And don’t forget who gave Scarface his scar in the first place.

    3. HeySo

      DumbingBrawling of (r)Age:
      Congratulations! You’ve unlocked co-op mode!

    4. Mollyscribbles

      Dina attacks from the side while your attention’s drawn. Clever girl.

    5. JessWitt

      There’s always Mii Fighters in Smash.

  13. LeslieBean4Shizzle

    Yup – as I noted (late) in yesterdays’ comments, it seems that Sal and AG are now partners. In the crime fighting sense, I mean. That’s… interesting.

    1. Tacos

      They need a theme song.

    2. StClair

      One’s a troubled young woman with bad parents, violent tendencies, a history of acting out, and a trademark outfit!
      One’s a… pretty much the same, only black!
      They Fight Crime!

      1. LeslieBean4Shizzle

        To be fair, that’s basically just gender-flipped Arrow.
        (actually that should be sex-flipped, but that isn’t a real term that I know of, and we have the “gender flipped” storyline going on in the other webcomic, so I suppose the term is grand-whatevered in)

  14. Stephen Bierce

    *plays the Batman (1966) incidental fight music on a hidden set of Bluetooth speakers around the fracas*

    1. StClair

      BIFF!
      POW!
      ZAP!

    2. BenRG

      Personally, Danny Elfman’s theme from Batman 1989 for Amazi-Girl and Herman Zimmerman’s ‘Is She With You?’ from Batman v. Superman for Sal.

  15. BBCC

    Also, AG, when you set up dummy addresses as part of a plan, you need to TELL YOUR FRIEND THE PLAN.

    1. Some1

      Also I’m pretty sure random houses still have people living in them.

      1. cbwroses

        Could be empty or abandoned houses.

    2. Emily

      AG is kind of super incompetent when a situation calls for anything more complex than punching people in the face.

  16. regina phalange

    But, um, flooding with dummy addresses is a really sketchy thing to do. AG and Sal can’t be at EVERY address if the forums(?) are “flooded”–what about the people in the house? AG says “not this one”, but I find it hard to believe every dummy address is to an unoccupied house, statistics wise. Maybe she picked addresses of frat houses? Or men-only, so these guys would go away upon not finding women? Still sketchy to traumatize random people like that. Getting the forums(again, ?) shut down would be a better route (then patrol the real addresses).

    1. Mollyscribbles

      There are other options — list the address of a convenience store that’s got measures in place to protect the staff, list the address of a police station, list the address of a karate studio, list the address of a cop bar.

      1. Marsh Maryrose

        Also, dummy addresses are not necessarily real addresses. Though I wouldn’t count on these creeps being cool-headed enough to refrain from targeting 235 Outlook Lane just because 237 Outlook Lane doesn’t exist.

        1. Mollyscribbles

          Better to send them down a winding back road that doesn’t actually have any houses on it. It’ll take ’em an hour to get there and back after realizing that there’s nothing there but a cement factory, which is an hour that won’t be spent harassing innocent people.

    2. HeySo

      Also, she says she flooded the forums with dummy addresses, not that she spammed the forums with a flood of dummy addresses. That nuance gives the phrase a potentially different meaning.

      In other words, it may just be a half dozen addresses that she spread across the various boards to make sure they had high visibility, not necessarily a ton of different addresses all posted willy-nilly. When you consider the matter logically, the first approach seems far more likely, as the latter one has pretty much no utility or benefit whatsoever.

      1. Regina Phalange

        That makes sense—but honestly I can see either interpretation being valid in the phrasing. I don’t really see how your distinction in phrasing makes any difference whatsoever; they seem largely the same to me. BUT you raise a good point that she could have found 6 uninhabited addresses that she repeated and not 2 dozen, at least when it comes to interpreting her use of “spammed”

        1. HeySo

          The latter phrasing is more precise [notice the extra words! :P], that’s the distinction. 🙂

          I wasn’t trying to imply her initial phrasing was carefully considered, just that it could have been what it was to express an intent different than the one you interpreted (versus more precise phrasing which would have closed off that option).

    3. BBCC

      I don’t see why not – Bloomington’s a large city. There’s probably lots of unoccupied houses and apartments for AG to send people to. Or, as people have suggested, businesses that are closed this late at night, places like hospitals/police stations, etc.

      1. Portland

        The idea of sending them to a police station is delightful to me.

        1. Yumi

          I have a friend who volunteers with an organization that works with survivors of domestic abuse, and the address given on the website is for a police station.

          One day, said friend and I were in that police station as my friend needed to get finger printed for a name change. While we were waiting, a guy came in asking if this is where he could find the people with the domestic violence organization. This is when my friend told me how the organization had set that up.

      2. Regina Phalange

        The suggestion of closed businesses (or police stations, which is just lovely) makes a lot of sense, but at least in this strip, Sal seems to think she’s protecting a regular house. There is absolutely no evidence these dummy addresses are to anything besides real places people may potentially live, even if no one does. That said, the larger the city, the larger the demand for housing and thus the less available housing. If Bloomington really is a large city, it seems unlikely for many places to be totally vacant, especially so close to a college town (assuming the witnesses/sal/AG aren’t too far).

    4. BenRG

      Right now, their focus is protecting witnesses from intimidation and attack. If the gang wants to stake out 12345 Notareal Boulevard, that’s not an issue.

      1. Regina Phalange

        So it’s okay to allow/facilitate random people getting attacked/traumatized, as long as a certain group of people are protected (because they’re valuable to a potential court case)? ….okay

  17. Bagge

    Punching is fine

  18. Just for kix

    Now, I am imagining Amazi Girl, Sal and Walky together in a Slipshine. Damn you, Willis!

    1. HeatherJean

      Whereas I was picturing Amazi-Girl, Sal, Walky, and Danny together after yesterday’s strip

      I admit to being totally flummoxed, and to having to google “doxing”.

  19. newllend(henryvolt)

    Pick your role models carefully people.

    1. Goki

      And rule 2, never meet your heroes.

  20. Queen Anthai

    Because of COURSE they are.

    *sigh* I hate that the world makes this aspect realistic.

  21. Jago

    This house has people in it?

    1. BBCC

      No, Sal just thought the dummy addresses were legit because someone didn’t fill her in, AG.

      Shaking my head, AG, between this and being late, you’re just in TERRIBLE sidekick form tonight.

    2. Jon S.

      They’re really going to freak when they find the girl who’s sunk halfway through the floor…

      1. Marsh Maryrose

        And as everyone who’s ever been to Night Vale knows, just because you see people inside a house doesn’t necessarily mean that they’ll be there when you open the door.

        Of course, no one who’s ever been to NIght Vale is going to have returned, so how would they impart that information to anyone?

        1. Deadjolras

          Through a fun podcast!

      2. Mel

        Oh man I’m glad I’m not the only one who immediately thought this

      3. Jago

        Nice, you got it.

  22. Regalli

    Okay this I can unreservedly get popcorn for. Will it blow up in their faces? (AG’s primarily, but also Sal’s when her new mutually-enabling friend turns out to be a source of her trauma and Marcie’s fucking pissed?) Oh, certainly. But hey, if Sal can forgive the stalking then maybe there’s hope for friendship after all!

    Probably after another brutal betrayal-fight, but hey!

    1. BenRG

      I’m guessing that Ryan’s defence will make ‘persecution of this fine, upstanding young man and his harmless group of high-spirited friends by a group of lawless vigilantes’ a central plank of their mitigation.

  23. brasca1

    I really don’t have any problem with what Amazi-Girl and Sal are doing here although if you’re not willing to resort to violence providing the address of police officers is a nice way of sending doxers in a direction they will soon regret.

  24. JessWitt

    Cripes, there’s no end to Ryan’s depravity even when he’s taken out.

  25. Stoodmuffin

    An interesting topic of conversation, with you two.

    Willis, you and you’re layered bs, man

  26. newllend(henryvolt)

    Now that I think about it what happened to that crew of shitheads that helped Ryan escape last time?

    1. Regalli

      Well it sure looks like some of them are getting punched! So presumably some of the others were as well. I mean, maaaaybe one or two heard enough of the story being told unbiased enough to realize he stalked several women to their doors with a knife and that was their line? Maaaaybe even that included them not knowing he drugged women so he could rape them?

      I don’t think either event is at all LIKELY of course, but who knows? Maybe one of them has a functioning soul.

      1. thejeff

        Doesn’t look like the bros are here. And I doubt the driver of the car that picked him up is dumb enough to do this.

  27. Fire_daws

    When knives are used, things get out of hand

    1. Miri

      And into hands…

      1. Deanatay

        ITYM into FISTS

  28. nlips

    I strongly suspect that the hints of non-memory sharing are true.

    Amazi-Girl said she had trouble finding her mask because she doesn’t know where Amber left it. She never found it and had to quickly craft another one from some yellow cloth.

    I further suspect she and Sal have been doing the hero-and-sidekick thing for a while now. They seem so nonchalant and casual about the whole thing. They’re actually bantering, like fighting thugs is a normal thing and the only abnormal part of it is that Amber was running late. Late enough that Sal was looking for her (on Garbage Roof) and eventually gave up and went crime-fighting on her own.

    Sal is also having so much fun fighting that she’s completely abandoned her promise to Marcie. I’m guessing she used to get into fights a lot, before the accident that hurt Marcie and took her voice, and has been “on the wagon” ever since. She’s relapsing, becoming “old Sal” from before. This is evident in the loss of her accent, which she obviously didn’t have growing up.

    They’re becoming a dangerous couple. They’re both powderkegs, and it’s only a matter of time before they explode.

    1. HeatherJean

      Dream/fantasy/hallucination/wish fulfillment. Too bizarre otherwise. IMHO, of course.

      1. BenRG

        IMHO, the fact that the Ryan issue is being discussed in a realistic way rules out a fantasy or dream. Amazi-Girl probably left Walky asleep and went to work.

        1. Adam Black

          What if Amazigirl can hop bodies, and this is now Dorothy?

        2. King Daniel

          That’s not how DID works.

        3. Delicious Taffy

          No, but it’s how malevolent spirits work.

        4. HeatherJean

          Dorothy is likely being groomed to be AG’s nemesis, or maybe Girl Most Likely To Be Found By Her Roommate Aspirating Her Own Vomit After Overdosing On Psychopharmaceuticals and Alcohol. Or Both.

        5. BenRG

          Dorothy is going to be the ‘Lois Lane’, I think – the overconfident and over-curious truth-seeker who ends up causing problems that Sal and Amber have to fix.

        6. HeatherJean

          “Harry Osborne”. Maybe Dorothy will convince herself that AG has ruined her life, her plans for Yale and a career in politics, and has stolen two boyfriends. And they are, for all practical purposes, roommates, which can complicate things. Or be hilarious.

          Which sides, if any, of the Jack-and-Jill/Johnette/shared-half-bath have locks on them again?

        7. BenRG

          This isn’t a fantasy story like It’s Walky, so true super-powers and supernatural plot devices are ruled out.

    2. Mr.Morningstar

      I don’t think so. She threw it down the stairwell, and Amber likely spent one more time with Walky so it’s less “couldn’t find the mask” more “I don’t have time to get it”

      So she grabbed a spare.

      Amber knows what’s happening and has the memories, amazi-girl is a coping mechanism (and a very very very unhealthy one at that)

      I do know there was one time it happened, but it seemed like “amazi-girl” didn’t remember either so I’d be more likely to say she was more sleep walking (sleep crime fighting?)

      1. BenRG

        This is contradicted by the fact Amber is having ‘black outs’ and finding out Amazi-Girl doing stuff about which she has no memory.

      2. thejeff

        I’m not sure why you think Amazi-Girl didn’t remember either. This is the first time we’ve seen her since then.
        And AG said “couldn’t find my mask” last strip. After Amber threw it away. That’s another strong hint she doesn’t remember.

        All indications are that they’re separate personas and that they’re no longer sharing memories. How much more explicit does it need to be?

        Which doesn’t mean you’re not right about Amazi-Girl being (or at least starting as) a coping mechanism and being unhealthy. Just that they’re kind of stuck with each other now, however much they deny it.

        1. Inahc

          This. It’s quite clear that this is well into dissociation territory. They’re well past the point of “stop the ride, I wanna get off” being an option; Amber and AG need to learn to live with each other (with the help of a very good therapist).

        2. Regalli

          Yeah, once someone else reminded me of this strip I stopped considering Amber with DID a theory, particularly as of the ‘AG out at night and Amber doesn’t remember, Amber actively talking at and being antagonistic towards AG’ development. It is increasingly obvious that even if they ever were compartmentalizations of specific thoughts and feelings in one shared experience, they are so separate Amber felt like a terrified passenger in her own body and no longer has that much awareness when AG is in control. Call it what you will, but it’s clearly past the point where the current tools and coping mechanisms are sufficient and Amber and AG can course-correct without some outside support.

    3. thejeff

      @nlips: Though it seems like this isn’t random trolling for bad guys or “patrolling”. They’re working together against a specific problem – dudebros stalking Ryan’s victims who have come forward.
      Likely that’s how Sal justifies it to herself. Of course, she also likes the fighting.

  29. NinjaNick

    I love this action duo.

  30. erejnion

    I must admit, I’m also not a fan of knives. I’m a homo sapiens, which is definitely not a fan of knives. It’s organic, for starters.

  31. BenRG

    Yeah, I had kind of hoped that what had happened to Ryan would have given his fan-club pause. Naive of me, in retrospect; they probably consider him to be some twisted sort of martyr! It also makes me think that something that I posted back then might be right and that there may be a fully-organised rape club in the town!

    What’s the bet that his defence will be that he is a”fine young man with great potential and his whole life ahead of him”, who shouldn’t be ruined by the “youthful mistake” of multiple rapes?

  32. FacelessDeviant

    I don’t like knives either. I do like chives a whole lot though.

    Also: Is it happening? I’ve been looking forward to this plotline being explored! *excited noises*

  33. BlueHoundoom

    Uh, just a heads up. The RSS feed stopped a few pages back at ‘Choked’.

    1. BlueHoundoom

      That is, the RSS link at the top of the page stops there. The one at the bottom seems okay.

  34. JoeCovenant

    “Someone” stabbed him?

    Isn’t it generally known that Amber did the deed?
    (And if he is going to trial… then surely Amber’s going to have to be involved in that… if not one of her own, also)

    (Also… Why is there an apostrophe before stabbed?)

    1. Axel

      Sal only knows Amber as ‘laundry girl’ and probably wouldn’t be able to put the name to a face, if she has heard it.

  35. Reltzik

    …. so does the fake address have people in it?

    1. Questionor

      1060 West Addison

    2. Griffin Raynor

      Probably an abandoned or unused house if Amazi-Girl used it for a dummy. Also it took me fifty tries to spell ‘Amazi’.

    3. Andrusi

      Maybe it has fake people.

  36. Dave

    …Ryan’s buddies are going through an impressively stupidly huge amount of effort to protect his keister…makes me wonder why tho?

    1. BenRG

      Two primary reasons:

      1) He is clearly a ‘leader’ figure and followers will always risk themselves for leaders, no matter how self-destructive this choice;

      2) I strongly suspect that they consider it a duty to their gender to ‘keep (misogynistic slur) in their place’.

      1. Axel

        Yeah, I’d definitely say the latter, and that it’s ‘for the cause’ rather than Ryan specifically- if anything that he’s become a figurehead/martyr for them, rather than that many of them actually even knew him before.

        1. thejeff

          That’s my guess. At least until we see more.
          That’s the point of internet doxxing and hate campaigns. To gin up random sympathetic idiots to attack your targets.

      2. Pylgrim

        They don’t even have to be “his buddies” at all and he could be an absolute nobody. They’d still have found in the news this case about this poor, poor straight white man being knifed by some “psycho-B” (carefully removing any context) and that would be enough to get them in arms to protect one of their “facing extinction” kind. Also, any excuse that allows some people to exercise their hatred for other people is good enough.

  37. Axel

    I’m real worried about Sal not hiding her face or tattoo.

  38. darkoneko

    Uh.

  39. ego

    this is what half-measures gets you, amber.

  40. Questionor

    Wait Sal hasn’t figured out who A-G is yet???

    1. BenRG

      Nope. Never forget the Clarke Kent effect!

      1. King Daniel

        Amber lives in the CLARK wing, of course no one will discover her secret identity.

  41. Nico

    Holy SHIT this strip. There is just TOO MUCH IN THERE. I cannot even BEGIN.

  42. Ryek Hvek

    I feel almost deprived to have attended an institute of higher learning that was thug-deficient.

    1. BenRG

      Let alone the lack of hot costumed vigilante girls!

  43. Griffin Raynor

    Oh.

  44. abysswatcher1993

    Amber/Amazi Girl may be a dangerous dissociative vigilante, but I think she did right by beating the crap out of that rapist. Also, why would that guy have people defending him online?! Is he an alt right mouth piece like Milo Yianopoulous? Is he a preacher? Is he the leader of a gang?

    1. Some Bloke

      He’s the son of a bigshot. Implied political connections. Add in potential frat-brother like connections and you get a group of people socially, professionally (it’s less what you know and more who you know), and financially invested in standing up for their friend.

    2. BenRG

      He’s ‘one of us’ (a privileged male) and thus everything he does is explicable and excusable to certain sorts of people. I bet that every one of his victims has been demonised in the forums as ‘asking for it’, a liar or ‘a Feminazi trying to destroy a nice guy with a future’.

      1. JBento

        Psshh, did you see what Joyce was wearing at the party?

    3. JBento

      For completeness sake, I should add the he is the SON of a preacher.

      1. thejeff

        I believe that’s properly the “Son of a Preacher Man”.

    4. thejeff

      This is a thing that happens, though usually to a less blatantly violent degree to woman who make rape accusations. Doxxing, threats, harassment.

      If there’s dramatic license, it’s making the harassers brave enough to actually try something this drastic offline. That’s always a terrifying possibility, but actually having a gang come to the house at night is rare.

    5. Pylgrim

      He doesn’t need to be any of that (though as some people have pointed out, he’s not nobody either). “MRAs”, like any other discriminatory group that tries to maintain a facade of legitimacy, are constantly trailing the news to find cases were men were victims of women (regardless of how rightful it was) to “prove their point”. It’s not that they care for Scarface at all; it’s that he gave them an excuse to flex their hatred for women.

  45. SpaceshipPilot

    I just had a horrible thought. We know Amber and AG aren’t sharing memories anymore. Does that mean Amber is now dormant? Or is she still conscious, watching helplessly through AG’s eyes, knowing that she’ll forget everything when she retakes control?

    1. BenRG

      She’s likely ‘asleep’; that has been the pattern before. Amazi-Girl has never shown she is strong enough to force Amber out of control whist she’s awake.

  46. Ellegos

    You know you’ve attained badass status when you can hold a casual conversation while street-fighting numerous thugs.

  47. JBento

    Almost forgot: good luck to Americans on the Kavanaugh thing, and you’re going to need it, because the time to actually DO something about it was last November.

    1. buckybone

      Two Novembers ago…and this isn’t the place to relitigate that primary.

      1. Johnnyo

        There was no way to ‘do’ anything about it last November. There weren’t any elections to the US Senate last November, only one special election in December (which was won by a Democrat).

  48. wakeangel2001

    wait, so these guys are showing up to harass women accusing the date-rape guy? WOW that’s pretty scummy…

    1. JBento

      Those women are half-lucky it’s these guys showing up and not SWAT.

    2. buckybone

      Not so much “harass”…more along the lines of “intimidate the witness”.

  49. Johnnyo

    Does Sal not know that Amber is Amazi-Girl? I thought she did? Or I thought that at least if there’s anyone in the entire Dumblrverse smart enough to see through the mask it’d be her.

    1. Sam

      She doesn’t know because her interactions with Amber have been extremely limited and often Amber hides from, runs from or evades her. Amber and AG have had pretty much the exact OPPOSITE reactions to her as well (Amber picks flight, AG picked fight but then changed her mind about it and now gets along with her).

    2. thejeff

      Plus nobody sees through the mask. (Possible exception of Dina, for various unexplained reasons).

      Amazi-Girl’s a super hero. That comes with the package.

  50. Beef

    Oooooooooooooooooooooooooh

  51. Deanatay

    Noooope. No knives for Sal.

    If SHE’D been attacked by Gash-Face, she’s simply have pummeled him into unconsciousness with her bare fists.

    And then driven over him with her bike.

    A few times.

    1. Deanatay

      And maybe peeled out a couple of times.

  52. Mr. Random

    So how far split is Amber’s psyche? Does AM have memories of that night?

    1. Regalli

      … Good question, actually. I don’t think we have evidence one way or the other yet?

      The stabbing could have been another catalyst point, or it could have been Amber’s rejection of AG after. I don’t know enough about DID to say what’s more likely.

      It is a REALLY interesting new angle on this strip if AG DOESN’T know Amber did it.

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