ikr. And that art style. Reading throughout the years you don’t notice the gradual change
Blindness
thankfully it wasn’t as drastic as the other universe’s transition: that was disorienting rereading the old stuff with DoA going on sporting the newer style from later strips
I doubt his mother would allow someone to show that her favored child has faults like that…it seems like something that would have been caught years before
It’s been done. Offhand, I can think of two examples – the original Red Tornado, Ma Hunkle (though I’m not entirely sure if Ma actively cultivated the confusion), and (somewhat more obscure), the character Bat from the Villainous Nights series in the Lovestruck visual novel app.
The supers novel I’ve been writing for the last several NaNos has a hero who does that. He’s basically The Thing, but can switch between regular and extra-crunchy at will. She’s a skinny blonde bass player in her natural form, but because his powered form is big, broad-shouldered, has a deep, gravely (literally) voice, a non-gendered supranym, and doesn’t have a couple of big round boulders mounted up front for no goddamn reason, everybody just assumed Hard Rock was a guy, and because she doesn’t really care (she’s super-laid-back — literally; there’s some power stuff amplifying her natural mellowness… and also she smokes a lot of weed) and it’s good secret identity protection, he went with it.
(None of this has come up in the actual story. My PoV character has only met Hard Rock, and doesn’t know Katrina Kingston yet.)
There’s a current web comic using that premise for a minor recurring character, the comic is “Does Not Play Well With Others”, I don’t remember the villain’s name but his secret identity is his “daughter” Janice.
Wizard
She calls herself Artificer, but is better known as Tekmage, because that’s the name “his” heroic nemesis Falchion uses when talking to the press. And just to keep things complicated, Janis and Craig (Falchion’s civilian identity) are dating.
Roborat
That is on my favourite webcomics list. Also, there is the webcomic “Magical Girl Neil”, he is a guy who turns into a girl when he transforms. Although that one is either dead or in hibernation right now.
There’s always like the show gladiators or whatever though. Is that still a thing? They have some muscular spandex ladies that I recall. Or at least the one shown in the UK in the 90s did.
Needfuldoer
American Gladiators? That was a weird show, but I guess you had to take what you could get back before most houses had cable and the Internet.
For some reason I used to really like that show? …maybe bc it was the only watchable thing on after Saturday morning cartoons (remember when that was a thing? …no? ack, dating myself)
She can’t do that 24/7, she still has to work even if part of her work involves her enduring a spandex-clad superhero roaming the campus fighting crime.
As horny as she has been, she’s still doing her job there
121 thoughts on “New cape”
Ana Chronistic
is that what superheroes do, subtlely out themselves?
Ana Chronistic
also, you can see it TOMORROW, Walky
Suitora
Walky represents the struggle of us DoA readers.
Pablo360
Who aren’t on Patreon.
Lars
Who aren’t Maggie!
Jamie
That’s a rather poor sell of the Patreon $5 tier.
clif
Effective though.
Lokitsu
I didn’t know College newspapers had real comics. I thought they just ran lame-ass student comics like- whatisnaname- “Dormies” or something.
Deanatay
Or “Doonesbury”. (Started life as a college newspaper comic in the Yale Daily News, back in the 70’s.)
Opus the Poet
Bloom County started in the UT student paper.
beck
oh hey! your icon is no longer anachronistic!
Robert
Nine years ago.
Bodmans
ikr. And that art style. Reading throughout the years you don’t notice the gradual change
Blindness
thankfully it wasn’t as drastic as the other universe’s transition: that was disorienting rereading the old stuff with DoA going on sporting the newer style from later strips
Rainhat
No, they don’t out themselves. They use cunning, subtle ruses to keep their identity secr…
https://images.app.goo.gl/r6ETRdmVv4rKJEWm9
Ok, they just use ruses.
Blindness
and that’s why he’s one of the worst superheroes out there…well the worst who’s a top-tier superhero everyone seems to know
JepMZ
Are you Walky or Heathcliff?
Doctor_Who
https://i.imgur.com/rZlDH3B.jpg.
UnfrozenNeanderthal
Given the condition of that ‘tank’ death would be a mercy
Rani
Walky is implausibly stupid for someone not constantly high, drunk or concussed.
Jamie
I think the word you’re looking for is “uninhibited”. As a privileged kid does.
RacingTurtle
He has poor impulse control. Treating his ADHD might help with that.
Blindness
I doubt his mother would allow someone to show that her favored child has faults like that…it seems like something that would have been caught years before
Rosicrucian
Walky is exactly as stupid as a college freshman can be expected to be.
Sirksome
I mean we technically don’t know who Night*Gender redacted* is right?
Doctor_Who
Jennifer’s policy is that all superheroes are Sal until proven otherwise.
And if they ARE proven otherwise, that just shows the lengths Sal will go to protect her identity.
ThunderNight
Well we already know from the other universe that Walky can make for a convincing Sal.
Sirksome
I mean there’s actually MORE evidence that Nightwhattheirname could be Sal than even Amazi-girl had!
Cattleprod
Sal’s closer than any other wrong guess, so.
Delicious Taffy
Nightqueer
Nightenby
Nightperson
Nighthuman
Nightcarbon
Nightmaybe
Needfuldoer
Nightbeing
Keulen
Maybe Nightguy is actually a girl pretending to be a guy to keep people from figuring out who she really is.
Blindness
…that actually sounds like a great superhero trick.
No, really. It’s ben done before for at least one supervillain(blue snowman) but it sounds like it’d be a decent superhero in the right hands
Kamino Neko
It’s been done. Offhand, I can think of two examples – the original Red Tornado, Ma Hunkle (though I’m not entirely sure if Ma actively cultivated the confusion), and (somewhat more obscure), the character Bat from the Villainous Nights series in the Lovestruck visual novel app.
Ana Chronistic
Cybersix!
Kamino Neko
… I can’t believe I forgot Cybersix…although the genderbending is in her civilian identity, so I guess I can be forgiven for it…
John
The supers novel I’ve been writing for the last several NaNos has a hero who does that. He’s basically The Thing, but can switch between regular and extra-crunchy at will. She’s a skinny blonde bass player in her natural form, but because his powered form is big, broad-shouldered, has a deep, gravely (literally) voice, a non-gendered supranym, and doesn’t have a couple of big round boulders mounted up front for no goddamn reason, everybody just assumed Hard Rock was a guy, and because she doesn’t really care (she’s super-laid-back — literally; there’s some power stuff amplifying her natural mellowness… and also she smokes a lot of weed) and it’s good secret identity protection, he went with it.
(None of this has come up in the actual story. My PoV character has only met Hard Rock, and doesn’t know Katrina Kingston yet.)
Opus the Poet
There’s a current web comic using that premise for a minor recurring character, the comic is “Does Not Play Well With Others”, I don’t remember the villain’s name but his secret identity is his “daughter” Janice.
Wizard
She calls herself Artificer, but is better known as Tekmage, because that’s the name “his” heroic nemesis Falchion uses when talking to the press. And just to keep things complicated, Janis and Craig (Falchion’s civilian identity) are dating.
Roborat
That is on my favourite webcomics list. Also, there is the webcomic “Magical Girl Neil”, he is a guy who turns into a girl when he transforms. Although that one is either dead or in hibernation right now.
Proto_Eevee
Watch Billie come to the conclusion that Nightguy is Danny
Bagge
hah!
Jamie
She’ll be convinced it’s Asher and that’s how their relationship ends.
Schpoonman
Oh no.
Blindness
nah, she’d actually like that and sex him up a lot more
Heavensrun
Yeah, but it might actually bother -him-. He might have some unprocessed guilt over his part in the Blaine thing.
Mr D
Daisy is hardcore Horny on Main.
Also, kinda weird that’s her only character trait in this continuity, but I dig it.
Rainhat
She has other qualitie
Rainhat
s?
Pablo360
She hasn’t really gotten the screentime. I assume that’s coming up, since we’ve gotten more establishment of her office’s location.
Keulen
Daisy really needs a girlfriend, or even just a one-night stand with another girl or something.
Jhon
Next poll: Who should Daisy’s girlfriend be?
Dean
Daisy is moments away from deciding to fund the construction of an army of Nightguy-Slayer robots.
Bagge
Well, is NightGuy single?
asking for a friend who is Lucy.
Ray Radlein
no no walky you are the worst
Nono
Gotta ask, why can’t Daisy just ogle ladies in spandex in comic books instead?
Sirksome
One day when cons finally come back Daisy will finally find her cute costumed gf.
He Who Abides
And then Daisy dumps her when she insists that, while the cape-love is cute, she really needs to get dressed for work.
Kamino Neko
Because they’re not real. Not knowing her identity is a minor problem compared to that.
Heather
There’s always like the show gladiators or whatever though. Is that still a thing? They have some muscular spandex ladies that I recall. Or at least the one shown in the UK in the 90s did.
Needfuldoer
American Gladiators? That was a weird show, but I guess you had to take what you could get back before most houses had cable and the Internet.
Ana Chronistic
For some reason I used to really like that show? …maybe bc it was the only watchable thing on after Saturday morning cartoons (remember when that was a thing? …no? ack, dating myself)
Needfuldoer
Oh yeah, I ‘memba.
Keulen
I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s already done that, but I suspect she would prefer a real hot lady superhero.
Blindness
She can’t do that 24/7, she still has to work even if part of her work involves her enduring a spandex-clad superhero roaming the campus fighting crime.
As horny as she has been, she’s still doing her job there
AbacusWizard
C’mon Walky, you know the rules; you wanna see tomorrow’s funny helmet today, you gotta donate to Heathcliff’s Patreon.
ValdVin
I am aware of all internet traditions, but the idea of the words funny and Heathcliff in the same sentence boggles the mind.
BarerMender
When Heathcliff was new it was pretty good.
ValdVin
But how long ago was that?
I’m old enough to remember Mutt and Jeff and Bringing up Father on their last legs.
BarerMender
That was in the ’70s.
Needfuldoer