Dumbing of Age

Tonight, Willis brings Mike back out of the shadows in order to break down his character and destroy him.

And I guess it's a good thing that Amber is empowered by the idea of being feared for being a violent psychopath? Okay.

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>Next Slipshine is Mike railing Ms. B.

Y'know, I can't exactly call this filler because something happening, but it still feels like filler to me. I guess because nothing of importance or interest is happening. I mean, it's not like Amber's going to some kind of public event being held in her honor.

Which reminds me: Did Willis completely forget that Mike is supposed to be trying to rail Ethan in order to get Danny to nut up?

>And I guess it's a good thing that Amber is empowered by the idea of being feared for being a violent psychopath? Okay.
She's rejecting that notion in the last panel.

Also, how long has it been since Mike and Amber last interacted?

Maybe he realized that he had no idea how that was supposed to work and quietly swept it under the rug.

Maybe I should go out and shank a few people.

>Also, how long has it been since Mike and Amber last interacted?
According to the tags, it was Pic Related.

>Maybe he realized that he had no idea how that was supposed to work and quietly swept it under the rug.
More like "Well, I'm stuck. I'll just ignore it and hope nobody remembers it."

But there are five ways to make it work: Either have Danny notice what's going on and, through this option, either nut up or call Mike out; or he could have Danny remain completely oblivious and, through this option, either have Mike ramp up his efforts, have Mike accidentally fall for Ethan, or have Mike completely forget about his plan and just dox people on Transformers forums for fun with Ethan.

>Mom comes with you to school after you have a violent breakdown and is supporting you
>Go away
Amber is the worst. What was her plan, anyway just hide behind a tree for the rest of her life? Maybe take up stabbing wildlife and gardeners?

>Did Willis completely forget that Mike is supposed to be trying to rail Ethan in order to get Danny to nut up?
He's just trying to fuck with them, not help them. He'll probably end up getting them together like how his Walky Dorothy scheme backfired, though.

Where's Mary?

Certainly not in that picture

>And I guess it's a good thing that Amber is empowered by the idea of being feared for being a violent psychopath? Okay.
Works pretty well for Batman.

Mary is always Mary, and Mary is always cute.

Why would she want to even go to the same school a rapist tried to stab you and you stabbed him? Why would the parents be okay with her going there and want her to go there? Again, SHE STABBED A RAPIST WHO WAS TRYING TO STAB HER. She should be far away from this shitty school and put into trauma care.

I dont understand the psychology of these characters. Why is her mom not more upset about what went down?

Where are the current slipsjines?

I need a... laugh.

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Moderately Attractive Nerd Girl
The kind that you can talk vidya and comics with
and occasionally smooch
and occasionally use as a weapon you can use to destroy your enemies.

Ain't no M.A.N.Gs in here, senpai.

This is a Dave Willis Joint. She'll be welcomed with open arms as a hero. Except from Dorothy who know's Amber actually is when she breaks.

The question will be if the readers still see Amber as a hero over all this.

>a dave willis joint
At least he never did an oldboy remake.

Okay, in theory Amber's a MANG... granted a large chunk of of Willis' female characters have glasses and various nerd tendencies, but who's counting.

a best

Yeah, guaranteed she put rapeboy in the hospital. Only reasion she's not in fucking jail is because this is the Willis-verse where you attempted murder doesn't count if they were a bad person

I'm guessing self defense against an attempted rapist/murderer doesn't count for anything?

There is self defense then there is grinning like a lunatic as you dig in and blood is spraying all over the place.

Willis is allergic to medical help, in terms of mental health and physical health. Roz told Joyce she should see a counselor. Joyce dealt with flashbacks and other negative stuff, but she never went to the counselor.

In Willis Land, the characters don't exist when they're off-screen. This entire time, it would have made sense for her mom to grow increasingly worried and to take her somewhere to get help and to work on finding a new, non-stabby school to go to. But she is on panel for the purpose of motivating Amber to go back onto campus, and nothing more.


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Unless someone with a lot of money/political clout is involved I can't imagine such elements being under that great scrutiny from the authorities. As far as they'd be concerned she was being attacked, got the knife away from her attacker, and used it in self defense against him. If he was dead, she might be put on trial for manslaughter, so since she's currently not in jail, I assume he's still alive.
Now as far as her rage issues, yes she clearly has those still. So it's good she's working them out on rapists and not the innocent.

Which is just stupid. This is suppose to be a "realistic/grounded" webcomic and the parent doesn't want to take her daughter away from a school where she stabbed a rapist that tried to kill her (the same school which also had a attempted-shooting and a vilgilante running around) and get her professional help?
What world does Willis live in?

considering her moms never at any point tried to get her psychological help for all her issues with her dad, and also abandoned her freshman family weekend to fuck a stranger, im pretty sure we're just supposed to think ambers mom is kind of a shitty parent

This doesn't help much, but the implication was that they had been getting it on back when they were in college.

I was never sure whether or not they knew each other. They did talk with familiarity, but without any of the catching up or tests of recognition you'd expect for characters who knew each other. I just took it as awkwardly written seduction.

I get the impression that amber's mom is way too poor to afford therapy and all of dad's child support money goes to college and whatever remainder left , Amber bought Amazi tools and custom made amazi condoms

>Amber bought Amazi tools and custom made amazi condoms
How broke is Amazi-Girl that she can't buy those herself

Pic Related. They don't appear to show up again after this, either.

Maybe it's one of those things where it's like "Don't worry, honey; just sleep it off and you'll be better!" or something.

Can you even buy custom condoms?

Amber will face no consequences and instead will fall into "feared but respected" or some bullshit. Nice to know that good things happen to bad people.

Yeah, she's the best... at being the worst!

I'm still hoping for some kind of internal struggle in which Amber and Amazi-Girl figuratively fight each other for control of the main body.

Naturally, with Willis' knowledge of DID, this means that Amber will be in public punching herself like it's "Fight Club" and talking to herself like a psychopath, while passers-by snark and comment on the proceedings in one-panel cameos that ultimately come off as poor attempts at humor.

Is Mike going to fuck Amber's mom?

>Can you even buy custom condoms?
>graphicarmor.com/custom-imprinted-condoms

A little pricey and I'm not sure how much I'd trust off-label internet condoms, but doable.

Preview would seem to indicate Carla looks excited about Amber.

Self-defense laws have express limits on how far you're allowed to go - if you injure an attacker to the point where they are no longer able to pose a physical threat to you and you keep going it's a felony. They may dismiss or commute sentences if there are extenuating circumstances, but there's no way that all would have been wrapped up in, what was it? Three days?

Aren't the Amazi-condoms regular ones with a Sharpie A on the packet?

The issue with that is they'd have to prove that Ryan was no longer able to pose a physical threat to Amber. Generally speaking, if they're conscious, cognizant, can still move and fight, and are not trying to flee they're considered still a threat. Unless they're in a highly self-defense unfriendly state no DA would bring charges against Amber unless there was clear cut evidence that Ryan was incapacitated when Amber stabbed him or that the stabbing was a separate incident. Even then they'd be hesitant to press charges as they'd risk jury nullification and public backlash due to the circumstances of the victim.

Look you're applying logic to this. The long and short of it is that Ryan Rapeman tried to attack Amber and Dorothy. Amber stepped in, wrestled the knife from Ryan Rapeberg and stabbed and slashed him; maybe she injured him severely or went full Lorena Bobbitt on him or something. Either way Ryan Rapesteinowitz is a Bad Man who got what he deserved, justice was done and Amber will be given odd looks, called crazy, but also called brave and badass and eventually Amber (not Amazi-Girl) will be welcomed as a real superhero allowing Amber to begin moving on from that persona... or will she?!

>Can you even buy custom condoms?
Pretty sure she just drew on the package. They're not custom at all.

Unless you count the pinholes she put in them.

I really hope so.

See, that would be a really good plot thread if we were meant to see Amber as a villain. We could see that she was terrifying but that she was still rewarded for excessively stabbing a guy. And the heroes would have to deal with their slowly decreasing hope as they realize that nothing good will ever happen to them.

The law doesn't expect you to be a perfect model of rationality and self control in these situations only that you be reasonable.
Reasonable people are not in knife fights every day and therefore are not expected to know exactly how to behave.
Freaking out and stabbing the shit out of the serial rapist threatening your life falls within the broad range of responses the law considers reasonable.

I agree. It also depends upon the security tapes. There should be videos of the front steps of the dorm. If Ryan looks frightened on the tapes, she was probably being excessive.

Is this the Patreon strip or the one actually on the site?

I'm honestly happy to see Mike's return, even though I've never really cared about him before. This was a great moment for him to be nice and evil at the same time. I like the balance.

There's willis official pornographique™ of the two fucking in the janitor closet.

I know about that. I just mean that after this strip, you don't see them again in the actual comic, or at least I didn't see them.

Yes, she uses amazi-sharpies to draw the A on them, it is canon but I don't recall in what strip it was.

Oh, yeah they don't show up again, the next strip her mother shows up is the one with Mike where she has slightly ruffled hair.

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Ah, yes, this one: I didn't notice that when I posted it.

Reading this again, this actually seems like a good example of what I assumed Mike to be: A character who is harsh and abrasive to others, but with good intent. In this case, Mike wants Amber to re-examine her idea that she's fated to become her parents; she states that her mother is wont to get boned by assholes, to which Mike retorts that if Amber is always dating bisexual pushovers, then she's becoming more like her father, Fox.

Too bad you don't get this kind of development all the time.

Good job finding that.