Dumbing of Age

>you put it where it belongs
She cut is fucking dick off

>Irish "people"
Why do we even let them into out country?

>>94057961
>Fuck off ghost dad

If only he really were dead.

Geez, where's the count down anon that states how many months since the incident happened?

And all we got is tells and not shows

>>94057961

wait I haven't been in these threads for ever. Did Amber kill a dude?

>>94058036
Unknown at this point. At the very least, she put a guy in the hospital.

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>>94058036
Judging by the latest evidence we have, probably not.

She might've castrated him though.

>>94057961
Jesus is this what this is about? Not wanting to be like her dad? Well not like it's that hard not to be him, her dad's a fucking dick who talks shit but can't take a hit.

It's only been a couple of days, why is she allowed back to school after slicing a dude up with a knife?

>>94058124

I forgot what did her dad even do again? The guy with the shot gun and car chase was becky's dad but I don't remember this guy at all

>>94057982
oh SHIT!

So can she stab Becky in the throat now?

Please?

>>94058172
he's just a violent guy who abuses his family, apparently

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>>94057961
This is a whole lot of nothing that could be a stronger moment if Willis were able to convey Amber's inward thoughts outwardly, i.e. facial contortions and expressions. Instead, it's just Amber staring out the window (or side-eyeing us) while listening to her absentee father congratulate her for once.

The password is "proved".

>>94058030
That was me.
Thankfully, we ARE getting into the actual aftermath of the stabbing now that we're focused on Amber. It unfortunately wouldn't be viable to track time between the stabbing and news of Ryan being alive or dead, because Rachel spilled those beans earlier in the story. Give me a hot minute and I'll do the math.

>>94058172
As far as I can tell, he slapped his wife around and then yelled at Amber for not stabbing Sal before.

>>94058257
Sadly, Becky's safe in the comfort of a lesbian supermarket.

>>94057961
Are O'Malleys supposed to be good fighters? Is her dad a fighter? All I remember in Shortpacked is he had some weird trouble with the local mafia.

It doesn't seem like that's the case since she beat the fuck out of him without him landing a single punch. Oh and Ruth flipped him over her head while hungover.

My point is that O'Malley line doesn't really carry any weight, there's not even a base idea that she's imagining him perverting in his mind. Willis didn't even do the thing where Blaine said this about her attacking Sal and she's hearing it again, it's completely new, and fairly contextless.

Unless we're supposed to connect it to his wife beating, but that's not analogous at all. Like I get that she went too far by cutting Ryan when she could've punched him out, but he was still aggressive and vindictive, that doesn't come anywhere close to angrily hitting your wife. I doubt anyone would call themselves a fighter for that.

>>94058337

okay but is he an actual abusive cunt or is he a "waaah my daddy didn't let me play nintendo" the author is a pussy abusive cunt

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>>94058439
>My point is that O'Malley line doesn't really carry any weight,

I disagree.

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>>94058439
And just another thought, if the connection is supposed to be spousal abuse, the 3rd panel could be worded to show more parallels. "He was weak and scared so he tried to use a knife, and you showed him who's in charge." "He had a knife, you showed him that wasn't enough, you put him in his place." etc.

>>94058495
Tee hee.

>>94058030
>>94058431
I did the math.
It's been approximately 51 days (in real-world days) since Amber shanked Ryan on the steps of the dormitory. It took us 20 days to get the first acknowledgement of the events on the steps (Joyce stepping on police tape); eight days after that to get to another acknowledgement (Dorothy going to a therapist), with the day after that being an extension of this acknowledgement; another three days to see Dorothy admit she isn't seeing Amazi-Girl anymore; ten days for Rachel to be all like "Joe, your Do List is a treasure map" in the building that doesn't exist, with two more days following Joe and Danny. After that, we finally get to the Amber thread we're currently following.

So yeah, it took us about 47 days to get from Amber stabbing Ryan to actually seeing her after the three-day time skip. Meanwhile, it's been approximately 24 days since we last saw Mary happy.

>>94058431
>The password is "proved".
what is this password shit

>>94058440
He beat her mom.

>>94058708
Willis queues his comics in advance to avoid having to do too much work over a period of time.
Because of this, Wordpress (the platform his site uses) holds copies of those strips hidden from the main page but accessible if you know the proper URL.
That URL consists of the main DOA.com information, plus a string that goes along the lines of "/comics/YYYY-MM-DD-password.png", where "YYYY" is the year, "MM" is the month, "DD" is the day, and "password" is a unique string that identifies titles the particular strip if you wish to access it directly.

So, in the case of this most recent strip, the URL ends with "/comics/2017-07-23-proved.png".

I call the unique string a password because that's essentially what it is: The "password" necessary to complete the URL and view the strip ahead of time. This is possible for strip scheduled even months in advance, as I discovered some time ago, so the overarching concept is that it is possible to create a program to brute-force URLs until a successful URL is found, thus bringing the future strip to light.

The only problem there is that I've been procrastinating.

>>94058708
Willis titles each strip with a seemingly random word from the strip (sometimes with wordless ones different words come out). If you know the word you can access the comic image (yyyy-mm-dd-title.png) on the site, so this anon has taken to calling them passwords.

>>94058548
The problem is that the parallel doesn't hold up in context. She was fighting off a guy who attacked her and Dorothy and threatened Joyce. She had more justification for what she did than she ever had beating people up for petty theft as Amazi-Girl. The idea that this is some psyche-breaking, crazy pants moment that made her just like Daddy is stupid. Back when she was stalking Sal and swearing revenge for Sal's sin of making her break up with Danny because Sal talked to him was when she was acting like an actual abuser. It's basically the "if I kill the villain, I'll be just like the villain" cliche.

>>94057961
>your journey toward the dark side is complete

Amber has been the worst character in every series she's been in. This is nothing new.

>>94058720
yeah but she was asking for it

>>94058873
>The only problem there is that I've been procrastinating.

Willis would probably shit himself if someone was able to crack his queue wide open and effectively wipe out his buffer.

>>94059013
amber was pretty good in earlier S!

>>94059069
Amber's goodness in Shortpacked! is directly correlated by her juxtaposition with Robin.

>>94057961
The fuck dude. Can Willis come up with a single antagonist that isn't a parent?

>>94058124
>Jesus is this what this is about? Not wanting to be like her dad?
You'd think she'd be more worried about her inability to not stab people. I hope she doesn't take any cooking classes, or they're going to have to hide the cutlery.

>>94059666
mary and rapin' ryan

>>94057961
Just because you play dress up before beating up people doesn't make you any less like your father before this moment kid.

>>94057961
Remember when this hack faggot made cute dumb comics about collecting toys?

Pepperidge Farm remembers

>>94059806
remember when he openly admitted starting a slice of life comic because it took zero effort?

>>94059681
Oh yeah, Ryan. He's pseudo-christian, Willis' other checkbox
Mary is hardly a villain, she's just too ineffectual. At worst, just a miserable person, so she fits in with the rest of the cast.

>faggot has daddy and religious issues

color me surprised

>>94057961
Why is she still in school. Take semester off get some college sponsored counselling. What the fuck is this willis

>>94059681
you don't know that ryan isn't a father

>>94057961
What's bad about this again?

>>94060212
He doesn't have a cloak and hood obscuring his face, or wiggly/uneven text.

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>>94059681
Good old Mary

>>94060880
why do you keep posting that picture?

It looks nothing like her and is just cheap, moderately drawn fetish bait.

>>94060896
Because it makes you mad

>>94060916
It doesn't actually. This is my first time commenting on that.

I just find it weird.

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>>94060930
Well it makes people mad at least.
One guy was so mad he drew this in response.

>>94060958
I mean, we have dewd's autistic persistence in these threads already, do we need more?

>>94060974
It's not like we're discussing high art in the first place.

>>94060994
the same could be said defending dewd's piece of shit.

>>94061007
Dewd wasn't the one who wrote the toedad car chase, so I still respect him more than Willis.

>>94061027
yeah, but he took an already shitty arc - the party - and made it somehow worse.

Because he was so butthurt over being snubbed by willis that he decided his 'parody' would be better.

>>94061035
You can't make worse than Willis.
Dewd started at the bottom, but Willis actually used to make good comics.

>>94061056
dewd wrote his joyce expy literally get raped by his rapin ryan.

>>94061069
Well, you called him raping Ryan, so...

>>94061084
yeah, but in one case it was a dark threat that carried some serious and permanent mental scarring(albeit in a fucking willis comic), but in the other, he had the character actually get raped for nothing. There was no joke, no payoff, and she just didn't care about being raped.

Dewd somehow made a comic made by willis WORSE.

>>94061056
>>94061084
So the latter is a has-been, and the former is a never-was. What's your point?

Also, who even comes close to defending TD, that's not named Minifig?

can we just not talk about dewd or his shitfest ever again?

So are there any groups willis panders to that aren't incredibly offended by him?

>>94061119
I believe that a has-been is worse than a never-was

>>94061120
Well, he recently did a storytime of his original comic (West tree) and people seemed to at least tolerate it.

>>94059666
Depends, do you think Ryan's knocked anylne up yet?

>>94059666
Well to be fair that's just Amber's broken brain being personified as her father.

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>>94058439
>Are O'Malleys supposed to be good fighters

Son, O'Malleys are CATS.

>>94062274
feel good about that one, do you?

>>94062290
Yes, yes I do.
...so lonely...

>>94062303
Would the faz be siamese?