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C

Let's hope Amber goes a different route...

Heatth

Man, I love the colors here

Simon Magid

They're *beautiful.* Willis has a particular genius for colours and composition that rarely fails to take my breath away.

Heatth

Anyway, I wonder if Amazi-Girl will know she was healed by the mob. Amber is not happy but accepting, but AG is a lot more uptight.

Railway Series Book Club

amber's dad also probably never started stripping his clothes in the street, but yknow, to each their own

Simon Magid

Mob: "We need a favour." Amazi-Girl: "NOW what." Mob: "When you beat the shit out of us, could you please beat a little less hard?" Amazi-Girl: "...I'll think about it."

Simon Magid

I AM THE FEAR IN THE DAWN

Heatth

I have just reread the whole comic and I just started reading Roomies for the first time. Seeing Willis art evolution is very fun.

Simon Magid

Maybe she'll go one of these "I was the strongest villainess but now I am looking for a different life" routes? >.>

Smoochie

Hard to say. It was touched on that Blaine was a cop once—and many roads to hell are paved with good intentions there. He might have hoped to make change just as Amber does as Amazi-Girl, or maybe he once felt powerless just like her. Amber revels in violence to a distinct degree and she’s not above manipulation. The difference between her and Blaine is her many times feeling crummy about it. (See her convo with Booster about how to get Walky back in her arms)

Simon Magid

Pfft. Man had no style whatsoever.

Simon Magid

She needs more gay so she can do crimes.

Megh

I personally imagine AG already knows and is just screaming at Amber in the back of their mind right now

ScrimpArt

the aura farmers of dumbing of age

Megh

Honestly was expecting the costume to be more torn up based on how bad the wounds looked Also still wondering if she was shot or stabbed

Lazuli

thats a valid fear, amazi girl

Harold

@Lazuli: This is Amber. Sal had put her back in the suit to shield her identity.

Heatth

Yeah, I am very curious about what the hell happened. Given how we saw her last, I assumed she was shot. But I think a gunshot would be a more serious wound, specially one on the abdomen? I am surprised she is already up in the next morning. (then again I don't understand anything about gun wounds) But if she was stabbed, it likely happened in her civvies. It is what she was wearing in the forest after all. But then, who stabbed and why?

Kelly (they-them)

Not relevant AT ALL but damn, I love that sports bra. I wish I had one like it. I think it would give me gender euphoria.

GundamBradley

She wears regular clothes under her Amazi-Girl costume a lot of times, and not just undies, though that was the jumpsuit, so dunno if the current costume is different in that respect. Sorta just looks like some athletic wear under, here.

Simon Magid

I ship these two so hard, I wish my standard joke reply here were valid

Simon Magid

I honestly wonder if Blaine ever had good intentions. He was abusive towards Amber since we first saw him in backstory, I dread to think how he treated Faz, and tellingly we have never once see him perform an unselfish act purely to help others. I grant that it is *possible* that he once had good intentions, but my feelings about it are not good.

Dan Rabin

Unmistakably dawn. The Joyce/Dorothy strip has a little light in it, but it's still blue. Now we get the orange glow from the sun about to rise.

Jesse

Corrupt cops really run the risk of pushing more people towards crime, huh? And then there’s the expectation for cops to arrest people every week. Don’t think it’s occurred to me that blatantly before.

Heatth

Blaine is so cartoonly evil it is hard to imagine he ever had good intentions. Like, even Ross hesitated a bit at the idea of hurting children. Most of the evil parents seems to show some semblance of care for their children, distorted as it is, but Blane was just relentless evil all the time.

Irene Knapp

yeah - the last we saw her before the stabbing, she was fighting cops, but if she were that injured in front of them, cops wouldn't have let her get away... right?

Dan Rabin

Characters stepping out of their parents' shadows is a frequent motif in this comic.

The Balloon Animal

I can hear the guitar riff on that first panel! 🎸

Dan Rabin

Heatth: Mysteries do keep us reading, don't they? Much of the first semester's goings-on was propelled by successive flashbacks, each revealing just a little bit more of the convenience-store holdup. And then, when we thought we had it all down, we got Sal's point of view.

William Lewis

I've been hearing Bowie, "Heroes" a whole lot since Jocelyne came back into the story, softly, just the guitar at first but building to that crescendo over the last couple of weeks...

shiftdruid

UNMASKING IN FRONT OF SAL WHILE DISCUSSING SOCIAL REALITIES imm gonna need these two to kiss IMMEDIATELY

Maude Reads Things

The lighting here is gorgeous! Talk about your golden hour. It's nice to see Amber reflecting on her dad. We don't get 'reflective' out of her much. And yeah, like, her, I am worried there is another shoe that will drop

SkittleE

Polite friends with Amazi-Girl, hatefucking Amber

Tessea

If you look at her when Sal found her, you can see her AG uniform hanging out of her backpack. It looked like it had blood on it, too.

Railway Series Book Club

if the next strip isn't sal trying to help amber redress and suddenly getting flustered and blushy while touching her during that process for reasons she doesn't understand, i'll be very upset (this is a joke) (or is it)

HenryVolt

I swear Blaines reasons are probably a lot more self serving.

Kelly (they-them)

I ship Sal with Amazi-Girl specifically, so I'd be less excited than I could be were that to happen

William Lewis

Since I am firmly in the belief of "ACAB" (in my almost 62 years, I have known and even occasionally helped train (thanks to the US Army) possibly as many as 1000 cops and I'll say the truly good ones that I have known can be counted on one hand with left over fingers...) I would simply say I doubt Blaine ever had good intentions as a cop.

Astariel

Pretty sure they're sharing memories again.

Astariel

Wait, when did we find out Blaine was a cop?

Astariel

I'm far from an expert on wounds, but that scar looks more like it was from a knife than a bullet to me.

Sajuuk-Khar

Yeah, Blaine was a cop?? I thought he just worked in construction and knew a bunch of cops (through the mob)

Sajuuk-Khar

Blaine strikes me more and more as Walter White but without the protagonist-lens over him: a man who found a thing he was good at and leveraged it into enough power to make everyone around him miserable while descending into megalomania

I Know Why the Mowed Lawn Screams

amber's sports bra kinda reminds me of the enell sports bra, but those are made for larger chest sizes only I think.

Sajuuk-Khar

Update: Blaine was a carpenter, a fake one, and he also worked in construction, but I can’t find anything about him ever being a cop, in all his appearances. He knew a bunch of cops from the mob, but he wasn’t one.

Jasmijn Wellner

"You merely adopted the sunrise. I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn't see the evening until I was already a woman"

Shane Wegner

I’m also on Team Knife until we hear otherwise. Gunshots are loud.

Packy Anderson

Doesn't @willis have photo models of everything he draws?

Harold

No, no, no - you're all wrong. It was a phone.

Smoochie

Sorry guys. I could have sworn he was a cop (this is what I get for mixing TVTropes and soju).

Simon Magid

Oh SO SUDDEN, that came TOTALLY OUT OF THE BLUE what a SHOCK :scream:

Nicholas A. Jalowick

Yeah, it's a very mid-80s, Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors kinda guitar riff. Very nice.

Simon Magid

@Packy Anderson I swear to God I will make SUDDEN and IMMEDIATE a meme to smack homophobes all over their FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACES if it is the last thing I do

Harold

I wouldn't be surprised if Willis was considering "Sudden and Immediate" for the title of the eventual Joyce/Dorothy Slipshine

Simon Magid

@Harold ROFL. That would be GOLD

Ragtime

I can stand to lose Joyce/Joe, I won't make it through if that were how Sal/Danny ended.

Mariah

I needed this if I hear one person say "Im straight and its totally nomal for joyce to have platonic girl crushes like me" Im going to scream.

Kelly (they-them)

I didn't want to ask explicitly, but after I posted, I was low key hoping Willis would share a link to the reference to the bra

Kelly (they-them)

Harold, I'm laughing so hard at this that no sound is coming out of me