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Logibear

"I Have Been Shot, But I Must Pee" - my favorite short story.

Fart Captor

Girl you should have had somebody put the mattress on the floor, why did you even climb up there

Rob McBobson

So painkiller jars actually look like in Max Payne. Huh.

LupinThe8th

I also enjoy the sequel, "I Have a Gulp and it's X-TREEEM". Both, of course, by famed author DamnedMan Willison.

AE Gonzalez

“I Have No Mouth, but I Must Pee”

Astariel

Was there a non-loft bed choice? I thought all the beds in this dorm were lofts.

Railway Series Book Club

i know she's probably just checking the time on her phone but my gut reaction was to assume Dina's doomscrolling rn

C.T. Phipps

I wonder what her injury was and how.

Tim Mitchell

Well, she seems to be well hydrated. That is WATER in your ridiculously large mug, right Amber? Amber?

ArdieBea

I think that gulp bucket may see the drink... twice.

Packy Anderson

Will the X-TREEEM mug be eligible for bonus strips?

LupinThe8th

Dina is secretly incredibly strong, and just yeeted her up. Amber was on heavy painkillers at the time, so she thinks she just dreamed that part.

Astariel

Maybe Sal and Dina hoisted her up ala Joyce after she got roofied?

Dan Rabin

Dina's gaze is on her phone even as she hands the pill bottle up to Amber in the first two panels. Amber's expression of pain in the central borderless panel is the backdrop to the strip. Her arm bandadges are visible, and her upper arm and elbow get little motion lines that show us the difficulty moving that Amber expresses in the last panel. Amber's speech balloons all have wavy pointers that also show her pain. Panel 4 has no dialogue, but Amber's mouth being closed as well as the context suggest that she is in the action of swallowing the pills; the panel also serves as a beat panel before the humorous new subject in the last panel. Very minor matter: I'm not sure we've previously been told that loft beds are a choice for the student cast members who live in doubles.

5099 5618 v2.0

Headcannon: kitchen doc sent her home with a bedpan .... or something that could be used like one.

David M Willis

In this universe I assume it's default for this dorm, but, like, it's still gotta adhere to ADA standards. Some folks got mobility issues and would strongly prefer a normal bed and desk, please! (and ruth and carla also have those anyway, so)

5099 5618 v2.0

@Logibear (Except not shot, tho. Dina said as much, right?)

LupinThe8th

We sure that giant mug is for drinking?

5099 5618 v2.0

@LupinThe8th (/Long silence) (/Avoids eye contact) (/Sips tea)

Fart Captor

The cops was how, and "non lethal" rounds intentionally being used in more lethal ways is most likely what

Fart Captor

No need. She just needs Dina to feed the other end of the Amazi-Hose into the bathroom and gravity while take care of the rest

Astariel

Oh, that makes sense! Didn't think of that. And I forgot about Carla and Ruth.

GundamBradley

I know this isn't really the proper takeaway, but she looks cute in this t-shirt.

Harold

@QueenOfSodor: Wistfully scrolling through photos of Becky. Hopefully not deleting them.

Astariel

That looks like a pretty standard prescription medicine container, at least in the US.

Logibear

(I know. But Shot reads better than Stabbed here due to syllables)

Proto_Eevee

X-TREEEM mug drew the short stick in this universe. Lost some size

Edwin I Callahan

Nice to see another nod to “It’s Walky”

MrShoggoth

I thought she wasn’t shot? Could have sworn she was hurt badly by the riot squad but not actually shot?

Rob McBobson

Huh. See, that's the weird thing about living in Europe. So many things that are normal to U.S. people become video game elements, or TV things, because that's the only place I see them.

Dan Rabin

The act of injury to A/A-G's body has not been show in the comic. Amazi-Girl is last seen calling cops "punks with guns" in https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-15/04-the-only-exception/scatter/ Dorothy reading a report that no shots were fired and A-G got out is at https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-15/04-the-only-exception/safely/ Sal finding Amber lying wounded is at https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-15/04-the-only-exception/enigmaticass/ Those strips were published in the order in which I have presented the links. I believe that the identity of the assailant(s) is not yet known, but I welcome evidence to the contrary.

Darastrix

Am also a member of Exes of Gallbladders and I concur. Combination of owchies and the thought of 'but if I use my abs to sit up, what will it do to my incision??' (absolutely nothing, but the fear was real)

Fart Captor

Not with a normal bullet but bean bag rounds, rubber bullets, a direct hit with a tear gas canister would all count as being shot imo. They can all cause internal injuries if used "incorrectly" the way cops enjoy doing

Dan Rabin

That strip shows Sal and Amber on the way back to read from the mob doctor's place, but (unless I'm reading it wrong) it neither shows the injury happening nor identifies the perpetrator(s) in the dialogue. But yes, I do give weight to the author countering my theory.

Tessea

Dina looks frazzled. I wonder what she's glued to her phone for. Maybe she's waiting for Becky to post something.

Girlycore

I think the phone probably just had the alarm on it.

Rae Farnsworth

As someone who’s had a C-section: log roll, Amber! LOG ROLL. Roll onto your side, legs off the edge of the bed, push up sideways with your arms. Your abs are MIA.

Harold

@Dan Rabin: If you look closely at the last panel of that strip, there's a scar on the left side of Amber's abdomen. That's what Willis is referring to.

David M Willis

oh when i read it, it didn't say "act of" before "injury" i thought

Harold

@Logibear: I may be missing something (a reference, maybe?), but don't "shot" and "stabbed" both have one syllable?

VengeanceKnight

It is no longer an Oversized Comedy Prop and is now just a Nostalgic Reference Prop.

Tessea

Maybe. But her eyes are glued to the thing.

Calder Johnson

To be fair, even with Dina standing guard, lying in the open on the dorm room floor might have risked some curiousity and questions that they really don't want right now. Her being up in the loft is both 'normal' and out of the way of prying eyes.

Logibear

@Harold shows you how bad my sleep has been recently. I thought it had two.

Shane Wegner

It’s reading to me as a laceration/slashing knife wound.

Sajuuk-Khar

This is why they don’t have loft beds in hospitals! Along with like, a bajillion other reasons

Jasmijn Wellner

FC, we still have no confirmation it was the cops. Sal found her in the woods, as Amber. It's possible the cops attacked her after the protesters got away, then she got away and changed back into civvies and then collapsed on the ground, but I still think it's more plausible that she was attacked after she got away.

ArdieBea

I'm still holding out for it being a knife wound. And yes, probably cop, but I'm banking on Lester; he was interested in Amazi-girl's identity in that last conversation with Blaine.

Empress of Robots

Are the squiggly lines around Amber's abdomen pain lines from her wound or OHMYGODINEEDTOPEERIGHTNOW lines?

Empress of Robots

That’s what I thought but A(-G)’s wound is so close to her bladder that I was hoping for need to pee squigglies (there aren’t enough FX in comics related to the urgent need to pee!)

Fart Captor

The cops were the ones we saw attacking a peaceful protest. The cops were the ones we SAW Amazi-Girl fighting. Cops are the ones who assault people IRL every day There's no reason to assume it wasn't the cops. Even if it's later shown somebody else attacked her they would still share in the blame. Their violence against left wing protests encourages those kind of attacks, which of course they do nothing to stop

Empress of Robots

A-G might be waking up to a whole new kind of mess from Amber in bed if Amber doesn't layoff that Xtreme Gulp with their current injuries.

Empress of Robots

The last thing anyone wants is people in the ICU fighting over who gets the top bunk.

Maude Reads Things

Yeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhh you might wanna take the dinosaur bed for a bit, Amber