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80 thoughts on “Wright Quad”
Ana Chronistic
maybe it will happen today
Marvelman
What is supposed to happen at noon? Did I miss something?
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as discussed in yesterday’s comic, police raided read hall at noon the day before yesterday in universe, and another residence hall yesterday in universe, setting up a pattern whereby it appears a third resident hall will get raided today. the police are doing this with the stated intent of finding amazi-girl and the implicit intent of scaring the bejesus out of the rest of campus as collective punishment for the protest.
flake
thanks! i can’t believe i never picked up on that
really sorry if this is the wrong place for this, Wack’d, but have you considered adding an emoji to the disclaimer on your messages? (eg 🌴 this is *not* […[, vs ⚖️ this *is* […]) it might just be me, but it always takes me several takes to tell if the moderator hat is on 🙃
NullSet
I like how blizzard always did it, where posts made in an official capacity had a different text color.
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Hm. I like that idea better. Quick check to see if the comments HTML lets me…
Mr D
Well, @Wack’d, I’m not sure that green is a great color over the cyan background of the website. Contrast is a bit off.
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yeah i just picked a neutral-seeming hex code arbitrarily. will definitely keep contrast in mind if/when i pick a moderation color
NGPZ
apropos of nothing, Joyce’s breasts look especially large today XD
QueenofSodor
dorothy’s sexy shirt is working as intended
anon
idk if she’s wearing a diff bra but it might just be more so that her top is low cut
DJTsurugi
I wish my breasts looked especially large today… ~<3
Rose By Any Other Name
Same, sister. Same.
Hydrohead
I was also thinking Joyce was showing more clevage and wondering if that was accidental or if it has been increasing over time as part of or because of her awakening.
Astariel
I just noticed that in the preview panel version of this strip, Joyce isn’t showing any cleavage. Maybe her boobs are looking bigger because Dorothy’s shirt is small on her?
Astariel
I sense a bad idea incoming.
anon
well, they could ask carla to pay them off but i doubt she’d wanna give the cops any money after what happened
QueenofSodor
she’s gotta get the whole campus dressed up in Amazi-Suits so they can I Am Sparticus the cops away from campus
Kas
I was cheering for Dorothy maybe having a bad idea of impersonating a certain supergirl, but you know? This could be just as, if not more, fun
anon
didn’t amazi-girl have some ‘tracker app’? Would think they’d use that
Segnosaur
Amazi-girl did have a tracker app. But it was one she wrote herself (and I suspect is probably pretty secure) so it wold not be useful outside of Amber’s circle if friends
AllTheseSquaresMakeACircle
Considering the last time Amazi-Girl met the cops they stabbed her with their totally illegal “but we’re cops so who cares” knives that they are not supposed to have on duty, that does not seem like a good idea. Doubly so since they have shown they are willing to teargas and beat the living shit out of the student body during a peaceful protest just to make a point.
Michelle J Caboose
I dunno. That seems like that would go VERY badly, VERY quickly. The cops have already shown they’re perfectly willing to stab Amazi-Girl. It wouldn’t take much to go a step further, to shooting at her in “self defense.”
Edit: It WOULD be funny as hell, though.
“I am Amazi-Girl!”
“*I* am Amazi-Girl!”
“I’M Amazi-Girl, and so’s my wife!”
thejeff
Amazi-Girl would definitely be treated as highly dangerous and rightly so. Shouldn’t be “shoot on sight” orders, but given that she assaulted multiple groups of riot cops and had little trouble holding them off, they’re going to be pretty damn nervous.
And honestly, it’s hard to blame them. (Blame them for excessive force ending the protest, sure.) But they’re dealing with a street level super hero here and they’re not trained for that. She’s not armed, but she’s clearly dangerous. They’ll treat her as such.
It’s basically authorial fiat she didn’t at least get shot at during the protest. And it would have been treated as a good shoot. The stabbing was probably more likely to get the cop in trouble than shooting her would have.
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transcripts and location tags are complete through tomorrow! very put out that the html for text size in the transcript field doesn’t parse, but it what it is. at least i can stop using all-caps for emphasis.
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also did you know that the green spaces on iu campus are dunn meadow and dunn’s woods? what’s with that
NGPZ
complete how? you mean transcripts are all done ALREADY? Kudos!
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complete as in i bridged the gap of several days where the most recent comic did not have them. every comic from after i first got access to the backend is done. the rest of the comic’s fifteen years are gonna take. longer.
NGPZ
I see, so to what storyline are you up to at this point for past comic transcripts?
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i have september and october of 2010 done. like i said the other day, i do these for fun. i have. not had a lot of time or energy for fun lately. not cuzza other site duties, just life stuff.
NGPZ
that’s just fine, Wack’d :)
deliverything
I hope things will start going better for you soon. Both of you, really.
QueenofSodor
they did it like that to spite you specifically
Dr. T
What’s up with the name Dunn is that the family who used to own the land were named Dunn. The old Dunn family cemetery is also still on campus. They also used to have a bunch of things named after an old administrator until recently when his history with eugenics caused them to change that. They weren’t even the only school that took his name off of things.
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right but why is one possessive and not the other
flake
in my experience the spostophy gets lost of part of the name gets lost. so maybe it was the dunn family’s meadow before or something
Pergola
spostophy? Google thinks you mean spotify.
clif
They knew what they were doing when they Dunn it.
Dot
Why would the raids all occur at the same time every day? That’s not tactically sound.
AeromechanicalAce
In addition to being Bastards, Cops are frequently not very bright.
Cassie
At a guess, because the point is less tactical soundness and more terrorizing the students on a thin pretext in order to impress on them that this is the result of protesting. And because the point is partially that even if it doesn’t convince the protesters not to for next time, it’ll already have turned other students against them.
Thag Simmons
If they’re thinking tactically at all (which they very well might not be), I suspect they think their failure to find evidence on the first raid means they aren’t going to on subsequent raids. They couldn’t get anything on the likeliest hiding location with no warning, odds of finding evidence on subsequent raids is low.
The goal is probably causing enough terror to make someone turn snitch.
&nsbp;
EDIT: (this was the first time in several months the edit function was actually available, and I want to celebrate that)
eh, whatever
Say it:
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bsssssp
:-)
deliverything
Non-breaking space, if that helps people remember.
Of course, some of us are nerdy enough that we remember the nbsp but have to doublecheck what it actually stands for.
Pocky
more than likely it’s just because it’s the time the college would probably have enough students in classes.
yak
Joyce discovers the American police system
Unlurking Sentinel
…I just thought of how Amber and Dorothy’s resemblance could be used in the worst possible way.
Thag Simmons
I think they’ve been photographed together, which would probably prevent Dorothy from pretending to be Clark Kent in this situation.
Unlurking Sentinel
I wasn’t thinking of Dorothy taking the fall for the identity. My thought was her impersonating Amazi-Girl in-costume, and creating some sort of incident to lure the police away in some unspecified way I haven’t thought of (which the real Amazi-Girl can’t do, due to being out of commission). We know from Halloween she can dye her hair brown on short notice. And it could go horribly wrong in too many ways to count.
Thag Simmons
Didn’t think of it, but you’re right. That’s a plan that is sensible enough that Dorothy wouldn’t outright reject it in the planning stages but which is still stupid enough that it’d be a really bad idea. Might happen.
Dr. T
Amazi-Girl and Sal were frequently spotted together but a spot-on reporter like Jennifer still thinks Sal is AG.
AllTheseSquaresMakeACircle
I question Jennifer’s recollection of anything that happened in her first semester as she spent most of it either drunk or detoxing or being an ass to what few friends she had on campus.
Jon
Does anyone have an explanation for the alt text? Why would Willis be recoloring shirts in the preview panels? Did Joyce and Dorothy have a wardrobe change spoiler that I missed as part of their getting together?
Unlurking Sentinel
Since they started sleeping with each other, they’ve been sharing clothes. This was recently brought up 12 pages ago: https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/twomoreminutes/
clif
Spoilers.
CT Phipps
Two Possibilities:
1. Dorothy the organizer tries to make a protest against police overreach in the dorms.
2. Dorothy calls the FBI and makes things so much worse.
But yes, I like Joyce and Dorothy most when they’re involved in things like Bulmeria, ACAP, and their little lesbian antifa. I feel it’s much more interesting when it’s not just their relationship but the complicated politics they’re negotiating with Dorothy as the Face of RebellionTM.
JuanokuG4
Someone replied to me saying that this could be tied to the dirty cops bought by the cops and it reframed this for me immensely, i just thought the cops were being dicks, wouldn’t be out of character for the police
TrueSurvivor
I really like that idea, but don’t believe the mob’s pocketed police are behind this. They already know from Blaine that Amber is Amazi-Girl, if they wanted to go after her they would not be wasting resources going to a second dorm and would likely have done a better job finding (or framing) Amber yesterday. Also, the mob seem to just not really care about Amazi-girl, as she’s was out of action for most of the last semester and was really only ever involved in taking down relatively petty crime on campus and discouraging drunk teenagers. The mob likely doesn’t think going after Amber is worth the trouble or risk of exposure – she’s not really a threat to their buisness but killing a teenage girl or dragging a superhero to trail on false pretenses might bring the eyes of people and powers that might be.
clif
This again? Please provide a link where Blaine informed them that Amber was Amazi-Girl.
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I can provide a link to where he tells them she isn’t, that she’s incapable.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/opaque/
TrueSurvivor
Huh, I guess I misremembered, or orginally misread, that. Thanks for pointing that out and providing a helpful link.
clif
No problem. You’re far from the first person to make that claim.
Steamweed
The Ominous Meter is registering for every single panel here. :O
TrueSurvivor
For a second I thought this said Optimus meter – which I contend runs from G1 upto Bayeverse, unless you want to include Shattered Glass. But yes, this is a very ominous series of panels, especially with its tight framing. I give it a War for Cybertron on the Optimus meter.
Steamweed
An excellent system for measurement!
IntangibleMatter
Dorothy, no. Don’t steal Amazi-Girl’s outfit to try and get yourself taken so the raids stop. No. Bad Dorothy, no self-destructive acts in an attempt at selflessness.
Brian K. Pittman
Welcome to life in America, Joyce.
Sean Smith
This is exactly the outcome Luthen desired!
Fail Earnhardt
Joyce previously called their actions “heroically gay” not realizing Dorothy would take that in a “Supergirl in Crisis on Infinite Earths” type of way
YourCousinJay
Ngl this is me catastrophizing a lil bit but a big fear of mine is that the story line post Joyce and Dotty flailing around selfishly at the previous protest and putting themselves in danger not listening to protest leaders, will now suddenly protest leaders themselves now that they have a person stake into why they should care and then together push back against the unjust actions of the police.
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I hope thats not where things go and instead Dotty just uses her connection at the paper to write in support of the movement and they genuinely join it rather than taking it over (or atleast this part of it)
Buck Ripsnort
O God, is Joyce considering . . . . TATTLING? I mean, you could easily make the argument that Amazi-Girl IS putting everyone else in danger as long as she keeps playing hide-and-seek with the cops, BUT . . . .!
Another possibility: Joyce shows up in front of the police in full costume (I think the costume’s in Joyce’s room at this point?) and shouts “*I* am Amazi-Girl! Stop this oppression at once!”
ResRam
COULD be a valid idea if she had a solid alibi for the time when several cops got attacked and injured by Amazi-Girl.
Like, if she had provably been in front of three cameras and a room full of witnesses at the time? This could throw some severe sand into the investigation. Go to jail, let them derail, then clank down impeccable alibi after several weeks.
A massive pain to shake all that sade off afterwards, but doable.
But since she was running from the declared-illegal protest herself at the time?
It would be a complete self-sacrifice.
Court for attacking cops and vigilantism, very probably prison for “terrorism” nowadays, and of course thrown from uni at once. Bye bye main character….
Corey C.