I gotta point out that Sal attacked Amber first here.
Amber was planning on attacking Sal, and has been stalking and harassing her for some time. It's pretty justified.
They don't have telepaths on staff for the first one. And the second is hard to demonstrate too.
Marcie is keeping the fight from escalating so far too, so that's another damper on there being any consequences.
She tracked her down to a parking lot specifically so she could attack her, and just now followed her to a political rally, with the very clear intention of harming her. Amber is the one in the wrong here, not Sal.
And the police guarding this event are sure gonna know all that. Because they're telepaths.
edited 29th Aug '16 2:28:44 AM by Adannor
They don't need to be telepaths... Contrary to what certain people believe, some cops have been known to ask questions about a situation to find out what is going on and given Amber's mental state I can't really see her denying following Sal around. After all, in her mind she is doing the right thing trying to take down a dangerous criminal. As for the parking lot incident, well there are witnesses available for that...
Amber is definitely in the wrong for stalking her.
It's just that Sal maybe should have not flipped her onto her half-shattered spine from 10 feet above.
As for wanting to harm her, the fact is that Amber needs "a reason" to fight Sal. It was the same in the parking lot where Sal drinking made things "easier" and then she stood back and told them to hit her first.
If Amber just wanted to hurt Sal right now she would have done it last night when she started stalking her.
edited 29th Aug '16 3:18:02 AM by Mr.Badguy
The Wanderer
Figures Beef would be voting for Robin
C-E-O-3, H-N-I-C
Hang on a sec.
Sal grabs Amazi Girl's cape, and yanks her to the ground.
If Amazi Girl was stalking Sal here, wouldn't she have been, you know, looking at her? And thus seen her make for her cape? Or maybe seen that she saw her cape?
Is it entirely possible Amazi Girl was at this rally just to keep an eye on shit? In case someone tried to go all Lee Harvey on Robin?
Aside: I want 3 things to happen. I want Sal to have an "Oh, shit, it's YOU" moment re Amazi Girl, I want Sal v. Amazi Girl to happen, and I want Amazi Girl to win.
Discuss.
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I feel that confrontation with Sal is a lose/lose for her.
Either she loses and it just forments or she wins and loses her justification for being Amazigirl.
Not to mention that she's probably going to get Sal arrested.
The last thing Amber needs is to fight Sal, and the even laster thing she needs is to actually win.
literary masochist
I should be surprised, but that actually does sound like a thing that could happen. Which is just sad.
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
The last panel seems to give a hopeful glance of sanity in Amber...
Indeed. When I first saw this strip it gave me some hope that Amber was still maintaining some form of restraint.
I can safely say tomorrow's strip is going to shock folks.
edited 30th Aug '16 7:31:10 PM by Mr.Badguy
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
I eagerly await the Second Coming of Yus.
Oh God! Natural light!
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
bivalve
OK, having not followed the strip terribly closely, who is that in the last panel?
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Thanks.
edited 30th Aug '16 9:14:56 PM by Geoduck
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The Wanderer
Ryan, that jackass who tried to rape Joyce.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Ever Evolving, Ever Adapting
Well. it's bout time for everything to hit the fan, isn't it?
Hm. Good to see Amber realizing how fucked up vigilantism is outside of comic books.
Also, can we like, finally see that rapist bastard sent to prison? Because him getting away with it pisses me off to no end.
Ever Evolving, Ever Adapting
So, let me take a chance to analyze the situation: Marcie called for security. People gather round to see AG about to fight Sal. Sal freezes up when she realizes she doesn't want this. during this, she sees The One That Got Away.
Amber could either;
- kick into full AG Mode and charge ryan, which to everyone else looks like a harmless bystander. Sal would get involved to take her down.
- Try to difuse the situation by telling Marcie and Sal who Ryan is and try to say she was stalking him and not Sal (ha ha ha ha ha ha not happening)
- Go Super AG and just punch all the things
- Breakdown and cry.
I am so fucking glad to have Amber stuff that isn't about how she's a terrible garbage human being, I tell you what.
Like, holy fuck, she hesitates for no defined reason and now she's trying to calm down a violent, racist crowd that are begging her to beat up the person she hates. Amber could kick the shit out of Sal and get away with it, everyone in this crowd would praise her for taking down a Potentially Dangerous Thug, and she's trying to steer outta that shit because this ain't okay.
Coming off of four months that seemed to have been coldly calculated with the message of "Amber is a piece of shit, she's her dad, and everyone's lives would be improved if she were dead", just dammit. I'm so fucking glad it's going this way. Ryan showing up is the least important thing to me, that's how happy I am to see Amber have some friggin' humanity given back to her.
It's also a way for Willis to bring up how Sal is perceived practically her entire life as a dangerous criminal by people influenced by racism. This crowd serves as a way for Amber to realize that her obsessive view of Sal as a criminal and nothing more isn't acceptable. Racism isn't why she hates Sal, but it shows her what she could reach if she kept this vendetta going.
It is terrible, yes.
Given the lampshade at the end it's intended to be, but eeeegggghhhhh.