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by David M Willis on November 29, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Pajama Jeans
└ Tags: dina, dorothy, jennifer, joyce, sal, walky

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  1. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    November 29, 2011 at 12:01 am | #

    Rumble?

    • TaZZerath
      TaZZerath
      November 29, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

      No, I think it was a Frenzy.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        November 29, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

        Repeat after me: Rumble is blue and Frenzy is red. Or what is it the other way around?

        • Twentydragon
          Twentydragon
          November 29, 2011 at 4:14 am | #

          (monotonously) Rumble is blue, and Frenzy is red. Or was it the other way around?

        • Osaru Sensei
          Osaru Sensei
          November 29, 2011 at 4:14 am | #

          FIRRIB! \o/

        • Kallio
          Kallio
          November 29, 2011 at 6:56 pm | #

          Rumble is blue,
          Frenzy is red,
          It cost me a nickel
          To get your mom in bed.

      • Vabolo
        Vabolo
        November 29, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

        http://gifs.gifbin.com/1233928590_citizen%20kane%20clapping.gif

      • Andrusi
        Andrusi
        November 30, 2011 at 10:51 am | #

        Enemy!

    • A. Colunga
      A. Colunga
      November 29, 2011 at 1:50 am | #

      Scar, help me!!!

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        November 29, 2011 at 2:51 am | #

        Long live the king!

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          November 29, 2011 at 3:12 am | #

          Damn it, you guys beat me to it.

          • Icalasari
            Icalasari
            November 29, 2011 at 12:48 pm | #

            Is… Is she wearing a dildo on her head in that avatar?

            And just in case it changes:

            http://i.imgur.com/9RZpy.png This is the one I’m talking about, future readers of this comment

            • begbert2
              begbert2
              November 29, 2011 at 3:28 pm | #

              Yes, and that is indeed from an official strip. She’s advertising for planned parenthood, I believe.

              • das-g
                das-g
                November 29, 2011 at 5:49 pm | #

                Or planned non-parenthood, or whatever. As long as it’s planned.

      • Raidar
        Raidar
        November 29, 2011 at 9:51 pm | #

        Mufasa!

        Mufasa Mufasa Mufasa!

        Scar: I’m surrounded by idiots.

  2. Freeholder
    Freeholder
    November 29, 2011 at 12:01 am | #

    And the beach party gets another member. 😀

    • Freeholder
      Freeholder
      November 29, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

      Also cant help but love the look on Sals face. Its almost as though she is against rumbling.

  3. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    November 29, 2011 at 12:01 am | #

    She’s caught up in the beach party!

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      November 29, 2011 at 1:50 am | #

      Beach party? No, no. This is the group to go buy pajama pants.

      Beach party comes later.

      • tahrey
        tahrey
        November 29, 2011 at 4:20 am | #

        Pajama jeans beach party? Woohoo! Good times.

  4. Michael
    Michael
    November 29, 2011 at 12:01 am | #

    I sense shenangans

    • fellixe
      fellixe
      November 29, 2011 at 12:47 am | #

      Shenanigans again?

      • Zuche
        Zuche
        November 29, 2011 at 10:12 am | #

        No, just shenanagains.

        • Wandering Meme
          Wandering Meme
          November 29, 2011 at 5:11 pm | #

          Good shenanigans, or eeeevil shenanigans?

    • Lordphulish
      Lordphulish
      November 30, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

      No, just derring-do

  5. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    November 29, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Does Dina get to the waffles!

    • ryan
      ryan
      November 29, 2011 at 8:18 am | #

      only if the DoA katamari rolls them up.

  6. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    November 29, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    SQUISH!

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      November 29, 2011 at 12:22 am | #

      Beat me to it.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        November 29, 2011 at 2:20 am | #

        RED AVAS POST FASTER! 😛

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          November 29, 2011 at 2:56 am | #

          Are you three times faster than a normal commenter? If you are, you’re A CHAR.

          • Wandering Meme
            Wandering Meme
            November 29, 2011 at 5:17 pm | #

            And if you breathe fire after someone shouts “I CHOOSE YOU!” You are a Charazard.

        • Mirenheart
          Mirenheart
          November 29, 2011 at 3:02 am | #

          Orkz paintz dem red so deyz go fasta?

          Waaaagh!

        • Wandering Meme
          Wandering Meme
          November 29, 2011 at 10:26 am | #

          I thought it was “SMOOSH!”

          • Wandering Meme
            Wandering Meme
            November 29, 2011 at 10:28 am | #

            No wait! It was “GLOMP!”

            Like at Comic-con!

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              November 29, 2011 at 3:51 pm | #

              Glomp is a tackle-hug not a crushed underfoot sound.

              • Wandering Meme
                Wandering Meme
                November 29, 2011 at 4:31 pm | #

                Oh. So more “snap, crackle pop”, only not in the fun, breakfasty way?

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  November 29, 2011 at 11:46 pm | #

                  Pretty much!

    • Wandering Meme
      Wandering Meme
      November 29, 2011 at 10:25 am | #

      Sensory overload! SENSORY OVERLOAD!!!

  7. Wackd
    Wackd
    November 29, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    I get the distinct impression Dina’s not going to be back at two to wake up Amber.

    • Joe H
      Joe H
      November 29, 2011 at 12:23 am | #

      That’s the easy bet.
      What are the odds she actually makes friends with the group? I’m going for 6:1.
      20:1 says the group never notices her and she gets left at the beach without a soul being aware.
      50:1 says she’s the one that actually helps Joyce with the nearly raped incident.
      And for the gambling men/perverts out there 100:1 says she instigates an orgy which everyone happily agrees to and partakes in.

      • tahrey
        tahrey
        November 29, 2011 at 4:27 am | #

        What odds can I get on “Willis foregoes the obvious Looney Tunes type option and the crowd actually passes by *random person in corridor* (Dina) WITHOUT carrying them along”?

      • ryan
        ryan
        November 29, 2011 at 8:19 am | #

        i think you have the odds for those first two flipped.

  8. Daeva
    Daeva
    November 29, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    Add in a little musical accompaniment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrthv6pUAbU

    • Lordphulish
      Lordphulish
      November 30, 2011 at 12:19 am | #

      I was thinking more benny hill

  9. TaZZerath
    TaZZerath
    November 29, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

    Dina, you know what to do….. JUMANJI!!!!!

  10. Michael
    Michael
    November 29, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

    Also, I’m throwing this out there, at the beach we’ll get hints at Dina falling for Walky, and it will lead nowhere.

    • iSaidCandleja-
      iSaidCandleja-
      November 29, 2011 at 12:52 am | #

      Well I wouldn’t say nowhere.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/mine/

      • Wackd
        Wackd
        November 29, 2011 at 4:02 pm | #

        I completely forgot about that.

        …

        OH MY GOD, JASON REALLY DID LOSE WALKY’S NOTES!

  11. Joraiem
    Joraiem
    November 29, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

    Dina encounters a wild MAIN CAST!

    • Jabberwocky
      Jabberwocky
      November 29, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

      FIGHT ITEM
      POKEMON RUN

      • tmoney
        tmoney
        November 29, 2011 at 12:24 am | #

        obviously RUN. barely even a question

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          November 29, 2011 at 12:26 am | #

          Cowards run. A warrior stand and fight.

          • alex
            alex
            November 29, 2011 at 3:43 am | #

            *squish*

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        November 29, 2011 at 12:33 am | #

        DINA: “Velociraptor! I choose you!”

        • a99steaksauce
          a99steaksauce
          November 29, 2011 at 1:15 am | #

          Main Cast use Extinction.
          Extinction is super effective!

        • NakedDumblydore
          NakedDumblydore
          November 29, 2011 at 1:16 am | #

          Blasphemy. Someone who loves dinos as much as Dina would know that Utahraptor > Velociraptor every day of the week.

          • Jetstream
            Jetstream
            November 29, 2011 at 7:46 am | #

            But Deinonychus is the coolest lookin’

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        November 29, 2011 at 2:22 am | #

        MASTER BALLS
        Use them!

        • Tucker
          Tucker
          November 29, 2011 at 3:34 am | #

          DINA used MEEKNESS
          DINA’s evade went UP

          Wild MAIN CAST used INCLUSION
          INCLUSION failed.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            November 29, 2011 at 4:21 am | #

            MAIN CAST USES STOMP
            DINA SUFFERS DOUBLE DAMAGE

            • Jabberwocky
              Jabberwocky
              November 29, 2011 at 7:43 am | #

              Stomp is Normal-type; it isn’t super-effective against anything.

              • Jabberwocky
                Jabberwocky
                November 29, 2011 at 7:43 am | #

                Trying to decide how sad it is that I’ve committed the type matchups to memory.

                • Tucker
                  Tucker
                  November 29, 2011 at 4:48 pm | #

                  As I no longer have the type matchups committed to memory, I decided to stay with stat-effect.

              • Joraiem
                Joraiem
                November 29, 2011 at 12:00 pm | #

                Obviously it was a critical hit!

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                November 29, 2011 at 3:50 pm | #

                Stomp gains double damage if the target used Minimise.

                • Wandering Meme
                  Wandering Meme
                  November 29, 2011 at 5:25 pm | #

                  Dina uses “casual indifference”
                  It’s Stupid-effective!
                  Dina regains most of the feeling back in her lower appendages!

  12. Vabolo
    Vabolo
    November 29, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    Aw, she’s adorawkward!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      November 29, 2011 at 12:12 am | #

      Adorkable.

      • Wandering Meme
        Wandering Meme
        November 29, 2011 at 4:34 pm | #

        She’s tragidorable!

  13. The Sound Defense
    The Sound Defense
    November 29, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

    It’s a little-known fact that Dina was the original creator of the Stone Mask, based on her own powers of invisibility through boringness.

    • NakedDumblydore
      NakedDumblydore
      November 29, 2011 at 1:17 am | #

      Oh, goodness, Shiro/Dina is now my OTP. Thank you.

  14. Rognik
    Rognik
    November 29, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

    Could be worse. At least she’s not trampled and just swarmed.

  15. MacaroniPterodactyl
    MacaroniPterodactyl
    November 29, 2011 at 12:18 am | #

    Yay more Dina! She’s my favorite.

  16. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    November 29, 2011 at 12:18 am | #

    Quick, hide!

    Too late…

  17. Aizat
    Aizat
    November 29, 2011 at 12:24 am | #

    3rd panel: Cue the William Tell Overture.

    • fellixe
      fellixe
      November 29, 2011 at 12:52 am | #

      …cause here come the Bad News Bears!

    • tahrey
      tahrey
      November 29, 2011 at 4:29 am | #

      Nah, this one’s definitely either the Devil’s Gallop or the Benny Hill theme

      • Zuche
        Zuche
        November 29, 2011 at 10:57 am | #

        Nah, Yakkity Sax only applies when the target manages to stay ahead of the crowd. You could animate this one to be timed to the opening bars of Thus Sprach Zarathusa, however.

  18. Xi
    Xi
    November 29, 2011 at 12:25 am | #

    “DIna, when did you get to the beach with us?” “I… I don’t know… where did I get these massive floatation devices… I’m supposed to bring Amber back some ham…”

  19. iSaidCandleja-
    iSaidCandleja-
    November 29, 2011 at 12:49 am | #

    Just when you thought it was safe to leave your dorm room…
    *jaws theme*

  20. AlienCowThatMoos
    AlienCowThatMoos
    November 29, 2011 at 12:58 am | #

    Suddenly it all makes sense… Willis, you started by sketching that Beach picture last year and then challenged yourself to get those characters there in story didn’t you?

  21. Someone
    Someone
    November 29, 2011 at 1:03 am | #

    FENTON!!

    …forgive me.

  22. NCP19
    NCP19
    November 29, 2011 at 1:04 am | #

    “…and that dear children, is how Dina wound up as part of the Fellowship of the Beach Goers.”

    • a99steaksauce
      a99steaksauce
      November 29, 2011 at 1:17 am | #

      She bacame the sixth wheel.

    • Osaru Sensei
      Osaru Sensei
      November 29, 2011 at 4:17 am | #

      ‘Run, fools.’

    • Wandering Meme
      Wandering Meme
      November 29, 2011 at 5:35 pm | #

      Bearer of the one monster hat to rule them all.

  23. Fauxlosopher
    Fauxlosopher
    November 29, 2011 at 1:40 am | #

    NINJA MOMENTUM

  24. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    November 29, 2011 at 1:52 am | #

    “Amber! Sister, help me!”
    “Long live the paleontologist.”

    • Gordon
      Gordon
      November 29, 2011 at 8:14 am | #

      Is that a Lion King reference?

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        December 5, 2011 at 3:21 pm | #

        Yes.

        “Help!”
        “Somebody!”
        “Anybody.”
        “Help.”

  25. Ter
    Ter
    November 29, 2011 at 1:55 am | #

    Wait. IS SAL STILL PANTSLESS?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      November 29, 2011 at 2:22 am | #

      That’s why she’s frowning.

    • Tristan J
      Tristan J
      November 29, 2011 at 5:29 am | #

      Finally, someone with priorities.

      • Just for kix
        Just for kix
        November 29, 2011 at 7:59 am | #

        Who needs the damn pants on a beach anyway?

  26. dmb
    dmb
    November 29, 2011 at 1:59 am | #

    My odds say Dina gets rumbled past, or over, due to her powers of social invisibility.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      November 29, 2011 at 2:24 am | #

      In hundreds of years time, paleontologists will discover Dina’s remains…

      • Zuche
        Zuche
        November 29, 2011 at 11:00 am | #

        That would be as a dream come true for her.

  27. Lalala.
    Lalala.
    November 29, 2011 at 2:51 am | #

    I saw an ad for DoA with them already at the ‘beach’! How cuuuute. I like Dinah more, now that we’re getting to see her in this comic!

  28. Steven
    Steven
    November 29, 2011 at 3:06 am | #

    Social interaction oh noooo.

  29. Aydr
    Aydr
    November 29, 2011 at 3:28 am | #

    That little bit of Billie’s face is creeping me out.

    • merkury
      merkury
      November 29, 2011 at 10:14 am | #

      Bricks were shat and what has been seen cannot be unseen…

    • Zuche
      Zuche
      November 29, 2011 at 11:08 am | #

      It’s all Chesire Cat at its most horrifying. (For a good example of that, see National Lampoon’s “The Assassination of Garfield”, done in the style of Jim Davis.)

  30. tahrey
    tahrey
    November 29, 2011 at 4:34 am | #

    I wonder where they’re going, though…?

    I know little of Indiana other than having just looked at a map … starting out from northeast Bloomington you have the reservoir within practical walking distance, a couple of nearby national park lakes a short drive or bus ride away, “Indiana Beach” resort a couple hours fast drive away, or Lake Michigan (more like 3-4 hours).

    Or… JETPACKS.

    I’m with the “everyone piles into one not quite large enough car and goes to the national park” option. As far as I’m concerned, you haven’t actually been to college if you haven’t done something similar at some point. But maybe I’m biased from how my group got 8 (9?) people plus a load of beach gear into the euro equivalent of a Saturn station wagon and went to a nearby not-officially-recognised-but-good-as-national-park type beach in the last few weeks of our freshman year…

    A good time was had that day. Regardless of what may have happened the night before, everything was A-OK for just a few hours.

  31. TheSpoonyOne
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    November 29, 2011 at 7:36 am | #

    Beach episode!

  32. Asuka L.S.
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    November 29, 2011 at 9:02 am | #

    Anybody else hear Robin Williams shout one of his “Jumanji” quotes?

    “Run! It’s a STAMPEDE!”

    • a99steaksauce
      a99steaksauce
      November 29, 2011 at 1:23 pm | #

      I certainly do now.

  33. nothri
    nothri
    November 29, 2011 at 9:11 am | #

    I continue to wonder what time of year it is. Even here in Texas (hi “y’all”) things are too cold outside to go swimming. Is it springtime in this universe?

    • Jacob
      Jacob
      November 29, 2011 at 9:40 am | #

      Not if you’re from out of state. I remember when I moved to Arizona, everyone thought my family was nuts for going swimming on Christmas Eve, but us Northerners thought it was pretty warm.

      Of course, next year we were freezing our butts off at the end of November.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      November 29, 2011 at 10:45 am | #

      It’s about a week into the start of the fall semester. I don’t know about the climate in that state, but around here (Idaho, not exactly equatorial) you at least wouldn’t get rained on or anything.

    • Zuche
      Zuche
      November 29, 2011 at 11:48 am | #

      I’d rather Texas in November than a Newfoundland beach in August. The only good thing I can say about the Labrador Current is that it encourages you to keep moving.

  34. HiEv
    HiEv
    November 29, 2011 at 9:14 am | #

    Should Joyce’s right hand still be bandaged?

    It was bandaged in “Decision” and “Disperse”, it may have vanished on “Beach”, but it’s hard to tell, but since this is the same day (right?) it should probably still be there, shouldn’t it?

    • HiEv
      HiEv
      November 30, 2011 at 10:11 am | #

      Woot! I got a stealth edit! Bandage is there now. 🙂

  35. Lord Synick XXIII
    Lord Synick XXIII
    November 29, 2011 at 9:32 am | #

    AND THEN THEY ALL F*CKED

    • Jacob
      Jacob
      November 29, 2011 at 9:42 am | #

      You forgot the UP at the end there.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        November 29, 2011 at 10:51 am | #

        No he didn’t. Though Walky’s going to be busy, and that handily explains Sal’s evident lack of enthusiasm. (Presuming of course that this isn’t everybody’s moment to hop on the Willis ‘everyone is so gay’ bandwagon.)

        • Wackd
          Wackd
          November 29, 2011 at 4:06 pm | #

          I can see it now. Book 3: Dumbing of Age is Totally Gay.

  36. hasteroth
    hasteroth
    November 29, 2011 at 10:40 am | #

    she’s invisible

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      November 29, 2011 at 10:48 am | #

      No, there’s a tiny spot of green visible behind Joyce, under her elbow. Which incidentally proves that she’s neither been flattened to the ground nor swept up in the center of the crowd (in which case she’d occlude the view of Billie; instead Billie is in front of her). There is a chance that she’s flattened herself against the wall to avoid them, though.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        November 29, 2011 at 3:26 pm | #

        And, er, an entire arm waving for help. Was I completely blind before? Yikes.

        Guess she’s not avoiding them.

  37. JackNapier
    JackNapier
    November 29, 2011 at 10:50 am | #

    Come on, guys! Let’s all get pajama jeans!

    • Greg
      Greg
      November 29, 2011 at 12:49 pm | #

      That is now going to be my personal canon for Dumbing of Age, and anything non-Pajama Jeans-related that follows will just be an unfortunate interruption to their original Saturday afternoon plans.

  38. Wix
    Wix
    November 29, 2011 at 11:12 am | #

    You do know this means that she’s going ot be carried along with the group. Which means she gets to be part o-*SQUEEE* She gets to be part of the main story!

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      November 29, 2011 at 3:35 pm | #

      Dina has always been the main story. Everything else has been merely an interesting distraction.

  39. Alexx
    Alexx
    November 29, 2011 at 11:16 am | #

    And thus ends another Dina in another universe. No heroism for this one…just trampled.

    • Zuche
      Zuche
      November 29, 2011 at 12:02 pm | #

      It was the best she could do.

      • Alexx
        Alexx
        November 29, 2011 at 3:20 pm | #

        HA! I laughed, and then that made me a little sad afterward.

  40. Bill M.
    Bill M.
    November 29, 2011 at 11:43 am | #

    Zerg rush?

    • Freeholder
      Freeholder
      November 29, 2011 at 1:48 pm | #

      Maybe, but I’m pretty sure Sal is a late game super unit. ;p

    • Lordphulish
      Lordphulish
      November 30, 2011 at 12:26 am | #

      Need more pylons

  41. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    November 29, 2011 at 12:54 pm | #

    Dina, look out! It is a stampede of rambunctious Freshman! Oh no, my warning came too late!

  42. Kasamari
    Kasamari
    November 29, 2011 at 3:20 pm | #

    Dina, you have been assimilated (*_*)

  43. saturnwonder
    saturnwonder
    November 29, 2011 at 3:42 pm | #

    RUN DINA!!!

    • tahrey
      tahrey
      December 1, 2011 at 8:05 am | #

      You forgot to do BLOAD*,8,”DINA” first

  44. Gargamel
    Gargamel
    November 29, 2011 at 4:05 pm | #

    Dina, really needs stand up for her principles and wear the Boner t-shirt.

  45. lb
    lb
    November 29, 2011 at 9:10 pm | #

    I think this was a scene in Jurassic Park, too

  46. Lordphulish
    Lordphulish
    November 30, 2011 at 12:27 am | #

    Rumble rumble rumble, mutiny mutiny mutiny.

  47. Noel Schornhorst
    Noel Schornhorst
    November 30, 2011 at 12:50 am | #

    So, Dina, I hear joo wanna rumble wit’ da big boys…

  48. Bill_Wa
    Bill_Wa
    October 9, 2012 at 8:20 pm | #

    Change of topic. I cannot believ3e it took me this long to see what I am seeing. Why did I not recognize Joyce from It’s Walky.

  49. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    May 4, 2015 at 2:04 pm | #

    I can’t believe nobody made a compare/contrast between this strip and the early Funky Winkerbean newspaper strips.

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