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by David M Willis on July 25, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Saturday's All Right for Slighting
└ Tags: chan, char, dina, raidah, sarah

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  1. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    July 25, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Oh shit, she’s in for a mauling now.

    • fellixe
      fellixe
      July 25, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      from mall-ing to mauling

      • Bekah
        Bekah
        July 25, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

        Your pun made my brain cry.

        • David Herbert
          David Herbert
          July 25, 2012 at 2:33 am | #

          So it’s Mall-ing to bawling?

          • thomas0comer
            thomas0comer
            July 28, 2012 at 1:10 am | #

            That was appalling.

        • Volkai
          Volkai
          July 26, 2012 at 12:00 am | #

          It made my brain cry twin waterfalls of happiness.

          I have a terrible sense of humor. Or so I’m told.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        July 25, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

        You remind me of my parents.

        And myself.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          July 25, 2012 at 1:11 am | #

          Your parents were mauling mallers eh?

          • Izzy
            Izzy
            July 25, 2012 at 1:18 am | #

            Yes. They’d we’re mauling mallers who mapped mallies in the halls of the malls with the falling mall walls

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              July 25, 2012 at 1:24 am | #

              I cant take it any moar. 😛

              • Yotomoe
                Yotomoe
                July 25, 2012 at 1:49 am | #

                That’s Maul folks!

                • TheLastOutlaw
                  TheLastOutlaw
                  July 25, 2012 at 6:04 am | #

                  The walls in the mall are totally totally tall?

                • LaurelRaven
                  LaurelRaven
                  July 25, 2012 at 9:46 pm | #

                  What, is that like a valley girl version of My Fair Lady?

            • Izzy
              Izzy
              July 25, 2012 at 5:19 am | #

              Damn you iPhone!

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      July 25, 2012 at 1:25 am | #

      I hope so, bongo deserves an ass kicking.

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        July 25, 2012 at 1:29 am | #

        Holly crap! Billie gravatar! HUZZAH!

  2. Aizat
    Aizat
    July 25, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    It’s time for Dina to open a can of whoop ass.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      July 25, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      I’m here to kick ass and roar like a dinosaur.

      AND I’M ALL OUT OF ASS!

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        July 25, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

        RROOOAAR!

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          July 25, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

          Rarr! That means ‘dinosaurs are cool’ in dinosaur.

          • Resne
            Resne
            July 25, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

            Well, it depends on your dialect. True, in Tyrannosaur “rarr” means “dinosaurs are cool,” but if you switch to a slightly more esoteric dialect, such as some higher forms of Therazinosaur “rarr” would more closely relate to “your maternal parent has engaged in copulation with me on multiple consecutive occasions.” You have to be careful.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              July 25, 2012 at 1:11 am | #

              Doesn’t matter, have T-Rex.

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              July 25, 2012 at 1:12 am | #

              And “graa” in Therazinosaur means “for an item of little value.

              • Yotomoe
                Yotomoe
                July 25, 2012 at 2:06 am | #

                roar in stegasauras means ” I dislike her, but my girlfriend invited us to her college party and I thought I may as well eat some free chips”

            • Regalli
              Regalli
              July 25, 2012 at 1:51 pm | #

              Huh. No wonder she likes Mike.

  3. Leorale
    Leorale
    July 25, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Sarah talks like death.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      July 25, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

      She knows she can kill.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 25, 2012 at 1:12 am | #

        She is the Old Testament God after all.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 25, 2012 at 1:51 am | #

          Ah. Back when he liked Dinosaurs.

      • Kirt Dankmyer
        Kirt Dankmyer
        July 25, 2012 at 10:45 am | #

        HER NAME IS A KILLING WORD

        • LaurelRaven
          LaurelRaven
          July 25, 2012 at 9:48 pm | #

          POWER WORD: Sarah

          *dies*

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      July 25, 2012 at 5:38 am | #

      Or Dream?

  4. Smallfoot
    Smallfoot
    July 25, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    I wonder who Sarah’s trying to convince there by posing Dina as her ‘friend’: the people who she doesn’t care about or Dina, who needs to be told she’s Sarah’s friend. Nice to see that even Sarah can panic.

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      July 25, 2012 at 6:10 am | #

      Proabably both. Dina is awkward enough to need assurance and Sarah is taking critical hits to her social ego.

      • LaurelRaven
        LaurelRaven
        July 25, 2012 at 9:50 pm | #

        And as adorable as she is, I think Dina’s reaction could be classified as a “Head shot” to what was left of her social ego.

        • TheLastOutlaw
          TheLastOutlaw
          July 25, 2012 at 10:25 pm | #

          Pretty much…

  5. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    July 25, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    In their tongue, Dina is known as the dinosaur born. Dinokiin!

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 25, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      FUS RO DAH!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 25, 2012 at 1:14 am | #

      +4 STR
      -2 DEX
      +8 CON
      +2 INT
      -2 WIS
      +4 CHA

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 25, 2012 at 1:37 am | #

        So, the character is strong, can take some hits, is very perceptive and charismatic while at the same time being uncoordinated and not too bright?

        • Jetstream
          Jetstream
          July 25, 2012 at 1:59 am | #

          Psst, that’s -2 Wis, +2 int 😉

          • AJBulldis
            AJBulldis
            July 25, 2012 at 7:01 am | #

            Wait, since when does Wis come before Int?

            • N0083rP00F
              N0083rP00F
              July 25, 2012 at 10:22 am | #

              Back in 3.0 and maintained during 3.5 …..
              I still have a copy of the self-disassembling first print run of the PHB.

              • LaurelRaven
                LaurelRaven
                July 25, 2012 at 9:53 pm | #

                For some reason, I still read that as Pointy Haired Boss. Though, for some reason, I also confuse PHB with PFY (Pimply Faced Youth from BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell (Yes, I like nested parenthesis, how could you tell? ( 😉 )))) a lot.

  6. Regalli
    Regalli
    July 25, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    … Is anyone else feeling happy they remember what Deinonychus is? They were cool.

    • Dave
      Dave
      July 25, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

      Dino-Riders taught us much.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      July 25, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

      Yeah, but I was always partial to Plateosaurus. The idea of this sauropod precursor rearing up on its hindlegs in order to eat tree leaves always seemed kind of adorable.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 25, 2012 at 1:22 am | #

        I like the Minmi dinosaur myself.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      July 25, 2012 at 1:27 am | #

      You mean Dinobot?

      Personally I’m fond of the Achillobator, mostly because of the cool name and feathers.

    • toddtr
      toddtr
      July 25, 2012 at 3:24 am | #

      It’s the same type of dinosaur that Old Lace from the Runaways is

      • Zap Rowsdower
        Zap Rowsdower
        July 25, 2012 at 1:39 pm | #

        Engineered clone from the future whose been too gene-modded to quite match any actual species?

    • AJBulldis
      AJBulldis
      July 25, 2012 at 7:04 am | #

      Deinonychus where what I thought Jurrassic Park’s raptors were as a child. I was all indignant and like “why do they call them that? Velociraptors were tiny”. Much later I learned that Deinonychus were kind of small as well. But then Utahraptors turned out to be real so it was all okay.

      • Virus
        Virus
        July 25, 2012 at 12:43 pm | #

        *Paleontology-five* We were into dromaeosaurids before they were cool.

        • Yarrr
          Yarrr
          July 25, 2012 at 1:12 pm | #

          There was a great Animorphs adventure involving dinosaurs. I spent ages misprouncing ‘Deinonychus’.

          • Virus
            Virus
            July 25, 2012 at 2:30 pm | #

            Ah, the tribulations of the young dinosaur nerd. Those big awesome words were part of the appeal, yet one of the hurdles. To this day I hesitate on whether the stress is on the second or third syllable. Die-NON-ick-us or Die-no-NIKE-us? A quick Google suggests the former. But I’ll forget by the time it comes up again.

          • Mrelegos
            Mrelegos
            July 26, 2012 at 4:40 am | #

            I loved that Animorphs book. Probably one of my top 3 books in the series.

  7. NCP19
    NCP19
    July 25, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

    I was gonna say “I think you meant to say ‘is she adorable’ because the answer is yes” but then I realized that that is NOT a substitution rule to live by.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      July 25, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

      You have a point, but in this case it’s true.

    • Melizza
      Melizza
      July 25, 2012 at 12:00 pm | #

      My first thought was that she is adorable :)!

      • TheLastOutlaw
        TheLastOutlaw
        July 25, 2012 at 4:32 pm | #

        I think you mean adorkable.

        WARNING: INCOMING TVTROPES LINK!

        http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Adorkable

  8. Bekah
    Bekah
    July 25, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

    Reading panel 4, and suddenly, Poppa Loves Mambo by Perry Como pops into my head. Only with the lyrics “Dina loves dinos”.

  9. Edd
    Edd
    July 25, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

    Hey lady, shut up your face. Don’t you be dissing Dina.

    • Edd
      Edd
      July 25, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

      Ahhh, totally wrong face for this

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        July 25, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

        You’re arguing with yourself.

        And losing.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 25, 2012 at 1:51 am | #

          That’ll show you.

  10. LimeTH
    LimeTH
    July 25, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

    Cue Dina describing the defense method of said Deinonychus.

    With her teeth.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 25, 2012 at 1:56 am | #

      She should show how they fed, by example.

  11. kyattei
    kyattei
    July 25, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

    Awww… To Dina, comparing someone to a dinosaur must be showing the utmost respect to them. 😀 I think in her own little rawr-way, Dina’s saying Sarah is her friend!

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      July 25, 2012 at 10:59 am | #

      I’m pretty sure she is. At the same time not grasping the underlying exasperation behind Sarah’s expression.

  12. Zuche
    Zuche
    July 25, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

    That’s it, Dina! Show ’em the best you can do!

  13. Confuzor
    Confuzor
    July 25, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

    Raidah’s got Amber’s old hair!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 25, 2012 at 1:23 am | #

      Holy Crap, you’re right!

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        July 25, 2012 at 1:53 am | #

        HEROES

  14. Resne
    Resne
    July 25, 2012 at 12:55 am | #

    Plan B. We need Joyce to go flip bongoes.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      July 25, 2012 at 1:11 am | #

      With her “Hammers of God”.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 25, 2012 at 1:35 am | #

      Literally or figuratively?

      • Resne
        Resne
        July 25, 2012 at 11:30 am | #

        Yes.

    • kyattei
      kyattei
      July 25, 2012 at 1:36 am | #

      B-words.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 25, 2012 at 1:55 am | #

      Luckily she’s been practicin’ her dog juggling.
      have this

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        July 25, 2012 at 2:16 am | #

        I don’t think I’ve told you how much I love that drawing yet.

        I should rectify that.

        I love it a lot.

        • petsinwinter
          petsinwinter
          July 25, 2012 at 11:38 pm | #

          I’m just seeing it for the first time, I love it, too

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        July 25, 2012 at 5:41 am | #

        Yotomoe, do you have a comic? Because you should.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 25, 2012 at 8:52 am | #

          I’m plannin’ on it soon, actually…
          Just gotta get a website and junk o3o

          • bradytown
            bradytown
            July 26, 2012 at 9:33 am | #

            You can just start posting on deviant art for now 🙂

  15. Jehosaphat
    Jehosaphat
    July 25, 2012 at 1:24 am | #

    Dina is ready to pounce.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 25, 2012 at 8:52 am | #

      Then wouldn’t she be Jumping, Jehosaphat?

      • Jehosaphat
        Jehosaphat
        July 25, 2012 at 10:41 am | #

        Only if she could Yotomoe… I got nothing. Puns are hard.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 25, 2012 at 2:31 pm | #

          I’d tell her “Work out yo’ toe mo'” :3

  16. gangler
    gangler
    July 25, 2012 at 1:28 am | #

    This is my girl Dina. She’s small but ferocious. If you wanna take on my girl Dina here go ahead because you know she’s fierce, she’s gonna come up in your face she’s gonna major damage you you gonna walk away maybe limp but I say talk to the hand call waiting cuz she’s out the girl is out I can’t restrains her cuz I’m conversating you right now to give her a chance to cool down, to get back to a realistic level, as it were, because we could be chilling in our crib not just on this college thing representing Malibu and Westwood, you know, malling it like we can girls to frauen pimp my mercedes call me back put you on hold, you know what I’m saying?

    • Jetstream
      Jetstream
      July 25, 2012 at 2:00 am | #

      Tiny… But Fierce!

      • Random Guy
        Random Guy
        July 25, 2012 at 9:17 am | #

        Silent… But Deadly.

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        July 25, 2012 at 6:47 pm | #

        Drat! Beaten to the punch on the Dresden reference.

  17. ilacktact
    ilacktact
    July 25, 2012 at 1:47 am | #

    Dina is going to make them sore.

  18. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    July 25, 2012 at 2:03 am | #

    “we don’t associate with snitches and wierdos like you two”
    “yeeeaaah”
    who gets this ref?

  19. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    July 25, 2012 at 2:24 am | #

    I read panel 1 like
    “Dinkleburg!”

    • bradytown
      bradytown
      July 25, 2012 at 9:37 am | #

      Haha, me too!

  20. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    July 25, 2012 at 2:41 am | #

    I can relate to Sarah, dealing with people who get high who you snitched on, or they at least THOUGHT you said something. Pain in the ass, to say the least.

    and to Dina, ” Raaar! Rawr. “

  21. GenericScreenName101
    GenericScreenName101
    July 25, 2012 at 2:49 am | #

    Awwww shit… Dina is in attack mode, her hat is pissed, and Raidah is in range.

  22. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    July 25, 2012 at 3:16 am | #

    Dina looks just as cute with a face like that.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      July 25, 2012 at 10:55 am | #

      I like how she developed fangs, just for this.

  23. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    July 25, 2012 at 4:28 am | #

    Reactions to comic:

    Ohhhhhh… White text highlighted black. Shit’s get-in’ real.

    SQUUUEEEE!!!!
    Dina is toooooo cute! And correct. Her freind is very dino-like.

  24. Historyman68
    Historyman68
    July 25, 2012 at 5:42 am | #

    Ohhhh, I get it! Dina! Like as in “dinosaur!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 25, 2012 at 8:50 am | #

      “and the last horse has finally crossed the finish line! What an amazing race everybody!!!”

      • Dr.Z
        Dr.Z
        July 25, 2012 at 10:19 am | #

        I don’t get it.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 25, 2012 at 2:32 pm | #

          Last horse crossing the finish line is a saying meaning “figuring something kinda obvious out eventually”

    • ilacktact
      ilacktact
      July 25, 2012 at 1:37 pm | #

      😀

  25. AJBulldis
    AJBulldis
    July 25, 2012 at 5:50 am | #

    I feel like one could get along famously with Dina, so long as you make sure to relate all topics to dinosaurs somehow. She might also accept the occasional reference to winged or marine reptiles as well.

  26. Gargamel
    Gargamel
    July 25, 2012 at 5:58 am | #

    DON’T GO INTO THE LONG GRASS!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 25, 2012 at 2:44 pm | #

      bongoy Classmate Raidah wants to battle
      Fight Dina
      Pockets Run

      • Gargamel
        Gargamel
        July 26, 2012 at 8:31 am | #

        Not the ref I was going for but close enough.
        Professor Oak isn’t going to stop the monsters this time.
        http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=e0mXlbtOzT0

  27. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    July 25, 2012 at 6:48 am | #

    Raidah…wonder if she’s related to Raiden?

    …MORTAL KOMBAT!

  28. Gordon Blvd
    Gordon Blvd
    July 25, 2012 at 8:25 am | #

    drama at College Mall. What else is new? LoLz

  29. Charles RB
    Charles RB
    July 25, 2012 at 8:49 am | #

    SHUT UP RAIDAH YOU’RE INTERRUPTING STUFF ABOUT DROMEOSAURS!

  30. Rognik
    Rognik
    July 25, 2012 at 11:54 am | #

    Chan and Char? These are the names of your back-up? Where did you find them, the discount bin?

  31. Ryan Balis
    Ryan Balis
    July 25, 2012 at 11:56 am | #

    Screw every other girl in the series, I’m in love with Dina <3

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      July 25, 2012 at 3:24 pm | #

      That would be a fun project. Nailing Joyce would be the hardest challenge.

      • Ryan Balis
        Ryan Balis
        July 25, 2012 at 3:55 pm | #

        Marry / post-marital hanky panky / divorce / rejoice with Dina

        • Fred Davis
          Fred Davis
          July 26, 2012 at 11:24 am | #

          Marry/Kill/Do the Dinosaur

  32. Aaron Bourque
    Aaron Bourque
    July 25, 2012 at 5:22 pm | #

    Right, because nobody goes to college to learn more about dinosaurs. I mean, its not like there’s even a degree field, or a doctorate related to it.

  33. JA
    JA
    July 25, 2012 at 7:27 pm | #

    Ahh…cliques and drama…

  34. G-man
    G-man
    July 26, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    And Dina once again proves herself the most attractive lady in the cast.

  35. SgtNumnum
    SgtNumnum
    October 12, 2013 at 7:35 am | #

    I’m asking the same question

  36. Aisling
    Aisling
    May 30, 2015 at 8:27 pm | #

    Dina, plese never stop being adorable. <3

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