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September 18, 2023

Assimilation

by David M Willis on May 30, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Up All Night to Get Vengeance

└ Tags: dina, joyce

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    May 30, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    D= DOUBLE CUTE REBELLION

    • SUGauthor
      SUGauthor
      May 30, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      OVERLOAD! OVERLOAD! TOO MUCH CUTENESS!!

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        May 30, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        Fool! I’m immune to cuteness thanks to my close proximity to kittens.

        • Shadow12000
          Shadow12000
          May 30, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

          But this isn’t even their final form!!

          • RevenantBacon
            RevenantBacon
            May 30, 2014 at 1:40 am | #

            well played. It seems that I’m going to have to go super saiyan.

            • Yarrr
              Yarrr
              May 30, 2014 at 7:59 am | #

              That won’t save you.

              Nothing can save you

          • Gigafreak
            Gigafreak
            May 30, 2014 at 9:55 am | #

            Next stage: Dina borrows the sunglasses perched on Joyce’s head, to perch them on her own. So her diosaur hat can be coolly detached as well.

            • Dan
              Dan
              May 30, 2014 at 11:30 am | #

              In my headcanon, Dina’s hat can change expressions to match her mood, and its pupils are cooly off to the side.

            • Justin
              Justin
              June 2, 2014 at 8:20 pm | #

              is it weird i find Dina …oddly sexy in that last panel?

              • Rachel Roth
                Rachel Roth
                August 9, 2014 at 11:46 pm | #

                Justin, let me just warn you here, DINA DOES NOT HAVE A SEXY INDICATOR! If you pursue her, you must do it on her level, and accept that there is a chance she will never be able to understand a level above friend.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        May 30, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

        CUTEPOCALYPSE

        • Lord Circe
          Lord Circe
          May 30, 2014 at 1:05 pm | #

          This just in: Nyan Cat just saw this strip and died of cuteness overdose.

          • TachyonCode
            TachyonCode
            May 30, 2014 at 4:28 pm | #

            D:!

            Nyan Cat is DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD?!

        • LittleMountain
          LittleMountain
          May 30, 2014 at 6:35 pm | #

          HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

      • Batman
        Batman
        May 30, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

        IT’S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!

      • Mass Confusion
        Mass Confusion
        May 30, 2014 at 2:23 am | #

        Now I have “Cute Overload” by Parry Gripp stuck in my head. Thanks for that

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      May 30, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

      I want Sal to walk by in the next strip, see these two geeks acting like that, and immediately assume it has become mainstream, and she now has to act different to keep being a rebel.

      Next day she shows up in a hoodie dress.

      • Robert
        Robert
        May 30, 2014 at 12:41 am | #

        Oh god if Sal becomes a hipster I swear to god I will rip my toenails out one by one.

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          May 30, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

          Nah, hipsters are all about fake rebelling in strictly defined ways. It’s just another way of being a fashion victim.

          Sal is about actual rebellion, since she’s genuinely sick of society’s shit. But it’s hard to be a rebel when even The Churchmouse and Yuki Nagato find your behavior socially acceptable.

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            May 30, 2014 at 2:30 am | #

            Tomorrow: Sal wears Jason’s clothes

            [YES THE BOWTIE TOO]

            • John
              John
              May 30, 2014 at 3:44 am | #

              Not just clothes like his, or clothes that belong to him, but the actual clothes right off his back. She just walks up, strips him, and walks off with his clothes.

              • saltchocolate
                saltchocolate
                May 30, 2014 at 8:16 am | #

                If she does the bow tie will instantly become cool, just like Joyce’s shirt.

                • The Doctor
                  The Doctor
                  May 30, 2014 at 9:31 am | #

                  Bow ties are already cool. You’re welcome.

                • Doctor_Who
                  Doctor_Who
                  May 30, 2014 at 9:55 am | #

                  Bowties already are cool.

                • Kaoy
                  Kaoy
                  May 30, 2014 at 2:11 pm | #

                  Wait till you see what she can do with a fez.

                • timemonkey
                  timemonkey
                  May 30, 2014 at 6:18 pm | #

                  Nothing can make a bowtie cool.

              • Jen Aside
                Jen Aside
                May 30, 2014 at 11:29 am | #

                I had imagined after a quick shag, but okay!

                • John
                  John
                  May 30, 2014 at 5:23 pm | #

                  It’s funnier if she walks into his office and is all, “Get nekkid. Now.” And when he complies, in obvious anticipation of what’s about to happen, she just takes his clothes and leaves.

                • Jen Aside
                  Jen Aside
                  May 30, 2014 at 11:17 pm | #

                  Haha, I want her to take his boxers, too.

                  –or, wait, he’s all tighty-whiteys, isn’t he

                  those can go on his head

              • Jen Aside
                Jen Aside
                June 2, 2014 at 1:20 am | #

                so anyway

                • kurodansei
                  kurodansei
                  June 5, 2014 at 3:36 pm | #

                  I like you

                • DarkVeghetta
                  DarkVeghetta
                  July 5, 2015 at 11:46 am | #

                  Glorious.

            • Historyman68
              Historyman68
              May 30, 2014 at 6:45 am | #

              And his skin.

          • John
            John
            May 30, 2014 at 2:42 am | #

            The Churchmouse is Sal’s twin brother.

          • Kelly
            Kelly
            May 30, 2014 at 3:21 am | #

            >Yuki Nagato

            I didn’t realize Dina was that powerful!

            • timemonkey
              timemonkey
              May 30, 2014 at 6:24 am | #

              Dina is exploding with secret power.

      • Rabid Rabbit
        Rabid Rabbit
        May 30, 2014 at 1:02 am | #

        Nope. She’d just revert to her high school uniform.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        May 30, 2014 at 8:21 am | #

        Quite the opposite would happen, actually. Sal will walk by, not even noticing them, in some completely different, yet somehow still cool, outfit, and both Joyce and Dina will realize that their attempts to be cool have utterly failed, and they must change again to be more like Sal. This will continue through several iterations, may even become a running background gag.

        • Robert
          Robert
          May 30, 2014 at 11:30 am | #

          Dina and Joyce are going to be the next blues brothers. I can see it.

          • Stoodmuffin
            Stoodmuffin
            May 30, 2014 at 12:56 pm | #

            More “Soul Sisters.” But, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi better watch out!

            • John
              John
              May 30, 2014 at 5:47 pm | #

              I could see Joyce ordering dry white toast, and Dina ordering four fried chickens. They’re no cereal, but every so often you’ve gotta eat some smaller dinosaurs to establish your place in the food chain.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            June 2, 2014 at 2:46 pm | #

            I was thinking Jay and Silent Bob.

    • SAL
      SAL
      May 31, 2014 at 1:54 pm | #

      DINA DOES IT BETTER!!

  2. LeslieBean4Shizzle
    LeslieBean4Shizzle
    May 30, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Badass Dina! 🙂
    Best Dina comic yet.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      May 30, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      +1 ^
      [

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        May 30, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

        Well that turned out crap. The [ was supposed to line up with the ^ to form an arrow upwards to support the statement “Best Dina comic yet.”

        • tinfoil theory
          tinfoil theory
          May 30, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

          Try this: ↑

          • Kelly
            Kelly
            May 30, 2014 at 3:22 am | #

            Unicode FTW!

            • Bill
              Bill
              May 30, 2014 at 12:34 pm | #

              Or the Windows character map.

              • Kelly
                Kelly
                May 30, 2014 at 3:22 pm | #

                Erm, it is Unicode regardless of how you generated it 🙂

    • Legasher
      Legasher
      May 30, 2014 at 1:31 pm | #

      Nope. Still this one:

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/return/

  3. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    May 30, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Holy crap, the Sal-virus is spreading.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      May 30, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Don’t you mean the S-Virus?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        May 30, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

        Resident Ev-Sal.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          May 30, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

          +1 ^_^

      • Sammie1053
        Sammie1053
        May 30, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        Not the T-Virus.
        The Squee Virus.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          May 30, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

          squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        May 30, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

        One of the signs of this virus is that it causes excessive sal-ivation.

        • Spoon
          Spoon
          May 30, 2014 at 5:03 am | #

          Just don’t rub sal-t in the wound

          • nekobawt
            nekobawt
            May 31, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

            never put sal-t in your eyes, it leads to killing danny…well ok, maybe that would justify putting sal-t in your eyes.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        May 30, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        Salmonella.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          May 30, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

          You mean like Salmonella Fitzgerald?

          • Shadow12000
            Shadow12000
            May 30, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

            GODDAMMIT WHY DO I STILL REMEMBER THAT CARTOON!?

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              May 30, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

              I can’t ever forget that cartoon. That and the cure for swine flu.

              • Citizen of Zozo
                Citizen of Zozo
                May 30, 2014 at 4:50 am | #

                BAM look at that bacon sizzle!

              • CianM1301
                CianM1301
                May 30, 2014 at 4:58 am | #

                “Look at that bacon sizzle!”

                • Who Izzy
                  Who Izzy
                  May 30, 2014 at 6:39 am | #

                  Isn’t that the show that became KND?

                • DarkVeghetta
                  DarkVeghetta
                  July 5, 2015 at 11:47 am | #

                  Yup, it is.

                • DarkVeghetta
                  DarkVeghetta
                  July 5, 2015 at 11:49 am | #

                  Well, not so much concept-wise as style-wise.

        • Gigafreak
          Gigafreak
          May 30, 2014 at 9:11 am | #

          Now now, don’t be silly.

          Salmonella’s a bacterium, not a virus.

      • Chris
        Chris
        May 30, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

        Greetings and Salutations!

    • Gilthwixt
      Gilthwixt
      May 30, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

      I really want to see how Patient Zero feels about all of this

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        May 30, 2014 at 4:17 pm | #

        “I didn’t expect you to make it this far, not without infection.”

  4. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    May 30, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    You should animate the last panel so they’re bopping their heads in time together.

    • BigDrahma
      BigDrahma
      May 30, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      They’re like the polar opposite of Jay and Silent Bob

      • JustCheetoDust
        JustCheetoDust
        May 30, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        By Clerks 2 Silent Bob was carrying the Bible around, so not exactly polar opposites.

        • Big Drahma
          Big Drahma
          May 30, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

          True, they had met God, and not just after a giant doobie.

          • Annie
            Annie
            May 31, 2014 at 1:57 am | #

            They met God and Her name is Alanis.

    • Wonder Wig
      Wonder Wig
      May 30, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      And set it in sync with the Danny Phantom theme song!
      (for some reason that’s what I hear)

      • Tom Speelman
        Tom Speelman
        May 30, 2014 at 1:24 am | #

        Joyce’s parents would, of course, forbid Danny Phantom on the grounds it normalizes the occult.

        • Kaoy
          Kaoy
          May 30, 2014 at 2:16 pm | #

          That sounds far too plausible to be read as funny.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      May 30, 2014 at 2:39 am | #

      …….SHIT I GOT SOME IDEAS

      [too lazy to do them]

      Awrite, so, headbopping to “What is Love? (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)”

      • Annie
        Annie
        May 31, 2014 at 1:58 am | #

        I was starting to feel old when I got that song stuck in my head. I started to fear that no one remembered that.

        • DarkVeghetta
          DarkVeghetta
          July 5, 2015 at 11:50 am | #

          On the Internet – we ALL remember.

  5. BigDrahma
    BigDrahma
    May 30, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Please so much more of these two!

  6. Aizat
    Aizat
    May 30, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    I am quite amaze on how Dina is quick to analyze the situation and then quickly adapts to the new situation.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      May 30, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      Her adaptability makes her perfectly suited for her environment, and is the reason that, like the shark and crocodile, the modern Dina is almost identical to her counterpart of millions of years ago.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        May 30, 2014 at 6:48 am | #

        You mean It’s Walky! Dina?

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      May 30, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Dina has troubles reading facial expressions, not social situations. Those she understands from her dinosaur simulations.

    • Shadow12000
      Shadow12000
      May 30, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

      So what you’re saying is, she’s a……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….clever girl

      • Shadow12000
        Shadow12000
        May 30, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

        Omg, it pushed the “clever” into oblivion XD

        • Cybersnark
          Cybersnark
          May 30, 2014 at 11:34 am | #

          Much like the internet.

        • anonymous
          anonymous
          May 30, 2014 at 10:51 pm | #

          Next time put a space after the ellipses.

    • Annie
      Annie
      May 31, 2014 at 2:00 am | #

      I’m always amazed by how self-aware she is, yet somehow incredibly lacking in self-awareness.

  7. JustCheetoDust
    JustCheetoDust
    May 30, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Well, that’s just fantastic.

    I’ll bet it’s annoying for Dina to have to keep the bendy part of that straw hidden.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      May 30, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      It depends on how far down it is. It might be easy to hide it between her teeth.

  8. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    May 30, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    At least Dina acknowledges the futility of trying to be as cool as Sal.

    Girl’s got a good head on her shoulders. And a better head on her head.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      May 30, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      There can only be one Sal. If two beings of that magnitude of coolness were ever in such close proximity the earth would swing off its axis and hurl right into the sun.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        May 30, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

        If there’s more than one Sal, we can always go the Highlander route. Have everyone of them decapitate each other until there is only one.

        • tinfoil theory
          tinfoil theory
          May 30, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

          What if, by some freak occurence, none of the immortals survive?

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            May 30, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

            Well, cover it up and say it’s a massacre.

  9. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    May 30, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    First of all, I like how Dina specifies that Joyce’s attempt is futile, then joins her anyway.

    Second of all, that last panel destroyed me with cuteness.

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      May 30, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

      +1 on both counts.

      However, I think the hovertext has it wrong. No way would Sal be caught with a boombox in the 21st century! That is not a part of the current cool package. : D

      • Annie
        Annie
        May 31, 2014 at 2:02 am | #

        But is it part of the hipster package yet? I keep seeing things like throw pillows and pencil bags with pictures of cassette tapes on them, so I figure boom boxes can’t be far behind if they’re not here already.

  10. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    May 30, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Sometimes animals use mimicry as a defense mechanism or to create a symbiotic bond with another species.

    • Sammie1053
      Sammie1053
      May 30, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      We now know the same held true for the creatures of the late Cretaceous.

    • newllend
      newllend
      May 30, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      helpful new information, but I think you’ve been watching to much animal planet.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        May 30, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        The Wild Yotomoe, when provoked will retaliate with a powerful defense mechanism. It will imply that the predator is unattractive and insinuate that they are insuficient in their love making as a means to discourage them from further contact.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          May 30, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

          And respond that the female progenitor of the attacker lacks symmetry and wears military surplus footwear.

        • ShaggyDonahugh
          ShaggyDonahugh
          May 30, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

          For some horrific reason, I read this in a Faz voice.

          • Tom Speelman
            Tom Speelman
            May 30, 2014 at 1:25 am | #

            Horrific reason? Or the BEST reason? Either way, this is the Faz’s natural way.

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            May 30, 2014 at 2:38 am | #

            What is a Faz voice, incidentally?

            I imagine it as the voice of this annoying guy from my high school, all “post-puberty but doesn’t sound like it” voice.

        • Sammie1053
          Sammie1053
          May 30, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

          As a means of further demoralizing the predator, the wild Yotomoe will often imply that it frequently copulates with the predator’s mother.

          • darkgloomie
            darkgloomie
            May 30, 2014 at 5:17 am | #

            in exchange for a trivial amount of goods, such as 5 grams of metal.

        • newllend
          newllend
          May 30, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

          The predator will then take a phew moments to process recent accusation, then will preceed to move past recent confrontation with wounded ego and pride being reminded of the food chain.

          • Spoon
            Spoon
            May 30, 2014 at 5:20 am | #

            And then the predator needs to comfort eat. Unfortunately the Yotomoe is often used for this purpose.

  11. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    May 30, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Sals. Sals everywhere.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      May 30, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      Suddenly, Sal. Thousands of them.

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        May 30, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

        Better or worse than the invasion of the Hoodie Dress?

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          May 30, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

          Way better…if you’re in that sort of thing.

        • JustCheetoDust
          JustCheetoDust
          May 30, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

          Better for us, worse for Amber.

        • JessWitt
          JessWitt
          May 30, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

          Sals in Hoodie dresses!

          • AgentKeen
            AgentKeen
            May 30, 2014 at 1:00 am | #

            She changes the floppy sleeves to fingerless floppy sleeves.

        • Rabid Rabbit
          Rabid Rabbit
          May 30, 2014 at 1:04 am | #

          Well, better than the invasion of the strap-ons.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        May 30, 2014 at 11:56 am | #

        When everyone is Sal, noone will be.

  12. Teppy
    Teppy
    May 30, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    That last panel is everything I never knew I always wanted.

    • carl320
      carl320
      May 30, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      I didn’t realize how much I needed this in my life until right now 😀

    • Betty Anne
      Betty Anne
      May 30, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      This ^

      +1

    • Eebiot
      Eebiot
      May 30, 2014 at 4:46 am | #

      Yup 😀

  13. Sammie1053
    Sammie1053
    May 30, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Thank you, Willis, for making the last thing i see before going to bed tonight SO ADORABLE!

  14. PsychoKineticEX
    PsychoKineticEX
    May 30, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    These two are the fucking best.

  15. TheLurkerAbove
    TheLurkerAbove
    May 30, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    OMG SO ADORABLE SQUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  16. GoogerGeiger
    GoogerGeiger
    May 30, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    DINA STAHP

  17. newllend
    newllend
    May 30, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Told ya she was a fast learner.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      May 30, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      She’s a theoretician.

    • ShaggyDonahugh
      ShaggyDonahugh
      May 30, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

      Clever girl.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        May 30, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

        Clever, egotistical girl

        • Imperator
          Imperator
          May 30, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

          Amuro! We need to push crashing Axis into the Earth for Summer Slam!

  18. matt
    matt
    May 30, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    and so spreads the sal

  19. Whittier
    Whittier
    May 30, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Joyce has had the taste of eraser in her mouth an uncomfortably long time.

  20. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    May 30, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Joyce and Dina may disagree on many things, but they do share a love of erasers in their mouth.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      May 30, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Dina’s sucking on a straw.

  21. BL
    BL
    May 30, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  22. LiaHansen
    LiaHansen
    May 30, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Shit when did these guys get so cool I can no longer relate to these characters

    • Vim-Hogar
      Vim-Hogar
      May 30, 2014 at 12:57 am | #

      Don’t worry, just do what they’re doing, and you can pretend you fit in, too!

  23. Aizat
    Aizat
    May 30, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    WE ARE SAL! YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      May 30, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      We Accept you. We accept you. One of us.

  24. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    May 30, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    So was that the mind-controlling hat or Dina speaking?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      May 30, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      The wall.

  25. Boomwolf
    Boomwolf
    May 30, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    this is a weird mixture of sad and adorable

  26. Tacdud2
    Tacdud2
    May 30, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Best strip ever. Dina still number 1.

  27. wolfie96
    wolfie96
    May 30, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    I feel like the Gorillaz song Clint Eastwood would be perfect right now omg

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      May 30, 2014 at 1:23 am | #

      Yes, please!

  28. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    May 30, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    And the next morning when Amber wakes up, she finds herself surrounded by Sals.

    • pendrake
      pendrake
      May 30, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      It would be like the Neo vs. Agent Smith-horde fight, but with Amazi-Girl and Sals

      • KingMabel
        KingMabel
        May 30, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        That sounds like it can go from “Matrix” to “Matrix Reloaded” very quickly

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          May 30, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

          Well, at least it’s a tad better than my local comic mockbuster of the Matrix…the Mamaktrix.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        May 30, 2014 at 11:19 pm | #

        Better than Amazi-Girl and a shitload of Blaines =(

    • newllend
      newllend
      May 30, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      She can’t fight everybody.

  29. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    May 30, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    OK, now we just need Riley to come and join them, leaning against the wall the same way, with the same face, but still munching on cereal out of a box.

    Then we have achieved maximum cute.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      May 30, 2014 at 2:24 am | #

      I definitely think we need a lineup of progressively shorter girls all in this pose, diminishing off to an artificially close vanishing point. Yep, that’s what we need.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      May 30, 2014 at 2:37 am | #

      It would have to be Pocky!

      Or… I don’t know if those cereal “bars” would work.

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        May 30, 2014 at 6:11 pm | #

        There are those weird cereal ‘straw’ things, that are supposed to flavor milk as you drink it. Maybe one of those.

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          May 30, 2014 at 11:20 pm | #

          Those aren’t really cereal, and they’re terrible =p I mean, it adds like a *hint* of chocolate or whatever flavour, yet costs more for a few straws than just a regular bottle of chocolate syrup would!

  30. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    May 30, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMZGTHTcv7o

  31. arank11
    arank11
    May 30, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    “They see me roarin’
    They lovin’
    Patrolling trying to catch me being Dina”

  32. PatBaer
    PatBaer
    May 30, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    MAKE THAT LAST PANEL A PRINT.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      May 30, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

      +1 Or a wallpaper.

    • Kelso
      Kelso
      May 30, 2014 at 1:02 am | #

      It absolutely needs to be a print and/or poster. Day one sale. Minute one sale even.

  33. Mass Confusion
    Mass Confusion
    May 30, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    It appears my heart has stopped beating from the sheer adorableness of the last panel nice knowing you all

  34. JohnLennon
    JohnLennon
    May 30, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    I can imagine Mike walking by, then silently joining them before Sal walks by and joins them, too. Would be the most epic hallway in college history.

  35. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    May 30, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    Ahahaha! I foresee everyone joining in until Ruth arrives.

    • Pyr05
      Pyr05
      May 31, 2014 at 2:21 am | #

      Close! Ruth arrived much earlier.

  36. Omnithea
    Omnithea
    May 30, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    Planking, Tebowing, Twerking, Sal-ing. I don’t get kids these days.

  37. Salmo
    Salmo
    May 30, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    Is Dina drinking poo?

    • Annie
      Annie
      May 31, 2014 at 2:10 am | #

      I’m pretty sure it says “POP.”

  38. Regalli
    Regalli
    May 30, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    … Does her shirt feature a cassowary? It looks like her shirt features a cassowary.

    I like her shirt, and fear the cassowary (if such it is) because cassowaries are in fact dinosaurs and also FUCKING TERRIFYING.

    • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
      Gadgeteer Smashwidget
      May 30, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

      Cassowaries are dinosaurs in the same sense that all birds are dinosaurs, yes. They are TERRIFYING, though – they even have powerful claws on their feet like Deinonychus.

      • Resin
        Resin
        May 30, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

        I have always felt that cassowaries are the most ancient dinosaur-like birds of all. Her shirt makes me immensely happy!!

        • Kelly
          Kelly
          May 30, 2014 at 5:52 am | #

          Well, Palaeognathae are the most basal of living birds! Some argue that that clade diverged during the Cretaceous.

          However, within Palaeognathae Tinamiformes (Tinamous) may be more basal than Struthioniformes (Ratites).

  39. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    May 30, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    Da Best! Nuff said.

  40. newllend
    newllend
    May 30, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    Can we get a pin up of Sal, Joyce, and Dina all lined up making the same pose?

  41. Khaner
    Khaner
    May 30, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

    Why Dina drinking out of a cup that says “Poo?”

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      May 30, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

      No, it says Poo-Urns.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      May 30, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      POP! The cup says POP! exactly as I spelled it. See, I changed back to my “explainer” Gravatar.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        May 30, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

        Pop Pop?

  42. The Sound Defense
    The Sound Defense
    May 30, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

    How is that cup staying aloft?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      May 30, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

      Friction that is present in Dina’s hand over coming the force of gravity?

      • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        May 30, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

        nope, obviously Dina is holding it aloft with the power of her MENTAL MIND POWERS! FOR SHE IS MARIK! I MEAN DINA!

  43. Shanunu
    Shanunu
    May 30, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

    Is that a bird on Dina’s shirt.

    • Nunc Pro Tunc
      Nunc Pro Tunc
      May 30, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

      As stated above probably a Cassowary at a glance.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA58sS3x2Oo

    • Darwin
      Darwin
      May 30, 2014 at 12:41 am | #

      Nope! It’s a dinosaur! Says so, right on the shirt. 😉 In all seriousness, it’s based on the current theory that modern birds are surviving descendants of the dinos. Which makes sense, given that birds and bipedal dinos share several bone structures, particularly in the hips and legs.

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        May 30, 2014 at 6:05 am | #

        Yes, the dinosaur clade Saurischia “lizard hipped” are the origin of birds per many many line of fossil evidence, while the clade Ornithischia “bird hipped” all died out. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? 😉

        * I know that is indeed how it works (and why), I just find the names funny.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        May 30, 2014 at 12:02 pm | #

        America becomes slightly more awesome when you realize its mascot is a flying dinosaur. Of the Raptor family, in fact.

        • Kelly
          Kelly
          May 30, 2014 at 3:20 pm | #

          Sadly, there is no “raptor” family (speaking of birds), the closest is order Falconiformes, but even in the most broad definition that excludes owls (order Strigiformes)(and Falconiformes and Strigiformes are definitely not closely related).

          It is also not clear if accipitrids (hawks, eagles, others) truly belong in the same order as Falconidae, or if they are even sister taxons. Some have also argued that new world vultures are unrelated to any definition of Falconiformes. It remains very uncertain.

          For the dinosaurs called “raptors” (relatives, but not ancestors, of all birds), there is a single family – Dromaeosauridae. (Clade Maniraptora sounds promising, but includes a lot of things not colloquially called “raptors”, including oddballs like Therizinosaurs and all living birds)

  44. Darwin
    Darwin
    May 30, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

    I predict a whole line of socially awkward girls leaning against the wall, forming their own little clique of Rebels against Rebellion or something. Though I’m surprised Dina didn’t liken it to some form of mimicry used by certain animals to avoid predators (such as the phasmid known as the “Walking Stick”). That just seems like something she’d do.

  45. K. Ivan Ruppert
    K. Ivan Ruppert
    May 30, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

    Who says Dina doesn’t understand social interaction?

  46. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    May 30, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

    That is just the total end of cuteness.
    Floating cup and all.

  47. Jürgen Hubert
    Jürgen Hubert
    May 30, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

    Someone should point out to Joyce that she is engaging in cargo cult behavior – acquiring the trappings of Cool in the hopes of becoming it.

    • Khaner
      Khaner
      May 30, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

      Cult? That’s a thing where people play DUngeons and Dragons and kill themselves, right?
      JOYCE GET OUT OF THERE NOW!

  48. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    May 30, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

    Too cool 4 skool.

  49. Emoroffle
    Emoroffle
    May 30, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

    Squee! They’re sooo cute!

  50. That Damn Rat
    That Damn Rat
    May 30, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

    Hmm, I wouldn’t have expected this many comments, I would have thought pretty much the whole fanbase would be paralytic with squees.

  51. Eolirin
    Eolirin
    May 30, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

    Please please please, can we have a full size image of panel 4?

  52. Raptorman
    Raptorman
    May 30, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

    Conformity to non-conformity….don’t you just love it?

  53. newllend
    newllend
    May 30, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

    Can you imagine just geting
    up one day and then go out and you see everyone acting and dressing just like you.

  54. Perpetually
    Perpetually
    May 30, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

    probably the only one in the world thinking this, but…

    I’m getting a little tired of Sal. *runs away*

    • chris73
      chris73
      May 30, 2014 at 5:53 am | #

      No you’re not…I’d like more Danny

  55. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    May 30, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

    Sometimes wishes do come true.

  56. Kiggy
    Kiggy
    May 30, 2014 at 12:59 am | #

    HAAAHAHAHAHAHAH!

    Bless you Willis. You’re on a roll this week! 😀

  57. cmd1095
    cmd1095
    May 30, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

    Dina, you are the cutest

  58. Makkabee
    Makkabee
    May 30, 2014 at 1:04 am | #

    See, if the Borg had sent those two, the Federation would have welcomed assimilation.

  59. Bluestreak7
    Bluestreak7
    May 30, 2014 at 1:11 am | #

    Please make prints of this strip so I may buy one. It ranks as one of my favorites ever.

    • etybolik
      etybolik
      May 30, 2014 at 4:17 am | #

      A print large enough to cover my ceiling would suffice.

  60. Peruhain
    Peruhain
    May 30, 2014 at 1:14 am | #

    If only Joyce were as observant as Dina, she wouldn’t be . . . . well . . . . so oblivious. Dina seems like she’s lost, but she’s like this hyperobjective observer who sees to the heart of the matter, always, and is never deceived by all the world’s socially convenient fictions.

  61. John
    John
    May 30, 2014 at 1:18 am | #

    Anyone got a wallpaper of panel 4 yet? Lol

  62. Charlie
    Charlie
    May 30, 2014 at 1:24 am | #

    I gotta say, I think this might be my favourite comic so far in this series.

  63. Kerry
    Kerry
    May 30, 2014 at 1:27 am | #

    This is totally unrelated to anything, but does Dina have a Japanese name? For that matter, does she actually speak it?

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      May 30, 2014 at 2:35 am | #

      “Di” isn’t really a Japanese phonetic [the closest is “chi”], so if anything she would have an English-naturalized name, like how “Julie” has been reappropriated as “Juri”…

      Saruyama could definitely be, though–if written as 申山, it means “monkey mountain” [wait what]

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        May 30, 2014 at 12:06 pm | #

        I was going to suggest that maybe she has a separate Japanese name other than Dina (I have a separate Chinese name that I basically never use, for example), but then I remembered that her parents are tagged with plausible actual Japanese names, so they probably just gave her a Western name.

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          May 30, 2014 at 4:16 pm | #

          Nah, why bother with this generation. Maybe if they were fifteen years older, they might have done the dual-name thing.

          [knows a Korean dude like that and jokingly calls him “hand-person” as that’s what his name would mean if read as Japanese]

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            May 30, 2014 at 4:19 pm | #

            Unrelated to the unrelated thing: Carla is Dutch?? [going by “Rutten”]

        • gwalla
          gwalla
          May 30, 2014 at 9:30 pm | #

          That’s common among Chinese, but Japanese people don’t really do that (the only semi-exception is performers with Westernized stage names).

          Dina’s parents clearly gave her a Western first name. There’s really no explanation for “Sarazu”, though. I don’t think there’s a way to make that a surname in Japanese.

  64. Ben
    Ben
    May 30, 2014 at 1:51 am | #

    Dina, I frikking love you….

  65. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    May 30, 2014 at 1:52 am | #

    I knew the straw suggestion would show up somewhere. Well played, Dina.

  66. Lu_86
    Lu_86
    May 30, 2014 at 2:11 am | #

    Wish I could tell Joyce: Assimilation is futile, you will be resisted.

    Oh I c wut I did thar…

  67. 6Qubed
    6Qubed
    May 30, 2014 at 2:16 am | #

    A boombox can change the world…

    • Cybersnark
      Cybersnark
      May 30, 2014 at 11:41 am | #

      Especially if it’s Blaster.

    • tyren22
      tyren22
      May 30, 2014 at 11:16 pm | #

      This was a cautionary tale: A boombox is not a toy.

  68. DT
    DT
    May 30, 2014 at 2:22 am | #

    Dammit Willis, I can’t handle this much adorable in one strip!

  69. Acher4
    Acher4
    May 30, 2014 at 2:46 am | #

    So cuuuuuute!

  70. Jeanne628
    Jeanne628
    May 30, 2014 at 3:03 am | #

    This is my new favorite strip. It is THE BEST. It’s like my three favorite characters in one strip, except Sal isn’t really there (it is only her fan club) and Amber is also not in it. Also Dorothy. Also Sarah. Actually really everyone is my favorite character but this is still my favorite strip. I’m trying to give a compliment, I don’t know if it’s working.

  71. etybolik
    etybolik
    May 30, 2014 at 3:09 am | #

    *cuteness intensifies*

  72. Pebblerocker
    Pebblerocker
    May 30, 2014 at 3:32 am | #

    Oh Dina 😀

    I love that she knows it’s futile. No matter how hard you try to act like the others, they can always tell you’re not one of them.

  73. licoricepencil
    licoricepencil
    May 30, 2014 at 3:52 am | #

    ugh it’s so cute and i’m on no sleep thanks to international travel i cannot handle this strip

  74. Ikaru
    Ikaru
    May 30, 2014 at 4:05 am | #

    OMG Dina is adorable.

  75. Tomas
    Tomas
    May 30, 2014 at 4:25 am | #

    Girl gang.

  76. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    May 30, 2014 at 4:42 am | #

    My guess is some killjoy will probably appear and tell them they look stupid. Most likely Mary.

  77. desai
    desai
    May 30, 2014 at 4:55 am | #

    This is my favourite game!

  78. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    May 30, 2014 at 5:04 am | #

    I wonder who else will join in next. 😀

    • PedanticJerkass
      PedanticJerkass
      May 30, 2014 at 9:54 am | #

      In a perfect world, it would be Howard. In the polar opposite of a perfect world, it would be Faz.

  79. Andiemus
    Andiemus
    May 30, 2014 at 5:22 am | #

    With an attitude like that you’ll never assimilate.

  80. Doc Harleen
    Doc Harleen
    May 30, 2014 at 5:53 am | #

    Oh my gosh, this is insanely cute.

  81. Potatamoto
    Potatamoto
    May 30, 2014 at 5:58 am | #

    Homework’s wack! / And so are rules! / Tuckin’ in your shirt’s for fools!

  82. Bagge
    Bagge
    May 30, 2014 at 6:25 am | #

    DINA IS BEST REBEL!!!

    Soon they will have rap-beef about evolution. Aint gonna be pretty. Yo.

  83. Alaric
    Alaric
    May 30, 2014 at 6:34 am | #

    Is it just me, or is Dina better at looking cool than Joyce is?

    • DSL
      DSL
      May 30, 2014 at 8:58 am | #

      It’s because she _is_ cooler. Joyce is malleable in her craving for acceptance (seeking to exchange one set of imposed behavioral expectations for another) while Dina is, was and (one hopes) always shall be herself.

  84. Aakriti
    Aakriti
    May 30, 2014 at 6:53 am | #

    I think I’m developing a crush on Joyce!

  85. Chris
    Chris
    May 30, 2014 at 7:27 am | #

    So cute! Really enjoying Joyce’s “Salvation”.

  86. shoeboxjeddy
    shoeboxjeddy
    May 30, 2014 at 7:36 am | #

    Willis you’ve drawn your best comic. I hope you’re resigned to being downhill from this moment on.

  87. Jen
    Jen
    May 30, 2014 at 8:34 am | #

    Willis, it would probably be too much of a pain to do this, but if if you made life-size cardboard cutouts of them and put them in a photobooth at a convention, I don’t think I’m the only one who would pay a (small) fee to get my photo taken with them! 😀

    • Potatamoto
      Potatamoto
      May 30, 2014 at 8:40 am | #

      I too would do this!

  88. LancerLandshark
    LancerLandshark
    May 30, 2014 at 8:52 am | #

    I want a Badass Joyce and Dina wallpaper now.

  89. Vince
    Vince
    May 30, 2014 at 8:54 am | #

    HA! theres your next book title and cover right there!

  90. Aeron
    Aeron
    May 30, 2014 at 9:08 am | #

    Joyce starts yelling FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCKFUCK! for hours and Dina remains completely silent.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      May 30, 2014 at 12:08 pm | #

      Fudge, fudge, fudgedi-fudge

  91. Dragorrod
    Dragorrod
    May 30, 2014 at 9:25 am | #

    I would pay for a poster of that last frame

  92. PedanticJerkass
    PedanticJerkass
    May 30, 2014 at 9:34 am | #

    Okay, that’s it. Dumbing of Age is done. It will never get any cuter than that last panel there.

    • PedanticJerkass
      PedanticJerkass
      May 30, 2014 at 9:58 am | #

      Actually, no, I take that back. It would be cuter if Riley were there also striking the Sal pose, but then you run the risk of ending the universe in some sort of cuteness singularity, so I can understand why that can never, ever happen.

  93. LordHaw
    LordHaw
    May 30, 2014 at 9:39 am | #

    All this cuteness gave me the smile I needed this morning!

  94. Alexx
    Alexx
    May 30, 2014 at 9:39 am | #

    Yes, not only do they need to add a boombox, but then someone needs to make an animated gif of them bobbing their heads to the music.

  95. nothri
    nothri
    May 30, 2014 at 10:02 am | #

    I’m not sure if this will make Joyce and Dina cooler or cause Sal to become lamer.

    • Rutee
      Rutee
      May 30, 2014 at 10:13 am | #

      Blasphemy!

  96. Yatsude Hatte
    Yatsude Hatte
    May 30, 2014 at 10:17 am | #

    I swear if this thing is ever voiced you need Hynden Walch performing Dina as essentially Starfire.

  97. Bagge
    Bagge
    May 30, 2014 at 12:07 pm | #

    The rest of the comic will be one character after another joining them striking the Sal-pose in escalating coolness/cuteness. The comic will end in a few months (it takes that long to include them all) with Sal herself joining the crew.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      May 30, 2014 at 12:07 pm | #

      …Please, please, could we have a wallpaper with the entire cast being cool like this?

  98. JunkFX
    JunkFX
    May 30, 2014 at 12:44 pm | #

    This is utterly the most adorable thing I have seen this month!!!

  99. Random832
    Random832
    May 30, 2014 at 12:56 pm | #

    How is her drink not spilling?

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      May 30, 2014 at 10:04 pm | #

      Because of SCIENCE!

  100. The Steve
    The Steve
    May 30, 2014 at 2:04 pm | #

    This is my favorite DoA panel to date!

  101. Thomas
    Thomas
    May 30, 2014 at 2:47 pm | #

    Dina is a great character.

  102. Angelo Silva
    Angelo Silva
    May 30, 2014 at 3:07 pm | #

    That’s adorable.

  103. Kintrex
    Kintrex
    May 30, 2014 at 5:21 pm | #

    Welp, Willis might as well just stop now. He’s never gonna make a strip better than this.

    (Of course he’s going to prove me WRONG)

  104. Kugai
    Kugai
    May 30, 2014 at 6:35 pm | #

    Dawwww

    She has an apprentice now.

  105. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    May 30, 2014 at 7:26 pm | #

    *pulp fiction music is playing right now*

  106. Marc in MN
    Marc in MN
    May 30, 2014 at 7:44 pm | #

    I love how she specified that it was a FUTILE attempt at assimilation.

    Dina is very subtle in her burns. 😉

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      May 30, 2014 at 8:04 pm | #

      Dina just states the truth as she perceives it. And boy is she perceptive! 🙂

  107. ninja_jesus
    ninja_jesus
    May 30, 2014 at 8:19 pm | #

    Joyce and Dina: Bad bongoes.

  108. Jack Finch
    Jack Finch
    May 31, 2014 at 1:07 pm | #

    I love how well Dina understands what she really doesn’t understand.

  109. tahrey
    tahrey
    July 28, 2014 at 12:08 pm | #

    NEW GRAVATARS INCOMING O_O

    *checks comment threads* … wait… no new gravs? REALLY? I am disappoint.

    (I would, but I have no idea how to get into my gravatar settings any more)

  110. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    April 15, 2015 at 5:38 am | #

    I think Dina wins there.

  111. Kilo
    Kilo
    August 5, 2015 at 6:17 pm | #

    I would imagine it’s a game Dina has played several times before.

  112. MortartarSaws
    MortartarSaws
    October 17, 2015 at 5:43 am | #

    So which one is Jay and which one is Silent Bob?

    • de Combys
      de Combys
      April 9, 2016 at 9:39 pm | #

      Haha!!

  113. de Combys
    de Combys
    April 9, 2016 at 9:40 pm | #

    Thinking back, I think the last panel is one of the best ones Willis ever drew. (Is that verb tense okay?)

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