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by David M Willis on August 14, 2015 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Walking with Dina

└ Tags: becky, dina

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  1. Nightsbridge
    Nightsbridge
    August 14, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    THIS is the scene I’d been hoping for since the whole storyline started. This is the scene I thought was put in jeopardy by the presence of toedad. This strip is the moment of IMMENSE catharsis that I have been hoping.

    The problems aren’t solved and the spectre of toedad still looms large over them, but while I still can, I want to say:

    YAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSS

    • Darkoneko
      Darkoneko
      August 14, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      Hey, they take the little happinesses where they can 😀

      • thebombzen
        thebombzen
        August 14, 2015 at 12:44 am | #

        I sense a lot of happiness incoming. In a slipshine

        • Darkoneko
          Darkoneko
          August 14, 2015 at 1:06 am | #

          not anytime soon, if ever 🙂

          • setsun
            setsun
            August 14, 2015 at 1:27 am | #

            Well, you could do unlicensed one.

            I mean it’s far from being unprecedented.

            • Yet_One_More_Idiot
              Yet_One_More_Idiot
              August 14, 2015 at 5:18 am | #

              I would’ve thought that in the last panel, Becky would look more…I dunno, HAPPY about having an awesome girlfriend. Instead she repeats the phrase with a great big frown. 😕

              Now you two lovebirds just stop stressing for a moment and kiss again already! ;D

              • ozzi
                ozzi
                August 14, 2015 at 6:38 am | #

                She not unhappy. That’s shock. Her world has just gone from a total mess to having someone who cares for her. It is a BIG thing her brain cannot process it all in one go.

                • gkheyf
                  gkheyf
                  August 14, 2015 at 8:40 am | #

                  hence: split panel!

              • John V
                John V
                August 14, 2015 at 8:43 am | #

                That’s not a down-turned mouth, that’s the top of her mouth. The patch at the bottom of the panel isn’t her chin, it’s her teeth.

                • Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  Yet_One_More_Idiot
                  August 14, 2015 at 3:10 pm | #

                  I just realised that, but thanks. xD I originally thought it was her chin, curse these crappy orange low-energy light bulbs!

        • Clif
          Clif
          August 14, 2015 at 1:16 am | #

          Maybe, but I think they have a lot of territory to cover first. And you do remember which comic you’re reading?

          • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
            MeghanTheDreamCrusher
            August 14, 2015 at 1:18 am | #

            Yes we’re reading “The Plot Is Not Primarily Driven By People Making Poor Decisions.

            • Clif
              Clif
              August 14, 2015 at 9:41 am | #

              So, real life then?

              • Justin
                Justin
                August 14, 2015 at 10:01 am | #

                Psh, Real Life rarely makes as much cohesive sense as DOA….probably because Life doesn’t exactly have plot

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      August 14, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      Hazzah!

    • Tayo
      Tayo
      August 14, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      cant think of a funny comment, too overfilled with dina joy

      • Tayo
        Tayo
        August 14, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

        oh wait, what’s the ship name

        Decky?
        Bina?
        Deckisaurus?

        • Mewzard
          Mewzard
          August 14, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

          Beckysaurus Dex?

          • Gamaran Sepudomyn
            Gamaran Sepudomyn
            August 14, 2015 at 1:12 am | #

            Dinasaurus Becks.

            • Just Saying
              Just Saying
              August 14, 2015 at 3:17 am | #

              This is the one.
              Dinasaurus Becks.

              • ozzi
                ozzi
                August 14, 2015 at 6:42 am | #

                Doyathinkisaurus

              • RedFloyd
                RedFloyd
                August 14, 2015 at 10:33 am | #

                I am also on the Dinasaurus Becks bandwagon.

        • Mada
          Mada
          August 14, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

          There’s also Bena and Dicky, and I will admit the idea of a girl/girl pairing named Dicky does have some humor to it.

        • Packy
          Packy
          August 14, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

          Willis dubbed the ship “Beckasaurus”. I believe it’s even been in the hovertext recently.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          August 14, 2015 at 12:43 am | #

          Dinky, on account of their mutual diminutive stature.

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          August 14, 2015 at 1:35 am | #

          I rather liked Terrible Lizbians.

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          August 14, 2015 at 2:15 am | #

          Willis has suggested Beckasaurus or Terrible Lizbians.

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          August 14, 2015 at 2:26 am | #

          I’m sticking with Tribadceratops.

          • Mally
            Mally
            August 14, 2015 at 9:41 am | #

            Your wordplay, it pleases me.

    • Jefferies Tube
      Jefferies Tube
      August 14, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

      Where is Jen?

      • That Damn Rat
        That Damn Rat
        August 14, 2015 at 2:48 am | #

        In the boot of Nightbridge’s car.

      • Dean
        Dean
        August 14, 2015 at 3:24 am | #

        Have you seen the movie Highlander? same kind of thing.

        • ozzi
          ozzi
          August 14, 2015 at 6:43 am | #

          That means ninja rick will win….

      • AustKyzor
        AustKyzor
        August 14, 2015 at 10:37 pm | #

        Damn it! We were doing so well

      • Marc in MN
        Marc in MN
        August 14, 2015 at 11:28 pm | #

        I believe she is trying to break people of the habit of commenting on how she is always first when she is first, and how she wasn’t first when she isn’t. :p

        • Sue Aside
          Sue Aside
          August 15, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

          You guys keep making such a big deal over “I came home from work and fell asleep for two days”

    • Boojum
      Boojum
      August 14, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      YAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

      ’nuff said

    • rachel
      rachel
      August 14, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

      omg yayyyyy I know. I particularly love how the cartoony/anime convention of the eye thru the hair looks in the last frame. SO GOOD!!! This is fabulous <3<3<3 my cold dead heart may have reawakened!!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 14, 2015 at 3:43 am | #

      Oh yes, oh yes oh so much. And both Dina and Becky are in a better place than they were this morning – because of each other.

      SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  2. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    August 14, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    wooooooooooooooh

    • Tayo
      Tayo
      August 14, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      WOOOOOOO

    • Arianod
      Arianod
      August 14, 2015 at 3:29 am | #

      Weeeeeeeeeeeh

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 14, 2015 at 9:43 am | #

        WEEEEEEE

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      August 14, 2015 at 2:56 pm | #

      that FAAAAAAAAACE!

  3. Tunaro
    Tunaro
    August 14, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCN-a0NsNk

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 14, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      Is this where we post our reaction videos?

      Here’s mine.

      • Tom O
        Tom O
        August 14, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N-2h9LGHIY

        • Darkoneko
          Darkoneko
          August 14, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

          hm

      • Adam Smith
        Adam Smith
        August 14, 2015 at 1:44 am | #

        [Yes!](http://youtu.be/P3ALwKeSEYs)

        • Adam Smith
          Adam Smith
          August 14, 2015 at 1:44 am | #

          … I need to get off reddit more

      • WolfLann
        WolfLann
        August 14, 2015 at 10:24 am | #

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR9wdLy8DEg

    • Tyramisu
      Tyramisu
      August 14, 2015 at 3:06 am | #

      And here is what Dina hears when she gets badass.

      https://youtu.be/V595oWP5tSE

  4. Proxiehunter
    Proxiehunter
    August 14, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Hot dang.

    • Dana
      Dana
      August 14, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      I was going to say that.

      • Strangeshapes
        Strangeshapes
        August 14, 2015 at 7:11 am | #

        Your gravitar is pretty freaking adorable, btw.

        • Dana
          Dana
          August 14, 2015 at 12:31 pm | #

          Thanks! The tiny bit of it that’s my own work is the badly done eyepatch. Mostly it was done by someone competent.

    • Freemage
      Freemage
      August 14, 2015 at 10:18 am | #

      Hot dang, the camera is about to go up my nose!

  5. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    August 14, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Break a bottle of champagne over that sucker, because this ship is officially launched!

    • Rutee
      Rutee
      August 14, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

      I figured timelords were usually on time. It launched a WHILE ago.

      • Shade
        Shade
        August 14, 2015 at 12:41 am | #

        It may have launched a while ago, but now it has canon escorts.

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          August 14, 2015 at 2:16 am | #

          Canon or cannon? Actually now that I think about it, either one works here.

        • Rutee
          Rutee
          August 14, 2015 at 5:14 am | #

          Which is nice!

      • That Damn Rat
        That Damn Rat
        August 14, 2015 at 2:50 am | #

        Have you ever watched Doctor Who? this guy couldn’t arrive when he intended to if someone held a gun to his head. Especially not when he’s got the randomiser on.

        • Rutee
          Rutee
          August 14, 2015 at 5:13 am | #

          I watched an episode that involved an awesome gay woman with a servant she was clearly banging, some sort of guy who was from a warrior culture that usually won its interstellar conquests so hard they went out of their way to be sporting, and diseases in victorian london, the Doctor showing up at some sort of paranormal research thing with the gal who was his companion, and a martian on a soviet ship. Oh, also something about four brothers, 3 of whom were evil, and they ran a space junking business. The Doctor’s timeliness didn’t come up much. I just assumed time control meant he could show up on time but then I suppose that wouldn’t be funny.

          • Doctor_Who
            Doctor_Who
            August 14, 2015 at 8:09 am | #

            He gets it right about half the time. Factors to his being wrong include:

            1) The Tardis is actually meant to be piloted by six people at once, and the Doctor does kind of a shit job of replacing all of them, especially since he’d jury rigged the console with things like hammers and bits of string.

            2) The Tardis is ancient, and was an antique even when he first got it.

            3) It actually has a mind of its own, and even when it doesn’t take him where he wants to go, it usually takes him where he needs to be.

            4) He threw the manual into a supernova for disagreeing with him. He also scraped through Time Lord school with a 51% on the second try.

          • That Damn Rat
            That Damn Rat
            August 14, 2015 at 8:48 am | #

            He isn’t time control, just the opposite actually he is, or was rather, a renegade. And yes Vastra and Jenny are awesome, one of the few good elements of the otherwise dire modern series.
            Though I am a bit conflicted on the Sontaran comic relief, on the one hand his actually funny, on the other hand it’s sad what the new series have done to the Sontaran race, these guys managed to invade Gallifrey before the Daleks ever did.

            • sjmcc13
              sjmcc13
              August 14, 2015 at 1:26 pm | #

              Wasn’t the Sontaran invasion only possible because the time lords temporarily dropped their defenses….

              While the Daleks fought right through them.

            • Rutee
              Rutee
              August 14, 2015 at 5:44 pm | #

              Ehhh, it seemed just fine and dandy to me. But I’m not trying to judge it against the past or the future iterations. If I were the sort to watch things instead of play video games I’d probably watch it.

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            August 14, 2015 at 2:48 pm | #

            That sounds like an amazing episode and I want to see it. Anyone know which one it was?

            • sjmcc13
              sjmcc13
              August 14, 2015 at 3:25 pm | #

              Rutee is describing several episodes from the last season.

              I think it is the first 4 or 5 episodes, but not 100% on that.

            • Rutee
              Rutee
              August 14, 2015 at 4:44 pm | #

              The commas were meant to denote separate eps, yes.

        • HMRC4EVR
          HMRC4EVR
          August 14, 2015 at 6:34 am | #

          I think the Doctor mentioned at one point he disabled the Randomizer since he wasn’t actively trying to hide from the Black Guardian anymore after the ‘Key to Time’ season was over.

          Romana said something akin to ‘how will we be able to tell the difference compared to before’ as she wasn’t impressed with the Doctor’s handling of the TARDIS as is.

      • ozzi
        ozzi
        August 14, 2015 at 6:45 am | #

        A timelord is never late. They arrive exactly when needed.

    • Tom Speelman
      Tom Speelman
      August 14, 2015 at 1:39 am | #

      We drank all the champagne preemptively, Doctor…but WOOOO BECKASAUR REIGNS

    • Io
      Io
      August 14, 2015 at 2:50 am | #

      Hey don’t get your hopes up too quickly! Dina could always reject the prospect of the girlfriend status. Yes, she’s connected and motivated, but we don’t know the ship has sailed until we see her reaction to the girlfriend tag!
      This IS willis we’re talking about.

  6. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    August 14, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Perfect setup for an action or buddy-cop movie. Like Theodore Rex, but not idiotic.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 14, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      rebecca rex?

      • otusasio451
        otusasio451
        August 14, 2015 at 2:17 am | #

        As long as it doesn’t star an animatronic T. rex voiced by George Newbern, alongside Whoopi Goldberg, then I’m good.

      • fogel
        fogel
        August 14, 2015 at 4:07 am | #

        Regina

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      August 14, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

      *back from Google*
      …So that was a thing.
      …
      WHY THE HELL WAS THAT A THING?!

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 14, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

        i…i actually think that blacksploitation may have been less offensive…

        am i a bad person?

        • otusasio451
          otusasio451
          August 14, 2015 at 1:42 am | #

          Speaking as a black person…no. That makes you a RATIONAL person.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        August 14, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

        Whoopi Goldberg would very much like to know the answer to that as well. She tried to get out of making it and the studio sued her.

        • otusasio451
          otusasio451
          August 14, 2015 at 1:43 am | #

          Well, at least George Newbern became Superman afterwards.

          • gkheyf
            gkheyf
            August 14, 2015 at 8:33 am | #

            there must have been a small section of the population that were mildly traumatized in their childhood by hearing superman’s voice come out of that

      • 6Qubed
        6Qubed
        August 14, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

        Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

        • WolfLann
          WolfLann
          August 14, 2015 at 10:43 am | #

          Charley Murphy!!!!
          https://youtu.be/18gElAzSL4E?t=113

      • otusasio451
        otusasio451
        August 14, 2015 at 1:52 am | #

        It was the ’90s, man. Nobody knew what they were doing. Plus, there was a dinosaur craze going on at the time, ever since Jurassic Park and The Land Before Time. The Dinosaurs TV show, We’re Back! A Dinosaur Story, goddamn Prehysteria! All three of those were a prominent part of my childhood. And then…then…there’s Adventures in DinoCity. Go to Google. Find the poster for that movie. DESPAIR.

        Then again, that era also gave me the awesome Discovery Kids show Bonehead Detectives of the Paleoworld. And that…THAT…was a HUGE part of my formative years. If it weren’t for that show, I might not be going into evolutionary biology as a profession.

        • NobodySpecial
          NobodySpecial
          August 14, 2015 at 9:08 am | #

          Open the door
          Get on the floor
          Everybody walk the dinosaur

          You’re welcome. That’ll be with you all day now.

          • otusasio451
            otusasio451
            August 14, 2015 at 5:15 pm | #

            …GODDAMN IT.

        • N0083rP00F
          N0083rP00F
          August 14, 2015 at 9:51 am | #

          You forgot Cadillacs and Dinosaurs the animated series of 1993 which only lasted one season [damn studios] based on the Capcom game which was based on the 1990 RPG by GDW which was based on the 1986 comic series Xenozoic Tales

          • WolfLann
            WolfLann
            August 14, 2015 at 10:36 am | #

            Forgot Super Mario Bros. : THE MOVIE!!! But I think everybody want to forget that one.

          • Bicycle Bill
            Bicycle Bill
            August 14, 2015 at 12:57 pm | #

            Your mention of “Xenozoic Tales” makes me realize just how much we lost when Denis Kitchen was forced to close down Kitchen Sink Press back in 1999.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            August 14, 2015 at 3:02 pm | #

            OMG, I had completely forgotten about that one. I loved that cartoon, even more than Blackstarr. Off to Google.

  7. Mandy
    Mandy
    August 14, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    I actually laughed out loud at that last panel. XD

    • airyu
      airyu
      August 14, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      That last panel really is the greatest. XD

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 14, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      My reaction the first time I got a girlfriend.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        August 14, 2015 at 3:04 pm | #

        My reaction the first time I realized I was going to get laid.

  8. Mada
    Mada
    August 14, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *pops into a billion pieces of joy*

    • Darkoneko
      Darkoneko
      August 14, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

      WE NEED 10 LITERS OF SUPERGLUE, STAT !

      • Chinoy Industries, Ltd.
        Chinoy Industries, Ltd.
        August 14, 2015 at 1:42 am | #

        I can provide that.

        WHY do I have that???

        • otusasio451
          otusasio451
          August 14, 2015 at 2:18 am | #

          Why WOULDN’T you have that?

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          August 14, 2015 at 9:37 am | #

          With your name, I just assumed you were an industrial conglomerate, and you made superglue. I mean, why else would you need a flammable chemicals warning?

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          August 14, 2015 at 1:02 pm | #

          According to the MSDS, superglue (cyanoacrylate adhesive) is not flammable.

          And on the subject of superglue:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfrfGeXlPMY

          • Bicycle Bill
            Bicycle Bill
            August 14, 2015 at 1:05 pm | #

            Ooops … forgot the HTML for the link —
            go for it

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            August 14, 2015 at 3:55 pm | #

            Well, no, but you may need flammable chemicals to make it, right? (Must keep the funny alive…)

  9. Lapin
    Lapin
    August 14, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    I’m so happy right now, and I know shit can go wrong so fast, but this is still a really happy moment.

  10. jacky
    jacky
    August 14, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy6W2fyvvxw

    • Arianod
      Arianod
      August 14, 2015 at 3:32 am | #

      Yes!

  11. Cass
    Cass
    August 14, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    You kids are both adorable. <3

  12. Sam
    Sam
    August 14, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Hot dang. I love this comic strip. Here, take my heart and all my vital organs now instead of crushing them later.

  13. liahansen
    liahansen
    August 14, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    good shit

  14. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    August 14, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    “You gotta ask ?”
    Well you kinda implied you weren’t over Joyce, so… yeah.

    • electromagneticDestroyosaur
      electromagneticDestroyosaur
      August 14, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      OH YEAH that’s a thing. Oh well, it’s probably nothing importa–
      ~~~
      WILLIS uses DRAMA TAG!
      It’s super-effective!

    • MeghanTheWorldEater
      MeghanTheWorldEater
      August 14, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

      I honestly assume that’s why she seemed a bit hesitant and not the whole “I’m gonna be under a bridge soon.” thing.

      • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
        MeghanTheDreamCrusher
        August 14, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

        Oh and want it to be worse? Notice how when Dina asked if she liked her Becky didn’t say ‘Yes’

        Well I guess it’s time to change my name to MeghanTheDreamCrusher.

        • Darkoneko
          Darkoneko
          August 14, 2015 at 1:05 am | #

          That’d what I thought at first, but she does say “yeah” in the 2nd panel.

          • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
            MeghanTheDreamCrusher
            August 14, 2015 at 1:12 am | #

            It doesn’t feel like agreement to me to be honest more like just makin noise to give herself a second to think/keep the conversation going.

            Least that’s how I read.

            Still I may have been a bit to quick to expect the doom and gloom. I’ll just wait for the gloom to show up next week.

            • Meyers
              Meyers
              August 14, 2015 at 2:47 am | #

              I just realized what I’m terrified of. Dorothy is accidentally pull a Sarah and get Becky kicked out of the school

              • Meyers
                Meyers
                August 14, 2015 at 2:48 am | #

                Accidentally going to*

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          August 14, 2015 at 1:40 am | #

          Aww. Now I don’t feel like there’s a warrior of the XII Legion here anymore.
          Not that I thought it was a reference, but it was still nifty.

          • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
            MeghanTheDreamCrusher
            August 14, 2015 at 1:42 am | #

            What if I told you it was a , just not to that.

            • Disloyal Subject
              Disloyal Subject
              August 14, 2015 at 1:45 am | #

              Mild surprise, because while there are a lot of things it could have been a reference to, I mostly ignored Skyrim’s plot and went exploring and dungeon-crawling.
              I’m significantly more surprised by the speed of your reply.

              • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
                MeghanTheDreamCrusher
                August 14, 2015 at 1:53 am | #

                You have no idea how hard it was for me to not reply to this immediately.

                • Disloyal Subject
                  Disloyal Subject
                  August 14, 2015 at 1:59 am | #

                  I suspect otherwise, but I’ll take your word for it.

      • Darkoneko
        Darkoneko
        August 14, 2015 at 12:53 am | #

        I feel she couldn’t believe something was finally going her way

        • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
          MeghanTheDreamCrusher
          August 14, 2015 at 1:07 am | #

          Not gonna lie that’s a bit more plausible than my doom scenario.

          Still keepin the new name till I get bored of it though.

          • darkoneko
            darkoneko
            August 14, 2015 at 4:24 pm | #

            And by all means, keep that avatar too <3

            • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
              MeghanTheDreamCrusher
              August 14, 2015 at 7:19 pm | #

              Grumpy Evelyne will also stay till I get bored of her.

              Although the new name makes her seem more appropriate so I think that bought her some extra time, lucky you 😛

  15. Twilightomens
    Twilightomens
    August 14, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Hot dang…

  16. electromagneticDestroyosaur
    electromagneticDestroyosaur
    August 14, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang.

  17. Daaang
    Daaang
    August 14, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    THE HOTTEST OF DANGS

  18. Zaidyer
    Zaidyer
    August 14, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Let’s celebrate! Pancakes for everyone!

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      August 14, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

      Dino-shaped pancakes with strawberries!

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        August 14, 2015 at 1:18 am | #

        Pancakes and waffles, while experimenting with crepes!

        • wwwhhattt
          wwwhhattt
          August 14, 2015 at 7:57 am | #

          http://pool.cream.org/blog/la/crepe.jpg

  19. gkheyf
    gkheyf
    August 14, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    dina is all badass with her hoodie shadow, then bam! realization hits becky!

    …like a truck. awesome last half-panel. perfect transition to becky imagining what “rolling in it” means

    • John
      John
      August 14, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      Oh yeah, panel four Dina. That girl can really work that dinosaur hoodie.

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 14, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

        the eyes, the horns…she can control them all fairly well. take care not to cross her!

        • Tunaro
          Tunaro
          August 14, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

          She’s like Batman, but with dinosaurs.
          Dino-Woman? Tricera-Chick? The Mesozoic Avenger? Somethin’ like that.

          • John
            John
            August 14, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

            Huh, is “Clever Girl” getting filtered now?

            Anyway, alternately: The Raptor!

            • gkheyf
              gkheyf
              August 14, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

              no, no. she has already claimed “that dinosaur chick”. only that can be her hero name. so it is written, so shall it be!

              …actually, i’m kinda warming to ‘clever girl’. don’t tell my earlier convictions

  20. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    August 14, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    If we didn’t already know this entire chapter is Dinacentric this would be a perfect cue to segue back to Malaya and Marcie.

    • Mada
      Mada
      August 14, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      Hot dang, Marcie may (or may not) have a girlfriend.

      • Cerberus
        Cerberus
        August 14, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

        Schrodinger’s girlfriend?

        • gkheyf
          gkheyf
          August 14, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

          like hell marcie’d ever share with some schroerdinger guy! bet she’d have a thing or two to say about–oh, right

        • Dana
          Dana
          August 14, 2015 at 1:27 pm | #

          Heisenberg’s girlfriend. If Marcie figured out how fast she and Malaya were going she’d misplace her.

      • Io
        Io
        August 14, 2015 at 2:54 am | #

        I doubt it. Things with Malaya are never simple. Besides, Carla and Malaya could still be a ship that’s sailing from the old universe. They Are in the same social circle in DOAverse afterall.
        Though Carla and Marcy coming together Somehow would be sweet too, cause I could always go for more Carla screen time and less Malaya screen time. Cause she a bongo. Can I say bongo in these comments?

        • Io
          Io
          August 14, 2015 at 2:56 am | #

          WHOOPS that answered my question.
          In retrospect, Malaya would probably make a very poor bongo, poor acoustics and all that.

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          August 14, 2015 at 11:19 pm | #

          Malaya’s no more of a bongo than Sal, Marcy, or Carla.

  21. Perish Song
    Perish Song
    August 14, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Augh, help, the adorable is through the roof!

  22. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    August 14, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    At this rate, Dina’s gonna end up in the Justice League!

    • Someone
      Someone
      August 14, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

      nah teen titans

    • otusasio451
      otusasio451
      August 14, 2015 at 2:24 am | #

      Well, we already have a Legion of Doom (Legion of DoAm) forming with Blaine (maybe Faz), Ross, Ryan, Mary, Raidah (maybe), and Mike (just for kicks). No reason we can’t have a Justice League analog. We already have Amazi-Girl, after all.

      • Someone
        Someone
        August 14, 2015 at 3:41 am | #

        Blaine is Darkseid, he’s so evil that the legion of doAm would help stop him.

      • some dude
        some dude
        August 14, 2015 at 5:51 am | #

        we’re gonna need some Legion of DoAm fanart pronto! i just NEED that in my life.
        i cant even imagine the toedad costume XD

        • Someone
          Someone
          August 14, 2015 at 6:05 pm | #

          Wow I can not turn down an art request.
          any way here you go 🙂 this time with color!

          http://chickenforyou.tumblr.com/post/126698147292/the-legion-of-doam

  23. Keroshino
    Keroshino
    August 14, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    ~Final Fantasy Victory Theme~ intensifies!!!

  24. brasca1
    brasca1
    August 14, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Seeing as how Dina is an acquaintance of Amazi-Girl that promise might be easy enough to keep. I just hope she does not get all legalistic since technically speaking Becky is living on campus illegally.

  25. Chris
    Chris
    August 14, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    SCREAMS

  26. Aolbain
    Aolbain
    August 14, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Do we have a ship name yet? Please tell me it’s something cool.

    • Mada
      Mada
      August 14, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

      Bena?

      …

      Dicky?

      • Anna
        Anna
        August 14, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

        A lesbian ship named Dicky MUST HAPPEN.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 14, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

      terrible lizbians, beckysaurus, frecklociraptor, radiometric dating, sample group 1, paleodorable…still working through the options. i think we’ll need a primary vote

      • Blue
        Blue
        August 14, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

        I’m personally quite fond of Dinasaurus becks, myself.

        • some dude
          some dude
          August 14, 2015 at 5:53 am | #

          im with Blue on this one

      • fogel
        fogel
        August 14, 2015 at 4:20 am | #

        Sample group 1. 🙂

    • merbrat
      merbrat
      August 14, 2015 at 1:43 am | #

      I believe Willis dubbed the ship “Beckasaurus”

    • xKiv
      xKiv
      August 14, 2015 at 6:03 pm | #

      Dicky of Becna

  27. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    August 14, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    Little bit of jumping the gun there to just flat-out assume she’s your girlfriend now, but then again heroes of legend are always pledging undying troths within minutes of meeting, so, y’know, whatever floats your boat, incredibly hot fictitious lesbian redhead girl

  28. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    August 14, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    *plays the Doo-Wop version of “Blue Moon” on the Muzak*

    • Barf Ninjason
      Barf Ninjason
      August 14, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      *pays hundreds of caps to see dino-girl smooching redhead at dive bar in the wasteland*

  29. Jose231ful
    Jose231ful
    August 14, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

    I didn’t want the idea of dina dating someone but this is acceptable i guess

    • Jose231ful
      Jose231ful
      August 14, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      Dina got a girlfriend before me checkmate life

      • Io
        Io
        August 14, 2015 at 2:58 am | #

        I’m only commenting to make a stack of Carla gravitars.

        Eh I’ll actually comment. I didn’t expect to see Dina getting matched with anyone either but hey, that’s why the twists and turns of story telling are interesting! If everything went the way we were expecting then… Well everything would be boring and we would all explode. And we would have all expected the explosions so even they would be boring.

        • Jose231ful
          Jose231ful
          August 14, 2015 at 1:14 pm | #

          I do enjoy the unexpected if something like Dina getting a girlfriend can happen who knows what’s next

  30. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    August 14, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

    Dina knows herself well. And she knows she can kick ass.

  31. brionl
    brionl
    August 14, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

    But what about Sarah? She’s still waiting for the report from her dino-spy.

    Won’t somebody please think of the Sarah?!

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 14, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      the sarah is known to bide its time, while the d. sauruyama…uh…it–um…dina’ll get around to it “–__–

    • sjmcc13
      sjmcc13
      August 14, 2015 at 1:38 am | #

      The Sarah knows where the Dino-Ninja (Her last name is Japanese, lets go with the terms from that culture) lives, and can get a report later. When no one is around.

    • Io
      Io
      August 14, 2015 at 3:00 am | #

      I completely forgot about Sarah and her overly petty shenanigans xD

  32. m2iCodeJockey
    m2iCodeJockey
    August 14, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

    That should have been drawn into the frame:
    “Achievement Unlocked: Bad-assed Honeybun…”

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 14, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

      i have never seen a more fitting phrase for something that is both cute and badass

  33. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    August 14, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    *Bleep Bloop*

  34. dailybrad
    dailybrad
    August 14, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    You can do it! Maybe she’ll be able to pizza it up at Galazzo’s.

    • Mada
      Mada
      August 14, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

      …Somehow that place seems perfect for the loud fun person that Becky likes to be.

      I still maintain she needs to get help from Leslie about the housing situation so it can be legal, and then if she works at Galazzo’s, she’ll be in a perfect area to still meet/be with friends.

      *CROSSES FINGERS*

      • darkoneko
        darkoneko
        August 14, 2015 at 4:36 pm | #

        That does seems like a good solution. I wonder if it would give Galasso’s daughter some air time, too.

  35. Irrg
    Irrg
    August 14, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    is it me or does Dina sound even cooler here if you imagine her talking like Starfire from the Teen Titans cartoons?

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      August 14, 2015 at 1:49 am | #

      The pattern works, but the voice has to change.

    • maxyai
      maxyai
      August 14, 2015 at 2:52 am | #

      Walky would totally be beast boy. Vegetarian McNuggets though.

    • Someone
      Someone
      August 14, 2015 at 12:26 pm | #

      “Oh yes! Come Amazi-girling with us! It is most delightful.”

  36. Core279
    Core279
    August 14, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

    …I sense a potential Slipshine comic brewing. That’s or the voices in my head are wrong…again.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      August 14, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

      They need to get to second base first… which for Dina means Becky gets to see her without a hat.

      • Mada
        Mada
        August 14, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

        And knowing Dina, she probably put the tricera-top on first, then slid the t-rex hat out from under it.

        • gkheyf
          gkheyf
          August 14, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

          yes, their slipshine would be 36 pages of giddily giggling and snuggling

          • Mada
            Mada
            August 14, 2015 at 12:52 am | #

            …and yet I would probably pay for it too.

            • gkheyf
              gkheyf
              August 14, 2015 at 8:36 am | #

              ya, somehow you’d feel more dirty if you read that one illegally

      • Nightsbridge
        Nightsbridge
        August 14, 2015 at 8:01 am | #

        Too lewd, man!

  37. kay
    kay
    August 14, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    OH… Oh no……………. oh NO. THE CUTENESS. IT’S OVER 9000.

  38. Professor Fate
    Professor Fate
    August 14, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    Heh! Becky can rest easy, she has the power of the dinosaurs on her side. Dina is one focused and determined young woman protecting her first love. Beware evil doers!

  39. Heavensrun
    Heavensrun
    August 14, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    What is it with Asians pairing up with freckled lesbian redheads in this series?

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      August 14, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

      (thinks back to Ultracar/Malaya in Shortpacked) Holy crap, come to think of it…

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 14, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

        so, wait, is marcie boned then?

        …or not, as the case would be

      • Io
        Io
        August 14, 2015 at 3:02 am | #

        I think we’ve discovered one of Willis’ fetishes.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 14, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

      oh, hush. it’s like having ketchup on your instant ramen. no one plans on it, but college presents unique opportunities

      • Darkoneko
        Darkoneko
        August 14, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

        …now I kinda have to try ketchup ramen.

        • gkheyf
          gkheyf
          August 14, 2015 at 12:33 am | #

          drain the fluid, at least partially. no one wants swimming ketchup blobs

        • a4lbi
          a4lbi
          August 14, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

          Ketchup is like really, incredibly bland, spaghetti sauce.

          • Darkoneko
            Darkoneko
            August 14, 2015 at 12:45 am | #

            Ah, but there are several “spaghetti sauces : bolognaise, napolitaine , carbonara…

        • fogel
          fogel
          August 14, 2015 at 4:25 am | #

          No!

  40. licoricepencil
    licoricepencil
    August 14, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

    this is adorable willis but I’ve been burned before

  41. Rani
    Rani
    August 14, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

    What the fuck. Happy day but, I could never have seen this coming. What the fuck.

  42. MeghanTheWorldEater
    MeghanTheWorldEater
    August 14, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

    I’m so happy! And I’m also so scared because this comic has taught me to expect something terrible to happen next…

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 14, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

      imagine being willis and presenting happiness in bite-size form to many, but feeling the sea of unease whenever a particularly pleasant scene makes its way into your work. i’d just give up on sneakiness and add a doom clock

      • MeghanTheWorldEater
        MeghanTheWorldEater
        August 14, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

        …Ya know this chapter being from Dina’s POV is kinda gimmick. So he could do a countdown as a gimmick.

        Like what if one day we show up to the site and next the buffer watch there’s this big as clock counting down by the second to three week from then but with no context at all, and every time someone asks him about it he just responds with “hmmm” And then we just wait for it to reach zero.

        Am I terrible for kinda wanting that to happen?

        • gkheyf
          gkheyf
          August 14, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

          yes, but you’re in bad company :3

          • Disloyal Subject
            Disloyal Subject
            August 14, 2015 at 1:52 am | #

            Is this the Dark Side? Who brought the cookies?

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      August 14, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

      The Willis giveth, and the Willis almost immediately taketh away then stompeth all over your feels.

      • MeghanTheWorldEater
        MeghanTheWorldEater
        August 14, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

        If he keep it up he’ll run out of feels to stomp on.

        • Tunaro
          Tunaro
          August 14, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

          If Shortpacked has taught me anything, it’s that you never run out of feels to get crushed underfoot.

    • That Damn Rat
      That Damn Rat
      August 14, 2015 at 3:00 am | #

      It’s probably best I remind you, that the bad is already happening. There is a wild Toedad on the loose that needs to be corralled. Plus he left a poster with Becky on it downstairs where it could come into Ruth’s line of sight.

  43. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 14, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

    I turned on my PC this afternoon and discovered that all my settings have been switched to default, all my music, pictures, videos and games MISSING and even all my favourite websites links are gone… NOT HAPPY WINDOWS UPDATE!

    • Darkoneko
      Darkoneko
      August 14, 2015 at 12:47 am | #

      “install ubuntu”

    • vlademir1
      vlademir1
      August 14, 2015 at 1:02 am | #

      Similar issues to this are why I dropped Windows for Linux. That said it’s also why I do a backup of all that once every month or two (it’s also useful if you manage to get hit with a virus) even on Linux.
      I can’t speak for IE since I haven’t used it in near two decades, but Firefox and Chrome both make it fairly easy to backup your bookmarks to a file. The Registry Editor at least used to have the ability to back up the Windows Registry to a file. Even the Desktop is reasonably easy to backup.
      Google Drive, Dropbox and similar services make it easy to store those files off site, so a hard drive crash or the like can’t wipe them out.

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 14, 2015 at 10:04 am | #

        You should make backups. Who knew?

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      August 14, 2015 at 2:06 am | #

      What? As an IT guy, that sounds truly bizarre.

      I honestly don’t see how an update could possible do that. I almost want to call it a hack or virus… that would be a really strange hack, but probably rather less odd than an update causing it. If it is a result of an update, it means many, many things went catastrophically wrong in some kind of cascade.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 14, 2015 at 5:52 am | #

        All I know is that Windows 8.1 was working when I hit the “shutdown and update” option this morning, when I came back from the city and switched my PC back on, all the settings were reverted to default settings(which is particularly troublesome as it shrunk the fonts uncomfortably small(I’m legally blind and had the settings to make all the fonts a lot bigger). My music, video, picture and docs were not where they are supposed to be either. I used Spyhunter and then Norton 360 to hopefully remove any nasties before switching my PC off and then on again expecting to have to spend the next few hours restoring files and settings but was surprised and relieved when all my files and setting were restored… so I have no idea what the heck happened this afternoon.

        • bhtooefr
          bhtooefr
          August 14, 2015 at 7:23 am | #

          Probably failed to load the profile, then when you logged out and back in, it succeeded the next time.

      • Darkoneko
        Darkoneko
        August 14, 2015 at 9:13 am | #

        Well, when it comes to windows 10 … keyloggers, send mail content, personal information, file use, etc.
        …10 years ago anyone would have called that a trojan.

  44. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    August 14, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

    They’re too hot. Hot dang. Call the…no wait, don’t call anyone.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 14, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

      we don’t need no water!

      • setsun
        setsun
        August 14, 2015 at 1:45 am | #

        They can get each other wet enough without third party support.

    • Jon P
      Jon P
      August 14, 2015 at 1:00 am | #

      Damn, I thought no one beat me to it.

  45. EvergreenFir
    EvergreenFir
    August 14, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

    For once, I will not damn you Willis. Instead, I thank you.

  46. TheLoneReader
    TheLoneReader
    August 14, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

    I have been having a squee-gasm ever since Dina put on the hoodie, and now that my ship has been confirmed I am slowly loosing ability thing good, hurga durga durga.

  47. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    August 14, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

    Panel 4 Dina confirmed for secret mob boss of Clark Wing.

  48. Furthurdead
    Furthurdead
    August 14, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

    Has Becky’s hair been drawn like the stoner girl ever since she got her hair cut? Or is that more recent..?

    There’s somewhat of an offputting feeling about the way it’s drawn

    • Furthurdead
      Furthurdead
      August 14, 2015 at 12:43 am | #

      Mulling through the Becky tag, I noticed two things:
      One, Becky’s hair/face (That whole eye situation) has NOT been drawn like that until the most recent scene or two.
      Two, Becky’s hair, at its longest part, extended down no further than her ear when she first got the haircut. Now it’s drawn down to her neck.

      That could mean only one of two things.
      One, a dramatic and well thought out parallel by Willis regarding Becky’s state of mind compared to the only other one with that hair style and oddly drawn eye dealio, the stoner girl (Who’s name I can’t be bothered to look up). Where is Becky’s mom during all of this, again..?
      Or two, Willis’s style changed since Becky got a haircut and now he’s just drawing her differently, Willis forgot how he drew Becky before and slowly changed it, or Willis is rushing out strips to appease his ravenous fanbase with eternally daily comics and thus Becky got drawn weird.

      I’m obviously going to go with the former, that mastermind Willis is drawing a parallel regarding Becky’s degenerating state of mind and Sarah’s inevitable sending her home to her parents. Yea.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        August 14, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

        It’s a very angular cut that looks different from every angle, and/or she might have just mussed it a different way today.

      • Jon P
        Jon P
        August 14, 2015 at 1:36 am | #

        [Where is Becky’s mom during all of this, again..?]

        While talking with Dina, Ross mentioned that “her mother passed last year”.

        • BenRG
          BenRG
          August 14, 2015 at 6:24 am | #

          Dead; it was established a few strips that she died about a year back.

        • Furthurdead
          Furthurdead
          August 15, 2015 at 1:23 am | #

          Thank you for pointing out to me something that happened no more than a couple days ago. (Whoops)

          Blame the fact that my summer class just ended so this past week and a half have been a blur of trying to make sure I had everything I needed in order.

          Still, that only adds more parallel between the two!

      • Rabid Rabbit
        Rabid Rabbit
        August 14, 2015 at 1:39 am | #

        In regards to your question: dead.

      • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
        MeghanTheDreamCrusher
        August 14, 2015 at 3:14 am | #

        So with regards to Becky’s eye you said she hadn’t been drawn with it over her hair before, then I thought of this.
        This chapter is from Dina’s perspective Dina is known to see through things others can’t, Amber’s mask for example, so maybe that’s why we can see through her hair and it’ll go back to how it was before in the next chapter.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      August 14, 2015 at 12:49 pm | #

      He might be drawing it that way (covering the right side of her face) so he can give her a new nick-name — Right-Eye Rebecca.
      (Left-Eye has already been taken)

  49. nothri
    nothri
    August 14, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

    Dinasaurus Becks is progressing rather quickly. Which, considering how many fake outs we had with Ruth and Billie fills me with terror. A sad Dina is a heartbreaking phenomena.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      August 14, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

      Things tend to progress quicker when one is not abusing the other.

      • MeghanTheWorldEater
        MeghanTheWorldEater
        August 14, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

        Which’ll make the inevitable crash that much worse.

      • nothri
        nothri
        August 14, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

        Fair point. My counterargument is that Willis has a heart of coal, and our tears bring him joy while our joy burns him like the sun.

        • MeghanTheWorldEater
          MeghanTheWorldEater
          August 14, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

          Willis has said that he finds the bitter tears to be tastier.

          • Darkoneko
            Darkoneko
            August 14, 2015 at 12:49 am | #

            “Half the fun of writing a webcomic is trolling your readers” — common wisdom

            • Io
              Io
              August 14, 2015 at 3:03 am | #

              Honestly one of the things that makes me want to write a webcomic.

              • Clif
                Clif
                August 14, 2015 at 10:09 am | #

                Your idealism makes me nostalgic.

  50. les-be-friends dinosaurs
    les-be-friends dinosaurs
    August 14, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

    …yesssssssssssssssssssss

  51. StrawGirl
    StrawGirl
    August 14, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

    This is awesome.

    But I hate the way Becky’s eye is coming through her hair. There are limits to that, for me at least. It just looks weird and alien here.

    But this is still awesome.

    • drs
      drs
      August 14, 2015 at 12:54 am | #

      Yeah, I find the common anime “can see eyebrows through hair” weird enough. Here we can see her whole face. Translucent hair! *brrr*

      • Io
        Io
        August 14, 2015 at 3:05 am | #

        I think it’s because, in real life, hair isn’t a solid wall of mass, you can still see details through it, especially since most over-the-face bits of hair aren’t saggy pompadours or anything, just strands.

        • Lt. Labcoat
          Lt. Labcoat
          August 15, 2015 at 12:41 pm | #

          Nah, that’s just the excuse animators used to use to explain why visible eyes isn’t that big a deal. And as an excuse, it never made sense, because it’s still drawn as a solid mass. In actuality, it just never looked good, and that’s really what matters here.

  52. Reflex76
    Reflex76
    August 14, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

    “Hot dang!”

    Becky couldn’t be more of a Southern stereotype if she tried.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 14, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

      she could be stubbornly asserting her heterosexuality. but then she wouldn’t be becky, now would she?

    • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
      MeghanTheDreamCrusher
      August 14, 2015 at 12:59 am | #

      What if she tried talkin like Sal?

    • Tomas
      Tomas
      August 14, 2015 at 1:21 am | #

      She can’t use real curse words, because that would make Jesus cry.

      • darkoneko
        darkoneko
        August 14, 2015 at 10:02 am | #

        Guess how Noah’s flood happened ? 😊

  53. Reaver
    Reaver
    August 14, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

    Both of you are moving awful fast don’t you think? Dana you can hardly handle social interactions, let alone a relationship, Becky you are still not over Joyce and might make Dana feel like a rebound, maybe it’s not best to dive into “girlfriends” territory so soon, especially without floaties and a innertube.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 14, 2015 at 12:39 am | #

      i’ve seen that video. they are not ready for that

    • Mada
      Mada
      August 14, 2015 at 12:55 am | #

      Dina owns floaties and an innertube though. We saw her use them when she was accidentally kidnapped, so it’s good 🙂

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      August 14, 2015 at 1:21 am | #

      I also think they’re moving really quickly. Like, they JUST admitted their crushes, and haven’t even kissed yet, and Becky’s already declaring the title of Girlfriend. But some people move that quickly, so whatcha gonna do!

      • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
        MeghanTheDreamCrusher
        August 14, 2015 at 1:23 am | #

        Except that one time when they kissed. 😛

        I do agree though they seem to be moving kinda fast, and if this wasn’t a Willis comic that wouldn’t have me extremely worried.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          August 14, 2015 at 1:30 am | #

          oh! Indeed they did kiss, and it was grand. Bedtime for me.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        August 14, 2015 at 1:29 am | #

        While I understand Becky’s eagerness (Panel 4 Dina is so cool), I hope that Dina is also happy with mutual crushes = instant girlfriend. If Dina’s not into declaring a title yet, then I hope she says so kindly and immediately so that she gets to figure things out at her own pace. Like, maybe go on a date first? Learn each other’s last names? I’m just saying.

        • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
          MeghanTheDreamCrusher
          August 14, 2015 at 1:33 am | #

          Speaking of last names did you know Dina’s last name means Monkey Mountain?…I’ve been waiting like half a year to comment that but never had a good chance.

          This wasn’t a good chance but it was at least A chance T.T

          • darkoneko
            darkoneko
            August 14, 2015 at 10:04 am | #

            Hmm, not certain ; there are possible homonyms so we’d have to see the kanji

            • Ambitious
              Ambitious
              August 14, 2015 at 4:08 pm | #

              According to my dictionary, “Saruyama” written as “past mountain” is a place name, while “Saruyama” written as “monkey mountain” is both a surname and a place name. (This dictionary, Jim Breen’s proper names, gives no other name results.) So while “monkey mountain” is the real-life surname, “past mountain” makes more sense in the dinosaur theme.

              • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
                MeghanTheDreamCrusher
                August 14, 2015 at 7:43 pm | #

                It can also refer to the ‘mountain’ monkeys live on in zoos. And in every example image I found, such as this one http://blogs.c.yimg.jp/res/blog-99-10/reimei_tear_5/folder/496544/09/27794209/img_0 the monkeys look bored to death. 🙁

    • Nightsbridge
      Nightsbridge
      August 14, 2015 at 8:08 am | #

      Main thing that makes me think Dina’s safe from more than a splash of rebound worry is that Dina and Joyce are just, so utterly different from one another, at least in how they relate to Becky. Joyce is an endless sea of reactions that Becky can incite through easy teasing and poking. Dina is steady and stable and unwavering

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      August 14, 2015 at 11:24 pm | #

      They’re not already planning their wedding.

      This is SLOW for teenagers.

  54. AeroQC
    AeroQC
    August 14, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

    I had that achievement unlocked for a solid week, then my account crashed.

  55. Psyme
    Psyme
    August 14, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

    World Leaders and Carpet Eaters…

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 14, 2015 at 12:40 am | #

      is that a ship name or just a prediction?

      • Psyme
        Psyme
        August 15, 2015 at 1:39 am | #

        A reference to Zelda, and the reoccurring monster, the “Like Like.”

  56. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 14, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

    I found my missing files but it’s going to take ages to get all my settings back to how I like it.

    Dina sure is a smoooooth operator.

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      August 14, 2015 at 2:11 am | #

      “Found”?? How does that work? They are where they are, unless they were on a network drive that got disconnected when the settings wiped out… guessing not the case though, for a home user…

      Also, by update, do you mean the Win10 update by any chance? That would make it slightly more understandable than a typical update…

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 14, 2015 at 6:01 am | #

        My files weren’t in my PC library where I normally expected them to be this afternoon so as a last ditch effort. I used the search feature and located them in C:Users/Radio Rentals for some reason.

  57. Hoodiecrow
    Hoodiecrow
    August 14, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

    “You gotta ask?”

    “About most things.”

    Aspie five, Dina. 🙂

  58. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    August 14, 2015 at 12:49 am | #

    Hot Dang Becky.

  59. Jon P
    Jon P
    August 14, 2015 at 12:51 am | #

    They’re too cute (hot dang!) / It’s a fine beginning for Beckasaur
    They’re too cute (hot dang!) / And we hope we won’t see Toedad no more
    They’re too cute (hot dang!) / Dina won’t let Becky sleep outdoors
    They’re too cute (hot dang!) / And the whole fandom ships it

  60. Yissmaister
    Yissmaister
    August 14, 2015 at 12:55 am | #

    NOW KITH

    • DarkVeghetta
      DarkVeghetta
      August 14, 2015 at 10:49 am | #

      You want them to be friends? Think that’s already happened. 😛

  61. syd
    syd
    August 14, 2015 at 1:03 am | #

    Over Four Hundred Cute

  62. Kaara
    Kaara
    August 14, 2015 at 1:06 am | #

    Dina is love; Dina is life.

  63. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    August 14, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

    Sigh. Just go ask Leslie for help. I’m sure there’s also a gay student’s association on campus. How hard can it be to think of these things?

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      August 14, 2015 at 1:57 am | #

      Remember who these two are.

  64. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    August 14, 2015 at 1:15 am | #

    I’m a little confused though. I never got the impression that Dina was into girls.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      August 14, 2015 at 1:58 am | #

      She smooched Becky at the dorm party. It was out of the blue then, but that was a while ago.

    • Io
      Io
      August 14, 2015 at 3:07 am | #

      Well, Dina originally smooched Becky to prove that she wasn’t Not into girls. I think at this point it’s more like she’s into Becky more than any other less specific classification. She doesn’t seem particularly concerned with labeling her interests in people. Not yet anyway.

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        August 14, 2015 at 8:03 am | #

        +1 Ditto

      • David
        David
        August 14, 2015 at 10:39 am | #

        Heck, it’s the first time she appears seriously interested in a mammal. And arguably even a post-Pleistocene one.

  65. Tomas
    Tomas
    August 14, 2015 at 1:15 am | #

    I don’t think outsmarting Becky’s dad will present much of a challenge. Perhaps Becky could just wear a false mustache.

    • Io
      Io
      August 14, 2015 at 3:08 am | #

      The idea of Glasso loudly suggesting a mustache disguise for a woman brings me joy

  66. 0kami
    0kami
    August 14, 2015 at 1:20 am | #

    This is the most adorable thing ever!!!!

    I really hope I’m not cheapening the moment here, but I feel it just has to be said…

    NOW… KIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSS!!!!

  67. clorr
    clorr
    August 14, 2015 at 1:23 am | #

    OK, so I just squealed like a little girl…. and neither am I little nor am I a girl.
    This is made my week.

    • clorr
      clorr
      August 14, 2015 at 1:24 am | #

      I should feel bad that I got more excited about this then learning of a classmates wedding…

  68. The Churro
    The Churro
    August 14, 2015 at 1:29 am | #

    Hot dang, I just realized my eyes don’t care about my hair!

  69. ninja_jesus
    ninja_jesus
    August 14, 2015 at 1:39 am | #

    YES YES YES!

  70. man jean
    man jean
    August 14, 2015 at 1:40 am | #

    first panel is some Hey Arnold! shit right there

  71. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 14, 2015 at 1:54 am | #

    I love the Becky’s feelings of surprise communicated in that very last panel. I think it is very true to the character.

    This is the point where Becky has to face her ghosts, her feelings of inferiority and inadequacy and that nasty subconscious voice that keeps on telling her that she can’t have nice things. She has to persuade herself that she doesn’t need to ‘persuade’ Dina ‘not to make a mistake’. She doesn’t need to second-guess the decisions Dina is quite capable of making for herself.

  72. Tacos
    Tacos
    August 14, 2015 at 2:14 am | #

    Welp today’s a good day. First I found $27 lying on the ground when I went to get water and now this. I’m happy. For the moment anyways.

  73. Torra
    Torra
    August 14, 2015 at 2:15 am | #

    Nawwwh such cuties~ I’m excited to see how this ship sails!

  74. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    August 14, 2015 at 2:18 am | #

    Damn it!

    R.I.P :Daisy/Becky.

    • Io
      Io
      August 14, 2015 at 3:10 am | #

      I don’t know if it would have worked out at all.
      Daisy is the desperate kind of Available and Becky is the annoying kind of Available.
      They’re both Blatant about it but I think if either had tried it would have been really awkward and fumbly. Becky needed someone more level headed and Daisy probably needs the same.

      • Nightsbridge
        Nightsbridge
        August 14, 2015 at 7:43 am | #

        mhm. Daisy and Becky both like the girlybits, but I honestly don’t see them having much chemistry together.

        • sun tzu
          sun tzu
          August 14, 2015 at 5:17 pm | #

          Especially since Becky is the “no sex until marriage” type, and Daisy is the “being desperate for sex is my defining trait in this continuity” type.

          • Lord Stoneheart
            Lord Stoneheart
            August 14, 2015 at 9:10 pm | #

            Becky is the waiting until marriage type? News to me.
            http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/noodle/

  75. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    August 14, 2015 at 2:26 am | #

    Hot dang, indeed!

  76. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 14, 2015 at 2:33 am | #

    I’ve said this elsewhere but it deserves to be said here: It says a lot about just how screwed up Becky is that she is this surprised by the news that, yes, she can have nice things.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 14, 2015 at 2:43 am | #

      Yeah, that’s’ what gets to me more than anything

  77. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 14, 2015 at 2:41 am | #

    Hot dang

  78. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 14, 2015 at 2:42 am | #

    In one corner, Toedad mcAbusivePants Dickbag van der Butthole. In the other, Dina, who has a girlfriend now.

    Place your bets, plaaaaace your beeeeeets

  79. Io
    Io
    August 14, 2015 at 2:47 am | #

    I’ve always found it weird when people proclaim their status as SOs at the start of the attraction and Then move on to getting to know each other. Aside from my first real relationship, the process was always getting to know someone for a while first.
    Like, when I see characters get all nervous about the introduction of the phrase “I love you” into their relationship dynamic, I find it silly, since that part usually comes Before the “Hey lets go steady” part.

    Also it bugs me so much when I see other users with this particular Carla gravitar that I have happened upon. I ought to make a real account or whatever and get my own stinkin gravitar. That’ll show em!

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 14, 2015 at 3:02 am | #

      I see what you’re saying but… well the phrase ‘playing at being lovers’ does jump to my mind. Many of the relationships in DoA are like Joyce and Ethan in a lot of ways – make-believe adult relationships to cover their understandable dislocation fears from their new environment. A lot of the time, they’re mostly driven by lust and the occasional common interest.

      In the characters’ defence, they have to decide what they want in a long-term partner before they can seek one Most 18-year-olds don’t know the answer to that and have a long way to go before they can even properly frame the question. Right now, most of them seem to satisfied with ‘friends with benefits’ or ‘cute person gives me comfort’.

      I’m not calling them shallow, I’m just saying that the main cast are all young enough not really to be able to go deeper in emotional terms.

      • Io
        Io
        August 14, 2015 at 3:12 am | #

        See, I often forget that even though I’m in college, and thus ‘peer age’ with the characters in the comic, I’m still 8 years older than them.
        Ben why must you make me feel so old.
        Wrryyyyyyyyy

        • darkoneko
          darkoneko
          August 14, 2015 at 4:39 pm | #

          Mudamudamudamudaaaa

      • chris73
        chris73
        August 14, 2015 at 3:49 am | #

        Which explains quite nicely how Becky can go from being completely and utterly in love with Joyce to being over her (or is she…) and being with Dina in such a short space of time

        • BenRG
          BenRG
          August 14, 2015 at 4:29 am | #

          FWIW, I think that Becky needs a lot of healing time before she will be able to go beyond ‘someone I hold to make me feel safe’.

          • darkoneko
            darkoneko
            August 14, 2015 at 10:09 am | #

            It goes both way : Dina is pretty much pouncing on the first person that admitted thinking of flirting with her.

        • David
          David
          August 14, 2015 at 4:29 am | #

          Nature abhors a vacuum. At some point of time whoever happens to be closest to the hole in your heart will be the focus of your attraction.

          When you are young, your attention span is limited and you think it means the world. if your holes and the swirls of attraction keep growing and engulfing you as they do with some, you become an artist.

          • io
            io
            August 14, 2015 at 4:59 am | #

            Thats what she said

  80. Red
    Red
    August 14, 2015 at 2:49 am | #

    If I have learned anything from you Mr Willis, it’s that shit can and will hit the fan.
    And chances are, I still won’t be prepared.

  81. Ryan
    Ryan
    August 14, 2015 at 2:51 am | #

    Next achievement to unlock: saying “hot damn” instead of “hot dang”.

    • Io
      Io
      August 14, 2015 at 3:15 am | #

      Becky and Joyce could join a support group for the Vulgarity Impaired.

      • DarkVeghetta
        DarkVeghetta
        August 14, 2015 at 10:58 am | #

        Sydney (from Grrl Power) should be the one heading it. Oh, the things she could teach them. 😛

  82. Asper Storm
    Asper Storm
    August 14, 2015 at 2:52 am | #

    This is both adorable and badass at the same time.

  83. NoHeart
    NoHeart
    August 14, 2015 at 3:00 am | #

    So I haven’t read this strip for like a week now and I return to find this the day after my birthday. Willis, THIS IS THE BEST GIFT EVER!
    Excuse me while I go hyperventilate.

    • Nightsbridge
      Nightsbridge
      August 14, 2015 at 7:34 am | #

      We have paper bags for everyone.

  84. Tyramisu
    Tyramisu
    August 14, 2015 at 3:13 am | #

    I’ll just leave this here,

    https://youtu.be/8Tc7MH5ZXbg

    I’ll be up here in the FCS Beckasaurus 😀

  85. PureLionHeart
    PureLionHeart
    August 14, 2015 at 3:20 am | #

    The greatest chapter. The greatest webcomic.

  86. gizaru
    gizaru
    August 14, 2015 at 3:22 am | #

    I’m worried about where this is going. This is going to end up with Amber running into Sal again, isn’t it?

    • David
      David
      August 14, 2015 at 4:23 am | #

      And she’ll figure that Dina borrowed her costume at the most inconvenient time.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 14, 2015 at 7:20 am | #

      That is a confrontation that cannot be avoided; certainly for Amber’s sake and maybe for Sal’s too. I wonder just how deep that scar on Sal’s hand is, both literally and emotionally.

      • darkoneko
        darkoneko
        August 14, 2015 at 4:31 pm | #

        She… Would most probably beat amber very badly, then get into a fight with Marcie and/or get expelled.

        • darkoneko
          darkoneko
          August 14, 2015 at 4:32 pm | #

          (not a fistfight, for Marcie)

      • gizaru
        gizaru
        August 15, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

        I’d have to guess that it is an easy to notice scar. She never takes off those gloves.

  87. LiaHansen
    LiaHansen
    August 14, 2015 at 3:23 am | #

    FREAKING DINAS FREAKING DETERMINED LITTLE FACE GOSH

  88. Dark
    Dark
    August 14, 2015 at 3:31 am | #

    Interesting…

    Though, I personally hope this remains an entirely romantic relationship.

    Because I headcanon Dina as Ace.

    Though there are Aces who are willing to have sex. Rare they may be.

    Ah, whatever. Not my choice.

  89. Too Old To Be Cool
    Too Old To Be Cool
    August 14, 2015 at 4:10 am | #

    Shit just got real.

    • Emperor Norton
      Emperor Norton
      August 14, 2015 at 4:19 pm | #

      No, ship just got real.

  90. PunkThug
    PunkThug
    August 14, 2015 at 4:22 am | #

    On the one hand, I’m super jealous. On the other, it so F-ing cute!!!!!

  91. Catty
    Catty
    August 14, 2015 at 4:38 am | #

    DAMN, WILLIS, I SO WANT TO LIVE IN YOUR BRAIN!

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      August 14, 2015 at 10:13 am | #

      Holy crap why would you want that, an artist headspace is a scary and dark place.

      (replace “artist” by “person”)

      • Someone
        Someone
        August 14, 2015 at 12:19 pm | #

        Why are there so many transformers in here!

  92. Amake
    Amake
    August 14, 2015 at 5:23 am | #

    You know you’re looking at a sweet ass relationship when you wish you could be one of those involved and it doesn’t even matter who.

    (You might think Becky has the worse end of the deal with the hopeless prospect of trying to find a free bridge in the likely near future, but consider: She gets to make out with Dina.)

  93. Yarrr
    Yarrr
    August 14, 2015 at 5:34 am | #

    Time for some kickass music to celebrate! And to herald some more asskicking.

    The Ebb and the Flow

  94. TheLurkerAbove
    TheLurkerAbove
    August 14, 2015 at 6:05 am | #

    Awesome!

    Also, at this rate, Dina will be the Gatekeeper of Secrets. Quiet and unassuming, but knows what’s going around on campus.

  95. Phlebas
    Phlebas
    August 14, 2015 at 6:10 am | #

    “And I do not make promises lightly, because I am aware of my limitations”.

    Raar. Got me right in the whatevers.

  96. Volkai
    Volkai
    August 14, 2015 at 6:41 am | #

    <3

  97. Sigurther
    Sigurther
    August 14, 2015 at 7:10 am | #

    Dina is officially my favorite character now.

  98. saltchocolate
    saltchocolate
    August 14, 2015 at 8:16 am | #

    So happy to see this strip!! We’ve got the shipping covered, now let’s see some handling! 😀

    Also, I believe Dina is totally capable of taking care of Becky, based on her face in panel 4. Though Becky learning to take care of herself would be a good thing, too.

    Thanks, Willis! 24 hours of yay!!!

  99. Cabbage
    Cabbage
    August 14, 2015 at 8:23 am | #

    Naw.

  100. Kinzvlle
    Kinzvlle
    August 14, 2015 at 8:47 am | #

    Omg…..omg….the hair…..it’s. ..it’s. …eating her eyes…..

    • David
      David
      August 14, 2015 at 10:32 am | #

      Pin it down and call The Donald! He knows how to deal hair-borne parasites the final blowdryer.

  101. hof1991
    hof1991
    August 14, 2015 at 8:49 am | #

    I see a coming adventure, with the two of them going it alone with a plan to finally defeat toedad. No outside help, just their own McGyverish enthusiasms. Just what two 18 year olds would do.

  102. Les
    Les
    August 14, 2015 at 9:25 am | #

    Hot dang, Dina looks scary when she has her mind set…

  103. hof1991
    hof1991
    August 14, 2015 at 9:38 am | #

    And that last half panel is cool. Nearly abstract and deconstructed. Becky’s face reduced to some C shapes and circles. DYW has such great narrative talent that it is easy to skip over his artistic skills.

  104. Kitsune
    Kitsune
    August 14, 2015 at 9:46 am | #

    She’s never made promises lightly, have there been some that she’s broken?

  105. RedFloyd
    RedFloyd
    August 14, 2015 at 9:58 am | #

    Hoping this all cumulates in Leslie adopting Becky.

  106. Toes14
    Toes14
    August 14, 2015 at 10:06 am | #

    Dina is so cute in panel 1! Now I’m jealous of Becky!

  107. Juliacool82
    Juliacool82
    August 14, 2015 at 10:30 am | #

    I’ve waited for this for so long!

  108. Jack
    Jack
    August 14, 2015 at 10:50 am | #

    And then: prison.

  109. Edupoet81
    Edupoet81
    August 14, 2015 at 11:22 am | #

    I can understand the freaked out look on Becky’s face in the final panel. Positive developments absolutely can be scary. I know that when good things happen in my life, it doesn’t take me long to start wondering what the catch is, what will happen to screw everything up.

    Even if Becky is generally less neurotic than I am, considering the way her life has been going lately, it stands to reason that she would have a hard time “trusting” anything good that happens to her.

    It’s honestly not important to me whether or not this relationship ever becomes sexual. I just want to see the two of them bond, and be a support to one another.

  110. Robert
    Robert
    August 14, 2015 at 11:34 am | #

    Only Dinah can make love and romance sound like a declaration of war.

  111. Random832
    Random832
    August 14, 2015 at 11:37 am | #

    So, at some point they have to face the fact that it doesn’t take _that_ long to get to Indianapolis and back.

    The best case scenario is that he has no means to pay to get on a bus back to Bloomington, and has to call a friend from La Porte (let’s hope it’s not Joyce’s parents, that would make the situation much harder to manage). That’s four hours.

    • Random832
      Random832
      August 14, 2015 at 11:38 am | #

      Er, four hours that way, so five hours including the hour or so it’s going to take for him to get to Indianapolis in the first place.

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        August 14, 2015 at 11:43 am | #

        Plus the time he’s going to spend wandering around looking for the mall and, upon finding one, searching fruitlessly for Becky. He’s going to need a hotel room.

        Let’s call it two days or so, assuming minimum levels of credulity.

  112. Someone
    Someone
    August 14, 2015 at 12:18 pm | #

    so does Becky actually want sex? She may be a lesbian but that doesn’t change the fact that she grew up similarly to Joyce. She could have the same aversion to pre material hanky panky that Joyce does. (its just that she wants lesbian post material hanky panky)

    • Lord Stoneheart
      Lord Stoneheart
      August 14, 2015 at 1:21 pm | #

      Seeing as she got on Ethan’s case for not having sex with Joyce, and that conversation with Joyce at the sushi restaurant regarding noodling of the caboodle I’d say Becky doesn’t have the same hang ups regarding pre marital hanky panky that Joyce does.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      August 14, 2015 at 1:25 pm | #

      Judging from this and this, she definitely wants lesbian pre-marital hanky-panky.

    • Dana
      Dana
      August 14, 2015 at 2:07 pm | #

      To paraphrase her in her first conversation with Ethan: “Dads are great and all, but boobs are better.”

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      August 14, 2015 at 3:58 pm | #

      I think Becky’s trying to analyze the parts of her upbringing she feels restricted by and disassociate from the bad shit. She’s still a religious person, she just doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with pre-marital hanky panky.

  113. Alexis West
    Alexis West
    August 14, 2015 at 12:31 pm | #

    SQUEEEEEEEE! <3 😀

  114. Foolong
    Foolong
    August 14, 2015 at 12:45 pm | #

    Beckysaurus.

  115. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    August 14, 2015 at 1:15 pm | #

    In the last panel, is Becky saying “I have a girlfriend!” because she now thinks of Dina as an objet d’amour; or is she thinking back to Kaitlin and realizing that “I (already) have a girlfriend”?

    • Airyu
      Airyu
      August 14, 2015 at 5:05 pm | #

      Considering the “hot dang,” I’m pretty sure she’s referring to Dina. Based on this: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/fix/ I think anything between her and Kaitlin is over, at least for now. That aspect wasn’t her dad’s doing.

  116. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    August 14, 2015 at 2:24 pm | #

    …Beckina ?

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      August 14, 2015 at 2:35 pm | #

      I suppose. Dicky seems kinda inappropriate.

  117. Vangeln
    Vangeln
    August 14, 2015 at 3:03 pm | #

    Yes, Becky, now you’re rolling in it!

  118. Emperor Norton
    Emperor Norton
    August 14, 2015 at 3:39 pm | #

    I feel like this is the perfect song for this strip and this couple:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stZND2iX_bw

  119. BAppleman
    BAppleman
    August 14, 2015 at 4:14 pm | #

    It’s always the quiet ones.

  120. Whittier
    Whittier
    August 14, 2015 at 5:32 pm | #

    It’s amazing to go all the way back to the very first strip and to see the evolution of the drawing style, comparing the two Beckys, then and today.

  121. Li
    Li
    August 14, 2015 at 5:48 pm | #

    I’m actually crying right now. Thank you, sir.

  122. Spencer
    Spencer
    August 14, 2015 at 5:48 pm | #

    So I was originally on the “that was fast” wagon, but I think this is a really natural and positive progression for both of them.

    Becky’s story arc has emphasized how much she relies on Joyce for support, but also how she still has it really bad for her, something she hasn’t had the chance to deal with amidst all the other shit piling. With Dina, Becky gets times away from Joyce that she desperately needs, and time with someone who can love her the same way she loved Joyce.

    As for Dina, this is how she works. Dina doesn’t spend time hesitating over the details; she just goes for it because why shouldn’t she? She likes Becky, so why not? Besides that, Becky is the one cast member who engages Dina on her level, not looking at her as an opportunity to “fix” some social defect; she talks about what Dina is passionate about, said how much she wanted to flirt with her when her friends were saying how weird it would be. For Dina, someone who doesn’t put a whole lot of thought and worry into romance. Simply put: Dina likes Becky, ergo she wants to spend time with her and smooch her on the mouth and talk about dinosaurs.

    Remember; relationships aren’t the endpoint of a character arc in DoA or in life. They’re the beginning of something new.

  123. Tenn
    Tenn
    August 14, 2015 at 5:54 pm | #

    Hello, readers. My name is Becky MacIntyre and I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.

    • spiderfan14
      spiderfan14
      August 14, 2015 at 6:23 pm | #

      And everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

  124. spiderfan14
    spiderfan14
    August 14, 2015 at 6:32 pm | #

    I never commented until I had read every previous strip I could, I really love this series.

    I am really happy Dina has found someone to love (though I do kinda wonder if she might be an asexaul like I am, but if she’s not, that’s ok). It is cool that she has Asperger’s like me too. She and Marcie are my favourite characters.

    • Reaver
      Reaver
      August 14, 2015 at 8:39 pm | #

      I think it’s wayyyy too soon to call this “love”

      • spiderfan14
        spiderfan14
        August 14, 2015 at 8:50 pm | #

        …for me or for Dina?

        • Reaver
          Reaver
          August 15, 2015 at 2:26 pm | #

          Dana, she legitimately just met Becky yesterday

  125. Chad From Canada
    Chad From Canada
    August 14, 2015 at 8:53 pm | #

    WHAT THE HELL! Why is Dina so awesome? That is way too much awesome for one character. You need to stop this, Willis. MY FEELS CAN’T TAKE IT!

  126. all that
    all that
    August 14, 2015 at 10:00 pm | #

    Uh – ok, enough of this “Love-Fest” Lets get down to some good ‘olcollege practical jokes already! Like switching the labels from your roommates cat food to his tuna fish. Or freezing her underwear. How ’bout the old “bottle rocket through the hole you just burrowed through the wall to the next dorm room?” Hilarious Hijinks that’s what we need!

  127. OsoPescado
    OsoPescado
    August 14, 2015 at 10:16 pm | #

    Holy fuck… Panel 4 gave me serious chills. It’s Dina, you know she isn’t just talking shit. Toedad is in a real jam. They’re gonna sock it to him good. He’d better put his best foot forward, or prepare to get nailed.

  128. blegh
    blegh
    August 15, 2015 at 3:49 am | #

    dina is so healthy & well adjusted tbh :’)

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