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by David M Willis on December 25, 2015 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - That Perfect Girl
└ Tags: becky, dina, dorothy, joyce, walky

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  1. Kat
    Kat
    December 25, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    Now if only there were dinosaur nuggets!

    • garaden
      garaden
      December 25, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      There are. Chicken are dinosaurs 🙂

      • garaden
        garaden
        December 25, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

        Dammit, I’m “well actually”-ing people with a friggin’ Mary avatar? Karma sucks.

        • Ancestral Hamster
          Ancestral Hamster
          December 25, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

          Might I suggest you sign up for gravatar so you can upload a avatar of your own choosing? Unless, of course, you’re an “M” and LIKE being Mary.

          • Captain Button
            Captain Button
            December 25, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

            Huh? Do commenters without official gravatars get random ones or something?

            • a snow ʍousɐ
              a snow ʍousɐ
              December 25, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

              Sort of. Each email account gets assigned a random DoA gravatar. We’re stuck using that gravatar until Willis updates the gravatars, at which point we get assigned a different random gravatar. I used to be Mary, now I’m Jocelyn.
              (speaking of which, I hear from Willis’ twitter Joc is coming back into the story soon? that should be fun)

              • HeySo
                HeySo
                December 25, 2015 at 7:27 am | #

                Of course, you can always..

                • HeySo
                  HeySo
                  December 25, 2015 at 7:27 am | #

                  ..swap your e-mail for a moment. 😛
                  There’s that reconfirmation delay to wait on, though. :X

                • HeySo
                  HeySo
                  December 25, 2015 at 7:28 am | #

                  Actually, no, that avatar is awesome, I’m keeping this setting :’P

              • Rowen Morland
                Rowen Morland
                December 25, 2015 at 8:02 am | #

                Did Willis update the gravatars?

              • Commodore Jeep-Eep
                Commodore Jeep-Eep
                December 25, 2015 at 4:45 pm | #

                In the Dwarf Fortress sense, maybe.

              • Kol
                Kol
                December 26, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

                Is it a bad thing that I got confused and thought you made a mistake with “Jocelyn” for a second there?

                It’s actually kinda a problem with my few trans friends >.< it's really hard to use the right pronouns and such, especially when sometimes their D&D characters are of varying genders 😛

            • TParadox
              TParadox
              December 25, 2015 at 12:33 am | #

              You get one randomly assigned to you on every page you comment on.

              • TParadox
                TParadox
                December 25, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

                I thought it was per page. I guess wWillis updates more frequently than I post.

                i know other Gravatar systems randomly gemerate a pattern avatar based on your email or IP.

                • Lord Stoneheart
                  Lord Stoneheart
                  December 25, 2015 at 12:56 am | #

                  It’s random, and it only changes when Willis changes the pool of random gravatars to choose from. I’m not sure how often that happens.

                  Using a different email would give you a different gravatar though. It would count as a new account I think?

                • DarkVeghetta
                  DarkVeghetta
                  December 25, 2015 at 1:20 am | #

                  ^ correct.
                  Also: Merry Christmas everyone!

                • Screwball
                  Screwball
                  December 25, 2015 at 5:34 am | #

                  Enjoyable Earth Christmas Celebrations for all. Wait, did I do that right…?

            • Ancestral Hamster
              Ancestral Hamster
              December 25, 2015 at 12:47 am | #

              Yes. However, if you use the “Get a Gravatar” link next ot the comment box, you can sign up and then upload avatars of your own choice. Plasma Mongoose makes much use of this feature as he changes his avatars to fit his mood or the story line’s.

          • Adj
            Adj
            December 25, 2015 at 12:39 am | #

            Such is why I control my own Foo Foo Cuddly Poops destiny!

          • Proper Dave
            Proper Dave
            December 25, 2015 at 7:07 am | #

            Like this!

        • Rheios
          Rheios
          December 25, 2015 at 10:28 pm | #

          No, its okay. Its only a problem because Mary works really hard at being as OBNOXIOUS as possible with imparting information (if not necessarily knowledge in her case)

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      December 25, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      They are. What do you think Chickens are?

      • Lia47
        Lia47
        December 25, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

        those fat little guys that live in cages? dinosaurs are the big bony guys what with the teeth

        • Kelly
          Kelly
          December 25, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

          They are both dinosaurs.Just as humans are apes, and all land vertebrates are fish*.

          * – well, Sarcopterygii, since fish has no real meaning.

        • Bruceski
          Bruceski
          December 25, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

          http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/i-didnt-even-have-a-joke-for-this-week

          Here, have some raptors.

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          December 25, 2015 at 1:30 am | #

          Turkeys are a little more rippy, but if you want to approximate a Utahraptor, I recommend Cassowaries. Vicious bastards, them, and gorgeous too.

          • Dean
            Dean
            December 25, 2015 at 7:49 am | #

            I don’t even know where you’d go to get cassowary nuggets. And I live in Australia!

            • JTSE
              JTSE
              December 25, 2015 at 8:28 am | #

              Cairns, probably.

            • John
              John
              December 25, 2015 at 9:46 am | #

              Soviet Russia? Everywhere else, cassowary eats you.

            • Kryss LaBryn
              Kryss LaBryn
              December 25, 2015 at 10:09 am | #

              Emu and ostrich meat is very popular in BC, Canada; if you’re in the Lower Mainland you should be able to get meat directly from the farmers. And then make your own dinosaur nuggets, which would be awesome.

              • Betty Anne
                Betty Anne
                December 25, 2015 at 10:53 pm | #

                You can get it some places in the U.S., too. My parents raised an emu they got from a local emu farmer in Wisconsin (they were going to get a breeding pair, but the male freaked out and died when the farmer was rounding them up). They were going to keep her until she died of old age, but then their neighbors started freaking out about her (they had never seen an emu and didn’t know what she was, so when she escaped her fence and went on walkabouts, they panicked). One neighbor gal said she was going to call the cops because she was so scared when my dad went to walk the emu home, so they decided to have emu for dinner rather than trouble with the cops. 🙁 It was good, though!

        • Amazi-Stool
          Amazi-Stool
          December 25, 2015 at 2:27 pm | #

          Never before has an obligatory xkcd been more obligatory than today!

        • Commodore Jeep-Eep
          Commodore Jeep-Eep
          December 25, 2015 at 4:38 pm | #

          Try attaching a pole to a chicken’s backside. You’ll see the resemblance sharpish.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      December 25, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

      There were those Kid Cuisine meals in the 90s that had them.

    • Toad
      Toad
      December 25, 2015 at 1:23 am | #

      Holy nugget, so tender and mild.

      • Willoughby Chase
        Willoughby Chase
        December 25, 2015 at 4:09 pm | #

        Crunchy and crispy with her——rbs!

  2. inqntrol
    inqntrol
    December 25, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Eat the dinosaur! Become one with the dinosaur!

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      December 25, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      Oh, also I wish you all folks a Merry Christmas! Have a pleasant day!

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 25, 2015 at 1:11 am | #

        Righto. Merry Christmas everyone, happy holidays, and may the coal Santa brings you keep you warm and toasty through the new year.

        • dmaxx
          dmaxx
          December 25, 2015 at 2:55 am | #

          Uh, here in skandinavia we had our x-mas yesterday on the 24 so is long over for me long time ago:-P

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      December 25, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      “but they don’t taste anything like Cocoa Puffs”

      “WHAT KIND OF DINOSAUR ARE YOU”

      “one that eats Cocoa Puffs with Mountain Dew?”

      “…dang, that sounds awesome, actually”

      • Ragnal
        Ragnal
        December 25, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

        Don’t. Tempt. Me. >_>

        • Betty Anne
          Betty Anne
          December 25, 2015 at 10:55 pm | #

          It’s all right, but the Mountain Dew has kind of a weird syrupy taste (moreso than usual) when mixed with the Cocoa Puffs. :/

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 25, 2015 at 2:44 am | #

      Good! Good! Devour the chicken of intolerance! Let the hate flow through you!

    • JustCheetoDust
      JustCheetoDust
      December 25, 2015 at 5:26 am | #

      You’d think marketing would want to get that message to kids through advertising.

  3. Captain Button
    Captain Button
    December 25, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Pickled dinosaurs?

  4. Kraken
    Kraken
    December 25, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    This seems more like the dinosaur eating the meteor.

  5. TheLurkerAbove
    TheLurkerAbove
    December 25, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    The mighty T-Rex is a carnivore! Do it Dina!

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      December 25, 2015 at 1:31 am | #

      As is the cunning raptor!

  6. gkheyf
    gkheyf
    December 25, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    all principles lie abandoned when there be chicken!

  7. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    December 25, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Walky is a good kind of friend.

  8. MERRY
    MERRY
    December 25, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    MERRY CHRISTMAS ERRYBODY

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      December 25, 2015 at 1:37 am | #

      Merry Christmas and Happy new year, and happy Hanukkah, and happy Kwanzaa….am I missing anything ?

      • electromikey
        electromikey
        December 25, 2015 at 2:10 am | #

        a Festivus for the rest of us!

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        December 25, 2015 at 10:10 am | #

        Happy Yule/Solstice (belatedly)! 🙂

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        December 25, 2015 at 10:11 am | #

        Ooh, and I think Happy Ramadan?

        • Captain Button
          Captain Button
          December 25, 2015 at 12:25 pm | #

          No. Ramadan is a month in the Islamic lunar calendar, which only has 354 days per year. So from the standpoint of the Gregorian calendar (the one most people in the West use) Ramadan comes a little earlier every year until it wraps around. Next Ramadan starts on 6 June 2016, and the one after that starts on 24 May 2017.

          Hanukkah uses the Hebrew calendar which has a similar drift relative to the Gregorian calendar, but an extra month is added every few years to compensate. Last Hanukkah actually was 6-14 December 2015, and next one starts 24 December 2016.

          • Emma
            Emma
            December 25, 2015 at 2:40 pm | #

            It sometimes falls in the winter though, but it doesn’t count as a winter holiday this year.

    • Screwball
      Screwball
      December 25, 2015 at 5:35 am | #

      Festive Greetings to all.

      Wait, that’s not right either, is it? Scraplets…

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        December 25, 2015 at 6:07 pm | #

        I hope everybody enjoyed a very festive Federal Holiday.
        There, I think that covers it.

        • merbrat
          merbrat
          December 26, 2015 at 12:47 am | #

          TGIF!

  9. Captain Button
    Captain Button
    December 25, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    In Mesozoic Gondwanaland, dinosaur eats YOU!

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      December 25, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      Meanwhile in Soviet Russia…

      • JustCheetoDust
        JustCheetoDust
        December 25, 2015 at 5:37 am | #

        Meanwhile in Soviet Russia… Mesozoic Laurasia…

  10. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    December 25, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    I wish I was in Tijuana/Eating barbecued Iguana…
    (Wall of Voodoo–“Mexican Radio”)

    • Foxhack
      Foxhack
      December 25, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

      Fun fact: That iguana was probably a dog once.

      … I’m from Mexicali. Tijuana sucks. 😛

      • PrincessPoeDameron
        PrincessPoeDameron
        December 25, 2015 at 3:19 am | #

        But does it still taste like iguana?

        (also yours is a name i recognize from ancient times, back when scans_daily still reigned on livejournal)

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          December 25, 2015 at 10:12 am | #

          One time I went to Mexico, and went on an outing where they promised us barbecued iguana. I think I was the only one who was disappointed when it was actually chicken. :/

  11. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    December 25, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Hey, you can’t taste homophobia. 🙂

    • brionl
      brionl
      December 25, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      Yes you can, it tastes like chicken. :b

      • DinaWho
        DinaWho
        December 25, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

        Or in this case, pickles 😛

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          December 25, 2015 at 1:34 am | #

          Well, that’s enough to make me reconsider the extra pickles on my usual at Chick Fil-A.
          Not enough to make me decide to skip them though. Devouring homophobia is as good a plan of attack as any? No, that doesn’t work…

  12. ninja_jesus
    ninja_jesus
    December 25, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    I think Becky should “eat the dinosaur”.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      December 25, 2015 at 1:34 am | #

      Open the door, get on the floor, everybody eat the dinosaur?

      • ninja_jesus
        ninja_jesus
        December 25, 2015 at 1:59 am | #

        No. Only Becky. Becky’s Dinasaur.

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          December 25, 2015 at 2:16 am | #

          Aw.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      December 25, 2015 at 3:08 pm | #

      Like Chuck Klosterman?

    • Emma
      Emma
      December 25, 2015 at 6:08 pm | #

      “Becky Eats A Dinosaur” a pornographique by David Willis

  13. detective boomwolf
    detective boomwolf
    December 25, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    I know other people are gonna say it, but you are what you eat.

    As a side note Happy Holidays and all that good jazz. Hope whatever you’re celebratin has been/was/will be awesome boss sauce

  14. Xerxes93
    Xerxes93
    December 25, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Thank god, Dina is finally eating some protein.

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      December 25, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

      Even in her Tricera-Top, she was still brave enough to confront the dread Ethanosaurus Rex and Dannysaurus when sausage pizza was at steak.

      • Someone
        Someone
        December 25, 2015 at 2:20 am | #

        Not sure if you just spelled stake wrong, or its part of the joke?

        • JustCheetoDust
          JustCheetoDust
          December 25, 2015 at 5:43 am | #

          Maybe he’s just hungry, like Garfield was he was stuck in a cabin with no food.

        • Captain Button
          Captain Button
          December 25, 2015 at 8:18 am | #

          That would be telling.

      • Amazi-Stool
        Amazi-Stool
        December 25, 2015 at 2:49 pm | #

        +1 for the steak/stake pun!

        Also her teeth are not the teeth of a herbivore.
        Those teeth are the teeth of the apex predator!

  15. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    December 25, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    “I’m too poor to have principles.”
    ——————————
    And that’s the way it is for most people.  Welcome to reality, Becky.

    • a4lbi
      a4lbi
      December 25, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      If only more people understood this.

      Sigh.

      • dejadrew
        dejadrew
        December 25, 2015 at 5:21 am | #

        *nods agreement, suddenly bursts into song*

        “Your vices, and our virtues, are so dear to you,
        So learn the simple truth from this our song:
        Wherever you aspire, whatever you may do,
        First feed the face!!! And THEN talk right and wrong!”

        … i’m sorry, i studied theatre, sometimes that just happens…

        • HMRC4EVR
          HMRC4EVR
          December 25, 2015 at 8:16 am | #

          It happens on MLP: FIM all the time. I think the internet can survive a random musical number here and there.

          • modulusshift
            modulusshift
            December 25, 2015 at 2:49 pm | #

            yaaaaay

        • Jacknoir
          Jacknoir
          December 25, 2015 at 8:13 pm | #

          whether you’re a King or a Street sweeper all are equal in the eyes of the Reaper.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      December 25, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

      Yup, and it’s why economic oppression is a key part of oppression in general. If people are too poor to fight too hard for their rights, then you can hit the snooze button on progress a little longer.

      • Matt
        Matt
        December 25, 2015 at 1:38 am | #

        Hey Maslow’s hierarchy of needs isn’t all that far off. Progress or not people need to secure food before they care about most other things.

        • Cerberus
          Cerberus
          December 25, 2015 at 8:45 pm | #

          Definitely! I’m able to do a lot more activism now that I have a consistent income stream and I no longer have to worry about food and housing than when I was clinging to bare subsistence with my fingernails.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      December 25, 2015 at 1:45 am | #

      I’m p (pronounced “puh” or just an aspirated consonant “P”) I’m too poor to buy a vowel.

    • Someone
      Someone
      December 25, 2015 at 2:21 am | #

      I’m not to poor to have principles, I just choose to ignore them.

    • Peduncle
      Peduncle
      December 25, 2015 at 8:39 pm | #

      When I was an impoverished student, back in the 1960s (ancient!), there were lots of causes. I couldn’t afford them all. But I could pick one or two. We still can. We don’t have to be perfect to make a difference. Just try.

  16. Gangler
    Gangler
    December 25, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

    Obviously I don’t have Dina’s extensive knowledge on the subject but I thought most dinosaurs were herbivores?

    • Edupoet81
      Edupoet81
      December 25, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

      I’m not an expert either, but I believe that there are carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs. Dina is wearing a T-Rex hat, and I believe the T-Rex did feed on other dinosaurs. If she were wearing her Tricera-top from the Walking With Dina arc, that would have been a different story.

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        December 25, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

        Triceratops were herbivores, but were real serious about defending themselves from the carnivore dinosaurs.

        • Captain Button
          Captain Button
          December 25, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

          Triceratops were very horny. Make of that what you will.

          • JustCheetoDust
            JustCheetoDust
            December 25, 2015 at 5:51 am | #

            http://www.amazon.com/Ravished-Triceratops-Dinosaur-Beast-Erotica/dp/B00GTI3612

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          December 25, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

          There is a theory that Ceratopsians were opportunistic meat eaters. Kinda like some deer will eat meat if they have the chance.

          • No Name
            No Name
            December 25, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

            I thought that was Hippos? Which, I think, is a more apt comparison.

            • DarkVeghetta
              DarkVeghetta
              December 25, 2015 at 1:38 am | #

              Apparently both. I had no idea about the deer though, but it explains some really creepy drawings I’ve seen online.

            • Disloyal Subject
              Disloyal Subject
              December 25, 2015 at 1:49 am | #

              Hippos are an apt comparison in terms of the horrific damage they can inflict, but deer’s opportunistic scavenging is more common knowledge. I wasn’t aware hippopotami ate meat under any circumstances, though their jaws’ lethality to humans is well-documented.

              • Needfuldoer
                Needfuldoer
                December 25, 2015 at 2:54 am | #

                They’ll eat plastic as well, but only when they’re hungry-hungry.

                • DarkVeghetta
                  DarkVeghetta
                  December 25, 2015 at 8:38 am | #

                  I see what you did there.

          • John
            John
            December 25, 2015 at 10:01 am | #

            Here we see Triceratops engaging in opportunistic meat-eating.

          • Gamaran Sepudomyn
            Gamaran Sepudomyn
            December 25, 2015 at 11:49 am | #

            Their beaks were apparently well-suited to a shearing motion, somewhat like dogs. Here’s a picture by Mark Witton of one eating a T. Rex.

            • Gamaran Sepudomyn
              Gamaran Sepudomyn
              December 25, 2015 at 11:50 am | #

              Dammit, urls are hard. http://markwitton-com.blogspot.nl/2015/02/controversial-ceratopsids-revisited.html

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      December 25, 2015 at 12:46 am | #

      Dinosaurs filled a huge variety of niches, and included herbivores, omnivores and carnivores, including various specializations, like piscavores. A great many of the non-avian theropods were carnivores, from compsognathus to raptors to T. rex

    • StClair
      StClair
      December 25, 2015 at 1:38 am | #

      In the sense that any food web is going to have a lot of animals eating a whole lot of plants and being eaten by a smaller number of animals, yes.

      • Gamaran Sepudomyn
        Gamaran Sepudomyn
        December 25, 2015 at 11:52 am | #

        Actually, in some ecosystems, like coral reefs, a relatively small but quickly reproducing number of herbivores feed a large but slowly reproducing population of carnivores.

      • Gamaran Sepudomyn
        Gamaran Sepudomyn
        December 25, 2015 at 11:53 am | #

        Actually, in some ecosystems, like coral reefs, a relatively small but quickly reproducing number of herbivores feed a large but slowly reproducing population of carnivores. So that statement is not applicable to all food webs.

  17. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    December 25, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

    Dorothy, why are you wearing a shirt that’s the colour of canned peas?

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      December 25, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      Because she’s promoting non-violence and whirled peas.

      I’ll show myself out……

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      December 25, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      Canned peas? Looks more like the colour of vomit to me.

      • Dellaran
        Dellaran
        December 25, 2015 at 12:49 am | #

        C’mon, give peas a chance.

        • Captain Button
          Captain Button
          December 25, 2015 at 12:52 am | #

          Mind your peas and queues.

          • Drakey
            Drakey
            December 25, 2015 at 3:40 pm | #

            Well there’s a line 😛

  18. Plume
    Plume
    December 25, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    The last line killed me

  19. BatNeko
    BatNeko
    December 25, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    I’m glad Becky doesn’t hate Dorothy anymore. Maybe it’s been noted earlier, but I didn’t notice? Anyway, it’s nice. More friends for everyone.

    • Edupoet81
      Edupoet81
      December 25, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

      Right now, they share a common concern — Joyce’s well being. They both care about Joyce, and want to see her state of mind improve. It seems that this common goal has united them.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      December 25, 2015 at 2:49 am | #

      Noticed that too, she’s warming up to her.

  20. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    December 25, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

    Defeated by the mightiest enemy of all… hunger, it’s relentless and unmerciless.

  21. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    December 25, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    I am beginning to get seriously concerned about Joyce.  That looks like a classic “thousand-yard stare” on her face in panel #3.  She needs somebody — anybody — to just be with her and help her keep her sanity as she processes everything that has happened over the past week or so.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      December 25, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

      What she needs is answers, her core has been shaken, she needs to look at how she was raised, what she was taught, see the truth and decide what that means for her.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        December 25, 2015 at 2:51 am | #

        Good thing she’s going back a few days to her parents eh ?

        • Captain Button
          Captain Button
          December 25, 2015 at 8:21 am | #

          Well…..

    • HMRC4EVR
      HMRC4EVR
      December 25, 2015 at 8:19 am | #

      I think at this stage even a patented Dreamwave (TM) look of ‘dull surprise’ would be a hint of improvement.

      Of course that might would mean Joyce had to read some Dreamwave comics and that’s probably not helping any.

    • LastDawnOfMan
      LastDawnOfMan
      December 25, 2015 at 8:48 am | #

      Seriously? Nobody in the comic or the comment section wants to give a gal enough time to process a complete disruption of world view?

  22. Carmeops
    Carmeops
    December 25, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

    okay, i’m lost, i don’t know what “don’t they, you know” refer to, somebody help?

    • Just Me
      Just Me
      December 25, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

      Support Anti-Gay causes.

    • dailybrad
      dailybrad
      December 25, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

      Chik-Fil-A’s owners are notoriously quite homophobic.

    • Icalasari
      Icalasari
      December 25, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

      The owners support anti-lgbt organizations

      At least, if I recall correctly. Owners? CEOs? Been a while

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        December 25, 2015 at 12:39 am | #

        It was discussed at length in the comments for eatmoar on 22 Dec.

  23. dailybrad
    dailybrad
    December 25, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

    merry christmas, folks, and enjoy your dino nuggets!

    • Matt
      Matt
      December 25, 2015 at 1:32 am | #

      If they aren’t Dino shaped they don’t count

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        December 25, 2015 at 1:51 am | #

        Any preferred species? I’ve got some leftover chicken parmigiana I could reshape.

      • JustCheetoDust
        JustCheetoDust
        December 25, 2015 at 5:56 am | #

        So all the food in the Flintstones is a lie?

        • DSL
          DSL
          December 25, 2015 at 7:53 am | #

          Especially the car-tipping rack.of ribs. Sorry.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      December 25, 2015 at 2:51 am | #

      Joyeux Noël \o/

  24. nothri
    nothri
    December 25, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

    To be fair, Dorothy, they also kinda believe in or at least support those groups who believe in an almighty god who created the universe. So…yeah. Excised principles all around!

    • Lord Stoneheart
      Lord Stoneheart
      December 25, 2015 at 1:17 am | #

      That’s a little bit different than supporting groups that actively work against gay rights. Like “Help draft imprison gay people bills in other countries” level work against.

      (I think? I’m not sure of all the different types of organizations Chick Fil A donates money to. But it’s not like it’s reasonable to expect Dorothy to avoid any organization that believes in a god. Also Dorothy doesn’t even seem to be eating there right now)

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        December 25, 2015 at 1:53 am | #

        Yeah, Dotty really doesn’t mind other people’s faith, but that kind of hatemongering ideology is several steps beyond taking comfort in a formalized idea of how the universe works.

        • Leafrider
          Leafrider
          December 25, 2015 at 3:39 am | #

          The Strip is a little behind the times. Check out the Daily Beast article
          at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/28/it-s-time-for-gays-to-forgive-chick-fil-a.html

          • Proxiehunter
            Proxiehunter
            December 25, 2015 at 10:49 pm | #

            Wow, they stopped [i]nearly[/i] all of their donations to anti-GLBT causes. They’re [i]almost[/i] not assholes.

      • Drakey
        Drakey
        December 25, 2015 at 3:47 pm | #

        Also worth noting that while it’s absolutely evil to actively work against gay rights, it’s not evil to believe in and worship God, gods, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Satan, or Joe Pesci. Lumping those two things together as equal and equivalent reasons to avoid a person, place or thing is actually pretty bigoted and offensive.

        Irony!

  25. Tacos
    Tacos
    December 25, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

    Yes. Absorb it’s power Dina. Do it enough and you shall have UNLIMITED POWER!!! And yada yada yada…

    Oh and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to ya’ll.

    • HMRC4EVR
      HMRC4EVR
      December 25, 2015 at 8:29 am | #

      but will she get unlimited rice pudding?? That’s the lynchpin question!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-zt-o2mIM

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      December 29, 2015 at 5:37 pm | #

      There can be only one!

  26. Nono
    Nono
    December 25, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

    I’ve never eaten at Chick-Fil-A. Is it actually any good compared to its fast food competition?

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      December 25, 2015 at 12:25 am | #

      It is pretty good, as fast food goes.

      • HMRC4EVR
        HMRC4EVR
        December 25, 2015 at 8:31 am | #

        I like it even if it’s a bit pricey.

        And it was always a damm sight better than the copycat McDonalds has.

    • Petra
      Petra
      December 25, 2015 at 12:41 am | #

      I like it! But I’m not very picky. They do bad chicken really well, imo.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      December 25, 2015 at 2:00 am | #

      Visualize a juicy hamburger, with lettuce and a tomato slice between a simple bun of white bread. Now replace the beef with a crispy party of white chicken meat. Then order it with pickles, because it’s better that way.
      Presto, a Chick Fil-A burger. They also have rather good waffle fries, and are the only joint within a block of my uni that sells milkshakes. Add on a shiningly clean but eerily empty dining area and some extremely friendly, helpful, courteous, and professional employees, and you’ve got Chick Fil-A. It’s no wonder they so seldom hire, considering how great our location is… Shame about the people at the top of corporate.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        December 25, 2015 at 2:52 am | #

        I haaate pickles.

    • Tan
      Tan
      December 25, 2015 at 7:51 am | #

      Nothing special, honestly, in my opinion.

  27. Tacos
    Tacos
    December 25, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

    I thought it was pretty meh. But people have different tastes so whatever.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      December 25, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

      Ah glob. This was supposed to be a reply to Nono.

  28. Professor Fate
    Professor Fate
    December 25, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

    The boss of Chick-Fil-A being anti-Gay marriage doesn’t change the taste of the chains food. It’s quite good, actually. As usual, hunger preempts idealism. You’re eating an ancestor of your beloved dino’s there, Dina, you little carnivore you.

    Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year!

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      December 25, 2015 at 1:56 am | #

      Descendant not ancestor, birds are descended from dinos.

      And I wish I could find the clip of an alien describing humans in a Sci-Fi show from the mid-’90s. He called us terrifying in our natural environment, able to eat almost anything with calories and not just survive but thrive, was familiar with the early human practice of running our prey to ground until it died from exhaustion which they also found disturbing, and also our ability to hunt from ambush, and the ability of human females to reproduce at any time of the year (“your females, they have no season!”). He ended with the statement that humans were the most terrifying monsters in the Galaxy.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        December 25, 2015 at 2:12 am | #

        I love settings where aliens fear us as unstoppable predatory apes.

  29. a snow ʍousɐ
    a snow ʍousɐ
    December 25, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

    and christmas marks the end of my birthday

    • a snow ʍousɐ
      a snow ʍousɐ
      December 25, 2015 at 12:33 am | #

      just one more year till my next birthday

      • Uniqueantique
        Uniqueantique
        December 25, 2015 at 12:48 am | #

        Happy birthday a few minutes late 🙂 Snow Mouse

  30. zacxl
    zacxl
    December 25, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

    EAT THE CHICKEN NUGGET

    ABSORB THE CHICKEN NUGGET

    BECOME THE CHICKEN NUGGET

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      December 25, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

      It has done wonders for Walky.

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        December 25, 2015 at 5:07 am | #

        Yeah, now he’s a grown up man baby.

  31. Sam
    Sam
    December 25, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

    Is there “Fix a Cutie” trope? If not, someone get on that stat.

    • Time Sage
      Time Sage
      December 25, 2015 at 12:47 am | #

      I would but I’m currently banned from TV tropes.

      • StClair
        StClair
        December 25, 2015 at 1:40 am | #

        Broke the indentation rules one too many times, eh?

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      December 25, 2015 at 2:13 am | #

      First thing that springs to mind is “Teach Him Anger,” and we all know how well that usually ends.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      December 25, 2015 at 2:40 am | #

      Power of love/power of friendship more often than not

  32. smooti
    smooti
    December 25, 2015 at 12:44 am | #

    But… but they’re only dinosaur if they’re dinosaur-shaped!

    I’m actually kinda relieved to see Dina eating something other than cereal. I know from experience it’s a little hard to eat like… anything your first semester of college, and I was getting a little worried. It was Easy Mac for me instead of cereal. I am considerably larger than Dina as a result.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      December 25, 2015 at 2:14 am | #

      Chicken ramen with carrots and broccoli is remarkably tasty, healthy, and affordable.

  33. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    December 25, 2015 at 12:50 am | #

    You can tackle a man 6x bigger than you Dina: you can eat that chicken.

    When Joyce is done processing I think she will want to talk. Hope her friends just keep an eye on her as they are doing, and wait for her.

    Merry Christmas all.

  34. Aakaakaak
    Aakaakaak
    December 25, 2015 at 12:59 am | #

    Why is it pronounced dee-na and not die-na? The latter is much more fitting a die-nasaur enthusiast.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      December 25, 2015 at 1:02 am | #

      Because that’s how the name is pronounced: http://www.pronouncenames.com/pronounce/dina

      The name you’re looking for is “Dinah,” with the H, if you want the other pronunciation.

      • HMRC4EVR
        HMRC4EVR
        December 25, 2015 at 8:38 am | #

        I’m not picturing Dina as the new Black Canary but with a uber-powerful dino roar instead of a sonic scream.

        Now that I think of it, Becky does kinda remind me of Mia (the second Speedy) in the pre-Nu52 continuity.

        • HMRC4EVR
          HMRC4EVR
          December 25, 2015 at 8:39 am | #

          not=now

        • tim gueguen
          tim gueguen
          December 25, 2015 at 6:22 pm | #

          That means she might instantly recognise Amazi-girl is Amber, just like Mia recognised Ollie Queen was Green Arrow.

    • Sara Hysaro
      Sara Hysaro
      December 25, 2015 at 1:09 am | #

      She’s Japanese, right*? That would be the Japanese pronunciation if I recall correctly.

      *correct me if I am not right

      • Sara Hysaro
        Sara Hysaro
        December 25, 2015 at 1:10 am | #

        And ninja’d with more accurate information. Disregard!

        • Dellaran
          Dellaran
          December 25, 2015 at 1:22 am | #

          Ninjas notwithstanding, you’re right that a Japanese speaker would pronounce “Dina” to rhyme with “Tina”. And Dina’s family name is Saruyama here in the Dumbiverse, which at least sounds Japanese. (It could mean “monkey mountain”, among other things.)

          • DarkoNeko
            DarkoNeko
            December 25, 2015 at 2:54 am | #

            As a non english native : how do you pronounce Tina ? 😀

            • Lord Stoneheart
              Lord Stoneheart
              December 25, 2015 at 8:20 am | #

              Like “Tee-na” I believe.

              (Just like how Dina’s name is pronounced “Dee-na”)

          • Trolldrool
            Trolldrool
            December 25, 2015 at 10:57 pm | #

            That’s how we pronounce it in Scandinavia too. And I think it’s the same in German too. The more I think about it, I actually think that pronounciation is the norm.

        • Mr. Demiurge
          Mr. Demiurge
          December 25, 2015 at 1:55 am | #

          You’re not wrong, though.

          ヂナ

          The pronunciation fits. It’s just that I’m reasonably certain it isn’t a given name in Japanese.

          • Gigafreak
            Gigafreak
            December 25, 2015 at 2:39 am | #

            That’s closer to (of all names) “Xena” like the warrior princess. You’re close to the right track, but “Ti” doesn’t exist on its own in Japanese. It becomes “Chi.” Softening that transforms it to “Dzi.”
            To form an approximation of “Di,” you use “De” followed by a small “I.” ディ.

            Dina isn’t a Japanese name, as “Di” doesn’t even exist in native Japanese. Her parents simply chose to give her a Western name. (Every American-born Asian I’ve met has a Western name, so it can’t be THAT weird, can it?)

            • Kryss LaBryn
              Kryss LaBryn
              December 25, 2015 at 10:24 am | #

              I used to work in a call centre, and you have no idea how often I’d get a caller with a distinctly Western name (“I’m Dave/George/Bob”) on an account with a distinctly Asian name, and when I say I need to talk to the account holder to confirm something, they just sort of laugh and say, “Oh, that’s my Chinese name.”

              Like, 80% of the time, if it was a Chinese first name, and the caller didn’t have an accent, it was their “Chinese name,” but they usually went by a Western one.

              Which is to say that a lot of the ones I talked to, at least, seemed to have both.

              • chiscii
                chiscii
                December 26, 2015 at 12:15 pm | #

                I got a classmate named michiru who goes by michel on the class rosters and such, and michiru to his friends and family

                naturally i call him by his last name nakamura

            • Sara Hysaro
              Sara Hysaro
              December 25, 2015 at 5:29 pm | #

              Oh, I’ve met a number of Asians here with Western names too – I just never had heard the name Dina before reading this webcomic, and wasn’t aware that “Di” doesn’t exist in native Japanese. Then I read through the link David Willis provided and realized that it definitely isn’t Japanese, so I felt rather silly for thinking it might have been. 🙂

              • Betty Anne
                Betty Anne
                December 25, 2015 at 10:58 pm | #

                It’s not a big if you’ve never seen it. I never questioned how to pronounce Dina’s name, because I knew a girl named Dina once. 🙂

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      December 25, 2015 at 4:28 am | #

      It’s probably also worth noting that the character and the name predates the dinosaur fixation.

  35. GoSpeedRumpist
    GoSpeedRumpist
    December 25, 2015 at 12:59 am | #

    YES! Give me more Walky and Dina interactions! I neeeed them!

  36. altalemur
    altalemur
    December 25, 2015 at 1:06 am | #

    chick-fil-a chicken nuggets is not a healthy food, even if she previously was only eating cereal and mountain dew. and… oh man, that’s guilt on Becky’s face. don’t blame yourself for Joyce’s sadness! it’s toedad’s fault!

  37. Tacos
    Tacos
    December 25, 2015 at 1:19 am | #

    On a different note, I find it adorable that Dina is willing to eat chicken nuggets because her girlfriend is trying to apply for a job there.

  38. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    December 25, 2015 at 1:33 am | #

    By this logic I have consumed thousand of deep fried dinosaur legs.

    • DarkVeghetta
      DarkVeghetta
      December 25, 2015 at 1:44 am | #

      Yes. Yes you have. How do you feel? 😀

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        December 25, 2015 at 2:42 am | #

        There’s more than one correct answer, mind! I’d personally go with “Powerful.“

        • inqntrol
          inqntrol
          December 25, 2015 at 4:04 am | #

          I think “Power Overwhelming” fits better.

          • DarkVeghetta
            DarkVeghetta
            December 25, 2015 at 8:35 am | #

            They should have sent a poet!

  39. Kryehelm
    Kryehelm
    December 25, 2015 at 1:40 am | #

    In panel three is that guilt or Becky checking out Dorothy?

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      December 25, 2015 at 1:48 pm | #

      Yes.

  40. StClair
    StClair
    December 25, 2015 at 1:43 am | #

    Anyone not clear on the connection of birds to dinosaurs needs to watch the final act of A Bug’s Life. That stuff’s right out of Jurassic Park, yo.

    (The dinosaurs didn’t “go” anywhere! They just got very small!)

    • Gamaran Sepudomyn
      Gamaran Sepudomyn
      December 25, 2015 at 12:17 pm | #

      Ahem. Cassowaries.

      • Palamdrone
        Palamdrone
        December 25, 2015 at 6:43 pm | #

        Still small by dinosaur standards.

        • Gamaran Sepudomyn
          Gamaran Sepudomyn
          December 25, 2015 at 7:49 pm | #

          But they’re significantly taller than Velociraptors.

  41. Someone
    Someone
    December 25, 2015 at 2:10 am | #

    Wooo got Dumbing of Age

    Books 2-4 for Christmas!

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      December 25, 2015 at 2:15 am | #

      Congrats!

    • HMRC4EVR
      HMRC4EVR
      December 25, 2015 at 8:41 am | #

      reading to many webcomic.

      Though you meant ‘Woo’ over at Sandra and Woo and was wondering how he got copies of Dumbing of Age.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        December 25, 2015 at 12:24 pm | #

        Well he could have posted “wiigii” to stay within canon.

  42. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    December 25, 2015 at 2:16 am | #

    Walky just want you to give him the food, Dina.

  43. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    December 25, 2015 at 2:24 am | #

    Eat them with vicious ferocity!

  44. Bagge
    Bagge
    December 25, 2015 at 2:38 am | #

    Aww . Dotty and Becky are friends.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      December 25, 2015 at 2:55 am | #

      Maybe the only thing that made them closer is a common worry about Joyce, tho.

  45. Stormtrooper0914
    Stormtrooper0914
    December 25, 2015 at 3:01 am | #

    CONSUME THE DINOSAUR AND BECOME A DINOSAUR

  46. BenRG
    BenRG
    December 25, 2015 at 3:34 am | #

    For me, the big panel of today’s strip is #4. Becky finally realises that Dorothy is Joyce’s true friend and cares for her deeply. Becky finally feels bad about needling her ‘rival’ when Joyce is in trouble and Dorothy is trying to help.

    This is a big growing up moment for Becky and I think she’ll always be a little different for the experience.

    • Peduncle
      Peduncle
      December 25, 2015 at 8:24 pm | #

      I see it just a little different. #3 is the focus. Becky jabs Dorothy as usual, but Dorothy doesn’t rise to the bait and responds as if Becky had made a serious observation. That sets the stage for #4. Tomorrow will tell.

  47. ScarvesandCelery
    ScarvesandCelery
    December 25, 2015 at 3:44 am | #

    “All I wanted was to eat the dinosaur that was stronger than the other dinosaurs and to absorb its power.”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNwDcr2qP4M

  48. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    December 25, 2015 at 4:56 am | #

    Can we presume that dinosaurs have principles to begin with? If not, they have no care for what others believe. Just only if they taste good.

  49. Hastings
    Hastings
    December 25, 2015 at 6:23 am | #

    I’m from Australia and don’t get the chick-fil-a reference. We don’t have them here. What do they do?

    • Reveillark
      Reveillark
      December 25, 2015 at 6:46 am | #

      Well, earlier in the comic they had a conversation about Chick-fil-a having donated money to homophobic thingies, IIRC.

    • Flight03
      Flight03
      December 25, 2015 at 8:53 am | #

      They donate money to anti-gay organizations. Even “conversion therapy” bullshit. And some people will insist that they stopped doing that, but unfortunately that’s not the case.

  50. maxh
    maxh
    December 25, 2015 at 6:46 am | #

    Dina wants to eat the dinosaur that is smarter than all the other dinosaurs and to absorb its power? Confirmed for OITNB watcher.

  51. JTSE
    JTSE
    December 25, 2015 at 8:32 am | #

    Donated alot of money to homophobic organisations. See – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_same-sex_marriage_controversy

  52. Paradoxius
    Paradoxius
    December 25, 2015 at 8:56 am | #

    I’m too dinosaurs to have principles.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      December 25, 2015 at 9:23 am | #

      I’m too poor to have dinosaurs.

      • Willoughby Chase
        Willoughby Chase
        December 25, 2015 at 4:07 pm | #

        Keep a chicken, have a friendly dinosaur in your back garden.

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          December 25, 2015 at 7:26 pm | #

          “Chicken” “friendly”…words do not compute in that combination.

  53. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    December 25, 2015 at 10:43 am | #

    So…THIS is what it takes to get Walky to believe in feathered dinosaurs.

  54. arias01
    arias01
    December 25, 2015 at 10:45 am | #

    In which Becky encapsulates my view on morality.

  55. Annie
    Annie
    December 25, 2015 at 1:19 pm | #

    Why is Dina stuttering? Is it that the food’s from Chic-fil-a, or that it’s a dinosaur?

    • Emma
      Emma
      December 25, 2015 at 5:28 pm | #

      Why not both?

    • John
      John
      December 25, 2015 at 11:47 pm | #

      It’s not cereal!

  56. batman
    batman
    December 25, 2015 at 1:34 pm | #

    Finally someone understands the struggle… morals and principles are for rich people

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      December 25, 2015 at 4:06 pm | #

      For the rest of use there’s the police, and I don’t mean an eighties rock band!

  57. Griffin
    Griffin
    December 25, 2015 at 1:50 pm | #

    STOP JUDGING OUR LIFE CHOICES, DOROTHY.

    (I’m bi but I eat at Chick-Fil-A…it is too good to boycott.)

  58. ozaline
    ozaline
    December 25, 2015 at 1:57 pm | #

    Didn’t Chick-Fil-A back down on it’s anti-gay policies recently?

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      December 25, 2015 at 3:18 pm | #

      Depends on who within Chick-Fil-A you ask. Conflicting reports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_same-sex_marriage_controversy#Policy_change

  59. lime sheep
    lime sheep
    December 25, 2015 at 2:01 pm | #

    luckily i dont eat chicken so i dont have to make these kinds of decisions

  60. Emma
    Emma
    December 25, 2015 at 2:50 pm | #

    Well they can’t expect Joyce to magically get better. Well I mean, I guess they COULD, but they shouldn’t.

    Joyce has been through a lot of trauma this year. And she’s taking it a lot better than I did when I had very traumatic things happened to me. Hell, I had to be hospitalized because I had a complete mental break. I do wonder if that’s in the stars for Joyce. She’s been drugged, threatened at gun point, had her best friend kidnapped, and is now having a crisis of faith. She’s holding up way better than I expected her to.

    Faith was everything to Joyce. Having your entire worldview shattered is not a pleasant experience. My step-father had that happen to him. His parents were missionaries, and he claims to this day that the way they raised him ruined his life. He’s VERY atheist, and VERY bitter about his past. My mother was very Catholic until she, quite literally, was laughed at when she expressed the desire to be a priest. They told her that women were not allowed to be priests, and she could be a nun instead. That left a sour taste in her mouth, and caused her to re-examine the church’s beliefs, and then her own. She’s agnostic now, and it was not a pretty process.

    TLDR on the above: Losing your religion is hard as hell, and I don’t expect Joyce to bounce back for a while yet.

    She’s also bound to be stressed about visiting her family on top of it all.

  61. Triniking1234
    Triniking1234
    December 25, 2015 at 3:37 pm | #

    There’s a joke here about Chick-Fil-A that I’m missing, am I?

    • Emma
      Emma
      December 25, 2015 at 5:29 pm | #

      If you’re saying you don’t understand what Dorothy is talking about, she’s referring to the fact that Chick-Fil-A donates to homophobic organizations.

  62. Willoughby Chase
    Willoughby Chase
    December 25, 2015 at 4:00 pm | #

    Walkies Major is *not* going to be in anything related to biology or medicine that’s for use.

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      December 25, 2015 at 4:05 pm | #

      ^use^sure

      Time for bed after a long day’s consumption of overly rich food.

      *burp

    • Emma
      Emma
      December 25, 2015 at 6:05 pm | #

      His mom won’t be too pleased about that…

      • Willoughby Chase
        Willoughby Chase
        December 26, 2015 at 6:14 am | #

        Every mother is disappointed in their offspring in one way or another.

  63. J
    J
    December 25, 2015 at 4:31 pm | #

    I was so sad when I found out. Gave up their delicious waffle fries. Re: first world problems. Happy holidays or happy lack thereof, everyone!

  64. Jesse
    Jesse
    December 25, 2015 at 6:24 pm | #

    #notalldinosaurs

  65. Palamdrone
    Palamdrone
    December 25, 2015 at 6:39 pm | #

    I don’t understand Dina’s conflict. Most dinosaurs didn’t eat other dinosaurs.

    • No Name
      No Name
      December 25, 2015 at 9:16 pm | #

      Her hat is one of the carnivores though.

  66. Lurlock
    Lurlock
    December 25, 2015 at 8:06 pm | #

    Dina: Walky? When did you get here? Wait – is that my… Give me back my teleportation device!

  67. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    December 25, 2015 at 8:48 pm | #

    I love how morally conflicted Dina looks trying to decide being accurate to her favorite dinos or standing up for herself and her girlfriend with regards to bigoted organizations.

    Like, she’s really torn apart inside with the “these are in support of homophobia, but dinosaurs eat dinosaurs”. And the best part is these have equal value to her. Her love of dinosaur is just as serious as her stance against creationism or her stance against bigotry and that’s what makes her kinda loveable.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      December 25, 2015 at 9:25 pm | #

      Honestly, one of the things I’ve deeply loved about Dina since her story arc and relationship with Becky onward is that she doesn’t feel like a joke character who just shows up to say wacky lines and be cute anymore. She’s being treated with the same agency and dignity as the other characters, and that’s especially important to see for neurodivergent characters in fictions.

    • random832
      random832
      December 25, 2015 at 11:18 pm | #

      Lots of places sell chicken in various edible forms, though.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        December 25, 2015 at 11:57 pm | #

        Maybe she’s trying to support Becky’s decision? Like, if Becky feels that working there would be a violation of her principles, then Dina’s trying to help by eating their food.

  68. shadowsneakz
    shadowsneakz
    December 26, 2015 at 3:45 am | #

    Best. Christmas strip. Ever. EVAR.

  69. Guairdean Beatha
    Guairdean Beatha
    December 26, 2015 at 3:08 pm | #

    Yes, eat the dinosaur nuggets, absorb their sodium.

  70. Nate
    Nate
    December 26, 2015 at 9:22 pm | #

    A good choice for Christmas.

  71. Dinomatrix21
    Dinomatrix21
    January 5, 2016 at 12:08 pm | #

    What does Chick-Fil-A do? 2 “Don’t they, you know…”‘s and I don’t know either.

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