That’s the easy bet.
What are the odds she actually makes friends with the group? I’m going for 6:1.
20:1 says the group never notices her and she gets left at the beach without a soul being aware.
50:1 says she’s the one that actually helps Joyce with the nearly raped incident.
And for the gambling men/perverts out there 100:1 says she instigates an orgy which everyone happily agrees to and partakes in.
What odds can I get on “Willis foregoes the obvious Looney Tunes type option and the crowd actually passes by *random person in corridor* (Dina) WITHOUT carrying them along”?
Nah, Yakkity Sax only applies when the target manages to stay ahead of the crowd. You could animate this one to be timed to the opening bars of Thus Sprach Zarathusa, however.
“DIna, when did you get to the beach with us?” “I… I don’t know… where did I get these massive floatation devices… I’m supposed to bring Amber back some ham…”
Suddenly it all makes sense… Willis, you started by sketching that Beach picture last year and then challenged yourself to get those characters there in story didn’t you?
It’s all Chesire Cat at its most horrifying. (For a good example of that, see National Lampoon’s “The Assassination of Garfield”, done in the style of Jim Davis.)
I know little of Indiana other than having just looked at a map … starting out from northeast Bloomington you have the reservoir within practical walking distance, a couple of nearby national park lakes a short drive or bus ride away, “Indiana Beach” resort a couple hours fast drive away, or Lake Michigan (more like 3-4 hours).
Or… JETPACKS.
I’m with the “everyone piles into one not quite large enough car and goes to the national park” option. As far as I’m concerned, you haven’t actually been to college if you haven’t done something similar at some point. But maybe I’m biased from how my group got 8 (9?) people plus a load of beach gear into the euro equivalent of a Saturn station wagon and went to a nearby not-officially-recognised-but-good-as-national-park type beach in the last few weeks of our freshman year…
A good time was had that day. Regardless of what may have happened the night before, everything was A-OK for just a few hours.
I continue to wonder what time of year it is. Even here in Texas (hi “y’all”) things are too cold outside to go swimming. Is it springtime in this universe?
Not if you’re from out of state. I remember when I moved to Arizona, everyone thought my family was nuts for going swimming on Christmas Eve, but us Northerners thought it was pretty warm.
Of course, next year we were freezing our butts off at the end of November.
It’s about a week into the start of the fall semester. I don’t know about the climate in that state, but around here (Idaho, not exactly equatorial) you at least wouldn’t get rained on or anything.
I’d rather Texas in November than a Newfoundland beach in August. The only good thing I can say about the Labrador Current is that it encourages you to keep moving.
It was bandaged in “Decision” and “Disperse”, it may have vanished on “Beach”, but it’s hard to tell, but since this is the same day (right?) it should probably still be there, shouldn’t it?
No he didn’t. Though Walky’s going to be busy, and that handily explains Sal’s evident lack of enthusiasm. (Presuming of course that this isn’t everybody’s moment to hop on the Willis ‘everyone is so gay’ bandwagon.)
No, there’s a tiny spot of green visible behind Joyce, under her elbow. Which incidentally proves that she’s neither been flattened to the ground nor swept up in the center of the crowd (in which case she’d occlude the view of Billie; instead Billie is in front of her). There is a chance that she’s flattened herself against the wall to avoid them, though.
That is now going to be my personal canon for Dumbing of Age, and anything non-Pajama Jeans-related that follows will just be an unfortunate interruption to their original Saturday afternoon plans.
You do know this means that she’s going ot be carried along with the group. Which means she gets to be part o-*SQUEEE* She gets to be part of the main story!
Loading ...
Rumble?
No, I think it was a Frenzy.
Repeat after me: Rumble is blue and Frenzy is red. Or what is it the other way around?
(monotonously) Rumble is blue, and Frenzy is red. Or was it the other way around?
FIRRIB! \o/
Rumble is blue,
Frenzy is red,
It cost me a nickel
To get your mom in bed.
http://gifs.gifbin.com/1233928590_citizen%20kane%20clapping.gif
Enemy!
Scar, help me!!!
Long live the king!
Damn it, you guys beat me to it.
Is… Is she wearing a dildo on her head in that avatar?
And just in case it changes:
http://i.imgur.com/9RZpy.png This is the one I’m talking about, future readers of this comment
Yes, and that is indeed from an official strip. She’s advertising for planned parenthood, I believe.
Or planned non-parenthood, or whatever. As long as it’s planned.
Mufasa!
Mufasa Mufasa Mufasa!
Scar: I’m surrounded by idiots.
And the beach party gets another member. 😀
Also cant help but love the look on Sals face. Its almost as though she is against rumbling.
She’s caught up in the beach party!
Beach party? No, no. This is the group to go buy pajama pants.
Beach party comes later.
Pajama jeans beach party? Woohoo! Good times.
I sense shenangans
Shenanigans again?
No, just shenanagains.
Good shenanigans, or eeeevil shenanigans?
No, just derring-do
Does Dina get to the waffles!
only if the DoA katamari rolls them up.
SQUISH!
Beat me to it.
RED AVAS POST FASTER! 😛
Are you three times faster than a normal commenter? If you are, you’re A CHAR.
And if you breathe fire after someone shouts “I CHOOSE YOU!” You are a Charazard.
Orkz paintz dem red so deyz go fasta?
Waaaagh!
I thought it was “SMOOSH!”
No wait! It was “GLOMP!”
Like at Comic-con!
Glomp is a tackle-hug not a crushed underfoot sound.
Oh. So more “snap, crackle pop”, only not in the fun, breakfasty way?
Pretty much!
Sensory overload! SENSORY OVERLOAD!!!
I get the distinct impression Dina’s not going to be back at two to wake up Amber.
That’s the easy bet.
What are the odds she actually makes friends with the group? I’m going for 6:1.
20:1 says the group never notices her and she gets left at the beach without a soul being aware.
50:1 says she’s the one that actually helps Joyce with the nearly raped incident.
And for the gambling men/perverts out there 100:1 says she instigates an orgy which everyone happily agrees to and partakes in.
What odds can I get on “Willis foregoes the obvious Looney Tunes type option and the crowd actually passes by *random person in corridor* (Dina) WITHOUT carrying them along”?
i think you have the odds for those first two flipped.
Add in a little musical accompaniment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrthv6pUAbU
I was thinking more benny hill
Dina, you know what to do….. JUMANJI!!!!!
Also, I’m throwing this out there, at the beach we’ll get hints at Dina falling for Walky, and it will lead nowhere.
Well I wouldn’t say nowhere.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/mine/
I completely forgot about that.
…
OH MY GOD, JASON REALLY DID LOSE WALKY’S NOTES!
Dina encounters a wild MAIN CAST!
FIGHT ITEM
POKEMON RUN
obviously RUN. barely even a question
Cowards run. A warrior stand and fight.
*squish*
DINA: “Velociraptor! I choose you!”
Main Cast use Extinction.
Extinction is super effective!
Blasphemy. Someone who loves dinos as much as Dina would know that Utahraptor > Velociraptor every day of the week.
But Deinonychus is the coolest lookin’
MASTER BALLS
Use them!
DINA used MEEKNESS
DINA’s evade went UP
Wild MAIN CAST used INCLUSION
INCLUSION failed.
MAIN CAST USES STOMP
DINA SUFFERS DOUBLE DAMAGE
Stomp is Normal-type; it isn’t super-effective against anything.
Trying to decide how sad it is that I’ve committed the type matchups to memory.
As I no longer have the type matchups committed to memory, I decided to stay with stat-effect.
Obviously it was a critical hit!
Stomp gains double damage if the target used Minimise.
Dina uses “casual indifference”
It’s Stupid-effective!
Dina regains most of the feeling back in her lower appendages!
Aw, she’s adorawkward!
Adorkable.
She’s tragidorable!
It’s a little-known fact that Dina was the original creator of the Stone Mask, based on her own powers of invisibility through boringness.
Oh, goodness, Shiro/Dina is now my OTP. Thank you.
Could be worse. At least she’s not trampled and just swarmed.
Yay more Dina! She’s my favorite.
Quick, hide!
Too late…
3rd panel: Cue the William Tell Overture.
…cause here come the Bad News Bears!
Nah, this one’s definitely either the Devil’s Gallop or the Benny Hill theme
Nah, Yakkity Sax only applies when the target manages to stay ahead of the crowd. You could animate this one to be timed to the opening bars of Thus Sprach Zarathusa, however.
“DIna, when did you get to the beach with us?” “I… I don’t know… where did I get these massive floatation devices… I’m supposed to bring Amber back some ham…”
Just when you thought it was safe to leave your dorm room…
*jaws theme*
Suddenly it all makes sense… Willis, you started by sketching that Beach picture last year and then challenged yourself to get those characters there in story didn’t you?
FENTON!!
…forgive me.
“…and that dear children, is how Dina wound up as part of the Fellowship of the Beach Goers.”
She bacame the sixth wheel.
‘Run, fools.’
Bearer of the one monster hat to rule them all.
NINJA MOMENTUM
“Amber! Sister, help me!”
“Long live the paleontologist.”
Is that a Lion King reference?
Yes.
“Help!”
“Somebody!”
“Anybody.”
“Help.”
Wait. IS SAL STILL PANTSLESS?
That’s why she’s frowning.
Finally, someone with priorities.
Who needs the damn pants on a beach anyway?
My odds say Dina gets rumbled past, or over, due to her powers of social invisibility.
In hundreds of years time, paleontologists will discover Dina’s remains…
That would be as a dream come true for her.
I saw an ad for DoA with them already at the ‘beach’! How cuuuute. I like Dinah more, now that we’re getting to see her in this comic!
Social interaction oh noooo.
That little bit of Billie’s face is creeping me out.
Bricks were shat and what has been seen cannot be unseen…
It’s all Chesire Cat at its most horrifying. (For a good example of that, see National Lampoon’s “The Assassination of Garfield”, done in the style of Jim Davis.)
I wonder where they’re going, though…?
I know little of Indiana other than having just looked at a map … starting out from northeast Bloomington you have the reservoir within practical walking distance, a couple of nearby national park lakes a short drive or bus ride away, “Indiana Beach” resort a couple hours fast drive away, or Lake Michigan (more like 3-4 hours).
Or… JETPACKS.
I’m with the “everyone piles into one not quite large enough car and goes to the national park” option. As far as I’m concerned, you haven’t actually been to college if you haven’t done something similar at some point. But maybe I’m biased from how my group got 8 (9?) people plus a load of beach gear into the euro equivalent of a Saturn station wagon and went to a nearby not-officially-recognised-but-good-as-national-park type beach in the last few weeks of our freshman year…
A good time was had that day. Regardless of what may have happened the night before, everything was A-OK for just a few hours.
Beach episode!
Anybody else hear Robin Williams shout one of his “Jumanji” quotes?
“Run! It’s a STAMPEDE!”
I certainly do now.
I continue to wonder what time of year it is. Even here in Texas (hi “y’all”) things are too cold outside to go swimming. Is it springtime in this universe?
Not if you’re from out of state. I remember when I moved to Arizona, everyone thought my family was nuts for going swimming on Christmas Eve, but us Northerners thought it was pretty warm.
Of course, next year we were freezing our butts off at the end of November.
It’s about a week into the start of the fall semester. I don’t know about the climate in that state, but around here (Idaho, not exactly equatorial) you at least wouldn’t get rained on or anything.
I’d rather Texas in November than a Newfoundland beach in August. The only good thing I can say about the Labrador Current is that it encourages you to keep moving.
Should Joyce’s right hand still be bandaged?
It was bandaged in “Decision” and “Disperse”, it may have vanished on “Beach”, but it’s hard to tell, but since this is the same day (right?) it should probably still be there, shouldn’t it?
Woot! I got a stealth edit! Bandage is there now. 🙂
AND THEN THEY ALL F*CKED
You forgot the UP at the end there.
No he didn’t. Though Walky’s going to be busy, and that handily explains Sal’s evident lack of enthusiasm. (Presuming of course that this isn’t everybody’s moment to hop on the Willis ‘everyone is so gay’ bandwagon.)
I can see it now. Book 3: Dumbing of Age is Totally Gay.
she’s invisible
No, there’s a tiny spot of green visible behind Joyce, under her elbow. Which incidentally proves that she’s neither been flattened to the ground nor swept up in the center of the crowd (in which case she’d occlude the view of Billie; instead Billie is in front of her). There is a chance that she’s flattened herself against the wall to avoid them, though.
And, er, an entire arm waving for help. Was I completely blind before? Yikes.
Guess she’s not avoiding them.
Come on, guys! Let’s all get pajama jeans!
That is now going to be my personal canon for Dumbing of Age, and anything non-Pajama Jeans-related that follows will just be an unfortunate interruption to their original Saturday afternoon plans.
You do know this means that she’s going ot be carried along with the group. Which means she gets to be part o-*SQUEEE* She gets to be part of the main story!
Dina has always been the main story. Everything else has been merely an interesting distraction.
And thus ends another Dina in another universe. No heroism for this one…just trampled.
It was the best she could do.
HA! I laughed, and then that made me a little sad afterward.
Zerg rush?
Maybe, but I’m pretty sure Sal is a late game super unit. ;p
Need more pylons
Dina, look out! It is a stampede of rambunctious Freshman! Oh no, my warning came too late!
Dina, you have been assimilated (*_*)
RUN DINA!!!
You forgot to do BLOAD*,8,”DINA” first
Dina, really needs stand up for her principles and wear the Boner t-shirt.
I think this was a scene in Jurassic Park, too
Rumble rumble rumble, mutiny mutiny mutiny.
So, Dina, I hear joo wanna rumble wit’ da big boys…
Change of topic. I cannot believ3e it took me this long to see what I am seeing. Why did I not recognize Joyce from It’s Walky.
I can’t believe nobody made a compare/contrast between this strip and the early Funky Winkerbean newspaper strips.