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by David M Willis on August 27, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Saturday's All Right for Slighting
└ Tags: amber, dina

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  1. Gundi
    Gundi
    August 27, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    What is Dina’s deal? Wait, don’t tell me. I prefer an enigma.

    • darcos0
      darcos0
      August 27, 2012 at 1:18 am | #

      Back to Bone City!

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      August 27, 2012 at 4:05 am | #

      She likes dinosaurs and being a ninja. So what I should have done was dressed her up like a ninja in my fan art.

      • ADHadh
        ADHadh
        August 27, 2012 at 12:10 pm | #

        A dinosaur ninja!

        • Scoops!
          Scoops!
          August 27, 2012 at 6:36 pm | #

          They’re not extinct. Just hiding.

          • ryu
            ryu
            August 27, 2012 at 7:24 pm | #

            some better than others

    • Bearpelt
      Bearpelt
      July 17, 2015 at 2:52 am | #

      I’m fairly sure she’s autistic actually. I’ve never identified with a character more. I’m autistic and we don’t even present the same way but this is one of the only good depictions I’ve ever seen by a non-autistic creator. At least I think the creator is non-autistic?

      • Nezumi
        Nezumi
        March 20, 2016 at 6:51 pm | #

        As yet another autistic person, also pretty sure she is. I keep noticing she’s basically me in a number of ways.

  2. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    August 27, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Bloody Hell! Where did she come from?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      well, when two dinosaurs love each other very much…

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        August 27, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

        So does that mean Dina hatched from an egg?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 27, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

          We all hatched from eggs….in a way

    • Shade
      Shade
      August 27, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

      This video explains everything.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/blog/how-it-happened-exactly/

      • lawzlo
        lawzlo
        August 27, 2012 at 12:46 am | #

        Actually, I believe this video explains everything:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v51a3CnhSs

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      August 27, 2012 at 8:39 pm | #

      Every time she wanders off-panel, she vanishes and respawns behind her door.

  3. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    August 27, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Amber – “Christ!”
    Dina – “Nope, it’s just Dina.”

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 27, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      Smith will suffice.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      damn you…I shoulda seen you said that first :c…

      • Wonder Wig
        Wonder Wig
        August 27, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

        That’s okay, consider it revenge for 5 months ago >=)

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      August 27, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

      Nope, Chuck Testa.

  4. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 27, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    She seems perfectly normal to me. 😀

    • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      August 27, 2012 at 9:31 am | #

      Pretty Left-Brained, though.

    • fatemaster1
      fatemaster1
      June 17, 2014 at 11:29 pm | #

      I wish that was what normal was, the women around where I live are all “I’m just going stare at you and smile, and hope that you magically figure out what the *bleep* I want from you.” At least Dina talks when she has something to say or wants to ask for something.

  5. Ryan Balis
    Ryan Balis
    August 27, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    her shirt gives Dina all the confidence she needs!

    • Fanboy
      Fanboy
      August 27, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      My sister-in-law has a shirt with a t-rex that says “Rarrr is dinosaur for ‘I love you'”

      That’d be perfect for Walkyverse Dina.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 27, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

        I saw a shirt that has a dinosaur and it says “like, rarr and stuff”

      • Ryan Balis
        Ryan Balis
        August 27, 2012 at 12:46 am | #

        I’d love to have one that said: “Rarrr is dinosaur for Rarrr”

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 27, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      It’s the thing to wear when you visit Bone City.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 27, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

        no, That’s what the “Dig It” shirt is for

  6. Bishop
    Bishop
    August 27, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    I see what you did there, with your wordplay.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      August 27, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

      Yet at the same time, it’s a perfect response to the question. Most people don’t give her a second thought.

  7. Hythrain
    Hythrain
    August 27, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    Awwww, Dina~

  8. ArkhamTexan
    ArkhamTexan
    August 27, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    Has Amber always been that busty? I have never noticed it before… and now I can’t stop noticing. And comparing to Dina. Well, there’ve been flimsier excuses to trawl the archives…

    I don’t even know if “trawl” is a word, but it *feels* right…

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 27, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

      Can’t you see her misspelled t-shirt? She’s in “Breast Mode”

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 27, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

        that’s the best mode.

        • Pyr05
          Pyr05
          August 27, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

          that’s the ONLY mode.

      • gangler
        gangler
        August 27, 2012 at 6:04 am | #

        Ruth strikes again!

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      August 27, 2012 at 2:13 am | #

      I haven’t compared, but some of her boobage might have spilled over from Shortpacked, where she’s lactating.

      • Raoullefere
        Raoullefere
        August 27, 2012 at 12:29 pm | #

        I think you mean ‘soaked through.’ Spills are mostly a bottle-fed phenomenon.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      August 27, 2012 at 6:51 am | #

      I think she’s always been this busty. In DoA she wears tight t-shirts.

      • TheLastOutlaw
        TheLastOutlaw
        August 27, 2012 at 10:38 am | #

        I believe this to be true, back in SP! when she was rocking the corset she was quite busty.

        • ArkhamTexan
          ArkhamTexan
          August 27, 2012 at 10:57 am | #

          Well, it isn’t really hard to look busty in a corset, though. ::presses fingertips together:: However, I am VERY pleased at the research this is spawning. Amber’s breasts are SCIENCE.

          • TheLastOutlaw
            TheLastOutlaw
            August 27, 2012 at 1:04 pm | #

            Yes, science…

            For science! There is more research to be done!

            • LuckyStar7
              LuckyStar7
              August 27, 2012 at 3:34 pm | #

              Let’s see how they react to electricity!

  9. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 27, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    I expected panel 3 for her to be saying “no, I’m Dina, your roomate”

    • Black Bumblebee
      Black Bumblebee
      August 27, 2012 at 7:55 am | #

      Unless, Dina IS secretly Jesus!

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        August 27, 2012 at 8:41 pm | #

        Hmmmm… In the original Walkyverse, Dina and Jesus were never seen together.

  10. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    August 27, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    I can’t see what anyone could possibly find strange about her.

    Incidentally, as I type this I notice that the door to my room is opened, and I’m certain it was closed last I checked. I’m a little afraid to look behind it.

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 27, 2012 at 3:36 pm | #

      Doctor_Who: >opens door<
      Dina: RARR!

      • NiK
        NiK
        August 27, 2012 at 7:23 pm | #

        Closes Door, rather?

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        August 27, 2012 at 8:43 pm | #

        “Rarr” is Silurian for “I love you.”

  11. Sensedog
    Sensedog
    August 27, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

    I imagine that Dina and Walky would get along quite well.

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      August 27, 2012 at 5:43 am | #

      Since the dated in the Walkyverse I’d imagine so.

  12. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    August 27, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

    Awww, I actually want to hug her.

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      August 27, 2012 at 10:39 am | #

      Yea, she’s cute when she’s trying painfully hard to fit in and bond with others.

  13. Philippe G.
    Philippe G.
    August 27, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

    Of course, she only pretends to be unremarkable, so that nobody realize that’s she’s really Amazi-gi… oops, spoiler.

  14. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 27, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

    I like to imagine that Amber’s and Dina’s shirts are connected.
    BEAST MODE! RARRR!

    • NCP19
      NCP19
      August 27, 2012 at 1:10 am | #

      TeRARRRize!

    • Jimmy K
      Jimmy K
      August 27, 2012 at 9:25 am | #

      BEAST MODE t-shirts when?

      • David
        David M Willis
        August 27, 2012 at 10:43 am | #

        Since a while ago, from lots of people who aren’t me. Google it.

    • Raoullefere
      Raoullefere
      August 27, 2012 at 12:34 pm | #

      I thought Doctor_Who established that’s ‘Breast Mode.’

      Do they go ‘RARRR’?

  15. Nifar
    Nifar
    August 27, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

    I’m still not convinced Dina isn’t actually an alien, who enrolled herself in college to learn more about human culture.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      August 27, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

      That.. would actually explain a lot.
      This is my new head canon.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 27, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

        I have a head cannon, but it’s pretty much a guarunteed broken neck

        • Nerdman
          Nerdman
          August 27, 2012 at 6:05 pm | #

          I had a head cannon, but then I took an arrow to the-

          Okay, I’m stopping myself there.

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      August 27, 2012 at 1:58 am | #

      Rule #1 of Dumbing of Age: No aliens.

      Which means that Dina is a genetically engineered cyborg from the future.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 27, 2012 at 2:50 am | #

      And is voiced by Richard Horvitz.

  16. SplashBoogie
    SplashBoogie
    August 27, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

    Dina wears shy/awkward well.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      August 27, 2012 at 6:52 am | #

      I think the point is supposed to be that she doesn’t wear it well.

  17. Blob Marley
    Blob Marley
    August 27, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

    I want to take Dina home and hide her behind my door and feed her raw triceratops meat and play dinosaurs with her.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

      I feel like Dina would be incredibly against the consumption of something as cool as a triceratops, especially seeing that that would involve having had LIVE triceratops.

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        August 27, 2012 at 12:44 am | #

        Hey, consumption of dinosaurs was essential to the survival of other dinosaurs. I think she’d understand the cycle of nature. Especially if she could live the T-Rex dream.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 27, 2012 at 1:05 am | #

          But she understands that she is not a dinosaur and would give the dinosaur meat to a much more deserving dinosaur so that she can say that she helped a dinosaur survive and not selfishly try to be one.

  18. Blue
    Blue
    August 27, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

    Dina’s level of adorable is truly superhuman.

  19. David
    David
    August 27, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

    I love Dina!!

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 27, 2012 at 3:39 pm | #

      Don’t we all?
      I used to have a Dina Grav, but it’s gone and I’m saddened by this.

  20. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    August 27, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

    Way to go Dina for making it seem like your emotions were hurt without a facial cue, only to come back as it was merely thinking about what was said and how it is implied. Bravo.

  21. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    August 27, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

    My 7th grade science class had windows in the top half of the door. The science teacher had posted in one of the panes, a T-rex head with ‘Good Morning’ ballon above it. An indication of what our class would be like.
    It was.
    Dina, most people do not wear dino caps, nor stand behind doors for any period of time longer than it takes to go thru it. So yah, you are a bit strange. But very cute.
    However, she actually asked if others thought her strange, perhaps she is starting to be aware of the world around her. From a ‘behind the door kind of viewpoint”? She certainly picked up on Ambers answer.

  22. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 27, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

    Do you think Willis will mind that I say Dina’s head looks a little off in this comic?

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      August 27, 2012 at 10:42 am | #

      I wouldn’t say the whole comic but in panel 2 it looks different because of the perspective shift.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      August 27, 2012 at 3:51 pm | #

      Considering that a dinosaur has been eating her head for months, she’s lucky it’s not more off than it is.

  23. AliaPie
    AliaPie
    August 27, 2012 at 12:53 am | #

    Ahhh I love Dina. So adorable.

    Also I read Amber’s shirt as “Breast Mode” at first… I was really confused.

  24. Leon
    Leon
    August 27, 2012 at 1:06 am | #

    And now we have an arc featuring DIna. Will she develop out of her wallflower persona?
    I only hope she gets the chance to verbally tear Raidah a new one.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      August 27, 2012 at 5:05 am | #

      Nah, she’ll borrow Sarah’s bat.

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 27, 2012 at 3:42 pm | #

      Her and Joyce are growing up.

  25. TheEqualizer
    TheEqualizer
    August 27, 2012 at 1:41 am | #

    Is it just me or is Dina a more cute, extremely more friendly Sheldon Cooper?

    • Pyr05
      Pyr05
      August 27, 2012 at 2:44 am | #

      More Sheldon is a not-so-cute, self-centered version of Dina.

    • thatgirlwiththeglasses
      thatgirlwiththeglasses
      August 27, 2012 at 2:47 am | #

      That’s exactly what I was thinking!

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      August 27, 2012 at 5:07 am | #

      Or Abed?
      (not to cue any BBT/Community arguments or anything)

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      August 27, 2012 at 8:48 pm | #

      I always thought Sheldon came off as more schizoid, while Dina seems a bit more Aspergers. And I know, she has not be diagnosed, and I am not trying to diagnose, but she shows some signs.

  26. TPman
    TPman
    August 27, 2012 at 1:44 am | #

    Actually Dinah, I think she meant both. One is conducive to the other.

  27. Wazat
    Wazat
    August 27, 2012 at 1:47 am | #

    Of all the characters in this comic, I relate to Dina best. I have Asperger’s syndrome, and I was one weird kid. And people are vicious creatures.

    Dina is is a charming person. She loves her interests (particularly dinosaurs), she has no social intuition whatsoever, she’s vulnerable yet happy, and she’s all the more likable as a result.

    Oh and TheEqualizer: I’m also fond of Sheldon. ^_^ He says what we’re all thinking.

    • Alyssa
      Alyssa
      August 27, 2012 at 2:22 pm | #

      You too, huh?
      She strikes me as an undxed aspie/autie. (Which one I go in depends on caring about anything besides B1 in the communication area, which most people don’t.)

  28. mister gray
    mister gray
    August 27, 2012 at 1:54 am | #

    Dina trained batman in the art of……suddenly appearing from nowhere and disappearing. She can teach amber much in those ways.. 🙂

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 27, 2012 at 3:45 pm | #

      BECAUSE AMBER IS AMAZIGIRL

      • Usayasha
        Usayasha
        August 27, 2012 at 5:42 pm | #

        NO, SHE IS SPIDERCAR

  29. Tenn
    Tenn
    August 27, 2012 at 2:09 am | #

    Ah! She made a pune, or play on words. Oh ho ho.

    • Azukar
      Azukar
      August 27, 2012 at 2:51 am | #

      Yes, Miss Susan, she did 😛

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 27, 2012 at 2:53 am | #

      *insert twelve-page footnote here

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      August 27, 2012 at 6:54 am | #

      Hulk appreciate puny wordplay.

      • TsunamiJane
        TsunamiJane
        August 27, 2012 at 8:08 am | #

        BAHAHAHAHAHA

      • LuckyStar7
        LuckyStar7
        August 27, 2012 at 3:46 pm | #

        This. This made my day. Big time.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 27, 2012 at 10:44 am | #

      Figgen?

  30. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    August 27, 2012 at 2:21 am | #

    Strange, no. Sneaky, definitely.

  31. Matt
    Matt
    August 27, 2012 at 2:50 am | #

    Bazinga.

  32. Azukar
    Azukar
    August 27, 2012 at 2:50 am | #

    So… Dana is a figment of Amber’s fractured mind? Amber isn’t actually rooming with anyone!

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      August 27, 2012 at 5:19 am | #

      TWIST!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2012 at 1:58 pm | #

      Dina.
      Dina and Dana are too different people.
      …
      OR ARE THEY!?

      • Ezra Fell
        Ezra Fell
        August 27, 2012 at 3:25 pm | #

        They’re not too different, they’re mostly the same.

        and different.

        and also the same.

      • Azukar
        Azukar
        August 28, 2012 at 8:22 am | #

        Whoops! Now I skilfully pretend that wasn’t a mistake, but a clever and witty double entendre for something!

  33. Izzy
    Izzy
    August 27, 2012 at 3:15 am | #

    Yes, Amber. You are a very cunning linguist. And Dina enjoys this.

  34. Resne
    Resne
    August 27, 2012 at 3:27 am | #

    Dina is interesting. She grasps social concepts, but on an intellectual rather than an instinctual level. A little work at fine-tuning the application of that understanding and she could appear normal.

  35. Locke
    Locke
    August 27, 2012 at 3:33 am | #

    No, see, she’s not surprised by Dina, Jesus is simply sitting on the couch off-panel, nude, holding a rose in his teeth.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      August 27, 2012 at 6:55 am | #

      It could be true.

  36. Larson E. Jones
    Larson E. Jones
    August 27, 2012 at 3:42 am | #

    I want a Beast Mode shirt. That’s really all I wanted to say. :T

    • Armchair Warrior
      Armchair Warrior
      August 27, 2012 at 6:25 am | #

      Rarity is shocked and appalled by your taste in fashion.

      • LuckyStar7
        LuckyStar7
        August 27, 2012 at 3:48 pm | #

        Dana approves your comment.

        • Usayasha
          Usayasha
          August 27, 2012 at 5:44 pm | #

          Gallasso is angered by my comment.

        • Nerdman
          Nerdman
          August 27, 2012 at 6:10 pm | #

          The sock says nothing, because it is a sock.

          That is a sock, right?

          • Rex Hondo
            Rex Hondo
            August 27, 2012 at 8:50 pm | #

            Dina files away your comment, but has no emotional response to it.

            • Doctor_Who
              Doctor_Who
              August 27, 2012 at 9:31 pm | #

              Batman is grumpy that Dina has nicer headgear than he does.

  37. turkishproverb
    turkishproverb
    August 27, 2012 at 4:13 am | #

    Scenes liek this remind me of why I like that girl.

  38. Justanothersomethingorother
    Justanothersomethingorother
    August 27, 2012 at 4:16 am | #

    Is it bad that I read Amber’s shirt as ‘Breast Mode?’

    Also, Dina is awesome.

    • Goat
      Goat
      August 27, 2012 at 8:49 am | #

      I was just going to ask the same thing.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      August 27, 2012 at 10:39 am | #

      I found myself wondering what it would look like if Amber then transformed into ‘non-breast mode’. And immediately regretted it.

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 27, 2012 at 3:49 pm | #

      EVERYONE READ AMBER’S SHIRT AS BREAST MODE.

  39. Historyman68
    Historyman68
    August 27, 2012 at 4:34 am | #

    Self-awareness: Averted!

  40. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    August 27, 2012 at 5:51 am | #

    Her hyper-intelligent overanalyzes ads to her cute ration.

    This worries me, for she may go critical.

  41. Wixvhen
    Wixvhen
    August 27, 2012 at 6:13 am | #

    Dina : adorkable :: Mike : violence
    Dina : intelligence :: Dina : adorkable
    Mike : violence :: Dina : intelligence
    This is my thinking. She has proved this.

    • Armchair Warrior
      Armchair Warrior
      August 27, 2012 at 6:28 am | #

      I…actually couldn’t parse that. Are you saying that Mike’s violence is infinitely self-perpetuating? The only other message I could get from that was that hurting people makes them smarter, and my experience tells me this is far from true.

      • TheLastOutlaw
        TheLastOutlaw
        August 27, 2012 at 10:45 am | #

        I got that Dina being adorkable made Mike violent which led to her intelligence being boosted possibly because it was done in the name of science. So Dina is like GlaDOS? I’ll go with that because I can totally picture Dina as GlaDOS

        • LuckyStar7
          LuckyStar7
          August 27, 2012 at 3:50 pm | #

          I know I shoudn’t be asking this, but…
          Who’s GlaDOS?

          • Nerdman
            Nerdman
            August 27, 2012 at 6:19 pm | #

            *ahem* GLaDOS, otherwise known as Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operting System, is an artificial intelligence that runs the Aperature Science Testing Facility. She is also a raging psychopath who murdered over half of the facility upon activation. On “Bring Your Daughter to Work Day”. Since then, she has been forcing test subjects to go through grueling and life-threatening tests in the name of science. She doesn’t understand humans or morality in the slightest and is a pathological liar.

            She is also hilarious, awesome, and the spent some time in the body of a potato, so I’m guessing that’s her similarity to Dina.

            (She’s the main villain of the Portal video game series. Check it out.)

            • TheLastOutlaw
              TheLastOutlaw
              August 27, 2012 at 8:09 pm | #

              1. The fact you have a Dina avvy makes the reply awesome in ways it wouldn’t otherwise be.

              2. I was mainly seeing how Dina’s almost complete lack of human interaction and her application of logic to reason out “normal” human behavior reminded me GLaDOS. And I just replayed Portal 2 recently so it was fresh in my mind.

      • Wixvhen
        Wixvhen
        August 27, 2012 at 8:55 pm | #

        Actually what I’m saying is that Dina is as adorkable and intelligent as Mike is violent.

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 27, 2012 at 3:54 pm | #

      Dina is to adorkable as Mike is to violence.
      Dina is to intelligence as Dina is to adorkable.
      Mike is to violence as Dina is to intelligence.

  42. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    August 27, 2012 at 6:44 am | #

    This reminds me of the Family Guy episode where the foreign guy explains sarcasm to Peter.

  43. Aeonitus
    Aeonitus
    August 27, 2012 at 9:49 am | #

    Well, they didn’t lose her, but how the hell did she get back?!

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      August 27, 2012 at 10:33 am | #

      I think someone has theorized that she has tapped into some sort singularity that exists behind all doors, allowing her teleport at will from behind any door to behind any other door. Until it’s proven otherwise that’s what I’m going with.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        August 27, 2012 at 10:49 am | #

        And it’s worth noting that it would be kind of difficult to prove that she doesn’t have this ability.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        August 27, 2012 at 2:46 pm | #

        Actually, that is all explained in MegaTokyo, she has learned to travel using the gaps between the sets.

        • Wixvhen
          Wixvhen
          August 27, 2012 at 8:57 pm | #

          That’s the first time -ever- I’ve heard somebody use that explanation. Epic stuff.

  44. Kafloobop
    Kafloobop
    August 27, 2012 at 9:56 am | #

    Ahh yes, a fine jest indeed! *Bubble Pipe*

  45. davidbreslin101
    davidbreslin101
    August 27, 2012 at 10:17 am | #

    “I try to be sociable, for example by laying out shirts for you that are thematically related to my own, so that subconsciously you feel comfortable with me. Is this not working?”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2012 at 2:01 pm | #

      I put a DrillMan shirt next to my “Dig it” shirt.
      I’m even staying within your Genre.

  46. LimeTH
    LimeTH
    August 27, 2012 at 11:16 am | #

    She’s starting to remind me of Yuki Nagato. It’s the teleporting and the Spock-speak.

  47. Bill
    Bill
    August 27, 2012 at 11:41 am | #

    How can no one look at her with that awesome hat on!

  48. Raoullefere
    Raoullefere
    August 27, 2012 at 12:38 pm | #

    Behind every great idea, there’s a story.

    Behind every door, there’s a Dina.

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      August 27, 2012 at 1:05 pm | #

      Sadly not mine, and I’ve checked. A few times.

      Nope, still not there.

      • LuckyStar7
        LuckyStar7
        August 27, 2012 at 3:56 pm | #

        Willis should make Door Dinas.

        • TheLastOutlaw
          TheLastOutlaw
          August 27, 2012 at 8:12 pm | #

          I would totally buy one.

  49. Culwecth
    Culwecth
    August 27, 2012 at 1:44 pm | #

    Dina needs a positronic brain tuneup. Or an emotion chip upgrade.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2012 at 2:02 pm | #

      I am Dina, please insert fossil

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        August 27, 2012 at 2:47 pm | #

        I saw what you did there, very clever.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          August 27, 2012 at 2:47 pm | #

          Also, possibly pornographic, depending on how your brain works.

  50. Whittier
    Whittier
    August 27, 2012 at 4:22 pm | #

    Am I the only one thinking autism-spectrum disorder? Or am I just habituated to think that since I have a lot of friends on the spectrum?

    • Uncle Rylon
      Uncle Rylon
      August 27, 2012 at 6:25 pm | #

      Maybe. But more likely is that because we have so many personality disorders and such documented, it’s hard to create a genuinely quirky character without hitting many of the symptoms of one.

    • Norah
      Norah
      August 27, 2012 at 8:26 pm | #

      I was thinking Asperger’s or high-functioning autism for her too. Willis said she wasn’t diagnosed with anything yet. But that doesn’t mean she couldn’t be an Aspie.

    • BD
      BD
      August 28, 2012 at 2:41 am | #

      The latter? When you’re familiar with something, you start seeing it everywhere. Example: faces.

      I have trouble believing that she could get as far as college without any of those disorders coming up in routine medical visits, though, especially nowadays. (In the US, anyway, but I doubt she spent enough time in Japan either.)

      • B.D
        B.D
        March 20, 2015 at 4:10 pm | #

        Also, prosopagnosia?

  51. Marshall Erickson
    Marshall Erickson
    August 31, 2012 at 3:28 pm | #

    I love how she just appears behind the door.

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