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Justin, let me just warn you here, DINA DOES NOT HAVE A SEXY INDICATOR! If you pursue her, you must do it on her level, and accept that there is a chance she will never be able to understand a level above friend.
I want Sal to walk by in the next strip, see these two geeks acting like that, and immediately assume it has become mainstream, and she now has to act different to keep being a rebel.
Nah, hipsters are all about fake rebelling in strictly defined ways. It’s just another way of being a fashion victim.
Sal is about actual rebellion, since she’s genuinely sick of society’s shit. But it’s hard to be a rebel when even The Churchmouse and Yuki Nagato find your behavior socially acceptable.
Not just clothes like his, or clothes that belong to him, but the actual clothes right off his back. She just walks up, strips him, and walks off with his clothes.
It’s funnier if she walks into his office and is all, “Get nekkid. Now.” And when he complies, in obvious anticipation of what’s about to happen, she just takes his clothes and leaves.
Quite the opposite would happen, actually. Sal will walk by, not even noticing them, in some completely different, yet somehow still cool, outfit, and both Joyce and Dina will realize that their attempts to be cool have utterly failed, and they must change again to be more like Sal. This will continue through several iterations, may even become a running background gag.
I could see Joyce ordering dry white toast, and Dina ordering four fried chickens. They’re no cereal, but every so often you’ve gotta eat some smaller dinosaurs to establish your place in the food chain.
Her adaptability makes her perfectly suited for her environment, and is the reason that, like the shark and crocodile, the modern Dina is almost identical to her counterpart of millions of years ago.
There can only be one Sal. If two beings of that magnitude of coolness were ever in such close proximity the earth would swing off its axis and hurl right into the sun.
However, I think the hovertext has it wrong. No way would Sal be caught with a boombox in the 21st century! That is not a part of the current cool package. : D
But is it part of the hipster package yet? I keep seeing things like throw pillows and pencil bags with pictures of cassette tapes on them, so I figure boom boxes can’t be far behind if they’re not here already.
The Wild Yotomoe, when provoked will retaliate with a powerful defense mechanism. It will imply that the predator is unattractive and insinuate that they are insuficient in their love making as a means to discourage them from further contact.
The predator will then take a phew moments to process recent accusation, then will preceed to move past recent confrontation with wounded ego and pride being reminded of the food chain.
OK, now we just need Riley to come and join them, leaning against the wall the same way, with the same face, but still munching on cereal out of a box.
I definitely think we need a lineup of progressively shorter girls all in this pose, diminishing off to an artificially close vanishing point. Yep, that’s what we need.
Those aren’t really cereal, and they’re terrible =p I mean, it adds like a *hint* of chocolate or whatever flavour, yet costs more for a few straws than just a regular bottle of chocolate syrup would!
Cassowaries are dinosaurs in the same sense that all birds are dinosaurs, yes. They are TERRIFYING, though – they even have powerful claws on their feet like Deinonychus.
Nope! It’s a dinosaur! Says so, right on the shirt. In all seriousness, it’s based on the current theory that modern birds are surviving descendants of the dinos. Which makes sense, given that birds and bipedal dinos share several bone structures, particularly in the hips and legs.
Yes, the dinosaur clade Saurischia “lizard hipped” are the origin of birds per many many line of fossil evidence, while the clade Ornithischia “bird hipped” all died out. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?
* I know that is indeed how it works (and why), I just find the names funny.
Sadly, there is no “raptor” family (speaking of birds), the closest is order Falconiformes, but even in the most broad definition that excludes owls (order Strigiformes)(and Falconiformes and Strigiformes are definitely not closely related).
It is also not clear if accipitrids (hawks, eagles, others) truly belong in the same order as Falconidae, or if they are even sister taxons. Some have also argued that new world vultures are unrelated to any definition of Falconiformes. It remains very uncertain.
For the dinosaurs called “raptors” (relatives, but not ancestors, of all birds), there is a single family – Dromaeosauridae. (Clade Maniraptora sounds promising, but includes a lot of things not colloquially called “raptors”, including oddballs like Therizinosaurs and all living birds)
I predict a whole line of socially awkward girls leaning against the wall, forming their own little clique of Rebels against Rebellion or something. Though I’m surprised Dina didn’t liken it to some form of mimicry used by certain animals to avoid predators (such as the phasmid known as the “Walking Stick”). That just seems like something she’d do.
If only Joyce were as observant as Dina, she wouldn’t be . . . . well . . . . so oblivious. Dina seems like she’s lost, but she’s like this hyperobjective observer who sees to the heart of the matter, always, and is never deceived by all the world’s socially convenient fictions.
“Di” isn’t really a Japanese phonetic [the closest is “chi”], so if anything she would have an English-naturalized name, like how “Julie” has been reappropriated as “Juri”…
Saruyama could definitely be, though–if written as 申山, it means “monkey mountain” [wait what]
I was going to suggest that maybe she has a separate Japanese name other than Dina (I have a separate Chinese name that I basically never use, for example), but then I remembered that her parents are tagged with plausible actual Japanese names, so they probably just gave her a Western name.
That’s common among Chinese, but Japanese people don’t really do that (the only semi-exception is performers with Westernized stage names).
Dina’s parents clearly gave her a Western first name. There’s really no explanation for “Sarazu”, though. I don’t think there’s a way to make that a surname in Japanese.
This is my new favorite strip. It is THE BEST. It’s like my three favorite characters in one strip, except Sal isn’t really there (it is only her fan club) and Amber is also not in it. Also Dorothy. Also Sarah. Actually really everyone is my favorite character but this is still my favorite strip. I’m trying to give a compliment, I don’t know if it’s working.
It’s because she _is_ cooler. Joyce is malleable in her craving for acceptance (seeking to exchange one set of imposed behavioral expectations for another) while Dina is, was and (one hopes) always shall be herself.
Willis, it would probably be too much of a pain to do this, but if if you made life-size cardboard cutouts of them and put them in a photobooth at a convention, I don’t think I’m the only one who would pay a (small) fee to get my photo taken with them!
Actually, no, I take that back. It would be cuter if Riley were there also striking the Sal pose, but then you run the risk of ending the universe in some sort of cuteness singularity, so I can understand why that can never, ever happen.
The rest of the comic will be one character after another joining them striking the Sal-pose in escalating coolness/cuteness. The comic will end in a few months (it takes that long to include them all) with Sal herself joining the crew.
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D= DOUBLE CUTE REBELLION
OVERLOAD! OVERLOAD! TOO MUCH CUTENESS!!
Fool! I’m immune to cuteness thanks to my close proximity to kittens.
But this isn’t even their final form!!
well played. It seems that I’m going to have to go super saiyan.
That won’t save you.
Nothing can save you
Next stage: Dina borrows the sunglasses perched on Joyce’s head, to perch them on her own. So her diosaur hat can be coolly detached as well.
In my headcanon, Dina’s hat can change expressions to match her mood, and its pupils are cooly off to the side.
is it weird i find Dina …oddly sexy in that last panel?
Justin, let me just warn you here, DINA DOES NOT HAVE A SEXY INDICATOR! If you pursue her, you must do it on her level, and accept that there is a chance she will never be able to understand a level above friend.
CUTEPOCALYPSE
This just in: Nyan Cat just saw this strip and died of cuteness overdose.
D:!
Nyan Cat is DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD?!
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG
IT’S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!
Now I have “Cute Overload” by Parry Gripp stuck in my head. Thanks for that
I want Sal to walk by in the next strip, see these two geeks acting like that, and immediately assume it has become mainstream, and she now has to act different to keep being a rebel.
Next day she shows up in a hoodie dress.
Oh god if Sal becomes a hipster I swear to god I will rip my toenails out one by one.
Nah, hipsters are all about fake rebelling in strictly defined ways. It’s just another way of being a fashion victim.
Sal is about actual rebellion, since she’s genuinely sick of society’s shit. But it’s hard to be a rebel when even The Churchmouse and Yuki Nagato find your behavior socially acceptable.
Tomorrow: Sal wears Jason’s clothes
[YES THE BOWTIE TOO]
Not just clothes like his, or clothes that belong to him, but the actual clothes right off his back. She just walks up, strips him, and walks off with his clothes.
If she does the bow tie will instantly become cool, just like Joyce’s shirt.
Bow ties are already cool. You’re welcome.
Bowties already are cool.
Wait till you see what she can do with a fez.
Nothing can make a bowtie cool.
I had imagined after a quick shag, but okay!
It’s funnier if she walks into his office and is all, “Get nekkid. Now.” And when he complies, in obvious anticipation of what’s about to happen, she just takes his clothes and leaves.
Haha, I want her to take his boxers, too.
–or, wait, he’s all tighty-whiteys, isn’t he
those can go on his head
so anyway
I like you
Glorious.
And his skin.
The Churchmouse is Sal’s twin brother.
>Yuki Nagato
I didn’t realize Dina was that powerful!
Dina is exploding with secret power.
Nope. She’d just revert to her high school uniform.
Quite the opposite would happen, actually. Sal will walk by, not even noticing them, in some completely different, yet somehow still cool, outfit, and both Joyce and Dina will realize that their attempts to be cool have utterly failed, and they must change again to be more like Sal. This will continue through several iterations, may even become a running background gag.
Dina and Joyce are going to be the next blues brothers. I can see it.
More “Soul Sisters.” But, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi better watch out!
I could see Joyce ordering dry white toast, and Dina ordering four fried chickens. They’re no cereal, but every so often you’ve gotta eat some smaller dinosaurs to establish your place in the food chain.
I was thinking Jay and Silent Bob.
DINA DOES IT BETTER!!
Badass Dina!
Best Dina comic yet.
+1 ^
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Well that turned out crap. The [ was supposed to line up with the ^ to form an arrow upwards to support the statement “Best Dina comic yet.”
Try this: ↑
Unicode FTW!
Or the Windows character map.
Erm, it is Unicode regardless of how you generated it
Nope. Still this one:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/return/
Holy crap, the Sal-virus is spreading.
Don’t you mean the S-Virus?
Resident Ev-Sal.
+1 ^_^
Not the T-Virus.
The Squee Virus.
squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
One of the signs of this virus is that it causes excessive sal-ivation.
Just don’t rub sal-t in the wound
never put sal-t in your eyes, it leads to killing danny…well ok, maybe that would justify putting sal-t in your eyes.
Salmonella.
You mean like Salmonella Fitzgerald?
GODDAMMIT WHY DO I STILL REMEMBER THAT CARTOON!?
I can’t ever forget that cartoon. That and the cure for swine flu.
BAM look at that bacon sizzle!
“Look at that bacon sizzle!”
Isn’t that the show that became KND?
Yup, it is.
Well, not so much concept-wise as style-wise.
Now now, don’t be silly.
Salmonella’s a bacterium, not a virus.
Greetings and Salutations!
I really want to see how Patient Zero feels about all of this
“I didn’t expect you to make it this far, not without infection.”
You should animate the last panel so they’re bopping their heads in time together.
They’re like the polar opposite of Jay and Silent Bob
By Clerks 2 Silent Bob was carrying the Bible around, so not exactly polar opposites.
True, they had met God, and not just after a giant doobie.
They met God and Her name is Alanis.
And set it in sync with the Danny Phantom theme song!
(for some reason that’s what I hear)
Joyce’s parents would, of course, forbid Danny Phantom on the grounds it normalizes the occult.
That sounds far too plausible to be read as funny.
…….SHIT I GOT SOME IDEAS
[too lazy to do them]
Awrite, so, headbopping to “What is Love? (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)”
I was starting to feel old when I got that song stuck in my head. I started to fear that no one remembered that.
On the Internet – we ALL remember.
Please so much more of these two!
I am quite amaze on how Dina is quick to analyze the situation and then quickly adapts to the new situation.
Her adaptability makes her perfectly suited for her environment, and is the reason that, like the shark and crocodile, the modern Dina is almost identical to her counterpart of millions of years ago.
You mean It’s Walky! Dina?
Dina has troubles reading facial expressions, not social situations. Those she understands from her dinosaur simulations.
So what you’re saying is, she’s a……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….clever girl
Omg, it pushed the “clever” into oblivion XD
Much like the internet.
Next time put a space after the ellipses.
I’m always amazed by how self-aware she is, yet somehow incredibly lacking in self-awareness.
Well, that’s just fantastic.
I’ll bet it’s annoying for Dina to have to keep the bendy part of that straw hidden.
It depends on how far down it is. It might be easy to hide it between her teeth.
At least Dina acknowledges the futility of trying to be as cool as Sal.
Girl’s got a good head on her shoulders. And a better head on her head.
There can only be one Sal. If two beings of that magnitude of coolness were ever in such close proximity the earth would swing off its axis and hurl right into the sun.
If there’s more than one Sal, we can always go the Highlander route. Have everyone of them decapitate each other until there is only one.
What if, by some freak occurence, none of the immortals survive?
Well, cover it up and say it’s a massacre.
First of all, I like how Dina specifies that Joyce’s attempt is futile, then joins her anyway.
Second of all, that last panel destroyed me with cuteness.
+1 on both counts.
However, I think the hovertext has it wrong. No way would Sal be caught with a boombox in the 21st century! That is not a part of the current cool package. : D
But is it part of the hipster package yet? I keep seeing things like throw pillows and pencil bags with pictures of cassette tapes on them, so I figure boom boxes can’t be far behind if they’re not here already.
Sometimes animals use mimicry as a defense mechanism or to create a symbiotic bond with another species.
We now know the same held true for the creatures of the late Cretaceous.
helpful new information, but I think you’ve been watching to much animal planet.
The Wild Yotomoe, when provoked will retaliate with a powerful defense mechanism. It will imply that the predator is unattractive and insinuate that they are insuficient in their love making as a means to discourage them from further contact.
And respond that the female progenitor of the attacker lacks symmetry and wears military surplus footwear.
For some horrific reason, I read this in a Faz voice.
Horrific reason? Or the BEST reason? Either way, this is the Faz’s natural way.
What is a Faz voice, incidentally?
I imagine it as the voice of this annoying guy from my high school, all “post-puberty but doesn’t sound like it” voice.
As a means of further demoralizing the predator, the wild Yotomoe will often imply that it frequently copulates with the predator’s mother.
in exchange for a trivial amount of goods, such as 5 grams of metal.
The predator will then take a phew moments to process recent accusation, then will preceed to move past recent confrontation with wounded ego and pride being reminded of the food chain.
And then the predator needs to comfort eat. Unfortunately the Yotomoe is often used for this purpose.
Sals. Sals everywhere.
Suddenly, Sal. Thousands of them.
Better or worse than the invasion of the Hoodie Dress?
Way better…if you’re in that sort of thing.
Better for us, worse for Amber.
Sals in Hoodie dresses!
She changes the floppy sleeves to fingerless floppy sleeves.
Well, better than the invasion of the strap-ons.
When everyone is Sal, noone will be.
That last panel is everything I never knew I always wanted.
I didn’t realize how much I needed this in my life until right now
This ^
+1
Yup
Thank you, Willis, for making the last thing i see before going to bed tonight SO ADORABLE!
These two are the fucking best.
OMG SO ADORABLE SQUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
DINA STAHP
Told ya she was a fast learner.
She’s a theoretician.
Clever girl.
Clever, egotistical girl
Amuro! We need to push crashing Axis into the Earth for Summer Slam!
and so spreads the sal
Joyce has had the taste of eraser in her mouth an uncomfortably long time.
Joyce and Dina may disagree on many things, but they do share a love of erasers in their mouth.
Dina’s sucking on a straw.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Shit when did these guys get so cool I can no longer relate to these characters
Don’t worry, just do what they’re doing, and you can pretend you fit in, too!
WE ARE SAL! YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
We Accept you. We accept you. One of us.
So was that the mind-controlling hat or Dina speaking?
The wall.
this is a weird mixture of sad and adorable
Best strip ever. Dina still number 1.
I feel like the Gorillaz song Clint Eastwood would be perfect right now omg
Yes, please!
And the next morning when Amber wakes up, she finds herself surrounded by Sals.
It would be like the Neo vs. Agent Smith-horde fight, but with Amazi-Girl and Sals
That sounds like it can go from “Matrix” to “Matrix Reloaded” very quickly
Well, at least it’s a tad better than my local comic mockbuster of the Matrix…the Mamaktrix.
Better than Amazi-Girl and a shitload of Blaines =(
She can’t fight everybody.
OK, now we just need Riley to come and join them, leaning against the wall the same way, with the same face, but still munching on cereal out of a box.
Then we have achieved maximum cute.
I definitely think we need a lineup of progressively shorter girls all in this pose, diminishing off to an artificially close vanishing point. Yep, that’s what we need.
It would have to be Pocky!
Or… I don’t know if those cereal “bars” would work.
There are those weird cereal ‘straw’ things, that are supposed to flavor milk as you drink it. Maybe one of those.
Those aren’t really cereal, and they’re terrible =p I mean, it adds like a *hint* of chocolate or whatever flavour, yet costs more for a few straws than just a regular bottle of chocolate syrup would!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMZGTHTcv7o
“They see me roarin’
They lovin’
Patrolling trying to catch me being Dina”
MAKE THAT LAST PANEL A PRINT.
+1 Or a wallpaper.
It absolutely needs to be a print and/or poster. Day one sale. Minute one sale even.
It appears my heart has stopped beating from the sheer adorableness of the last panel nice knowing you all
I can imagine Mike walking by, then silently joining them before Sal walks by and joins them, too. Would be the most epic hallway in college history.
Ahahaha! I foresee everyone joining in until Ruth arrives.
Close! Ruth arrived much earlier.
Planking, Tebowing, Twerking, Sal-ing. I don’t get kids these days.
Is Dina drinking poo?
I’m pretty sure it says “POP.”
… Does her shirt feature a cassowary? It looks like her shirt features a cassowary.
I like her shirt, and fear the cassowary (if such it is) because cassowaries are in fact dinosaurs and also FUCKING TERRIFYING.
Cassowaries are dinosaurs in the same sense that all birds are dinosaurs, yes. They are TERRIFYING, though – they even have powerful claws on their feet like Deinonychus.
I have always felt that cassowaries are the most ancient dinosaur-like birds of all. Her shirt makes me immensely happy!!
Well, Palaeognathae are the most basal of living birds! Some argue that that clade diverged during the Cretaceous.
However, within Palaeognathae Tinamiformes (Tinamous) may be more basal than Struthioniformes (Ratites).
Da Best! Nuff said.
Can we get a pin up of Sal, Joyce, and Dina all lined up making the same pose?
Why Dina drinking out of a cup that says “Poo?”
No, it says Poo-Urns.
POP! The cup says POP! exactly as I spelled it. See, I changed back to my “explainer” Gravatar.
Pop Pop?
How is that cup staying aloft?
Friction that is present in Dina’s hand over coming the force of gravity?
nope, obviously Dina is holding it aloft with the power of her MENTAL MIND POWERS! FOR SHE IS MARIK! I MEAN DINA!
Is that a bird on Dina’s shirt.
As stated above probably a Cassowary at a glance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA58sS3x2Oo
Nope! It’s a dinosaur! Says so, right on the shirt.
In all seriousness, it’s based on the current theory that modern birds are surviving descendants of the dinos. Which makes sense, given that birds and bipedal dinos share several bone structures, particularly in the hips and legs.
Yes, the dinosaur clade Saurischia “lizard hipped” are the origin of birds per many many line of fossil evidence, while the clade Ornithischia “bird hipped” all died out. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?
* I know that is indeed how it works (and why), I just find the names funny.
America becomes slightly more awesome when you realize its mascot is a flying dinosaur. Of the Raptor family, in fact.
Sadly, there is no “raptor” family (speaking of birds), the closest is order Falconiformes, but even in the most broad definition that excludes owls (order Strigiformes)(and Falconiformes and Strigiformes are definitely not closely related).
It is also not clear if accipitrids (hawks, eagles, others) truly belong in the same order as Falconidae, or if they are even sister taxons. Some have also argued that new world vultures are unrelated to any definition of Falconiformes. It remains very uncertain.
For the dinosaurs called “raptors” (relatives, but not ancestors, of all birds), there is a single family – Dromaeosauridae. (Clade Maniraptora sounds promising, but includes a lot of things not colloquially called “raptors”, including oddballs like Therizinosaurs and all living birds)
I predict a whole line of socially awkward girls leaning against the wall, forming their own little clique of Rebels against Rebellion or something. Though I’m surprised Dina didn’t liken it to some form of mimicry used by certain animals to avoid predators (such as the phasmid known as the “Walking Stick”). That just seems like something she’d do.
Who says Dina doesn’t understand social interaction?
That is just the total end of cuteness.
Floating cup and all.
Someone should point out to Joyce that she is engaging in cargo cult behavior – acquiring the trappings of Cool in the hopes of becoming it.
Cult? That’s a thing where people play DUngeons and Dragons and kill themselves, right?
JOYCE GET OUT OF THERE NOW!
Too cool 4 skool.
Squee! They’re sooo cute!
Hmm, I wouldn’t have expected this many comments, I would have thought pretty much the whole fanbase would be paralytic with squees.
Please please please, can we have a full size image of panel 4?
Conformity to non-conformity….don’t you just love it?
Can you imagine just geting
up one day and then go out and you see everyone acting and dressing just like you.
probably the only one in the world thinking this, but…
I’m getting a little tired of Sal. *runs away*
No you’re not…I’d like more Danny
Sometimes wishes do come true.
HAAAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Bless you Willis. You’re on a roll this week!
Dina, you are the cutest
See, if the Borg had sent those two, the Federation would have welcomed assimilation.
Please make prints of this strip so I may buy one. It ranks as one of my favorites ever.
A print large enough to cover my ceiling would suffice.
If only Joyce were as observant as Dina, she wouldn’t be . . . . well . . . . so oblivious. Dina seems like she’s lost, but she’s like this hyperobjective observer who sees to the heart of the matter, always, and is never deceived by all the world’s socially convenient fictions.
Anyone got a wallpaper of panel 4 yet? Lol
I gotta say, I think this might be my favourite comic so far in this series.
This is totally unrelated to anything, but does Dina have a Japanese name? For that matter, does she actually speak it?
“Di” isn’t really a Japanese phonetic [the closest is “chi”], so if anything she would have an English-naturalized name, like how “Julie” has been reappropriated as “Juri”…
Saruyama could definitely be, though–if written as 申山, it means “monkey mountain” [wait what]
I was going to suggest that maybe she has a separate Japanese name other than Dina (I have a separate Chinese name that I basically never use, for example), but then I remembered that her parents are tagged with plausible actual Japanese names, so they probably just gave her a Western name.
Nah, why bother with this generation. Maybe if they were fifteen years older, they might have done the dual-name thing.
[knows a Korean dude like that and jokingly calls him “hand-person” as that’s what his name would mean if read as Japanese]
Unrelated to the unrelated thing: Carla is Dutch?? [going by “Rutten”]
That’s common among Chinese, but Japanese people don’t really do that (the only semi-exception is performers with Westernized stage names).
Dina’s parents clearly gave her a Western first name. There’s really no explanation for “Sarazu”, though. I don’t think there’s a way to make that a surname in Japanese.
Dina, I frikking love you….
I knew the straw suggestion would show up somewhere. Well played, Dina.
Wish I could tell Joyce: Assimilation is futile, you will be resisted.
Oh I c wut I did thar…
A boombox can change the world…
Especially if it’s Blaster.
This was a cautionary tale: A boombox is not a toy.
Dammit Willis, I can’t handle this much adorable in one strip!
So cuuuuuute!
This is my new favorite strip. It is THE BEST. It’s like my three favorite characters in one strip, except Sal isn’t really there (it is only her fan club) and Amber is also not in it. Also Dorothy. Also Sarah. Actually really everyone is my favorite character but this is still my favorite strip. I’m trying to give a compliment, I don’t know if it’s working.
*cuteness intensifies*
Oh Dina
I love that she knows it’s futile. No matter how hard you try to act like the others, they can always tell you’re not one of them.
ugh it’s so cute and i’m on no sleep thanks to international travel i cannot handle this strip
OMG Dina is adorable.
Girl gang.
My guess is some killjoy will probably appear and tell them they look stupid. Most likely Mary.
This is my favourite game!
I wonder who else will join in next.
In a perfect world, it would be Howard. In the polar opposite of a perfect world, it would be Faz.
With an attitude like that you’ll never assimilate.
Oh my gosh, this is insanely cute.
Homework’s wack! / And so are rules! / Tuckin’ in your shirt’s for fools!
DINA IS BEST REBEL!!!
Soon they will have rap-beef about evolution. Aint gonna be pretty. Yo.
Is it just me, or is Dina better at looking cool than Joyce is?
It’s because she _is_ cooler. Joyce is malleable in her craving for acceptance (seeking to exchange one set of imposed behavioral expectations for another) while Dina is, was and (one hopes) always shall be herself.
I think I’m developing a crush on Joyce!
So cute! Really enjoying Joyce’s “Salvation”.
Willis you’ve drawn your best comic. I hope you’re resigned to being downhill from this moment on.
Willis, it would probably be too much of a pain to do this, but if if you made life-size cardboard cutouts of them and put them in a photobooth at a convention, I don’t think I’m the only one who would pay a (small) fee to get my photo taken with them!
I too would do this!
I want a Badass Joyce and Dina wallpaper now.
HA! theres your next book title and cover right there!
Joyce starts yelling FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCKFUCK! for hours and Dina remains completely silent.
Fudge, fudge, fudgedi-fudge
I would pay for a poster of that last frame
Okay, that’s it. Dumbing of Age is done. It will never get any cuter than that last panel there.
Actually, no, I take that back. It would be cuter if Riley were there also striking the Sal pose, but then you run the risk of ending the universe in some sort of cuteness singularity, so I can understand why that can never, ever happen.
All this cuteness gave me the smile I needed this morning!
Yes, not only do they need to add a boombox, but then someone needs to make an animated gif of them bobbing their heads to the music.
I’m not sure if this will make Joyce and Dina cooler or cause Sal to become lamer.
Blasphemy!
I swear if this thing is ever voiced you need Hynden Walch performing Dina as essentially Starfire.
The rest of the comic will be one character after another joining them striking the Sal-pose in escalating coolness/cuteness. The comic will end in a few months (it takes that long to include them all) with Sal herself joining the crew.
…Please, please, could we have a wallpaper with the entire cast being cool like this?
This is utterly the most adorable thing I have seen this month!!!
How is her drink not spilling?
Because of SCIENCE!
This is my favorite DoA panel to date!
Dina is a great character.
That’s adorable.
Welp, Willis might as well just stop now. He’s never gonna make a strip better than this.
(Of course he’s going to prove me WRONG)
Dawwww
She has an apprentice now.
*pulp fiction music is playing right now*
I love how she specified that it was a FUTILE attempt at assimilation.
Dina is very subtle in her burns.
Dina just states the truth as she perceives it. And boy is she perceptive!
Joyce and Dina: Bad bongoes.
I love how well Dina understands what she really doesn’t understand.
NEW GRAVATARS INCOMING O_O
*checks comment threads* … wait… no new gravs? REALLY? I am disappoint.
(I would, but I have no idea how to get into my gravatar settings any more)
I think Dina wins there.
I would imagine it’s a game Dina has played several times before.
So which one is Jay and which one is Silent Bob?
Haha!!
Thinking back, I think the last panel is one of the best ones Willis ever drew. (Is that verb tense okay?)