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Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
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Explosm
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Hemlock
Josceline Fenton
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Erli, Kromi
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Karolina 'Kajotko' Jankiewicz
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This is definitely Mission Ultra-Success, at least for the readers
Also even if Dina doesn’t think to mention ‘first base’, her report is gonna include ‘They verified that his room was empty and they entered” type of thing.
In fact. given that Raidah is clearly pressing the Down button in the first panel, and they’re presumably already on the ground floor, my basement theory actually may be correct…
I remember the 90s. The flannel, the Liefeld, the Macarena. The thankfully short-lived and oddly specific trend of turning old sitcoms into movies after Addams Family didn’t suck.
Some days I remember the Pogs. Those are the bad days.
((that might be harsh… basically, my ELDERS played with them and they were the hippest new thing since the wooden-hoop-and-stick and now it sure costs more to entertain a child than to entertain the child’s parent))
Not to further your feelings of behind-ness, but pogs being plural, it would go “nés milk caps”. The e in née is to indicate the subject is female. Pog sounds like it would be masculine. And obviously the s is for the plural.
(sorry, I like to correct the usage of French words in Enlglish, it’s near compulsive.)
I already indulged my nostalgia for the 60s-80s in the last few years and with a few exceptions, it often failed to live to expectations, so I don’t bother with nostalgia too much anymore.
To be fair, for about six months you couldn’t get away from the damn things, although I think it was less about the kids having this mania for them and more about companies going, “Hey! There’s a new craze! Quick, EVERYBODY ON BOARD!! We’ll make millions!!1!” (Spoiler alert: they didn’t.)
They were really popular at my school for a while. We would always play with them in the stairs and get yelled at by the teachers. It was super fun. But then again, I was eleven at the time, and it was a fun year for me, so nostalgia may be clouding my judgment. XD
Coming soon to this comic, the big reveal that Dina is actually a student of Lady Shiva. Unfortunately for Dina no one bothered to tell her that Shiva is training her to be an assassin.
I would read the hell out of that. Shiva picks her up for her obvious aptitude for stealth, and Dina goes along but doesn’t really know what the point is, she thinks she’s getting advice on being more assertive.
I mean
becky
so maybe this will start dina realizing she’s (insert some sexual preference that includes men and women here)… and Dina x Becky can go on!
To me, it’s more likely that Dina would arrive at an ‘insufficient data’ conclusion and decide that she must engage in more human interaction to answer these questions for herself.
Whiny mopey guys who want to be the “nice guy” are the worst, and before you say Batman, there are plenty of Batman comics not written by Frank Miller where he’s actually very personable as Bruce Wayne.
The Green Arrow I know is a cheerful guy with a retro bears who uses playful words. He would never whine or mope, but sometimes he makes fun of other rich people in a comedic way. Anyone else is not Green Arrow.
And the nice guys I know are nice guys. I don’t understand why some fans of this comic strip use the word “nice” to mean “not nice”. Is this Bizarro World?
Let me see, touching the arm is first base. Patting on the head is passing GO. Licking the knees is a king me, and looking at your lover’s privates through a kaleidoscope is match point.
I moved into a place, kept getting bills from them for the previous tenant. Kept writing “Not at this address” on them; kept getting them. Finally I wrote them a note on one: “[Name] doesn’t live here anymore. She hasn’t lived here for a year and a half. I don’t know her or have a forwarding address to her. Surely you got some kind of ID like a drivers’ license for her; use that to find out her new address and leave me alone!”
Got another one. Curious, I opened it. Inside was a letter: “Dear [Name], it has come to our attention that you have moved. Please give us your new address as soon as possible…”
After hearing a rumor about a White Nationalist meetings on my campus, I’ve considered looking into confirming the rumor and visiting the meeting, to gain and spread understanding.
But then I remembered that there are hundred acres of underpopulated forest and plenty of rivers and bays in the county and decided
Live and let live!”
Not sure which food-related mental image is worse. The creepy veggies & fruits guy from John Oliver’s segment on food, or what you just suggested. *shudders*
There was an honest to god pizza place in Columbus that sold Crunchberry Pizza. This was around the time you could get those boxes of nothing but Crunchberries.
Didn’t they recently revive All Crunchberries? I know around the end of Shortpacked! I bought a box of All Crunchberries and a box of regular Captain Crunch and mixed them together myself.
She wants to sound serious. Nobody can question her unvoiced thoughts, she most likely rationalizes, so it makes sense. It’s a clue into her character. She perhaps overcompensates for her otherwise overwhelming social issues. Perhaps not. Only my thought, but the clue’s definitely there.
huh.. by dina standards, taking someone home would be much more than a home run probably… it would probably be like on par with going home after winning the entire baseball game….. that’s a bit more obtuse but it makes sense in another way i could dig it
It would good (for the fans, not Sarah) if after Dina reports back to her, she discovers that all the information is useless due to Dina not being able to know what is going on at any given time.
What I see happening maybe is her telling Sarah she saw them going to second base – sitcom humour style – and Sarah having quite a reaction to that news. Then again, maybe not. Dina is pretty aware that her interpretation of social situations and cues is not the most accurate, so actually she’d probably report the facts and then ask about the first / second base thing.
The real point here is that the Questioning Individuals group’s bake sale was a success and now they have the budget to afford that snazy pack of rainbow Sharpies.
Why do you hate Green Arrow? I thought you’d like him – he’s a preachy white Liberal-Left Progressive before the Internet made ‘preachy white Liberal-Left Progressive’ into a ubiquitous presence.
That episode has Supergirl punching a giant flaming nuclear monster in the face and had Captain Atom explode. But yeah, it was kinda boring. There’s a reason GA always gets paired with much more interesting characters.
Isn’t that all that William Tell and Robin Hood did, or am I forgetting something? Not that I care that much: I haven’t read/seen Green Arrow since I was a kid and was no big fan than, but I am curious.
How dare you! William Tell had a crossbow! With quarrels! None of that silly bow business! *fake outrage caused by my helvetic heritage*
But to your point, yes, sure, they used arrows and quarrells, which nowadays seem lame to a lot of people (I still say, they’re awesome), but the difference with Green Arrow is that he is using that kind of weapon in a world of much more advanced technology and amazing powers and shit and he’s just there with some antiquated weapon. Is what I think arrow-haters have against Green Arrow. And Hawkeye. Etc.
I like Hawkeye. Green Arrow makes me want to punch him in the face.
Granted, the only exposure I have to either of those chars is the Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes/Avengers Assemble cartoons and the Justice League cartoon from like the 90s/early 2000s, respectively, so who knows.
He shoots arrows and wears stylin’ facial hair. That’s why he’s cooler than Hawkeye. You’ve got to respect the chutzpah of anyone who wears facial hair like that in public. If not necessarily the intelligence of someone who wears it in both their costumed and civilian identities.
Grant Morrison’s JLA had the most amazing explanation for that: Turns out Star City is filled with loudmouth blonde guys with Van Dykes.
Also people who think Green Arrow is just automatically terrible need to read Mike Grell’s run and Kevin Smith’s run. Quiver is the only good resurrection of an old hero to replace his successor.
GA has a secret identity because nobody cares who he is. They had a whole discussion about how Ollie and Roy were terrible about the whole secret identity thing and how obvious it was who they are. Then you toss Connor Hawke’s unique colourings intot hat mix and they’re not fooling anyone.
A vest is indeed still a vest when you don’t wear a shirt under it
and @sps48 by your standards, what would that piece of fabric be then if not a skirt? (and like those might not even be pants but tights or leggings or really high socks, whatever)
Before the Internet my parents gave me a book about puberty and it talked about light petting and heavy petting; I thought that light petting was like gently patting and stroking somebody on the shoulders, and heavy petting was the same thing but more forcefully. True Story
Did you not have animals as a child? No friends with dogs? Petting is what it sounds like. There’s also necking (slight miss on location sometimes, but right basic region). Intercourse is another thing.
Do TV shows count? I remember hearing “heavy petting” in an early Grey’s Anatomy season once. Though that might be because of the ridiculously prudish language they have to use sometimes because omg think of the kids. XD
What do these terms mean, then? I believe I’ve encountered the phrase “heavy petting” once or twice on the internet. Is it a British phrase? I’ve learned that when I encounter something I’ve never heard before on the internet, it’s usually British or southern.
As a non-English native speaker I had never understood these first base/who’s on first jokes until I finally saw the sketch this year and now I FINALLY UNDERSTAND THIS REFERENCE. I feel like Captain America w/ the Flying Monkeys xD
Aaah my cheeks also hurt! So badly! >< Thanks for the link! That was hilarious. I should probably invest some time into watching more of their sketches. :3
Yeah it’s the Abbott and Costello thing that Rycan linked. A totally missed cultural reference for most of my life. Not least because where I’m from, baseball is not a ~thing.
Baseball is not a thing in most of the world. XD I feel you, English isn’t my first language either and I didn’t grow up in the US so there is a lot of pop culture references I don’t get. Some I don’t even know are references, I just assume it’s a silly thing people say or do. ><"
saki, your comment attributes too much significance to this world that you write of. Few American’s pay enough attention to the rest of the world to see the US in relation to it: the world doesn’t even register with them. That’s what power imbalance does. On the other hand, I was working in Germany during the Los Angeles Olympics. German reporters in LA were bongoing about how American-centric American coverage was. Fair enough. But I heard about every German gold medal ad infinitum and not much else. 31 years later I can still hear the announcers shouting “Dr Reiner Klimke und Ahleric” over and over and over.
The World Series has one non-American team, the Toronto Blue Jays. It did have two, but the Montreal Expos moved to DC. “The US plus two Canadian cities” isn’t even ‘the Americas”.
I do find there was a Baseball World Cup, now a Baseball Classic, which actually was international, and mostly won by Cuba. Never heard of it before.
Waitaminit. Ethan is questioning? WTF, Ethan, you’re GAY and so deep in the back of the closet that you had to clarify that you’re going “outside” lest anyone think you’ve the balls to come out.
These meetings are also for people who just want to start slowly accepting their feelings. Only accepting questioning people wouldn’t be too inclusive.
Would it be wrong, if hypothetically, I went to this meeting just to get free pizza. I mean I’m pretty sure I’m straight, except that time I dreamed of that werewolf guy from that movie-whose-name-will-not-be-said.
I’m not sure the meeting would be shown because this is a Dina-centric storyline and right now she’s busy being an awesome sneaky ninja following Jacob and Raidah. She just happened to be next to that sign. Maybe we could see it in the next storyline.
I think Willis said this storyline will take the entire day IIRC, so unless Dina goes into that room, we will only know about what went on and who was there etc from people talking about it after.
Ooh, pizza and queer fun! Angst maybe too. Oh gosh, Mike needs to be there “for the pizza” and be all quiet the whole time everyone thinks he’s finally gonna say he’s gay but crickets from him the whole time… oh, and also he needs to blush at least once. Like making a sailor blush. Oh gosh oh gosh I’m so frickin excited no matter how this goes man, no matter anything.
Well not really, because I’m referring to the element of society these days that acts “cool” to hide their insecurities and whatnot. They tease each other with no homo and yes homo so much that it means next to nothing until undeniable evidence stares you in the face.
I’m not exactly being serious. Need deceives. What Willis wants, he shall have. I just thought it might be entertaining… but then again on second thought the Jerkface wouldn’t do well for Ethan’s peace of mind. So… precious baby status achieved. Joyce ==> Initiate Defensive Word Fu.
I like the original Batman. Strong, a loner, only committed to doing what he thought was right: his parents death was his reason but not his entire life. The Dark Knight.
Then along came whinny Batman. I called him Batmoan.
Then the tv series …omg.
Unfortunately, looks like whinney Batman is here to stay.
Green lantern okay, just not all that exciting, imo.
Yes, Petting is a grandma word.
Light petting, arm around the shoulder in the movie, ‘stealing a kiss.
Heavy petting, getting an article of clothes off in a drive-in or back seat.
First base, kiss. Second base, hand inside the clothing. Third base: sex.
At least that was the way my grandma/mom referred to intimacy. My mother tried to get a bit more real when she gave me ‘the talk’.
No, sex was the “home run”. First was kissing, second was hand inside the clothing but on top of the underwear, alternate was hand on bare boob, third was inside the underwear or inside panties. And there was a lot of room on the baseline between third and home.
The always-wearing-lots-of-clothes thing is a really common tactic for sexual assault survivors. There’s something comforting about being surrounded by things that you chose.
Lots of people in this strip dress in heavy clothes. Walky and Danny almost always wear hoodies, several female characters have worn tights or leggings under shorts and skirts, and that time Joyce wore a dress she had shorts under it. Nothing about the clothes today is at all unusual.
YES! Someone on the Internet used the correct spelling of “cue”.
Sorry, that is a trigger for me. I see it spelled “que” most of the time, which is “what” in Spanish. And since I used to be literate in Spanish I keep reading it as “what the ‘whatever'”.
Aargh, I hear you there. I don’t see “cue” misused that often (although I think I’ve seen it occasionally instead of “queue;” but “sike” instead of “psyche” (as in, “Watch me psyche him out;” it’s short for “use psychology to throw him off,” get it right, grr!) and “you have peaked/peeked my interest” instead of “piqued” drive me CRAZY.
Something tells me that Dina is going to learn more about the human condition that she ever bargained for! Most of all, I think that Joyce is going to teach her the strange places that love can take you.
You know, from a purely Psychological standpoint, Dina could very well be gay. She has clearly retreated in-word and uses dinosaurs as a defense mechanism, which would be protecting herself. She also doesn’t want to be misunderstood and always tries to be clear because of that. This makes her seem weird but because she doesn’t know how to relate to “normal” people.
Well since sexuality remains constant from the Walkyverse, we know that Dina will have some interest in guys. (She dated Walky and Mike for a time there). But there’s no reason she can’t be interested in girls too here. (And in her own words, she’s uncertain)
I’m not sure what her interest in dinos has to do with that though. I thought she already explained to Sarah why she’s a big fan of learning about dinos. I would believe what she said then.
I don’t think Dina can likes both boys and girls, because is there even a word for that?
Also, the “Bisexuality Awareness Day” thing that Willis posted in Tumblr (I think?) had only Danny, Billie, and Ruth in it. Three bisexuals in one comic is already straining credibility, and it’s not even like bisexuality is real anyway!*
I think a lot of those traits can be more attributed to being on the autism spectrum. Special interests, difficulty understanding social cues, being prone to overstimulation and sensory overload…these are all hallmarks of the autism spectrum. People on the spectrum can have a hard time communicating as well. But you can obviously be queer and on the spectrum. She did kiss Becky after all.
The problem will be if Dina reports back with her own interpretation of her observations. As we see here, her lack of socialisation means that her interpretation of the raw data might not be what Sarah would have thought if she’d seen it.
Nobody here is talking about the alt-text in a way that suggests they get the reference, so I’ll just throw it out there for all the David Willis readers that started with Dumbing of Age and the older fans who are unaware: twice before Willis hinted major spoilers way in advance by having a character stand next to an arrow and text in the background. It used to be a thing to obsess over ever arrow that appeared in any of his comics; the alt-text is just poking fun at that, and probably asserting that there’s no deeper meaning to the arrow than the obvious one, as this is a way, way more obvious usage of an arrow than the other two spoiler hints used. This is pretty obscure even among the older fans, but I think Willis just wanted to nip the bud before he created another irritating comments meme.
(No I will not tell you what the spoilers were. You might go back and read those comics someday.)
You know, when I read the alt text, I vaguely felt like there was something I should be remembering… Thank you for explaining that reference. :3
Aaand now I really wish I had a photographic memory allowing me to remember exactly which strips / pages these arrows were in. ><
A pizzle is a penis. Once it (perhaps) meant the penis of a non-human mammal, but it is also used of men’s penes now. It may also refer to a baton or heavy whip consisting of a tanned or cured penis (usually that of a bull or stallion).
A pizzling is a beating delivered with a pizzle, by extension any severe beating, or metaphorically a defeat by a notably large marginal at any game or sport.
I’m not saying that he is socially awkward to the level of… basically anyone else in the cast, but this little bump in his social smoothiness is nothing weird for him.
Well, there’s a difference between going out as in leaving to actually do an activity, and just running out for a minute to borrow some notes or something.
Joyce wants to be friends with everyone, even her friend’s nemesis who was part of an ugly scene at her party yesterday. That’s because Joyce is awesome.
I liked the old Green Arrow – he had an interesting dynamic with Hal Jordan, even if I disagreed with pretty much everything they said and did in their join adventures.
New 52 Green Arrow is just crap – unfortunately, I have to keep buying the comic because here it’s the one that also has the Birds of Prey.
New 52 GA is the same GA as the show, and they both should die horrible, horrible deaths so we can get characters and plots (ahah, as if that show had anything resembling plot) that are actually interesting. The only one higher in my kill list is Rohypnol-Gi, er, Starfire.
For people in real life, yes. For a character, absolutely not – boring is the absolutely worst thing you can be as a character, because if you’re boring, why should anyone waste their time reading the comic/watching the show?
Absolutely. You are less invested in a character that makes you think “Man, I don’t care what happens to him” than one who makes you think “Man, I hope someone punches him in the face.”
That’s why Malaya is a better character than Danny. *runs away*
That’s why making Danny bi was the smartest idea ever. Before, he was just dealing with other people’s issues, helping Sal with math, helping Amber with all her issues. It’s easier to root for him now because he’s being treated as a character with issues and problems that don’t involve other people’s issues. Cause let’s face it, before Danny was only important when one of the girls had an issue, now I care about his issues.
Same here. I only cared about in Danny insofar as I was interested in Amber and Amazigirl, but ever since that scene where he pictured kissing Ethan, whenver he appears in a strip I’m all “Oh yay, it’s Danny, let’s see how he’s dealing with his bi-ness!”. :3
BTW, Willis, completely apropos of nothing – may not want to visit Scary-Go-Round today. Just saying, might get offended. Allison’s messing with the bongo filter, a bit. http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20150721
are you really going to start linking me comic strips that use a word just because you think i’d be offended, do you not at all understand why it was actually blocked that one day, or are you just being an asshole
Dunno, Dina will still be around and still be awesome, and now that we have a hint of what her inner monologue sounds like we will have the best head canon for her scenes in the future.
I do SO hope she suggests people scientifically testing their sexual orientation through repeated experiments. That would make things quiet and awkward, and Dina could feel at home in such an atmosphere.
Dina’s powers of invisibility seem to be failing. This could lead to a very awkward conversation — unless, of course, w find out in the next panel that Ethan and Joyce are looking at something completely different in that direction, and they walk right past her. I wouldn’t rule that out entirely, but I’d say the odds are, she’s been spotted.
Hah, love the choice of words in the third panel. Ethan couldn’t leave it that he’s headed *out.* He had to be clear that he’s headed *outside,* even though he’s not, because the meeting seems to be right there in the building.
Willis captured the anxiety in Ethan’s face really well in the fourth panel. I hope he doesn’t back out now, because this is a step he needs to take.
I think her invisibility powers only work on people who don’t know her. And I actually think that Dina being there makes it likelier that Ethan will stick around. She spent half an evening hiding under his sweatshirt and he saw her kiss Becky. For lack of other words: Dina is completely non-threatening to Ethan.
Now, if Danny shows up things will get _really_ interesting.
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This is definitely Mission Ultra-Success, at least for the readers
Also even if Dina doesn’t think to mention ‘first base’, her report is gonna include ‘They verified that his room was empty and they entered” type of thing.
We don’t know they entered the room. All we know is they entered the elevator. They could be going to the basement for all we know…
In fact. given that Raidah is clearly pressing the Down button in the first panel, and they’re presumably already on the ground floor, my basement theory actually may be correct…
If you can’t make it to first base, at least try to get to first basement.
That sounds all kinds of dangerous and creepy. Like, Gotham’s Ogre creepy.
Someone noticed her. … Where’s the door?
Walking the dinosaur.
We never got on the floor though.
Acka Lacka Boom!
Walking the Dinosaur: Best new euphemism for Hiking the Apalachian Trail!
I think there is a cooldown to her teleportation power. She just used it to hide from J & R there.
This is just magical.
*insert Dina as your favorite MLP mane 6 here*
According to the Brady Bunch movie, it’s Third Base.
why do you know that
why do I know that
I remember the 90s. The flannel, the Liefeld, the Macarena. The thankfully short-lived and oddly specific trend of turning old sitcoms into movies after Addams Family didn’t suck.
Some days I remember the Pogs. Those are the bad days.
I’m so glad I seldom bothered with TV until Netflix.
Pogs and the Macarena are the only two things out of your list that I remember.
“Remember ALF? He’s back…in Pog form!”
LIEFELLLLLLLLD!
I want royalties!
He’s such a cheerful fellow, old Rob, completely impervious to the taunts hurled his way on an hourly basis.
He’s terrible; but he also always finishes the work on time and is easy to work with. Which is why he’s still employed, even though he’s terrible.
Temperamental divas who won’t take criticism, take note: you are why we still have Leifeld.
Although he does seem nice enough.
I used to have a set of POGs with the airbrushed art from the sleeves of the Universal Monster Movies VHS tapes. Oh, nostalgia.
What the hell are Pog- no wait not those anything but those. Its just jacks or marbles but not as fun and they don’t last.
God why have thou forsaken us.
pogs (née “milk caps) were “fun” when they were a free toy for poor kids (you know, before iDevices killed explorative creativity)
((that might be harsh… basically, my ELDERS played with them and they were the hippest new thing since the wooden-hoop-and-stick and now it sure costs more to entertain a child than to entertain the child’s parent))
(((costs more to entertain a child than to EDUCATE the child’s parent)))
((((I’m-a quit now while I’m behind))))
Not to further your feelings of behind-ness, but pogs being plural, it would go “nés milk caps”. The e in née is to indicate the subject is female. Pog sounds like it would be masculine. And obviously the s is for the plural.
(sorry, I like to correct the usage of French words in Enlglish, it’s near compulsive.)
I already indulged my nostalgia for the 60s-80s in the last few years and with a few exceptions, it often failed to live to expectations, so I don’t bother with nostalgia too much anymore.
I miss nostalgia …
Nooo not the pogs!!!! Never got why it caught on. No wait… it didn’t.
To be fair, for about six months you couldn’t get away from the damn things, although I think it was less about the kids having this mania for them and more about companies going, “Hey! There’s a new craze! Quick, EVERYBODY ON BOARD!! We’ll make millions!!1!” (Spoiler alert: they didn’t.)
They were really popular at my school for a while. We would always play with them in the stairs and get yelled at by the teachers. It was super fun. But then again, I was eleven at the time, and it was a fun year for me, so nostalgia may be clouding my judgment. XD
Dina would probably get along fine with Green Arrow. Or atleast the TV show version.
Or the version from Quiver. Both are stuck in the past.
Of course, Ollie was about a decade behind, and Dina is about 65 million years, but why split hairs?
Coming soon to this comic, the big reveal that Dina is actually a student of Lady Shiva. Unfortunately for Dina no one bothered to tell her that Shiva is training her to be an assassin.
I would read the hell out of that. Shiva picks her up for her obvious aptitude for stealth, and Dina goes along but doesn’t really know what the point is, she thinks she’s getting advice on being more assertive.
Internet. Internet, please, make this happen.
I think this is the new “Matchmaker, Matchmaker, make me a match!”
I could see shipping her with Thea.
I’m assuming not from “Girls With Slingshots”? o.O
No from the TV show Arrow
Hijinks ensue.
“I didn’t know you were questioning, Joyce?”
Dina questions things all the time! It’s just the questions are usually about paleontology.
Questioning assumptions is just good scientific practice.
with repeated experimentation, of course
I mean
becky
so maybe this will start dina realizing she’s (insert some sexual preference that includes men and women here)… and Dina x Becky can go on!
To me, it’s more likely that Dina would arrive at an ‘insufficient data’ conclusion and decide that she must engage in more human interaction to answer these questions for herself.
Appropriate last panel is appropriate.
TIME TO LEARN ABOUT OURSELVES CHILDREN
What did the Green Arrow ever do to you Willis?
Maybe it did something bad to a character he liked perhaps.
*snerk*
Wait…Did Green Arrow kill Batman?
I would check THAT episode out if that happened.
Is Willis a Prometheus fan?
Yeah he slept with Superman’s girlfriend.
Was he THAT bad in bed?
Alternative interpretation: perverse sexual lust.
Yeah Willis; Green Arrow is a great guy. Whiny/mopey, but generally a nice guy.
Whiny mopey guys who want to be the “nice guy” are the worst, and before you say Batman, there are plenty of Batman comics not written by Frank Miller where he’s actually very personable as Bruce Wayne.
Yeah, but Bruce is the mask. That makes Batman a Nice Guy, in that he says what he needs to to get what he wants.
The Green Arrow I know is a cheerful guy with a retro bears who uses playful words. He would never whine or mope, but sometimes he makes fun of other rich people in a comedic way. Anyone else is not Green Arrow.
And the nice guys I know are nice guys. I don’t understand why some fans of this comic strip use the word “nice” to mean “not nice”. Is this Bizarro World?
He stole Travis Morgan’s beard.
Isn’t Green Arrow the one who drove his teen sidekick to drug addiction?
Wow, somehow the Dina-centric storyline got even more interesting!
Let me see, touching the arm is first base. Patting on the head is passing GO. Licking the knees is a king me, and looking at your lover’s privates through a kaleidoscope is match point.
Joining the Columbia Record Club together is “Jumanji”.
I’m not ready for that kind of commitment!
But, what about Nathaniel and Superfly? WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!
OH MY GOD The Columbia Record Club.
I moved into a place, kept getting bills from them for the previous tenant. Kept writing “Not at this address” on them; kept getting them. Finally I wrote them a note on one: “[Name] doesn’t live here anymore. She hasn’t lived here for a year and a half. I don’t know her or have a forwarding address to her. Surely you got some kind of ID like a drivers’ license for her; use that to find out her new address and leave me alone!”
Got another one. Curious, I opened it. Inside was a letter: “Dear [Name], it has come to our attention that you have moved. Please give us your new address as soon as possible…”
Yeah, I just out threw the rest they sent.
And a kronk… is .
this guy.
I would question myself for free pizza.
When I was in college, people would go to any old meeting if there was pizza.
Some things transcend generations. Even as many as a Time Lord may have seen. This is one of those things.
Years after college, people will go to meetings if there is pizza.
I think that’s part of the point of the pizza, if you want you can lie and say you’re just there for the free pizza.
Neo Nazi meeting at 7 in Rm 211. Free pizza!
Some folks would go for free pizza. Some would go to punch neo-Nazis. Sounds like a good time.
After hearing a rumor about a White Nationalist meetings on my campus, I’ve considered looking into confirming the rumor and visiting the meeting, to gain and spread understanding.
But then I remembered that there are hundred acres of underpopulated forest and plenty of rivers and bays in the county and decided
Live and let live!”
Questioning and pizza makes perfect sense, you need to question if you are pan or crispy, meat-lovers or seafood.
Cheese or pesto, or go home.
Seafood on a pizza! Blasphemy, sir, blasphemy!
Hrm…
Blasphemy.
Blasphemer.
Blas-femur.
Blast Femur! Yes, that is the appropriate punishment!!
With or without stuffed crust.
Or choose between brick oven or modern conveyor belts oven.
Pineapples or not
Ooooooh extra BACON! of course.
THEY HAVE A PIZZA NOW WITH A CRUST WRAPPED IN THREE FEET OF BACON.
That seems both disgusting and delicious.
I’m sure it’s common campus knowledge that you can have cereal for breakfast, or you can have pizza for breakfast, but you can’t have BOTH.
If I can have cookie cereal, why can’t I have pizza cereal?
That… sounds disgusting.
The pizza cereal, or the cookie cereal? Because surely you’ve heard of Cookie Crisp.
I’m sorry, I mean CooOOOOookie Crisp.
The pizza cereal. The thought of pizza floating in a bowl of milk is… blech.
Pizza itself in milk? Blech. Pizza crust in milk? …Eh, I’ve seen worse.
Unless it’s a stuffed crust pizza. Dunking that in milk is downright blasphemy.
Why would you put it in milk?
Because cereal.
Cereal+milk=soggies.
For a limited time only the pizza cereal comes with Italian Sausage bits!
Not sure which food-related mental image is worse. The creepy veggies & fruits guy from John Oliver’s segment on food, or what you just suggested. *shudders*
The vegetable fruits guy will be returning in my nightmares tonight
Sorry.
Yep, right up there with bacon soda is pizza cereal. They’re high on the list of two foods that are delicious that should never mate.
What about pizza topped with cereal?
Surprisingly tasty.
Please don’t ask me how I know.
There was an honest to god pizza place in Columbus that sold Crunchberry Pizza. This was around the time you could get those boxes of nothing but Crunchberries.
I bought the All Crunchberries a few times.
I miss them.
Sometimes, I wonder where the Peanut Butter Crunch went.
Didn’t they recently revive All Crunchberries? I know around the end of Shortpacked! I bought a box of All Crunchberries and a box of regular Captain Crunch and mixed them together myself.
Not at my grocery store. I may have to look further afield.
Deep fry that combo! NOW!
Yeah, I don’t think a pizza slice in Cocoa Puffs would be too appetizing.
its okay, the meeting starts at 1 so its lunch time ^^
Yeah but Dina just had cereal for lunch like 10 minutes ago in-comic time.
He can’t turn back now… there’s free pizza.
Did anyone else notice that Dina is thinking in abbreviations?
I’m sure she’d make an effort to clarify for our benefit if she was aware we could read her thoughts.
She wants to sound serious. Nobody can question her unvoiced thoughts, she most likely rationalizes, so it makes sense. It’s a clue into her character. She perhaps overcompensates for her otherwise overwhelming social issues. Perhaps not. Only my thought, but the clue’s definitely there.
The headline here is the free pizza being served.
SIKE it’s actually FREE PIZZAZZ
Oh sweet. That’s an upgrade.
Well free Pizzazz is nice enough, but without the rest of the Misfits you’ll never complete the whole group!
You can keep the Pizzazz, but I’ll take some free Stormer if you have any.
Pizzazz is worth nothing without Jazz Hands to accompany it though.
BYOJH
I am always prepared for Jazz Hands.
MY JAZZ HANDS ARE READY
Face in the last panel is kind of a first…and I love it.
I suspect Dina’s questions may be more basic than some other people’s questions.
That she was kissing girls last night notwithstanding.
A girl not girls.
I think Becky counts as a good two or three lesbians.
How is she multiple people? I missed something, didn’t I?
Her Kinsey rating is 3 or 4 times that of a Non-Becky Lesbian.
Dorothy once asked her what her number is on the Kinsey scale and Becky said, “24. 25.” which is well off the scale, ergo 2-3 lesbians.
Bad math. Since the Kinsey scale goes to 6, Becky being “24, 25” would make her a minimum of 4 lesbians.
Girls in college kissing each other?! :O
HOW CAN THIS BE!?!
“Outside.” Good cover, Ethan. You’re ready for espionage for sure.
On a separate note, I have gotten like halfway to first base by Dina’s standards this year! Go me!
By Dina’s standards I’ve been to 35th base.
huh.. by dina standards, taking someone home would be much more than a home run probably… it would probably be like on par with going home after winning the entire baseball game….. that’s a bit more obtuse but it makes sense in another way i could dig it
It would good (for the fans, not Sarah) if after Dina reports back to her, she discovers that all the information is useless due to Dina not being able to know what is going on at any given time.
That is fun and I hope it happens. IIRC, the last Dina-report had sharks.
What I see happening maybe is her telling Sarah she saw them going to second base – sitcom humour style – and Sarah having quite a reaction to that news. Then again, maybe not. Dina is pretty aware that her interpretation of social situations and cues is not the most accurate, so actually she’d probably report the facts and then ask about the first / second base thing.
What intel does she even expect?
The real point here is that the Questioning Individuals group’s bake sale was a success and now they have the budget to afford that snazy pack of rainbow Sharpies.
But that means… They didn’t have the rainbow sharpies to promote the bake sale… HOWEVER DID THEY SUCCEED? *TTGo Raven’s voice* Nobody knows-
I know right??? I was going to comment on those rich green and gold markers, someone in that gsa is carrying some cool ink
Asking people dinosaur trivia questions is technically a form of questioning. The sign should be more specific.
“But the sign is a rainbow.”
Dinosaurs can be more than one color. Probably. I’m not the one on trial here.
Nobody is on trial here!
Ooh interesting, time to see what’s up at the questioning thing – hope Leslie’s there.
Why do you hate Green Arrow? I thought you’d like him – he’s a preachy white Liberal-Left Progressive before the Internet made ‘preachy white Liberal-Left Progressive’ into a ubiquitous presence.
he just shoots arrows
You must have been bored as fuck when watching the first episode of Justice league Unlimited , either that or you think that was his only good moment.
That episode has Supergirl punching a giant flaming nuclear monster in the face and had Captain Atom explode. But yeah, it was kinda boring. There’s a reason GA always gets paired with much more interesting characters.
Isn’t that all that William Tell and Robin Hood did, or am I forgetting something? Not that I care that much: I haven’t read/seen Green Arrow since I was a kid and was no big fan than, but I am curious.
How dare you! William Tell had a crossbow! With quarrels! None of that silly bow business! *fake outrage caused by my helvetic heritage*
But to your point, yes, sure, they used arrows and quarrells, which nowadays seem lame to a lot of people (I still say, they’re awesome), but the difference with Green Arrow is that he is using that kind of weapon in a world of much more advanced technology and amazing powers and shit and he’s just there with some antiquated weapon. Is what I think arrow-haters have against Green Arrow. And Hawkeye. Etc.
I like Hawkeye. Green Arrow makes me want to punch him in the face.
Granted, the only exposure I have to either of those chars is the Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes/Avengers Assemble cartoons and the Justice League cartoon from like the 90s/early 2000s, respectively, so who knows.
Wow, that that GA was far more interesting and nicer than comics GA.
I’m guessing that a mundane archer makes for a rather underwhelming superhero. Doesn’t mean archers can’t be showy folk heroes.
… I have so much to learn about being concise. XD
Your growth and education in the art and craft of avoiding unnecessary prolixity has boundaries which are as yet incompletely surveyed?
I… I had to read that sentence three times to understand it. XD But yes. Sadly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk
He shoots arrows and wears stylin’ facial hair. That’s why he’s cooler than Hawkeye. You’ve got to respect the chutzpah of anyone who wears facial hair like that in public. If not necessarily the intelligence of someone who wears it in both their costumed and civilian identities.
Grant Morrison’s JLA had the most amazing explanation for that: Turns out Star City is filled with loudmouth blonde guys with Van Dykes.
Also people who think Green Arrow is just automatically terrible need to read Mike Grell’s run and Kevin Smith’s run. Quiver is the only good resurrection of an old hero to replace his successor.
GA has a secret identity because nobody cares who he is. They had a whole discussion about how Ollie and Roy were terrible about the whole secret identity thing and how obvious it was who they are. Then you toss Connor Hawke’s unique colourings intot hat mix and they’re not fooling anyone.
The secret identity is an integral part of the superhero mythos!
IE: Everyone who whined about Danny not knowing who Amazi-Girl was is wrong and probably smells bad.
You just doodle on the Internet.
I think Willis just has…
*dons sunglasses*
… a quarrel with him.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH
The smell of puns is in the air … *quivers with anticipation*
*bows*
And Dina’s eyes have left the building.
Normally it’s the eyebrows that do that sort of thing.
They did crawl up to a creepily high level of her forehead. ._.
First time we’ve seen Joyce in a skirt~ Cute~
Is it a skirt if she’s wearing pants (thick hose?) under it?
Yes, it’s still a skirt the same way a vest is still a vest even when you wear a shirt under it.
Isn’t the whole point of a vest to wear it over a shirt? And so shouldn’t it go “a vest is still a vest when you don’t wear a shirt under it.”?
A vest is indeed still a vest when you don’t wear a shirt under it
and @sps48 by your standards, what would that piece of fabric be then if not a skirt?
(and like those might not even be pants but tights or leggings or really high socks, whatever)A tunic? A long shirt?
Before the Internet my parents gave me a book about puberty and it talked about light petting and heavy petting; I thought that light petting was like gently patting and stroking somebody on the shoulders, and heavy petting was the same thing but more forcefully. True Story
I had no clue what “petting” was, either.
I still have never, ever, ever heard anyone use it in a conversation.
I just assumed that light and heavy petting was like petting animals just naughtier.
Yeah, I think it’s, like, a grandma word.
Close. It’s actually a Danny word.
Your great^n-grandma would talk about bundling, instead.
Did you not have animals as a child? No friends with dogs? Petting is what it sounds like. There’s also necking (slight miss on location sometimes, but right basic region). Intercourse is another thing.
Social intercourse or the other kind?
Either way both can be super awkward when you’re not prepared going in…
Well, it is used in one Rocky Horror song.
Do TV shows count? I remember hearing “heavy petting” in an early Grey’s Anatomy season once. Though that might be because of the ridiculously prudish language they have to use sometimes because omg think of the kids. XD
PS I believed this for many years, because I was a late boomer and besides nobody remotely my age called anything “petting”.
You mean it’s not?
What do these terms mean, then? I believe I’ve encountered the phrase “heavy petting” once or twice on the internet. Is it a British phrase? I’ve learned that when I encounter something I’ve never heard before on the internet, it’s usually British or southern.
Free pizza!? Can I come to the meeting? I’m not questioning anymore, but I’m super queer, I could totally be of help? I just want pizza, basically xD
Super Queer could be Oliver Queen’s new sidekick.
Dude. I could be the new Speedy. Queerdy? Idk. But I look GREAT in red. Hire me, Ollie!
No, no, Sidekick is not a paid position. You just get room and board. Uniform is provided.
I can live with that. As long as all Sidekick Assemblies (cuz those are totally a thing!) are hosted by Robin and take place in the Batcave.
Maybe you should think it over some more. Sidekick isn’t exactly the safest of professions. Just ask Jason Todd and Speedy/Arsenal.
Just say you’re questioning whether you are a 24 or a 25.
I’m a solid 3 actually, I’m that one Becky’s never heard of
See, I could TOTALLY be of use at this meeting!
My question is “Where’s the pizza?”
Third base is I don’t know.
So What is second base?
Yes!
As a non-English native speaker I had never understood these first base/who’s on first jokes until I finally saw the sketch this year and now I FINALLY UNDERSTAND THIS REFERENCE. I feel like Captain America w/ the Flying Monkeys xD
IT’S A REFERENCE?! I never knew! Can I get a link?
I think it’s this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=airT-m9LcoY
Yep, that’s it. My cheeks hurt now.
Aaah my cheeks also hurt! So badly! >< Thanks for the link! That was hilarious. I should probably invest some time into watching more of their sketches. :3
Oh man, I love that one.
The Animaniacs did their own version with Slappy Squirrel at Woodstock which was a great little tribute but which pales beside the original, I gotta say. Still, check it out!
Yeah it’s the Abbott and Costello thing that Rycan linked. A totally missed cultural reference for most of my life. Not least because where I’m from, baseball is not a ~thing.
Baseball is not a thing in most of the world. XD I feel you, English isn’t my first language either and I didn’t grow up in the US so there is a lot of pop culture references I don’t get. Some I don’t even know are references, I just assume it’s a silly thing people say or do. ><"
And yet we call it the World Series.
United “We’re the center of the world and the only ones that matter” States logic~ .
saki, your comment attributes too much significance to this world that you write of. Few American’s pay enough attention to the rest of the world to see the US in relation to it: the world doesn’t even register with them. That’s what power imbalance does. On the other hand, I was working in Germany during the Los Angeles Olympics. German reporters in LA were bongoing about how American-centric American coverage was. Fair enough. But I heard about every German gold medal ad infinitum and not much else. 31 years later I can still hear the announcers shouting “Dr Reiner Klimke und Ahleric” over and over and over.
I was joking. Mainly about the people who named it that, not anyone else. ^^
“World” really being “The Americas” in this case
The World Series has one non-American team, the Toronto Blue Jays. It did have two, but the Montreal Expos moved to DC. “The US plus two Canadian cities” isn’t even ‘the Americas”.
I do find there was a Baseball World Cup, now a Baseball Classic, which actually was international, and mostly won by Cuba. Never heard of it before.
Third base is you’re fired.
Also, I love Green Arrow and I am not here for this shade. Tbh.
Oh, that question Jacob asked. The “out” thing would’ve thrown me for a loop myself.
Jacob did ask that in an odd way. Maybe on purpose?
Yeah, I would’ve been like “Am I out of what? Money? Cigarettes? Cheesecake? ^O__o^” Never heard anyone ask if I’m leaving the premises that way
Agree. It’s like he forgot how to verb. XD Or maybe that’s just how the kids talk these days.
The puzzle pieces all fit together, but the picture is all wrong
Waitaminit. Ethan is questioning? WTF, Ethan, you’re GAY and so deep in the back of the closet that you had to clarify that you’re going “outside” lest anyone think you’ve the balls to come out.
These meetings are also for people who just want to start slowly accepting their feelings. Only accepting questioning people wouldn’t be too inclusive.
Would it be wrong, if hypothetically, I went to this meeting just to get free pizza. I mean I’m pretty sure I’m straight, except that time I dreamed of that werewolf guy from that movie-whose-name-will-not-be-said.
But I’m like really really hungry.
You’re hungry for Taylor Lautner?
(Who isn’t?)
(Probably Becky.)
Eeeeee, it’s the meeting. I’m so excited to see who will be running it and it’s going to be even better now that Dina and Ethan are both there.
I’m not sure the meeting would be shown because this is a Dina-centric storyline and right now she’s busy being an awesome sneaky ninja following Jacob and Raidah. She just happened to be next to that sign. Maybe we could see it in the next storyline.
I think Willis said this storyline will take the entire day IIRC, so unless Dina goes into that room, we will only know about what went on and who was there etc from people talking about it after.
Well, Dina could hypothetically go with them. She herself said that she was uncertain, so maybe she’ll feel motivated to do it.
At the least, I’m hoping we see the meeting, if only for Ethan, and that won’t happen unless Dina is there.
But Dina might tell Amber that Ethan was there!!
The las time I heard an ‘eeeee’ like that a Shocker lacky was getting Rider Kicked to death
Ooh, pizza and queer fun! Angst maybe too. Oh gosh, Mike needs to be there “for the pizza” and be all quiet the whole time everyone thinks he’s finally gonna say he’s gay but crickets from him the whole time… oh, and also he needs to blush at least once. Like making a sailor blush. Oh gosh oh gosh I’m so frickin excited no matter how this goes man, no matter anything.
Mike’s orientation is whatever will inconvenience you the most.
Well not really, because I’m referring to the element of society these days that acts “cool” to hide their insecurities and whatnot. They tease each other with no homo and yes homo so much that it means next to nothing until undeniable evidence stares you in the face.
I’m not exactly being serious. Need deceives. What Willis wants, he shall have. I just thought it might be entertaining… but then again on second thought the Jerkface wouldn’t do well for Ethan’s peace of mind. So… precious baby status achieved. Joyce ==> Initiate Defensive Word Fu.
I think nightsbridge was referring to this thing from Shortpacked; http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=281.
Your scenario sounds hilarious btw.
Hey guys! Do any of you know Green Arrow’s arch nemesis?
The yellow light. Cause he can go on the red light no problem, but he must use caution when its yellow.
“No one you know is likely to be there.” Cue Danny being there because Dorothy convinces him it might be good for him?
Scoot over, Dina. That’s Danny’s spot
+∞
I like the original Batman. Strong, a loner, only committed to doing what he thought was right: his parents death was his reason but not his entire life. The Dark Knight.
Then along came whinny Batman. I called him Batmoan.
Then the tv series …omg.
Unfortunately, looks like whinney Batman is here to stay.
Green lantern okay, just not all that exciting, imo.
Yes, Petting is a grandma word.
Light petting, arm around the shoulder in the movie, ‘stealing a kiss.
Heavy petting, getting an article of clothes off in a drive-in or back seat.
First base, kiss. Second base, hand inside the clothing. Third base: sex.
At least that was the way my grandma/mom referred to intimacy. My mother tried to get a bit more real when she gave me ‘the talk’.
No, sex was the “home run”. First was kissing, second was hand inside the clothing but on top of the underwear, alternate was hand on bare boob, third was inside the underwear or inside panties. And there was a lot of room on the baseline between third and home.
I just realized that Dina is not the only one in hoodie. So is Joyce, and tight pants under her skirt, and boots.
Why?
It’s July.
It’s late September in-comic.
Joyce is ALWAYS in heavy clothe, even in her room. I suspect she’s secretly a reptilian that has trouble maintening body heat.
In this page, she’s deadly scared of Dina because Dina’s extensive knowledge may see throught the disguise.
I’m pretty sure she’s a dinosaur, not a crocodilian.
The always-wearing-lots-of-clothes thing is a really common tactic for sexual assault survivors. There’s something comforting about being surrounded by things that you chose.
Lots of people in this strip dress in heavy clothes. Walky and Danny almost always wear hoodies, several female characters have worn tights or leggings under shorts and skirts, and that time Joyce wore a dress she had shorts under it. Nothing about the clothes today is at all unusual.
Dina is definitely a questioning individual if you know wat I mean *wink wink* cue flashback to the kiss.
YES! Someone on the Internet used the correct spelling of “cue”.
Sorry, that is a trigger for me. I see it spelled “que” most of the time, which is “what” in Spanish. And since I used to be literate in Spanish I keep reading it as “what the ‘whatever'”.
Aargh, I hear you there. I don’t see “cue” misused that often (although I think I’ve seen it occasionally instead of “queue;” but “sike” instead of “psyche” (as in, “Watch me psyche him out;” it’s short for “use psychology to throw him off,” get it right, grr!) and “you have peaked/peeked my interest” instead of “piqued” drive me CRAZY.
So I share your glee, is what I’m saying.
Something tells me that Dina is going to learn more about the human condition that she ever bargained for! Most of all, I think that Joyce is going to teach her the strange places that love can take you.
You know, from a purely Psychological standpoint, Dina could very well be gay. She has clearly retreated in-word and uses dinosaurs as a defense mechanism, which would be protecting herself. She also doesn’t want to be misunderstood and always tries to be clear because of that. This makes her seem weird but because she doesn’t know how to relate to “normal” people.
The word seems to be that Dina is ‘probably Aspie, but undiagnosed’.
Well since sexuality remains constant from the Walkyverse, we know that Dina will have some interest in guys. (She dated Walky and Mike for a time there). But there’s no reason she can’t be interested in girls too here. (And in her own words, she’s uncertain)
I’m not sure what her interest in dinos has to do with that though. I thought she already explained to Sarah why she’s a big fan of learning about dinos. I would believe what she said then.
I don’t think Dina can likes both boys and girls, because is there even a word for that?
Also, the “Bisexuality Awareness Day” thing that Willis posted in Tumblr (I think?) had only Danny, Billie, and Ruth in it. Three bisexuals in one comic is already straining credibility, and it’s not even like bisexuality is real anyway!*
*I am just kidding; I myself am bisexual.
I think a lot of those traits can be more attributed to being on the autism spectrum. Special interests, difficulty understanding social cues, being prone to overstimulation and sensory overload…these are all hallmarks of the autism spectrum. People on the spectrum can have a hard time communicating as well. But you can obviously be queer and on the spectrum. She did kiss Becky after all.
“I am an individual questioning about the definitions of “The Bases”.
The problem will be if Dina reports back with her own interpretation of her observations. As we see here, her lack of socialisation means that her interpretation of the raw data might not be what Sarah would have thought if she’d seen it.
Nobody here is talking about the alt-text in a way that suggests they get the reference, so I’ll just throw it out there for all the David Willis readers that started with Dumbing of Age and the older fans who are unaware: twice before Willis hinted major spoilers way in advance by having a character stand next to an arrow and text in the background. It used to be a thing to obsess over ever arrow that appeared in any of his comics; the alt-text is just poking fun at that, and probably asserting that there’s no deeper meaning to the arrow than the obvious one, as this is a way, way more obvious usage of an arrow than the other two spoiler hints used. This is pretty obscure even among the older fans, but I think Willis just wanted to nip the bud before he created another irritating comments meme.
(No I will not tell you what the spoilers were. You might go back and read those comics someday.)
You know, when I read the alt text, I vaguely felt like there was something I should be remembering… Thank you for explaining that reference. :3
Aaand now I really wish I had a photographic memory allowing me to remember exactly which strips / pages these arrows were in. ><
That’s… fascinating
The sign could say “free pizzling”, which would be bad. Or “free pizzles”, which might go either way.
… Should I even ask what “pizzling” and pizzles” mean or is the answer going to give me disgusting nightmares?
Only one way to find out.
A pizzle is a penis. Once it (perhaps) meant the penis of a non-human mammal, but it is also used of men’s penes now. It may also refer to a baton or heavy whip consisting of a tanned or cured penis (usually that of a bull or stallion).
A pizzling is a beating delivered with a pizzle, by extension any severe beating, or metaphorically a defeat by a notably large marginal at any game or sport.
I see. That required way too much penis picturing for my comfort, but eh. Thanks for the explanation.
I never got the baseball metaphor. Can someone translate into cricket or Rugby?
Did you play rounders at school?
I know nothing zippo about baseball beyond that it’s nothing like rugby or cricket.
No, I played Rugby and cricket and field hockey. And was on the swimming team.
If it was american football that’d made touchdown pretty litteral.
Third base is probably hitting a four, all the way is either a six or taking the wicket (depending on your pov i guess)
Why is Jacob making sure the room is free? The doesn’t want to tup Raidah yet, and they’re heading to her room anyway.
“He doesn’t…”, that is.
Because making cordial conversation with the roommate is a thing you do?
No, making sarcastic remarks or suspicious accusations to roommates is what you do.
Of course, since I learnt that from Sarah my perspective might be somewhat skewed.
I thought Jacob was socially-accomplished enough to make small talk better than asking a chap if he was going out while that chap was going outwards.
Dunno, he has been pretty tone-deaf a few times.
I’m not saying that he is socially awkward to the level of… basically anyone else in the cast, but this little bump in his social smoothiness is nothing weird for him.
Ah but where would be the pun in that.
Well, there’s a difference between going out as in leaving to actually do an activity, and just running out for a minute to borrow some notes or something.
She definitelly crit failed that skill check.
She succeeded her Tracking, Stealth and Move Silently checks with flying colours.
She crit failed Navigate and Knowledge (Sexing).
“Dina… Dina? DINAAAAA!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBtP10SOh-w
Replay | Quit
Joyce wants to be friends with everyone, even her friend’s nemesis who was part of an ugly scene at her party yesterday. That’s because Joyce is awesome.
Wanting to be friends with everyone doesn’t make you awesome, it makes you someone with severe self-esteem issues resulting in a need to be liked.
That said, I don’t think Joyce is trying to be friendly here, mere polite. She’s not smiling in that greeting.
You disparage Joyce’s tendency to be friendly with people?
I… Why is your avatar always blue? Are you sad? >_>
I am very certain my avatar is not always blue
See? There you go, using a blue avatar.
Bagge’s avatar is from a flashback scene in this comic, which are always blue unless they are panic attacks, in which case they are red.
You seem to have missed the point, which was to sort-of re-enact the strip Bagge linked ;p
That was… THAT’S for emphasis. And clarity.
I’m very fond of happy, blue-panel Becky.
Her cloak of invisibility has suddenly failed…
Forgot to mention that Dina doesn’t seem to know a lot about baseball…
I HAVE BEEN NOTICED !
ABORT ! ABORT !
THEY SEE MEEEEEE!!
I liked the old Green Arrow – he had an interesting dynamic with Hal Jordan, even if I disagreed with pretty much everything they said and did in their join adventures.
New 52 Green Arrow is just crap – unfortunately, I have to keep buying the comic because here it’s the one that also has the Birds of Prey.
New 52 GA is the same GA as the show, and they both should die horrible, horrible deaths so we can get characters and plots (ahah, as if that show had anything resembling plot) that are actually interesting. The only one higher in my kill list is Rohypnol-Gi, er, Starfire.
Boring is better that incredible asshole who ruins the lives of everyone around him.
Dude that’s why Green Arrow was so awesome. He is such an asshole.
The only Green Arrow I ever spent any time on is the one from “Batman: The Brave and the Bold”, where he’s such an asshole it’s hilarious.
“Speedy! Retrieve my bow from that crocodile pit!”
For people in real life, yes. For a character, absolutely not – boring is the absolutely worst thing you can be as a character, because if you’re boring, why should anyone waste their time reading the comic/watching the show?
Absolutely. You are less invested in a character that makes you think “Man, I don’t care what happens to him” than one who makes you think “Man, I hope someone punches him in the face.”
That’s why Malaya is a better character than Danny. *runs away*
That’s why making Danny bi was the smartest idea ever. Before, he was just dealing with other people’s issues, helping Sal with math, helping Amber with all her issues. It’s easier to root for him now because he’s being treated as a character with issues and problems that don’t involve other people’s issues. Cause let’s face it, before Danny was only important when one of the girls had an issue, now I care about his issues.
Same here. I only cared about in Danny insofar as I was interested in Amber and Amazigirl, but ever since that scene where he pictured kissing Ethan, whenver he appears in a strip I’m all “Oh yay, it’s Danny, let’s see how he’s dealing with his bi-ness!”. :3
Boring is better for me since boring gets them cancelled. And cancelled means I don’t have to deal with them anymore.
It’s a fictional character. You don’t have to deal with him, just don’t read Green Arrow comics.
Turning into a statue would be really helpful right now!
DON’T BLINK!
BTW, Willis, completely apropos of nothing – may not want to visit Scary-Go-Round today. Just saying, might get offended. Allison’s messing with the bongo filter, a bit.
http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20150721
I actually like the phrase “top bongo”. It has a badass ring to it. More of a title of respect.
are you really going to start linking me comic strips that use a word just because you think i’d be offended, do you not at all understand why it was actually blocked that one day, or are you just being an asshole
Sorry, wasn’t intended as an asshole remark. Might not have been one of my better judgement calls, though – it was early in the morning, for me.
With this much Dina, every day feels like Christmas! <3
YES! This was possibly the worst thing Willis could have done, because none of the other chapters can possibly be as awesome as this!
Dunno, Dina will still be around and still be awesome, and now that we have a hint of what her inner monologue sounds like we will have the best head canon for her scenes in the future.
“inner monologue,””head canon…” I see what you did there.
Standing next to Green Arrow is marginally safer than not standing next to him. His primary weapon is arrows–long range weaponry.
What if he stabs you?
Well, science is all about questioning.
I do SO hope she suggests people scientifically testing their sexual orientation through repeated experiments. That would make things quiet and awkward, and Dina could feel at home in such an atmosphere.
As far as I know, first base is holding hands, while second base is anal.
Well that escalated quickly.
I hesitate to ask what third base is
Bondage?
Munting?
I… I think this is the one word I most regret looking up.
Damn it, now I have to go look it up so I can regret it too.
Curiosity will kill us all one day.
…
That day is not today, but now I kinda wish it was.
As a clarification, now more than ever I want to be cremated.
This is a little worrying, if Dina thinks touching the arm is third base what will she be telling Sarah?
Third base? Dammit second base I mean
Dina’s powers of invisibility seem to be failing. This could lead to a very awkward conversation — unless, of course, w find out in the next panel that Ethan and Joyce are looking at something completely different in that direction, and they walk right past her. I wouldn’t rule that out entirely, but I’d say the odds are, she’s been spotted.
Hah, love the choice of words in the third panel. Ethan couldn’t leave it that he’s headed *out.* He had to be clear that he’s headed *outside,* even though he’s not, because the meeting seems to be right there in the building.
Willis captured the anxiety in Ethan’s face really well in the fourth panel. I hope he doesn’t back out now, because this is a step he needs to take.
I think her invisibility powers only work on people who don’t know her. And I actually think that Dina being there makes it likelier that Ethan will stick around. She spent half an evening hiding under his sweatshirt and he saw her kiss Becky. For lack of other words: Dina is completely non-threatening to Ethan.
Now, if Danny shows up things will get _really_ interesting.
Ooh, free pizza!
Dina’s face…..D’awww
Ethan: “Haha, would you believe me if I said we were here for the free pizza?”
Dina: “Yes.”
I rate this gag as A++
Good job
Excellent gag Willis. Love it.
I cannot look at Dina’s face in the last panel without imagining a cartoony “poit” sound effect.
I hope Dina doesn’t actually fuck Green Arrow. That’d be all kinds of missed up.