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“sounds like you’ll need an Other Becky”
“but I like the Becky I have”
“yeah, uh, me too now if you’ll excuse me I have an unchaperoned date with Other Jacob”
“have I met this Other Jacob?”
“…I don’t know if you should”
…that prolly goes with this Gravatar but I didn’t get it moderated
Right now, it kinda looks like Ruthless is saying all this, which adds a weird twist to the conversation…
they should double date
The Daisy avatar makes this comment.
Maybe a triple date?
“Hey, Daisy, who’d you bring?”
“I call this Other Amazi-Girl.”
“Huh. Never seen a vibrator with a chest window before.”
Plot twist: the vibrator is Amazi-girl!
Amazi-brator!
I’m strangely certain that those exist. Probably in Power Girl’s colours.
Surprisingly https://www.google.com/search?q=yellow+and+red+vibrator&oq=yellow+and+red+vibrato
Except change red to blue. Curse you lack of edit.
Not only did your search show me various vibes (Fun Factory has her colour scheme covered, yo), it also informed me that there are Minions vibrators (why) and that there is such a thing as a knit vibrator cozy (also-why).
And I get a nothing that matches your search message and two paid ads. Surely I don’t have some kind of search censorship set?
Having the real-life name Jacob makes this running joke just a little awkward.
hey, remember when sarah was telling jacob how joyce was ““”? yeah, that wasn’t awkward…
figures. the one friggin’ time i don’t google to double-check that i’ve done it right…
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
<3 Sarah!
(Alt-text: it's her Achilles heel—the very thing that got her into her present situation, though somehow it's always remembered as "the-purely-selfish-thing-she-did-so-as-not-to-lose-her-scholarship-that-bongo" . . . )
Next step Dina and Sarah go on a rescue mission to save Becky from Joyce’s mother.
Should I be picturing that scene from Aliens?
Joyce’s Mom will self-destruct in… 5 MINUTES… You have… 5 MINUTES… to reach minimum safe distance…
On the topic of exploding Fanatical Christians…
I learned awhile ago that the fastest way to defuse a fanatical Christian who is acting oppressive is to quote something biblical that contradicts their actions, then say, “Luke 6:44.. a tree is judged by the fruit it bares.” Immediately follow with “Matthew 16:23- Get Thee Behind me Satan” and turn around and walk away from them.
To a fanatical Christian, probably one of the harshest hitting insults you can do.
For added damage, follow with quoting Matthew 10:14-15 as you walk away, “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment.” And tap your toes against the ground to “knock the dust away” as you walk away.
Most that turns from angry revigilantious to being stunned speechless. Will cause some to reevaluate their lives.
I tend to like Matthew 5:11-12 and use an interpretation where the fundamentalists are the ones falsely attacking others on account of Christ, and thus the ones that they would persecute are blessed. Always throws them for a loop.
oh good, theyre gonna keep talking about it already
their last conversation was pretty unsatisfying
I really enjoy silence. And i hope one day to find my own becky…… tired of being so pathetic honestly.
Same, friend. Same.
Don’t fret too much, meeting a compatible person is in a very large part a matter of chance and trial-and-error. Being alone in the interim isn’t being pathetic, it’s a perfectly natural state. People who claim someone needs to be a part of a relationship to be complete are simply mistaken.
And thus Dina vows to discover an undocumented species of dinosaur so she can name it Becky and combine her favorite things.
Beckiraptor mcintirii
Oh don’t worry Sarah. Something tells me there will be a source of noise closer to home soon enough.
Jesus fuck, comment section, you are a turd.
Hey you leave the comments section alone!
It tries its best!
“I-it’s not l-like I like that s-stupid Joyce or anything.”
Now I want to see Sarah call Joyce “Baka” at some point.
I may watch too many cartoons.
I maintain the headcanon that you saw my comment and travelled back in time to one-up it.
W-why would I do that? It’s not like I LIKE your stupid comment or anything.
…Baka Moth.
Your dere is showing.
Which one? Tsun or Yan?
Tsun. Definitely tsun.
I can hear Rie Kagimiya now.
she needs a bit more blush to be a proper tsundere.
You…weren’t calling Anime “cartoons”, were you doctor? Surely 1 as traveled as yourself there are those who don’t take such words lightly…
I made that mistake with Daniel the Human. While he’s not the type to get angry over it, he made sure I heard all the differences (or was THAT because I kept trying to escape?). Have seen some angry ones tho, they scare me…
Baka
…BAKA!
Baka…YAROU!!!
Baraka.
Baccano.
Morena Baccarin.
I’ll be in my bunk…
Durarara!
Obama
Gesundheit.
Spasiba.
Skoal!
… I have absolutely no idea how that posted three times in under a second.
Convergence of alternate realities that failed to maintain their divergence quotients. Happens all the time. Basically a glitch caused by a cost saving measure to maximize the use of reality cores.
Skoal!
Skoal!
it’s “spasibo”, learn to spell!
Спасибо, товарищ!
Oops, sorry I haven’t spoke russian in like…26 years
i haven’t spoken russian for 26 years…yet!
Kono yarou!
This makes my heart hurt
Poor Dina
*plays Steve Perry’s “Foolish Heart” on the hacked Muzak*
Cue Dina getting worried Becky will fall for Joyce again and so she and Sarah drive to catch up with them
Aand Dina did the finishing blow on Sarah, just like that.
Someone hug Dina before it’s too late!
Yeah, Becky, get in he-oh wait.
I am not sure of the proper intensity or time required but this feels like a time where a hug might be appropriate. would you like to partake in one?
Comments like this remind me of the “emergency hug.”
Then I’m reminded that Gravity Falls ends in two weeks.
Well shit. I liked what little of it I watched.
Was chugging through season 1 until I hit the episode where Dipper’s being awkward over his crush on Wendy. I hate cringe comedy, but I also hate skipping episodes.
Yeah, going back and watching what I missed from season 1 (the multi-bear, and a few episodes towards the end of that season) has been kind of rough.
YES THIs. Why do people like cringe comedy? WHY!?
Well, this is certainly a good place to ask…
I’ve certainly never understood that but I assumed (because Hollywood does) that it was just me. :/
Hey, anyone know of a comedy that is actually, you know, funny? Not gross or stupid (no “Dumb and Dumber”, thanks), no fart jokes, no cringe “humor”; just, you know, actually funny? Doesn’t have to be a new movie. But do they even make those anymore?
–I’ve made myself sad.
The Princess Bride.
I recommend Simon Pegg’s movies in the so-called Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and World’s End.
By way of introduction, take a look at this, though it may give you more reasons for hating certain comedies.
Running Scared. Yes, it’s a buddy cop movie, but it is the wise-sensei grandfather of all buddy cop movies, and is simultaneously adrenaline-pumping, tear-jerking, and drop-dead hilarious.
The 80s one, I hope. With Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal.
The jokes about police brutality get to me these days, but it’s still brilliant.
Of course, all my recommendations come from the 80s and tend to be that kind of semi-action comedies. Full of wit rather than cringe.
Blues Brothers. Big Trouble in Little China. Buckaroo Banzai.
Or for before even my time and simultaneously witty, dramatic and sad, probably my all time favorite movie: The Lion in Winter.
And as someone mentioned downthread on another topic: Real Genius.
Spaced is a TV series worth looking for. Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright again.
Airplane I & II, Doctor, Doctor, Max Headroom, Johnny Dangerously, most british comedies.
I would have also included Not Another Teen Movie, except it has the funniest fart joke ever.
That arc is kinda important to Dipper’s development, though. (AND plays a big part in one of his Big Speeches during the Weirdmageddon.)
And as such, I can’t just skip it.
Tbf, it’s better for it to end while it’s strong than turn into something terrible.
All things must end.
Except Steven Universe. That’ll go on for an eternity and never stop being amazing.
Oh yeah, I need to catch up on Steven Universe.
As long as they don’t deviate from that winning formula it won’t stop.
Oh my gosh. This is amazing absolutely amazing.
That is definitely a winning formula.
If anything goes on long enough, the magic fades.
All must end, if only to attempt to preserve the goodness in the world, what little we have left. For, when things go on too long, they slowly suck the positivity from the area they inhabit.
It’s not always that simple. The Venture Bros. has been running for 13 years, but that run only consists of 6 seasons (the latest of which started tonight) and 70+ episodes. Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer’s fight for the freedom to walk away from a show and then come back whenever they please
(before Louis CK made it cool)is a rare proverbial middle finger to that idea.And Perry Rhodan.
And Alex Hirsch’s explanation (pretty much what you said) was fair.
Now I’ve got the sad Super Mario RPG music in my head from Dina’s dourness.. It’ll be okay Dina!
Sarah: Not as Bad as she Looks since 1996
Sarah actually turns out to be a giant asshole at one point in It’s Walky!.
In fairness, it’s pretty tough to be as bad as Sarah looks.
What?
I think Moth meant ‘tries to act’.
Would be funny if Dina and Sarah go on a road trip.
Okay, I just read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for like the 17th time, so I am now totally picturing them in a red convertable dressed as Duke and Gonzo (Dina is duke because Hat).
“We had two bags of Captain Crunch, seventy-five pellets of Trix, five sheets of high powered Golden Grahams, a salt shaker half full of Fruity Pebbles, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored Hearts, Stars, Horseshoes, Clovers and Blue Moons… and also a quart of 2%, a quart of Almond Milk, a case of spoons, a pint of raw cane sugar and two dozen Rice Krispies Treats.”
“Not that we needed all of that for the trip, but once you get locked into a sugary cereal collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”
“The only thing that really worried me was the sugar. There is nothing in this world more helpless and irresponsible than a college student in the depths of a sugar high, and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff soon.”
“Every now and then, when your life gets complicated and the Compsognathus start closing in, the only cure is to load up on breakfast cereals and then drive like a young questioning fundamentalist girl from university back home… with the music at top volume and at least a pint of raw cane sugar.”
“Turn the goddamn music up! My heart feels like a Deinosuchus!”
I would totally buy this version.
That’s when Sarah goes and drives somewhere alone, but somehow Dina was hiding behind her door the whole time.
Sarah tried to not care. She tried to pimp-strut. But it just wasn’t working.
Was Dina prepared to walk through that wall if Dina hadn’t said anything?
New plan, we edit all the comics from now on to only include Dina so that I don’t look like an idiot.
Or replace other characters with Dina. Everyone remembers the arc where Dina went to a party, so that Dina could get a news scoop, but was roofied by Dina, she was ultimately saved by Dina wielding a baseball bat, but Dina was able to get away due to Dina distracting everyone.
or the episode where Dina comes onto campus with a shotgun, and kidnaps Dina, who is saved by Dina, Dina and Dina.
Why’s Dina such a mary sue.
Dina is so much better than Dina, and yet Dina always gets the spotlight.
will you read my DinaXDina fanfic?
Dina/Dina is the worst pairing everyone knows the real OTP is Dina/Dina.
But nothing is quite as bad as Dina/Dina who ever came up with that one is a fucking idiot
My OTP is Dina+Dina
DINAS MAY RULE. D=
D= (ina)
Would that be so bad though?
*reads alt text*
Sarah, this is no time to half-ass it at Not Caring!
Think of your record!
First reaction: “D’awwww.” Second reaction: “Oh god, Sarah heard that. Oh god, they’re gonna about this. Oh no. How badly is this gonna end up?”
*^_talk_ about this -my bad.
does anyone else really want a Becky with Dina T-shirt
Probably this image
http://www.dumbingofage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/print-dinabeckydinosaurs1.png
I’m sure Someone does.
Yes. 100% would buy and would wear, always.
I had that image Willis posted of Becky and Dina on a motorcycle fighting Soggies as my wallpaper for like a month.
If it ever became a shirt, my money would rip itself from my wallet, fly towards the screen, digitize itself to traverse the internet, and materialize directly in Willis’ house as a Transformer made out of origami folded bills named Cashimus Prime.
I would also enjoy an Amazi girl T-shirt with this image
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/walkypedia/images/c/c8/Amazi-girl_doa.png/revision/latest?cb=20140321131405
with either Amazi-Girl is ammune to criticism or Amazi girl is always prepared…for everything written on it
*immune
Becky, Dina, motorcycle?? Link please
http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/127759067732/i-declare-this-canon
I’s Super-Soaker-water-canon, but definitely, canon.
Enjoy.
yaaaaay my life is better now.
Jeez, Dina.
That was a tactical “ZING!”-bomb strike right there.
You done did do me proud.
Yeehaw.
Clever girl, ain’t she?
Is Sarah crying a little in that last panel? Never mind, I’ll assume she is, makes it sweeter.
Sarah: “I don’t care”
Sarah’s brain: “liar”
Sarah’s feet: “BUY US NEW SHOES DAMMIT!
Sarah’s loiins: GIVE ME JACOB DAMMNIT! EITHER ONE IS FINE!!
Dina needs some alone time if you know what I mean…
“With your penis?”
“With my penis.”
I’m trying to recognize which particular penis joke this is referencing, but I’m only getting Kaylee dialogue from Firefly and Serenity.
At a guess, this: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/penis/
Sort of Real Genius?
Much obliged.
Wow. I almost forgot he didn’t always have the face-scruff.
Aww, that cute part of NRE (new relationship energy) where you don’t want to leave each other’s sides. Magnified by this being Dina’s first relationship. It is healthy that she is learning boundaries and letting Becky go off for a weekend now, but it’s still going to ache for her. Moreso because her brain will probably come up with lots of inaccurate and impossible things to worry about over the fact that Becky is going with her one-sided crush.
She’ll be okay, but in the meantime she’ll pine and when Becky gets back they’ll have all the cuddles.
This is a Willis comic, yeah?
Dina will try.
It’s the best she can do.
Just give us this one. One healthy, happy, non-dramatic relationship. All the plot can come from outside the relationship, it’ll work, it’ll be great.
Walky and Dorothy are pretty emotionally healthy.
I guess Becky/Dina are dooooooooomed.
I think they’re headed for some drama. Once Dorothy finds out about Walky’s grades…
Dorothy’s the most drama averse person when she actually makes an effort. She’d probably just tell Walky to let her help.
Hence, Walky’s probably going to sneak around it, because Willis is a wrathful god whose hunger can only be sated by inflicting misery and woe upon us.
Which, given that we have seen that Dorothy wants him to tell her stuff and feels hurt when he doesn’t, may cause more drama than if he just ‘fessed up now.
I’m starting to think Dorothy might have accepted that Walky’s always going to put walls up in their relationship to prevent it from becoming more than “for fun.” Walky can’t talk about Billie’s depression, he can’t talk about the “L” word, he can’t talk about his grades, because that’s feelings and vulnerabilities and the last star will die before Walky acknowledges he has those. Dorothy wants the relationship to be taken more seriously, (because it is), but knowing her she’s either going to keep talking at Walky to get him to open up, or eventually accept that it’s Walky, Walky won’t stop being him, and that maybe “for fun” isn’t what she wants anymore.
Only because they stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the fact that this “for fun” relationship is quickly becoming much more serious than either of them intended. It’s not hard to have a drama free relationship if you both are in denial about any issues until you are literally forced to address them.
Dorothy’s acknowledged it and is trying to deal with that. Walky not so much.
Walky is bad at dealing with anything that requires effort on his part.
I just realized Dina is wearing Becky’s hoodie.
I just realized she’s BEEN wearing it for a while now.
I’m an idiot.
Yep, first seen in it
It is awful when someone starts a conversation then abruptly ends it with Forget it, I don’t care.
If you didn’t care, why did you bring it up in the first place?
Because she’s Sarah and Sarah is about as mature as the average 20 year old.
When someone says it like that, it means that they secretly do kinda care a lot.
It would be nice if Sarah showed it more often.
Sarah is very good at caring. Her showing it needs work.
This is how she shows it.
And it stinks! She should probably try a different route!
She took a bat to a rapist’s skull for Joyce and she’s still semi-convinced that Sarah hates her. Sarah does not make the friendship thing easy!
That’s because the friendship thing has burned her badly. You don’t just suddenly stop being introverted and afraid to reach out to people.
She’d been getting better at expressing things with Joyce and what happened? Sarah said something Joyce didn’t want to hear and Joyce attacked her, using her intimate knowledge of Sarah’s past pain to hurt her as deeply as she could.
Joyce lashed out because Sarah constantly criticizes her and instead of actually suggesting anything to help the situation just went “do something different you idiot.” If I can forgive Sarah for being an asshole I think I can forgive Joyce for the same when she was desperately trying to protect her oldest and dearest friend from the campus, her parents and Toedad.
It wasn’t okay to say that in the same way it wasn’t okay when Sal called Walky immature so he threw the robbery back in her face, but Sarah’s a big girl, if she wants to act like an asshole all the time, even here where she had to correct herself from showing any kind of concern for Joyce, then I’m not gonna feel to broken up when somebody tears into her, let alone when she decided the best course of action when she found out she was right about Becky still having feelings for Joyce was to act smug about her emotional pain.
The last few times she’s done that, it hurt her.
She’s trying to convince herself to stop.
… it’s not going very well so far.
Exactly. That’s what I like about Sarah as a character. She’s convinced herself that she shouldn’t care about anyone, that she shouldn’t need anyone (except Other Jacob), that she’s beyond all that.
But she can’t do it. She can’t stop liking people. She can’t stop caring.
Then think about the business with Dana from that perspective. We’ve only really heard Sarah’s version of that, which we’d normally expect to be slanted to make her look good, but given that it’s Sarah probably means it’s slanted to make her look cold and practical and uncaring.
*Cue Depeche Mode*
She is now experimenting with… “longing”…
The worst part of any relationship is when the longing doesn’t work out, and you turn to shortening.
Damnit, Dina. Stop breaking my heart.
I like to pretend that the hat is Dina’s real face. It makes scenes like the one coming up more bearable. Bareable? Barrelable. Bearable.
Bears.
It will turn out that, the hat has a dino themed ghost in it and Dina uses it to fight evil spirits.
I may have just archive binged Paranatural
Check out Monster Pulse if you want something similar but more depressing.
She had a demon trapped in the hat until Glirendree showed up.
Isn’t it awesome?
And Dina has finally cracked the barrier, and been the first character in this comic to have a voice in my head. Unfortunately, I suck at describing them.
The best I can do is that it’s kinda like Raven from the original Teen Titans, but without the sarcastic tone, and maybe a tiny bit more babyish.
Dina is Starfire
Mary is peridot from Steven Universe
Walky is just my voice because of how damn similar we are
Hynden Walch as Dina is very popular, yes.
Why would you do this to Peridot you monster.
(this is all pre-heelface turn for Peridot) She comes from the same people as the protagonist (Fundametalists vs Gems) who don’t like anyone different from them, displays a form of bigotry and is willing to say and do horrible things because of her blind faith to a being she views as perfect.
Except Peridot is open to learning and recognizing her own ignorance. She’s got much more in common with Joyce than Mary.
Yes but we didn’t know that when she first appeared. I still have hope for Mary.
you’re a good kid. i’ll be sad when this world breaks you.
just stay away from ryan
So maybe ordinary people don’t crack, Maybe there isn’t any need to crawl under a rock with all the other slimly things when trouble hits…maybe it was just you, all the time.
i had to google that, but it was awesome.
fyi, i don’t really pity you for naivete. i just wanted to quote sarah. i genuinely do wish that more people thought the way you do instead of enjoying the fact that mary is a throw-away character that they’re allowed to pile hate on. i wish everyone hoped for the best for even those who they didn’t particularly like. and i wish that mary, amber, willis, sarah, ruth, and anyone else with a negative opinion of anyone (justified or unjustified) would think that just hating others wasn’t ok.
i also wish i were awake enough to think of a way to rephrase that to not sound like i’m insulting characters whom i like. i really didn’t intend for it to sound mean or patronizing toward anyone
Mary Is Yellow Diamond’s Pearl.
Starfire? Sure. I can hear the resemblance, especially in the cadence. But I think the pitch is lower, even when she’s super happy.
Like I said, I’m horrible at describing my head voices. As soon as I try, I can’t hear them anymore, so I have to try to remember what they sounded like.
Tara Strong.
And dammit now I hear it too. Here’s my headcannon for voices.
Sara is Cree Summer when she does her Cree Lincoln voice from K.N.D.
Joyce is Kath Soucie when she does Tish from Weekenders
Dorothy is Gre DeLeslie when she does Lor from Weekenders
Becky is Kate Higgins when she does Sakura from Naruto.
Dina: Anndi McAfee doing a more stilted version of Phoebe from Hey Arnold.
Becky: Lecy Goranson for the first few stories, then Sarah Chalke for a couple, then Lecey again.
I see what you did there.
Joyce is Nowacking (doing her Misty voice).
Mary hnilmik (Team Four Star’s Chi-Chi voice).
Billie is Megami33.
Danny is the Alex Rochon (after being Yuri Lowenthal).
Walky is Joshscorcher, but as of recently is also sometimes 1KidsEntertainment.
Dina will spend the rest of the weekend looking wistful by the window.
Sara will yell to her books that she does NOT care about how Joyce are doing.
It’s a short trip from apathy to sap-athy.
RE flu: Get well soon, Willis.
Yes, this. Lots of liquids and hang in there, dude.
Heh. Trust Willis to get butt-flu.
I too, do not care about Becky. Or any fleshling. They’re all stupid. Were’s my fusion cannon?
Sarah: Dammit, just once I’d like to crush someone’s hopes and dreams with my cynicism without them getting sad…
Poor Sarah! She’s human enough that missing a gossip-worthy confrontation is a great disappointment! There’s still a high school teen in there!
Meanwhile, Dina is demonstrating a rare talent for breaking through Sarah’s sour exterior and make her care.
I don’t understand why the hate on Sarah. She cares, she even almost let it show in the 2nd panel.
There was no negative comments against Dina in that statement.
Dina’s still so cute…I never want to hug anyone but her I would hug.
Maybe she feels bad that Joyce didn’t say bye to her, they are roomies and were very close once.
She’s kind of a pessimistic asshole who buries all her genuine caring and good intentions under miles of pissy language, says awful shit to people but then gets angry if anyone snipes back, and just seems plain determined to be as miserable as possible.
Everything I just listed is also why she’s one of my favourites.
Won’t somebody think of the Mike? How’s all this affecting him? We deserve to know
I’m hoping Mike is dead in a trash compactor. That would be nice.
He is.
Then one day he just shows up for class again. Nobody asks why or how.
Because he would answer saying about the other people moms? But that’s the truth.
It involves a bloody shirt.
And your mom.
Seriously if we never see that asshole again it’d be too soon.
Your mom saw that asshole again. It was too soon.
Like I give a damn about her.
Mike being an asshole isn’t why I hate him, lots of the assholes in the cast are interesting, but more that he’s a walking mess of contradictions. He needs to know every detail of every cast member and be supernaturally good at sussing out their weaknesses, but fantastical and cartoony enough that he can say gross shit without causing any damage because otherwise we’d need to acknowledge that a serial harasser who repeatedly targets women by holding their sexual history over them might be kind of fucked up. If he’s supposed to just be a comedy character, which is pretty gross since his main joke is “you’re a giant slut”, then he’s a comedy character who isn’t funny.
Mike’s entire shtick is either harassing the disenfranchised or bluntly stating a plot point. I honestly can’t think of a reason he’s in the series beyond being a popular hold over from Willis’ other work.
Mike isn’t even a character in this setting he’s a plot device that gets pulled out whenever there isn’t an actual realistic source of conflict or impetus for character development which is why we haven’t seen much of him in a good long while.
Well, he’s also a walking “joke” but maybe we’ve finally reached the point where being an unrepentant awful human being isn’t actually viewed as funny it’s just gross.
i could say something about your mom and nickels, but i don’t necessarily disagree with anything that’s been said. even though i haven’t hated mike with much venom (i’m not sure why), i do think that this comment thread has brought up some excellent points. he certainly is a walking plot device and occasional random-content generator who is a popular carry-over from previous works. i think he’s most likable when he’s saying random mean stuff which can be ignored
Coodos to boomboom for asking the important question.
Dina’s relationship with Becky may, in fact, be too adorable. I didn’t know that was physically possible, but it already seems to have surpassed a playful kitten and is well on its way to “sleepy puppy” levels.
Here’s what the sleepy puppies are dreaming of: http://cutepuppyanddog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cute-two-fluffy-puppy.html
I originally thought that Becky impulse-joined Joyce on her trip home out of a yearning to recapture some of those lost “happy days” of her past and feel like she’s part of a family again.
But now, after seeing Dina, I’m beginning to wonder if Becky might not have an ulterior motive for wanting to be alone with Joyce again, without any of her new friends around. Especially given her “internal screaming” panel a few days back.
Becky is probably also planning to recapture her personal documentation and any of her property that’s still at her dad’s house.
And of course, to support Joyce and spend time with the Browns, who she has known her entire life and who she gambles on will be more like their daughter than her father.
Just because it hurts sometimes doesn’t mean she’s going to try anything that stupid.
Sure, she’s still a bit hung up on Joyce and she still has that jealousy of Dorothy thing going, but none of that means she’s not also crazy about her dinosaur girl.
And the jealousy of Dorothy thing is as much “best-friend stealing” as anything else. Still one of Becky’s major flaws, if a very realistic one.
it wasn’t impulsive. Becky and Joyce both agreed that Becky was coming earlier that morning.
How quickly they forget.
It wasn’t quite clear. They talked about it, but we didn’t see any actual conclusion. I think Joyce was still in the “No, you don’t have to come. My parents are going to be awful and I don’t want to put you through it” phase.
Which is why she was making “No, no” gestures at Becky a couple days back. And then Hank exceeded expectations and off they went.
Becky of course planned to go all along, unless Hank turned out to be really awful when he saw her, in which case I suspect she’d have tried to keep Joyce from going.
Right: don’t have to, not I’d prefer you not. In other words, I wish you would come, but I don’t want to make things hard on you.
Can anybody in DoA enjoy being with anybody else without a sexual connotation entering into it?
In what way is this sexual ?
I think that I’ve read the reader comment that inspired BB to ask that question.
No. Not only that, they can’t even hate being with someone else with out a sexual connotation.
Pretty much appearing on panel together is enough and that isn’t strictly required.
Shippers gotta ship.
How long have you been reading the comment section? And you have to ask?
Sarah is my favourite character.
We see a lot of Sarah
I voted to see more of Sierra
Oh where can our Sierra be?
It is interesting that Dina turns to Sarah for support, rather than Dorothy or Amber.
Sarah is her Favourite #2
I like that Dina is that perceptive
It’s probably because Sarah isn’t the sort to actively seek her out and pester her with demands that she open up (Dorothy) but is unlikely to ignore her and hide behind her own social anxieties when something needs to be said (Amber).
I was thinking along similar lines, myself, Dina neither wants to be pressured or pressure someone else. Whereas Sarah just does what is right, albeit with poor grace, something Onfind very appealing in a character.
Also, Dina likes Sarah’s bluntness. Sarah always says exactly what she means, which is a real relief for a person who has difficulty with body language and invisible social cues.
The last significant interaction she had with Dorothy had her, Joyce and Sarah telling Becky how weird it is for Dina to be hit on.
Is Dina even good friends with Dorothy?
Before Becky, I can’t remember any situation where Dina and Dorothy interacted in a significant way, being in separate social circles. (Perhaps in the bathroom at the pizza place, but Dina was a definite 3rd wheel there.) The 2 of them do interact a bit more now, but its often in association with other people.
So maybe Dina just doesn’t know Dorothy well enough to confide in Dorothy.
Dina has paid close attention to her social circle and sought out Sarah, rather than Dorothy to talk to. I think that is based as much on her liking Sarah as it is Becky not liking Dorothy.
Sarah’s head: Oh Sh*t! Did I just care? Did anyone notice? Hm… Just Dina… Better cover it up quick before she does notice, just in case.
I’m really worried they’re gonna try and keep them there.
Is it just me or is there going to be hang out time?
“Oh god damn it I do care” ~ Sarah in that last panel probably
Sarah has been an enigma for me as of late. Like she cares but she wants to look like she doesn’t care but then she does and says things that are just this side of meddling in the name of caring for people. I dunno.
Sarah would probably rather not care.
It’s just that this pesky compassion she’s carrying around gets in the way.
Time to spy Raidah and Jacob again.
I like how we have a conflict where the viewpoint character is being a petty, homewrecking asshole.
More Dina and Sarah, more Dina and Sarah~!
I misread the first word(s) of the first panel, and for an instant, I thought that this was a guest strip written by Frank Miller.
It just occurred to me that Becky may have just unknowingly foiled Mary’s evil scheme to hold her presence over Ruth by not being there for the weekend.
It seems like too nice a way for things to work out in the Dumbiverse, though.
Hey Willis lets his characters have good luck sometimes
Now and then
Rarely
Almost never actually but we can hope
I do not understand these comments. I even went back and binged a bit after seeing some older comics. And I was right: the vast majority of the comics are happy or funny or heartwarming or empowering, with just the occasional drop into a horrible funk.
IOW, this is a fairly positive comic. So why does everyone act like all Willis does is make tears?
My guess is that those occasional drops are such strong, hard gut-punches*, especially when contrasted with the otherwise fairly upbeat comic.
It reminds me that sometimes, the rare thing is what stands out. Apparently, when creators get either mostly positive or mostly negative feedback about something, they sort of get used to that… And then there’s that one message that is the complete opposite, and it breaks (or makes) the day for them, filling up their internal world. Our brains are weird.
*Especially because quite often, Willis is drawing upon his own experiences to make it seem much more real.
and Sal most likely won’t be there, either
I love Sarah. I want to snuggle her and hate everything together.