This is beautiful, please tell me that is Dina holding onto Becky. Also I wish I had cereal that exciting, all I have is cocoa puffs. Admittedly, what is better than chocolate for breakfast?
Roz is still present and Robin may still be present (maybe it’s because of the IRL situation, but Robin bowing out of the race made her skyrocket up my list and I want more of her before she stays up there), Riley could conceivably return.
Also this is a reference to the first time you see a raptor in Jurassic park, right down to the grabbing the edge and upwards slam. Look at about 1:50 on in this clip:
I must be one of the handful of people in the Western Hemisphere who haven’t watched “Jurassic Park”, so I didn’t get the reference until you posted the link.
The strip is almost a shot-for-shot duplicate, right down to the lines: “Shoot her. SHOOT HER!” = “Feed her. FEED HER!”
I haven’t either other than the beginning since we had a throwaway week in the high school Biology class I TA’d
Sadly, “FEED HER” only makes me think of a different movie with that line, which I also haven’t seen but someone recited in detail including why it was super gross and I will not spell out bc even w/o seeing the movie it gave me quite a bit of trauma
I’ll tell you what’s better: half a cup of rice crispies poured over a third of a cup of cornflakes.
Preferably offbrand; they sweeten it less than Kellogg’s.
Dina as obviously been constructing an advanced pulley system to increase power, with the drawback that the last pully wheel is fastened to the ceiling.
Except that only proves that the original comment didn’t contain the word “death”. It doesn’t rule out the possibility that some OTHER word might have been there and hit by a filter. We need to try more tests.
Testing: Thanks to current politics, we are seeing the demise of satire.
Testing: After getting through security, please proceed to your departure gate.
Testing: I think I’ll go back to erectile disfunction pill my hair.
Testing: There’s a lot of concern about sending children back to class this sauerkraut monkey.
Testing: Between the heat and humidity, I don’t want to go jogging. I think I’ll just lie here all jellyfish enematose.
Testing: I need to stop overcooking my breakfast. That was like biting into a cement pancake.
I had been thinking this might be a fakeout, and Becky might’ve moved on, but the fact that Dina’s in the tags has me thinking this is exactly what it looks like.
(I wonder if I still have that Dina hat I bought in 2010?)
That was a song by the Cowsills?
I knew, (I knew, I knew, I knew, I knew, I knew)
She could make me happy, (happy, happy, happy)
You should hear her roar
Cereal on the floor!
I mean I guess the real answer is that this is just a bit of comedic absurdity that bends the rules of reality a bit, like that time Amber caught Sal in a pokeball. But I’m choosing to believe Dina got super jacked over the time skip! I’m keeping that hope alive!
One of the downsides to having a girlfriend with a dinosaur obsession and identity issues that makes her occasionally behave like a movie Velociraptor.
Oof, first day in the room, getting finger scratches on the door? If I know my college dorm policies (and I do), they’ll wanna cover that up. No one has time to pay for room damages.
I do volunteer sound design for theaters and student films in my area. I heard every bit of these sounds in my head just now – and a few more as subtext (moist squishy noises) – and they are just hilarious.
If the classic 1950s Godzilla “Gronk” is in the mix, all the better.
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WOW OK did not expect THIS reveal
Robo-Vac-Os: Oops All Bunnies!!
I hope by all bunnies they mean it is all bunny marshmallows and no actual cereal.
Or all actual bunnies and no cereal or marshmallows.
This would literly kill me via and allergy to rabbits….so….not this! Please!!!!
That’s a shame, since rabbit is delicious.
Y’all know they’re DUST bunnies right
Nah, that’s preposterous. They’d be stale by the time they hit the store shelf.
Rabbit meat is rather tasty. I find it to taste rather like ham with a slightly higher saltiness.
make beer from rabbits, and you don’t need to add hops
Yeast, I barley got that.
Excuse me, waiter, there’s a hare in my beer.
I could see Joyce buying that, given her familiarity with VeggieTales.
I am always here for Robo-Vac shout-outs.
Everybunny is hare for Robo-Vac.
Spoiler: They’re not made from real bunnies.
WHAT??
(Damn you, Willis.)
Say it isn’t so.
Bunnies! Yes, this is good. I cannot imagine many “Oops” situations as enjoyable as all bunnies.
Yes, this is the change in tone we needed.
I know, right? I’m feeling very restored right now.
I guess Dina missed her girlfriend!!
Either the paint on that door is really bad or Becky has some super tough nails.
Thank you Dina
This is beautiful, please tell me that is Dina holding onto Becky. Also I wish I had cereal that exciting, all I have is cocoa puffs. Admittedly, what is better than chocolate for breakfast?
How about store brand raisin bran crunch? It’s crunchy! Exciting!!
The reference to the multiple varieties of cereal means we are about to be reintroduced to Riley.
Riley is too young to go to college.
If time passed in-world I’d guess she’d be about eighteen now;
but it doesn’t so she’s still twelve.
Dina was the only one in the Hall as fond of cereal as Riley, so Dina it is.
Roz is still present and Robin may still be present (maybe it’s because of the IRL situation, but Robin bowing out of the race made her skyrocket up my list and I want more of her before she stays up there), Riley could conceivably return.
Dina is tagged.
Also this is a reference to the first time you see a raptor in Jurassic park, right down to the grabbing the edge and upwards slam. Look at about 1:50 on in this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbqnkTYXgI
I must be one of the handful of people in the Western Hemisphere who haven’t watched “Jurassic Park”, so I didn’t get the reference until you posted the link.
The strip is almost a shot-for-shot duplicate, right down to the lines: “Shoot her. SHOOT HER!” = “Feed her. FEED HER!”
Watch it, the special effects still hold up.
(Just ignore the pseudoscience and floating T. Rex goof, and go along for the ride.)
Yeah, I think a lot of people heard the exact tone of voice he used too when they read that panel. I know I did.
I haven’t either other than the beginning since we had a throwaway week in the high school Biology class I TA’d
Sadly, “FEED HER” only makes me think of a different movie with that line, which I also haven’t seen but someone recited in detail including why it was super gross and I will not spell out bc even w/o seeing the movie it gave me quite a bit of trauma
Marebito?
Easy: Reese’s puffs.
I’ll tell you what’s better: half a cup of rice crispies poured over a third of a cup of cornflakes.
Preferably offbrand; they sweeten it less than Kellogg’s.
better? Cocoa-puffs WITH chocolate milk.
Cocoa Pebbles… also with chocolate milk!
Becky!!!
Dina got tall??
Okay, this is legit adorable.
She spared no expense.
She’s standing on the sink.
One final question, who is tall enough to hold Becky at the top of the door like that?
Velociraptors can jump extremely high.
Cheetah speed. Fifty, sixty miles an hour if she removes the hat. And she’s an astonishing jumper.
beautiful
Dina has suddenly grown two feet
She’s a centaur now?
Beat me to it!
Congrats on your impending Centaurhood.
Except she’s half carnivorous dinosaur instead of half horse.
…or instead of half human?
Thank you for giving me a new monster to throw against my players: The Dinotaur, half horse, half raptor, all ornery
Or maybe half-carnivorous, and only eats meat every other meal.
Dina has a close relationship with doors. Her powers when she is hidden by one are incalculable.
The Rule of Funny, mostly :D.
Dina, when she’s horny.
She’s a variant of the hulk?
Her secret is, she’s always horny?
Dina as obviously been constructing an advanced pulley system to increase power, with the drawback that the last pully wheel is fastened to the ceiling.
Dina has mad upper body strength due to lifting and carrying around many heavy paleontology textbooks and dinosaur encyclopedias with color pages.
Isn’t it obvious? She’s at the top of the doorway because she ain’t never been under the top, and she ain’t startin’ now.
Dina all making movie-accurate Jurassic Park raptor sounds
Oh my god, this is amazing.
I know, right? Yesterday Becky was killed by a door and today she is being devoured by a dinosaur. Has Willis no mercy?
clever girl
They should all be destroyed
the mood whiplash hit me harder then mike’s untimely entrance into witness protection
Did you call it that or is that a new filter?
Testing: death
I can’t imagine Willis would have a filter on “death”, though that would be amusing.
What would they replace it with? [Splatoon 2 Let’s Plays]?
Except that only proves that the original comment didn’t contain the word “death”. It doesn’t rule out the possibility that some OTHER word might have been there and hit by a filter. We need to try more tests.
Testing: Thanks to current politics, we are seeing the demise of satire.
Testing: After getting through security, please proceed to your departure gate.
Testing: I think I’ll go back to erectile disfunction pill my hair.
Testing: There’s a lot of concern about sending children back to class this sauerkraut monkey.
Testing: Between the heat and humidity, I don’t want to go jogging. I think I’ll just lie here all jellyfish enematose.
Testing: I need to stop overcooking my breakfast. That was like biting into a cement pancake.
Testing: The moon is covered in pimple craters.
Testing: Mike’s death.
In fairness, Mike’s concussion and new pair of glasses was pretty disconcerting.
Mike’s untimely lemonade
Horny Becky, now a blatant Jurassic Park reference . . . yup, that’s Dina.
I had been thinking this might be a fakeout, and Becky might’ve moved on, but the fact that Dina’s in the tags has me thinking this is exactly what it looks like.
(I wonder if I still have that Dina hat I bought in 2010?)
I know Dina has max steath but did she max strength stat over the time skip too?!
Seems highly probable
Nah, circumstance modifier.
There’s an alternate class feature for Druids to trade wildshaping for Barbarian Rage.
Why so that when she’s a high enough level druid to wildshape into various kinds of saurids?
She’s already three atrociraptors.
Willis, I shall never tire of Jurassic Park riffs. If you ever stop, I shall consider this comic ENDING of Age, am I right, you guys?
Complete with meteoric fall.
God I love the velociraptor girl.
That was a song by the Cowsills?
I knew, (I knew, I knew, I knew, I knew, I knew)
She could make me happy, (happy, happy, happy)
You should hear her roar
Cereal on the floor!
I notice in the later panels that Becky suddenly doesn’t look as bothered.
Is she being…”devoured”?
Oh, Dina’s getting fed all right.
Gotta feed her cereal so she won’t munch on the rug
…I’ll see myself out.
It’s okay you can say “vored”
Don’t think that was where that was going, but sure; always up for some vore.
i suppose they are trying her to quell her appetite with micro rabbits stuffed into a cereal box…
It makes sense. Dina must be voracious following the time-skip.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who got lesbian subtext out of all this.
I don’t think that’s sub. That’s straight up text. Dina means to eat her girl.
What subtext? This is just lesbian text
I know this is a joke, but… no. Dina is good on consent stuff.
Thank you.
Also; Bonus points for stating something observably and objectively, verifiably true. (Tired of the lies)
*plays Green Jelly’s “Cereal Killer” on the hacked Muzak*
It’s full of vitamins and METAL!
Yay! Micronutrients are important
I just want to know how Dina, who is all of five-foot-nuthin, is able to drag Becky up to the top of the door.
She’s standing on the sink.
I mean I guess the real answer is that this is just a bit of comedic absurdity that bends the rules of reality a bit, like that time Amber caught Sal in a pokeball. But I’m choosing to believe Dina got super jacked over the time skip! I’m keeping that hope alive!
That one was actually immediately revealed to be a daydream. Of course, this might be Dina’s daydream.
Through sheer power of Jurassic Park reenactment.
I was wondering that too. Perhaps she can do things that shouldn’t be possible only when it’s a reference to Jurassic Park.
Or teleporting behind doors.
Adrenaline.
Dina has mad upper body strength due to lifting and carrying around many heavy paleontology textbooks and dinosaur encyclopedias with color pages.
And, and . . . and she’s standing on a stack of those books in the half-bath right now, and added a foot and a half to her height.
oh my god horny dinah
ohhhhhhhhhhhh my god
If she’s wearing her triceratops hat she has three of them.
Well-made point!
Clev-er I mean Horny girl. . .
HI DINA
You got XKCD in my…
I love how this implies Dina has doubled in size and strength during the timeskip
I love how this implies Dina is horny on Main, and this has caused a Poke-style evolution increases in strength and possibly height.
She’s evolved into D. Nah, an eight-foot-tall, carnivorous paleontologist in training.
Was there an update on Gravitars?
Nope.
Calling it: Biggest Season 2 plot twist is that Dina now announces herself EVERY time she shows up
Willis really had to ramp it up after Becky’s reunion with Dina following the trip home with Joyce. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/04-it-all-returns/quiet-2/
I love that strip so much!!
Mike actually recovered completely from his coma. He died in an unrelated incident when he got too close to a hungry Dina.
Clever Girl.
Dina being horny? More likely than what you think.
Did you know yours is the 69th comment? Seriously it was 69 when I checked just now and yours is the most recent.
Replies are also counted and can come in at any position. But maybe.
Horny? You mean she’s wearing her tricera-top?
I choose to believe that in the last panel Dorothy is actually trying to pry Becky’s arm off the door.
For reasons.
Dina’s got quite a dino-appetite.
Loins. It’s what’s for dinner.
Willis how do you feel having made the FUNNIEST fucking strip in Dumbing of Age thus far????
It is certainly one of the few strips I’d describe as “fucking”, so it is in a favorable playing field^^
It’s too late for cereal! Dina’s about to feed on Becky’s tender loins!
(Probably not, but.)
First the tender loins, then the tenderloins.
Ruth already called dibs on the femurs.
So. That security deposit is gone I guess.
what?
…
WHAT?
Yes, Becky. Dina has missed you too.
This is wonderful.
this feels very Shortpacked! in tone. I wonder if reality is gonna be a little looser from now on here
Joyce lowkey has the ability to teleport; I’d say we’ve been there for a while now.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/helping/
From now on, this is my favourite comic from the whole bunch of excellent other possible favourite comics
One of the downsides to having a girlfriend with a dinosaur obsession and identity issues that makes her occasionally behave like a movie Velociraptor.
hahahaha what the hell is happening, also did Dina get a growth spurt ?
Did Dina evolve from a dinosaur into a dragon and is now kidnapping a princess?
Goodness, never knew Dina had that serious problems with low blood sugar.
Yup. Yup. As I was saying — the reason that I prefer the relationship threads to the adventure threads in this comic is that they’re so realistic.
Dorothy and Dina scripted this, didn’t they?
Look at Becky’s line here. Look how she’s flailing. That is some exaggerated ridiculousness right there.
If anyone’s NOT in on this, it’s Joyce.
CUE THE “COPIOUS NOTE-TAKING” .
Oof, first day in the room, getting finger scratches on the door? If I know my college dorm policies (and I do), they’ll wanna cover that up. No one has time to pay for room damages.
I just finished rereading the archive from 2012-ish onwards, and I think this makes my top 10 DoA strips that I’d love to see animated?
… wait, Dina mutated into a sex-crazed dinosaur during the timeskip?
You’re surprised?
One word: inevitable
Nono she is a dragon now and she just captured a princess.
Ohai, Dina.
I do volunteer sound design for theaters and student films in my area. I heard every bit of these sounds in my head just now – and a few more as subtext (moist squishy noises) – and they are just hilarious.
If the classic 1950s Godzilla “Gronk” is in the mix, all the better.
SHE GOT HER!!!! THE TERROR! THE HORROR! AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! I love this! Dina seems so happy to see Becky ♡♡♡. She just can’t calm herself.
Damn Dina Dina got strong in these few months
Nothing is as strong as the power of true love.
And hunger.
I thought kids nowadays call it “thirst”?
fav hijinks comic ever. <3
She’s gonna be in velocirapture
Velocipastor is wonderfully terrible.
Well that was a delightful reframing of a scene that freaked me the hell out when I was 12
Love the shoutout, but I had to be told about one of them.
Today I realized I know more about Robo-Vac than I do Jurassic Park. I had ought to see that movie someday.
In real life Dina would not deign to be my friend.
Hilarious yet terrifying. Hilariously terrifying.
Hillarifying
Definitely a new showrunner this season. Totally changed the tone.
I continue not to regret my pick for “who would win in a fight”
Dina’s dangerous when her blood sugar is low, eh?
Another Jurassic Park reference! RIP Jophery.
so is Dina hungry or horny? OH! can I coin the term “horngry?”
I believe the modern fandom term is “thirst”.
OMG Becky’s eyes in panel 4 this is my favorite all time DoA
Coma
This is so adorable.
No…seriously…WTF is happening here?
Since people seem to be posting their decadent cereal preferences: a mix of Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch and Cocoa Pebbles with chocolate milk.
But LOW FAT chocolate milk so it’s healthy.
Oh snap it didn’t occur to me until this page that Becky and Dina are now next door neighbors.
Actually, that’s Amber helping her roommate. Dina is about to come in via the open hallway door.
Clever Girl.
Hey, I watched JP for the first time last night!
This is my new favourite page, not only of this comic, but of any of the many comics I read.