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First crack

by David M Willis on July 8, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – For Me It Was Tuesday
└ Tags: becky, dina, sarah

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  1. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    July 8, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Wow, Dina’s a natural.

    It takes most college students way longer to drink themselves under the table. She’s so efficient!

    • anon
      anon
      July 8, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

      lol the neat freak in me worries about the table being dirty lol

      even tho becky said something about ‘self sanitizing’ when joyce was freaking out about the wine at jacob’s church (tho that still seems like nasty with backwash or so)

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        July 8, 2024 at 4:44 am | #

        You just sort of put your lips to the cup edge

    • Ophidiophile
      Ophidiophile
      July 8, 2024 at 3:42 am | #

      It takes even longer for them to drink FROM the table.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      July 8, 2024 at 2:50 pm | #

      Dina, Muldoon didn’t say, “shot’s for her.” He said, “shoot her!”

      But I love your energy, even as I fret over the cleanliness of a college dorm table.

  2. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    July 8, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Gonna be 5 minutes at the most before the first effects ethanol are onset. Probably much less given her weight.

    GET EXCITED! B)

    *plays “Hydrogen” by M|O|O|N on hacked muzak*

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      July 8, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      Dina: “Dorothy, I fear in my inebriated state last night, I may have behaved in an embarrassing manner. Can you confirm?”

      Dorothy: “No, you were fine. Look, I recorded some of the party.”

      Drunk Dina on phone: “An’ y’know what? *hic* I think Dimetrodon should count aza dinozhaur. An’ I don’t care WHAT the scientizts sez!”

      Dina: It is much worse than I feared.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        July 8, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

        Obviously deeply shameful, Dimetrodon is basically a mammal, but if she was saying Pterodactyls should count as a dinosaur I think that’d be pretty defensible.

      • sultryglebe
        sultryglebe
        July 8, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

        I might actually say this sober. I always want to say dimetrodon is my favorite dinosaur, even though I know.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          July 8, 2024 at 2:49 am | #

          I won’t go so far as saying you should be able to say Dimetrodon is your favourite dinosaur, it’s not even the right branch of the tree, but that so much of taxonomy is based around creating Monophyly means that it can become very frustrating to talk about very basal members of the clade.

          Like I know “Pelycosaur” is paraphyletic but I kind of feel like it’s useful to be able to specify that we’re talking about specifically the weird sail dudes.

          • tim Rowledge
            tim Rowledge
            July 8, 2024 at 11:19 am | #

            “Monophyly”?
            Go directly to the archetype of jail. Do not pass any ancestors or descendants of Go.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      July 8, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

      I’ve definitely heard of short people who have shockingly high alcohol tolerances for their size.

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        July 8, 2024 at 4:25 am | #

        Present

  3. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    July 8, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    accurate keg party is accurate

    • Aura
      Aura
      July 8, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      These panels could actually have been photos taken at any of a dozen parties from my late teens–early 20s :O (And I wasn’t even much of a party person!)

  4. Masumi
    Masumi
    July 8, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Love how these girls’ weird goes together so well!

    • Jenniffniff
      Jenniffniff
      July 8, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

      Me too. I love them as a couple.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        July 8, 2024 at 11:10 pm | #

        they just need, like, a talking cat to become TEAM ROCKETSCIENCE

  5. Matrix
    Matrix
    July 8, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    What a waste!

    • Mild Lee Interested
      Mild Lee Interested
      July 8, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

      Slurping spilled spirits off the table like this to avoid waste is 100% age accurate.

      • Dante
        Dante
        July 8, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

        … I mean, I’m not sure it’s age restricted

        (Is it??? I HOPE NOT???)

        • Mild Lee Interested
          Mild Lee Interested
          July 8, 2024 at 2:20 am | #

          Refuse to respond on the grounds that i may incriminate my 50 year old self.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      July 8, 2024 at 8:23 am | #

      And it’s even a keg. This party won’t be long, I’m afraid.

  6. Aura
    Aura
    July 8, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    omg Dina has the BEST faces in this one! I think panel 4 is my favourite

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      July 8, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

      I know. I also really like that Mr. Willis took the time to draw reflections in the liquid in panel 4 – very cool detail.

      • Aura
        Aura
        July 8, 2024 at 1:22 am | #

        Oh nice, I had to scroll up to admire those! 😀

  7. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    July 8, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    It’s actually booze. I guess stores do sell nondescript cartoon bottles of generic alcohol.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      July 8, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

      Oh yeah, you can totally get jugs that look like this, albeit it’s people selling it for the shtick.

      So, on the bright side, it may not be total rotgut, but on the downside, it’s probably not very good if it’s relying on a gimmick to stand out on the shelf.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      July 8, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

      Did you want a bottle of Jack Daniels with the label facing out?

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        July 8, 2024 at 12:45 am | #

        Well excuse me for thinking the big cartoon jug of booze with x’s on it was maybe the setup for a gag.

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          July 8, 2024 at 12:50 am | #

          That being said I think maybe we’ve seen double x brand alcohol before. I think Ruth is a fan.

          • Thag Simmons
            Thag Simmons
            July 8, 2024 at 2:57 am | #

            I totally buy that someone would come up with this sort of minimalist branding for an alcohol product

            Maybe in the dumbiverse ‘X’ brand alcohol is a popular brand.

            • Aura
              Aura
              July 8, 2024 at 7:59 am | #

              XXXX is a pretty well-known beer in Australia

            • John Campbell
              John Campbell
              July 8, 2024 at 7:55 pm | #

              XX and Nachitos, breakfast of champions. And by “champions” I mean “college students”.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          July 8, 2024 at 1:18 am | #

          You’re not being taken to task, there’s nothing to excuse.

      • StClair
        StClair
        July 8, 2024 at 2:08 am | #

        that would mean Willis was getting the sweet product placement money, right?

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        July 8, 2024 at 6:44 am | #

        Now that’s what I call product placement!

  8. Dante
    Dante
    July 8, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

    [CACKLING]

    I’m pretty sure something like this happened at least a couple of times the first time I handled a bottle of that size. What a rite of passage. But, is Dina prepared to how gasoline-like that’s gonna taste?

  9. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    July 8, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

    No one really thought to make a punch for the incredibly high potency booze, huh?

    • Shakes
      Shakes
      July 8, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

      I’m not American so I don’t know if sinking hits of raw spirits from plastic cups is the done thing for 18 year old first timers but it seems like insanity to me to have no mixers.

      You open that bottle and smell once and you kinda know you’re not drinking that neat!

      • pope suburban
        pope suburban
        July 8, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

        Shots are common here, yes, but most people prefer or require a chaser. Certainly mixed drinks were also popular when I was in school, but I don’t know how useful my data is because I grew up in a college town and even my high school was infamous for partying hard. Like, kids would go to college and be able to handle their liquor, and it would all click when they named our hometown (we party hard, and also have less oxygen – a formidable preparation for teen drinking closer to sea level). My concern here is that if Dina gets most of that Solo cup, she will be having A Time soon, and it’s anyone’s guess how long before Terrible gets added (because it will, either at the time or next morning). Sarah is right to commandeer the booze and we’d do well with a few more people who have imbibed before and can babysit the newbies. Thst was my job often in school, especially freshman year when people would drink at altitude before acclimated. I would sooner herd cats; there would be less puke and minor injury. :’D

      • Bogeywoman
        Bogeywoman
        July 8, 2024 at 6:01 am | #

        In Australia that’s definitely how first timers do it. Generally there’s not a second time unless they’re desperate/bogan enough.

        The alternative is good of fortune where a good bag (cheap bag wine) is hung from a hills hoist (circular clothes line) which is spun so whoever is nearest it when it stops has to take a drink.

        • Aura
          Aura
          July 8, 2024 at 8:01 am | #

          In case anyone not familiar with the lingo’s reading this and confused, ‘good’ in the second paragraph is an autocorrect from ‘goon’ 🙂

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      July 8, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

      I can’t imagine generic alcohol tastes great either. They should really have a mixer for it. These young punks will tolerate anything for the buzz.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        July 8, 2024 at 6:47 am | #

        Great Value rotgut.

    • zee
      zee
      July 8, 2024 at 12:09 pm | #

      Well yeah they’re like 19 max and American, they don’t know how you’re supposed to drink

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        July 8, 2024 at 7:54 pm | #

        It’s not like there aren’t highly experienced professionals in the cast, even at that age. (Though one is Canadian.)
        These two just happen to be the newbies.

  10. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    July 8, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

    Well, we can tell by the color it’s not a barley beverage.

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      July 8, 2024 at 12:40 am | #

      I’d say the color suggests barrel aging, but the packaging suggests caramel color added to make it [i]look[/i] like it’s been barrel aged when in fact it’s never been anywhere [i]near[/i] an oak barrel.

      • Shakes
        Shakes
        July 8, 2024 at 1:22 am | #

        If Dina could reach it it probably wasn’t the good stuff.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          July 8, 2024 at 2:58 am | #

          Or alternatively it’s the real good under the counter shit.

          • Azhrei Vep
            Azhrei Vep
            July 8, 2024 at 7:08 am | #

            Double alternately …. we’ve never seen Dina jump that I know of.

            Girl might have ups.

            • Nymph
              Nymph
              July 8, 2024 at 11:19 am | #

              We do know she got onto Joe’s shoulders with relative ease so I support this theory.

            • Tan
              Tan
              July 8, 2024 at 12:24 pm | #

              Honestly, if we found out Dina was crawling on the ceiling, it would be one of the least surprising physics-defying moments in the entire comic.

  11. Kimi
    Kimi
    July 8, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

    The true way to get your kids to never want to try alcohol, with a taste of Malort at home?

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      July 8, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

      I’ve always thought “Malort” should be the name of a goblin.

      • Kimi
        Kimi
        July 8, 2024 at 1:55 am | #

        Considering what I have heard people say of its flavor, it might not be too far off. “Malört (literally moth herb) is the Swedish word for wormwood” according to wiki.

  12. Bryy
    Bryy
    July 8, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

    That “at communion” quote is doing A LOT OF HEAVY LIFTING.

  13. shrub
    shrub
    July 8, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

    Table scull!

    I’ve never identified more with Dina until this.

  14. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    July 8, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

    They are still doing better than my first group drinking event; that is a day I wish I could forget.

    • shrub
      shrub
      July 8, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

      If you can remember it then you didn’t drink enough 😀

  15. brionl
    brionl
    July 8, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

    Should have gone with a Velociraptor. Triceratops don’t have any thumbs, makes it hard to pour.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      July 8, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

      dino digga gonna get wasted on tree start brew XD

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        July 8, 2024 at 12:42 am | #

        *tree star

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        July 8, 2024 at 1:37 am | #

        fuck i love this reference.

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      July 8, 2024 at 7:33 am | #

      Of course they do. They’re just not particularly opposable.

  16. Endplanets
    Endplanets
    July 8, 2024 at 12:47 am | #

    Joe would be proud.

  17. BBCC
    BBCC
    July 8, 2024 at 1:02 am | #

    YES please let Sarah pour!

  18. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    July 8, 2024 at 1:21 am | #

    This party is off to an excellent start.

  19. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    July 8, 2024 at 1:45 am | #

    I’m just here to appreciate all the Dina facial expressions today

  20. Taffy
    Taffy
    July 8, 2024 at 3:08 am | #

    Depending on the variety and social context, I’d probably happily accept a full Solo cup of unmixed liquor.

  21. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    July 8, 2024 at 3:19 am | #

    Becky was savage in second panel

  22. Risky
    Risky
    July 8, 2024 at 3:32 am | #

    Were you at that Reed party in 2010 or is this just a coincidence?

  23. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    July 8, 2024 at 3:35 am | #

    Look at that reflection. Like it’s made out of mercury.

  24. DJTsurugi
    DJTsurugi
    July 8, 2024 at 3:44 am | #

    the bad choices have begun… IN EARNEST! ~<3

  25. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    July 8, 2024 at 4:05 am | #

    *Puts “Get The Party Started” (Shirley Bassey version) on the hacked musak.*

  26. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    July 8, 2024 at 5:26 am | #

    I suddenly remembered that Japanese apparently don’t process alcohol well… the drunk Dino should be interesting.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      July 8, 2024 at 5:52 am | #

      Where’d you get that idea?

      • Bogeywoman
        Bogeywoman
        July 8, 2024 at 6:22 am | #

        I’ve seen a bit of it in media, but remember a segment on a niche journalism show Hungry Beast that talked about it. Something like 30% of east Asian people (Japan, Korea, china, Thailand) have some genetic thingamajig that means their body doesn’t break down alcohol well. It causes redness (commonly depicted in anime), tiredness and either heart palpitations or breathing issues (I can’t remember which).

        • Adept
          Adept
          July 8, 2024 at 6:31 am | #

          It also makes carriers of that gene much more prone to getting bowel cancer from alcohol. It’s pretty grim, and if you have it you really should not drink.

          • Da Boy
            Da Boy
            July 8, 2024 at 7:03 am | #

            Damn this puts a rather sad twist to the enforced social drinking in Japanese work places…

            • Adept
              Adept
              July 8, 2024 at 9:09 am | #

              It really does :/

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          July 8, 2024 at 5:29 pm | #

          Jennifer is half Chinese, is she not?

          Apparently not all east asian folk lack the enzyme.

      • Da Boy
        Da Boy
        July 8, 2024 at 7:02 am | #

        Some articles, apparently Japanese, or maybe broader South-East Asians lack this one enzyme used to process alcohol.

      • Doopyboop
        Doopyboop
        July 8, 2024 at 8:16 am | #

        This is probably the silliest way to ever discover such a fact BUT… I used to watch Markiplier’s Drunk Minecraft videos. He’d get drunk with his friends and drunkenly play Minecraft, funniest shit I ever saw (in like… 2013) BUT he wound up having to quit doing the series and honestly put a stop to drinking alcohol in general because he had a heart attack. Markiplier is also Korean-American.

    • Bogeywoman
      Bogeywoman
      July 8, 2024 at 6:08 am | #

      I thought that, too. Specifically wondering whether she’d have a flush reaction.

      • Da Boy
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        July 8, 2024 at 7:05 am | #

        Will be cute to watch, distracting from the incoming couple drama between Walky and Lucy XD

        • Adept
          Adept
          July 8, 2024 at 12:34 pm | #

          Is it even couple drama after they’ve broken up?

          • Da Boy
            Da Boy
            July 8, 2024 at 12:47 pm | #

            That’s the question, did they break up? I think it was left kind of ambiguous between break up and on break? Though even if they did it’s hard to say how Lucy will react, how she will feel about this.

          • Mark
            Mark
            July 8, 2024 at 5:51 pm | #

            It’s starting to look like Walky sorta-kinda assumed so, and Lucy thought it was just a quarrel. [fingers steepled] We shall see.

  27. Mark
    Mark
    July 8, 2024 at 7:28 am | #

    [old guy says] Dina: maybe push your sleeves up above the wrist so you have full use of your hands?

  28. Mark
    Mark
    July 8, 2024 at 7:35 am | #

    Okay, I assumed from its width that this was a circular-cylindrical jug and wondering why it was so squat and had no handle. But it is looking like a simple bottle with an oval cross-section. So: still a lot of booze, but not as much as I thought.

  29. Keith
    Keith
    July 8, 2024 at 7:47 am | #

    This will be interesting, nobody is even tipsy and the crazy ways to drink have started. I feel like I missed a party when I was young. And I’ve been to parties where 1 red cup would fix it so you had to get a ride home because “dude, I can’t find my keys or my car”. 3 cup and you slithered home.

  30. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    July 8, 2024 at 8:04 am | #

    it’s big enough that you can just tilt it while having it rest on the table, Dina !

  31. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    July 8, 2024 at 8:28 am | #

    Go Dina, GO!

  32. Yeet
    Yeet
    July 8, 2024 at 9:31 am | #

    hell yeahhhh

  33. raultsi
    raultsi
    July 8, 2024 at 11:15 am | #

    wow the party hasn’t even started and the first drink is already spilled

    also it’s not a party until something gets broken and somebody pukes. Bonus points if both happen at the same time.

    • Regret
      Regret
      July 8, 2024 at 1:02 pm | #

      You need to go to better parties, puke never makes a party better.

  34. Nymph
    Nymph
    July 8, 2024 at 11:23 am | #

    I find it very interesting how the pearl-clutching people are absent from this comic strip of underage drinking actually happening, but came out in force when Joyce suggested she was looking forward to participating.

    Any bets on if they turn up again the second Joyce is on-screen?

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      July 8, 2024 at 12:04 pm | #

      It’s interesting that Dina is one of the most frequently infantilised characters in the comic, but nobody seems to bat an eye when she’s drinking straight liquor off a table.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        July 8, 2024 at 12:12 pm | #

        This is also an excellent point.

      • anon
        anon
        July 8, 2024 at 11:37 pm | #

        well, as a gf i don’t think becky wouldn ecessarily infantalize her (if anything the opposite and finding her ‘sexually intimidating’ before they hooked up) and sarah prolly wouldn’t unless she intentionally wanted to be mean, though dina likes sarah’s bluntness at least

        tho i’d think like 80% of college students would need a ‘mom friend’ or (an older) adult in the room esp during a drinking party

        i mean, joyce was ok with sneaking into a bar as part of her ‘growth’ as a person so i dont’ think she should be scandalized at dina’s drinking considering she was able to acquire it herself/i imagine they wouldn’t invite ppl that’d necessarily be against it even tho amber was at first

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      July 8, 2024 at 7:39 pm | #

      Well if they are over 18 they are not underage drinking in my books… also I’m a Slav so that kind of muddies the waters further.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        July 8, 2024 at 9:12 pm | #

        I mean, sure? I don’t have a dog in that race really, I’m just interested in the huge difference in response from the comments.

    • Nicoleandmaggie
      Nicoleandmaggie
      July 8, 2024 at 9:00 pm | #

      This is a lot funnier than Joyce and Dorothy at the bar.

  35. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    July 8, 2024 at 12:23 pm | #

    We need bigger chaser. Bring Joyce sprite stash

    • Adept
      Adept
      July 8, 2024 at 12:38 pm | #

      Urgh… random hard liquor and sprite. It sucks being 18 and clueless.

  36. Suet
    Suet
    July 8, 2024 at 12:40 pm | #

    And this party is now off to a messy start…

    We might have to ration the hooch!

  37. Proto
    Proto
    July 8, 2024 at 3:12 pm | #

    I don’t know what booze in particular is in that bottle but I think (at least some of) these children drinking for the first time are about to find out that alcohol with no mixers is potentially not the tastiest drink around.

    I remember the first time I drank anything it was just a little shot glass of vodka (that I drank like a tiny glass because I didn’t know how you did a shot) and I did a cartoon spittake when I did not care for it at all.

  38. Adept
    Adept
    July 8, 2024 at 3:18 pm | #

    I do wonder if that weird x x bottle is a stand in for something real. Is this autobiographical?

  39. Luminous Lead
    Luminous Lead
    July 8, 2024 at 3:44 pm | #

    I hope that’s a waterproof plastic table and not a painted/stained wooden one. I’ve see spilled rum take the colour off them and the resulting puddles did not look appetizing.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 8, 2024 at 4:36 pm | #

      It’s probably a plastic card table.

  40. jmsr7
    jmsr7
    July 8, 2024 at 9:25 pm | #

    Dina’s face is hilarious. You can really tell that her practice of ‘roaring like a dinasaur’ has paid off.

    Also, i can.not.believe it took me this long to notice that Becky is leaning into the ‘flannel wearing lesbian’ stereotype.

  41. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    July 9, 2024 at 7:52 am | #

    Since they locked the door to prevent Ruth, I assume Dorothy arrived from the shared bathroom side ?

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