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May 12, 2026

Angels

by David M Willis on February 3, 2021 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – See You in the Funny Page
└ Tags: booster, dina, sarah

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 3, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    so wait

    does this improve Sarah’s move or bring it down

    what’s Joyce doing rn

    (Booster doing like this)

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      February 3, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

      Dumbing of Age Book 11: Because ANGELS Do Not EXIST

      • Clif
        Clif
        February 3, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

        Word of Alt-text has other ideas. So do I, come to think of it.

        DOA 11: I Thought Your Emotional Shenanigans were Evidence Based!

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          February 3, 2021 at 12:24 am | #

          So this clocks in at three book titles

        • Ellegos
          Ellegos
          February 3, 2021 at 12:31 am | #

          DOA 11: How DARE you implicate me in your Wizardry!

          DOA 11: I’m Being Magically Forced Into Being Happy.

          • Ellegos
            Ellegos
            February 3, 2021 at 12:32 am | #

            Doh! Just now loomed at the alt text myself…

            • HeySo
              HeySo
              February 3, 2021 at 10:55 am | #

              DOA 11: I should have looked before I leapt

              DOA 11anthology edition: I should have carefully analyzed the situation before opening my mouth but, I didn’t and, now here we are.

              • HeySo
                HeySo
                February 3, 2021 at 10:56 am | #

                Or would it be, “I should have loomed before I wove”? :taps chin:

                :waves at everyone:

                • a/snow/mous/e
                  a/snow/mous/e
                  February 3, 2021 at 11:48 am | #

                  *waves back*

                • a/snow/mous/e
                  a/snow/mous/e
                  February 3, 2021 at 11:51 am | #

                  (good thing for the moderation check, i almost accidentally doxxed myself with autocomplete when i changed the capitalization on my email)

        • Keulen
          Keulen
          February 3, 2021 at 5:03 am | #

          This strip has so many good potential book titles.

        • jflb96
          jflb96
          February 3, 2021 at 9:54 pm | #

          What if there’s evidence for the magic, because it’s just sufficiently-advanced technology and/or the influence of one or several extra-dimensional beings?

      • Rabid Rabbit
        Rabid Rabbit
        February 3, 2021 at 2:03 am | #

        Only if there’s a tiny Becky popping up in the corner yelling “But if that’s true, how do YOU exist, Dina???”

        Seriously, Becky not being here is terribly unfair to her. How many perfect opportunities for really over-the-top sappy statements do you get?

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        February 3, 2021 at 10:11 am | #

        You had ONE JOB, comments section. ONE job – come up with titles for future books. That’s it! And Willis beat you to it. Sad.

        • HeySo
          HeySo
          February 3, 2021 at 10:57 am | #

          I mean, it wouldn’t be the same without those “Damn you, Willis” moments..

    • Zippotricks McEdgelord
      Zippotricks McEdgelord
      February 3, 2021 at 2:47 pm | #

      I just thought they wanted to get Sarah and Dina into the shot, but that reading works, too.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    February 3, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    Dina: BURN THE WITCH!

    Booster: Neat! *snap*

    • Nono
      Nono
      February 3, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

      Well according to Mary’s Halloween pictures, Sarah is a witch.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 3, 2021 at 2:40 am | #

      Booster Boosting Rodriguez

  3. Reed
    Reed
    February 3, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    and there goes the magic

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 3, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

      My Little Dina: Friendship is Evidence Based

  4. Suet
    Suet
    February 3, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    Check the joy barometer every once in a while, nobody wants a Joy Big Bang.

    Also, yes, wide and either very high or low.

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    February 3, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    Oh no, the bffs are fighting! D:

  6. Beau Kirin Maysey
    Beau Kirin Maysey
    February 3, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    No, Booster, ANGEL, not angle

    hehe–

    *puts a single penny into a jar labeled ‘The Oldest Trick in the Book’*

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      February 3, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

      Booster can be your angle or yuor devil.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      February 3, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

      Are you calling that angel fat?

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        February 3, 2021 at 11:52 am | #

        nah, they said a WIDER angel would be best, so obviously the angel is too skinny.

    • coma
      coma
      February 3, 2021 at 1:51 am | #

      Perfect reference!

    • Arian
      Arian
      February 3, 2021 at 5:06 am | #

      Non angeli sed angli.

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        February 3, 2021 at 11:56 am | #

        literally the oldest joke

        • a/snow/mous/e
          a/snow/mous/e
          February 3, 2021 at 11:57 am | #

          (except i think the original was “Non angli sed angeli”?)

          • Arian
            Arian
            February 4, 2021 at 8:27 pm | #

            Yep. “Not Angles but angels”. But this situation is the other way round.

        • jflb96
          jflb96
          February 3, 2021 at 9:43 pm | #

          Isn’t the oldest joke that one about women never not farting in their husband’s lap?

  7. Madock345
    Madock345
    February 3, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    This strip is just literally perfect. Absolutely would not change a thing.

  8. Viktoria
    Viktoria
    February 3, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    I feel like Dina is getting more antsy over this sort of thing, not less. Maybe biting her tongue over Becky going to church is getting to her?

    • Fuzzy
      Fuzzy
      February 3, 2021 at 1:10 am | #

      Ohh, that makes sense. I thought Dina was being a lil more intense than usual.

    • misanthropope
      misanthropope
      February 3, 2021 at 11:34 am | #

      her body’s been friendzoned. watch the hell out, folks.

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      February 3, 2021 at 11:55 am | #

      *puts on “Take Me to Church”*

  9. plasticwrap
    plasticwrap
    February 3, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

    BURN THE WITCH

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      February 3, 2021 at 2:34 am | #

      What do we also do with witches?

      • Sunny
        Sunny
        February 3, 2021 at 6:45 am | #

        Build bridges out of them?

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      February 3, 2021 at 5:06 am | #

      She turned me into a newt!

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        February 3, 2021 at 7:02 am | #

        I got better.

        • Ryek Hvek
          Ryek Hvek
          February 3, 2021 at 9:27 am | #

          Just don’t go shutting down the government.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            February 3, 2021 at 4:32 pm | #

            Turning persons into random amphibians is no basis for a system of government.

  10. Spencer
    Spencer
    February 3, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    Dina’s like one step away from going “science is my rifle, intellect is my blade. Care to do battle? I thought not” in this strip and it’s legitimately the funniest thing I’ve ever seen her do.

    I love Dina. She’s always been a really great character and she never really lost that as she rose in prominence in that usual way for long running series where a small scale character gets some popularity and eventually you have an entire modern TV show about a guy who looks like Boba Fett.

  11. Cc
    Cc
    February 3, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    … Wait, will Diana’s indignant fury serve to further exacerbate Sarah’s excellent mood?

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 3, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

      I think Booster is here to prevent that

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      February 3, 2021 at 3:05 pm | #

      Let’s make Booster grumpy and see what happens!

  12. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    February 3, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    Come on Dina, how do you explain love if it isn’t magic? And before anyone tries to scientifically explain love, I will force feed you candy hearts until you understand love or get diabetes, whichever comes first.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 3, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

      How would you be able to explain this thing if not this other thing?

      If you try to explain thing without other thing I shoot you.

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        February 3, 2021 at 11:59 am | #

        sounds llike a meme template tbh

    • Mariah Hardnett
      Mariah Hardnett
      February 3, 2021 at 1:55 am | #

      Some say that love is a chemical compelling animals to breed but i find that argument rather homophobic and depressing. Also candy is bad for you.

      • CrazyJ
        CrazyJ
        February 3, 2021 at 3:25 am | #

        I don’t see anything homophobic about that explanation, there’s too many other advantages in sex as a method of conflict resolution for it be strongly selected against. Just look at bonobos for example; their entire society is based on sex, both hetero and homo.

      • jflb96
        jflb96
        February 3, 2021 at 9:53 pm | #

        How about ‘compelling animals otherwise heavily inclined towards political competition to not tear apart the next generation’s support structure’? That also accounts for non-romantic love and touches on stuff like the gay uncle effect.

    • John
      John
      February 3, 2021 at 10:06 am | #

      Love is the lie we scream to ourselves as float through the uncaring void.

      • NickG
        NickG
        February 3, 2021 at 10:11 am | #

        Eat at Arby’s.

  13. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    February 3, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    *plays Queen’s “A Kind Of Magic” on the P.A. speakers*

  14. Wagstaff
    Wagstaff
    February 3, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

    The explanation to Sarah’s schadenfreude mechanism remains unclear, but that is no reason to assume that it is magic. When something is unexplained, one cannot simply fill the gap with some placeholder fairy tail to explain it. When something is unexplained, it’s just that: unexplained.

    • Clif
      Clif
      February 3, 2021 at 12:24 am | #

      On the contrary, placeholder fairy tails are fine as long as they’re testable. If you don’t agree, I must suspect you don’t keep up with modern physics.

      • Some1
        Some1
        February 3, 2021 at 12:30 am | #

        How the hell did you both manage to spell fairy tale wrong? Unless of course your talking about the popular manga/anime series Fairy Tail.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          February 3, 2021 at 12:36 am | #

          Are you so sure they don’t mean fairies with tails?

      • Wagstaff
        Wagstaff
        February 3, 2021 at 2:31 am | #

        Where do you get your info on modern physics? Deepak Chopra?

    • Khyrin
      Khyrin
      February 3, 2021 at 1:52 am | #

      it is at minimum some flavor of Spooky Action at a distance, as Sarah’s mood improved while outside the line of sight of Joyce.

  15. Axel
    Axel
    February 3, 2021 at 12:18 am | #

    inb4 Booster making a general comment that applies to most people is called rude/abusive/assumptive

    • Anon A Mouse
      Anon A Mouse
      February 3, 2021 at 1:45 am | #

      Nah, Booster is just proving they don’t have to be rude/abusive/assumptive to ruin a perfectly happy moment. They do it just by being around.

    • SuperZero
      SuperZero
      February 4, 2021 at 12:52 am | #

      Making a general comment that apples to most people can absolutely be rude.

  16. LiterallyJustSomeGuy
    LiterallyJustSomeGuy
    February 3, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

    But Dina, if magic isn’t real, than Sarah’s situation can’t be wizardry! By accusing her of wizardry you acknowledge that wizardry exists!

    • Clif
      Clif
      February 3, 2021 at 12:25 am | #

      Only evidence-based wizardry.

      • James
        James
        February 3, 2021 at 12:35 am | #

        Magic, sufficiently analyzed, is indistinguishable from science. -Agatha Heterodyne, i forget the year and i’m not looking it up

        • Khyrin
          Khyrin
          February 3, 2021 at 1:54 am | #

          Too bad. I looked it up for you, SO THERE!
          2008 December 5.

          • James
            James
            February 3, 2021 at 8:17 pm | #

            NO, LEARNING AGAINST MY WILL!

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          February 3, 2021 at 11:48 am | #

          Heterodyne is the name of an evil cyberpunk megacorp but instead of building killer robots or AIs they’re just aggressively straight.

          The badass cyberpunk rebel will storm their building and then they’ll complain that everyone’s picking on them and if they were gay then everyone would be fine with the corporate dystopia.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            February 3, 2021 at 4:35 pm | #

            But do they have nize hats?

        • brionl
          brionl
          February 3, 2021 at 12:08 pm | #

          “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology” is a lot older than Girl Genius. ISTR Larry Niven way back in the 80’s but the earliest appears to be 1984.

          https://quotes.yourdictionary.com/author/quote/195789

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            February 3, 2021 at 2:55 pm | #

            The Foglio’s variant is a little different – “sufficiently analyzed”, not “advanced”. It also doesn’t necessarily hold, depending on how your magic works.

            The original is of course Clarke’s 3rd law from 1973.

            There are a ton of variants, my favorite of which semantically equivalent to the 3rd law: “Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.”

            • Arian
              Arian
              February 4, 2021 at 8:33 pm | #

              Thank you for knowing what semantics is.

  17. MrSmith
    MrSmith
    February 3, 2021 at 12:24 am | #

    Take it down a notch Dina, its not like your girlfriend doesn’t believe in a form of magic

    (starts playing Queens Its a kind of magic, just because)

  18. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    February 3, 2021 at 12:29 am | #

    Wait, a strip where Booster is the reasonable one?

  19. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    February 3, 2021 at 12:29 am | #

    Booster appears to be looking into the viewfinder at the top of the camera rather than holding it at arm’s length and staring into a little screen on the back, as one would expect of a DSLR.  Makes me think Booster is old-school and still shooting on film — probably Ilford HP5 or Kodak Tri-X pan black-and-white for the true retro touch — with an ordinary SLR.

    • TheLurkerAbove
      TheLurkerAbove
      February 3, 2021 at 2:36 am | #

      Uh what? DSLRs all have viewfinders, that’s where the SLR part comes in. Even mirrorless cameras have EVFs, and Booster having an interest in photography will likely use something that will have a viewfinder. It’s very likely it’s a digital camera, there’s a LCD on the back of their camera.

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      February 3, 2021 at 2:41 am | #

      Back in the day we had to use Verichrome Pan.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 3, 2021 at 2:49 am | #

      DSLRs still have optical viewfinders, usually through-the-lens prism ones too.

      But then again, college student. DSLRs are expensive, but 35mm SLRs are cheap and generally use the same glass. They just cost a lot more per shot (if you can still find a place that develops film on-site), but the pretentious might argue that means they have to carefully pick and choose their shots carefully instead of popping off a dozen and keeping the good one.

      • LiamKav
        LiamKav
        February 3, 2021 at 5:19 am | #

        Yeah, looking through the viewfinder is no indication as to whether its a film-based SLR or a DSLR. For me the clue that it’s a 35mm one is that whilst lots of people will look through the viewfinder of a DSLR while taking the photo, they’ll normally look at the screen right after to see if the picture has come out okay, and Booster isn’t doing that.

        (exciting camera based revelations)

  20. Black
    Black
    February 3, 2021 at 12:33 am | #

    I get the feeling that Booster is one of those people who uses the camera as a barrier to the rest of the world.

  21. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    February 3, 2021 at 12:34 am | #

    Booster’s role as newcomer and observer works well with the photography hobby. (Or was this for a class?)

    Puts them in a position to where showing up in different places or around other people and for it to be pretty explainable.

    • TheLurkerAbove
      TheLurkerAbove
      February 3, 2021 at 3:34 am | #

      It’s an interest, I went back to check several strips ago.

  22. Bagge
    Bagge
    February 3, 2021 at 12:35 am | #

    Stop having fun wrong!

  23. woobie
    woobie
    February 3, 2021 at 12:36 am | #

    are you a wizard

  24. Kravis
    Kravis
    February 3, 2021 at 12:45 am | #

    Oh hey, look!

    It’s party-pooper Booster!

  25. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    February 3, 2021 at 1:04 am | #

    Quick, Booster. Before their art disappears.

  26. Rainhat
    Rainhat
    February 3, 2021 at 1:04 am | #

    Tsk. Imagine being only able to draw things you believe exist.

    (Before anyone jumps on this, remember what site you’re posting to.)

    Also, this plot continues to be delightful even with Booster.

  27. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 3, 2021 at 2:19 am | #

    I think that Booster has decided to focus on his art and let the crazy people sort themselves out for once.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      February 3, 2021 at 7:04 am | #

      *Their art.

  28. Lord_Circe
    Lord_Circe
    February 3, 2021 at 2:23 am | #

    Dina, please don’t buy into the dogmatic stupidity of “magic vs science” thinking. Acting like someone is unclean because they used the word ‘magic’ or similar phrases to describe something is prejudicial thinking at its most blatant, and is just about as ‘unscientific’ as you can actually get.

    • Zaxares
      Zaxares
      February 3, 2021 at 6:35 am | #

      Yeah, I was having similar thoughts. This is basically how the other side of the “War against Christmas” hardcore atheists like to react when somebody wishes them Merry Christmas and it bothers me almost as much as the religious pushers. If somebody does not intend active malice when they talk about something special to them, and are extending genuine goodwill, why not just take the blessing (whether you believe in it or not) in the spirit it was offered? Otherwise, without the ability to compromise, we will all devolve into warring tribes with whom the only ultimate outcome is subjugation or death. And I think that would be a very sad world to live in.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      February 3, 2021 at 7:45 am | #

      I mean, I get what you’re saying, but it feels a bit like “Dina, please react to this the way a neurotypical would”.

    • thumb
      thumb
      February 3, 2021 at 9:34 am | #

      She’s not yelling because belief in magic is unscientific. She still talked and was somewhat friendlyish (yes, a lot of qualifiers) with Joyce when she was very much religious. She’s yelling because she was made part of something she stands very much against. They had a connection founded on a lie. It’s a different argument.

  29. TheLurkerAbove
    TheLurkerAbove
    February 3, 2021 at 2:37 am | #

    Might want to pack the telephoto instead and back away instead, Booster. xD

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 3, 2021 at 2:54 am | #

      They’re gonna need the kind of zoom they get on traffic helicopters, or maybe a Keyhole spy satellite.

  30. Nono
    Nono
    February 3, 2021 at 3:02 am | #

    Booster’s not doing anything bad yet, as long as they stick to taking photos of things and not people without permission.

  31. Kaffeeteria
    Kaffeeteria
    February 3, 2021 at 4:53 am | #

    First time I’ve seen Dina angry. Scarysaurus.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      February 3, 2021 at 7:44 am | #

      Then you missed when Joyce said she thought evolution was a myth.

  32. Keulen
    Keulen
    February 3, 2021 at 5:02 am | #

    Now I’m imagining Dina saying “witchcraft” like Frollo in Hunchback of Notre Dame and it’s a very strange image in my head, but kinda funny.

  33. FacelessDeviant
    FacelessDeviant
    February 3, 2021 at 6:47 am | #

    Don’t, Dina!
    Your anger will only feed her, possibly causing her smile to make the top half of her head come off!

  34. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 3, 2021 at 8:28 am | #

    Just because we haven’t worked out a way to measure it doesn’t mean that something doesn’t exist yet. It just means that we don’t have a way to detect or measure it.

    I’m not saying that I believe in magic. I’m saying that you shouldn’t base your idea of reality too closely on what science is and isn’t able to prove. At least not just yet.

    • thumb
      thumb
      February 3, 2021 at 9:31 am | #

      If we have no means whatsoever to detect it, you have no reason to believe it’s any different from any other fancy that pops into your head. Which makes it exactly as real as unicorns and the GOPs conscience.

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      February 3, 2021 at 3:12 pm | #

      We can deduce the existence of ‘dark magic’ by seeing its effects, even if we can’t detect it directly.

      • SillyGoose
        SillyGoose
        February 3, 2021 at 3:28 pm | #

        Exactly! And since our crops have been ruined by the unseasonal weather, clearly this old woman needs to be burned alive!

        • Uly
          Uly
          February 3, 2021 at 7:47 pm | #

          – How do you know she is a witch?

          • Jess
            Jess
            February 3, 2021 at 11:23 pm | #

            She weighs the same as a duck…

  35. Anon A Mouse
    Anon A Mouse
    February 3, 2021 at 8:38 am | #

    For all those saying Dina is being irrationally angry; what if she’s just trying to be angry for Sarah’s sake like she did back in the dorm?

  36. Kaidah
    Kaidah
    February 3, 2021 at 8:44 am | #

    Is it just me, or is angry Dina kinda terrifying?

  37. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    February 3, 2021 at 9:27 am | #

    Oh no. This may end the friends between Sarah and Dina forever!

  38. thumb
    thumb
    February 3, 2021 at 9:29 am | #

    Booster reminds me of Asterix and The Roman Agent (La Zizanie). They just walk in, say a few words, and arguments start.

  39. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    February 3, 2021 at 9:37 am | #

    “Wizardry!” Love it!

  40. egg egg
    egg egg
    February 3, 2021 at 10:19 am | #

    I like how Booster takes a few steps away from Angry Dina.

  41. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    February 3, 2021 at 10:42 am | #

    To Dina, it is preferable that Sarah observing others being in a bad mood made her happy, rather than believe that Sarah was happy due to some “strange action-at-a-distance” phenomena without basis in science. Better to be an asshole than a magical thinker.

  42. Spencer
    Spencer
    February 3, 2021 at 10:43 am | #

    IDW Beast Wars is go.

    Hopefully this one doesn’t end with, like, all the characters and plotlines getting sidelined for MOAR G1.

  43. Ziggy78eog
    Ziggy78eog
    February 3, 2021 at 10:44 am | #

    Well, if Sarah’s hypotheses is correct, she should be manic, right now.

  44. Plain Marie
    Plain Marie
    February 3, 2021 at 12:10 pm | #

    And just like that, the cheerful mood is gone.

  45. William Leonard Reese Jr.
    William Leonard Reese Jr.
    February 3, 2021 at 12:16 pm | #

    At this point I would like to see Dina react to a Religious Scientist. There are quite a few out there that see Science as human kind unfolding God’s creation and understanding it as best as they can.

    Partly why Suvi from Mass Effect Andromeda was one of my favorite characters in that game. It’s a unique, but true to life, perspective to see in a Sci-Fi game.

  46. Disastroid
    Disastroid
    February 3, 2021 at 12:38 pm | #

    Get in the robot, DoAverse

  47. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    February 3, 2021 at 3:13 pm | #

    Did Booster just sliiiiide all the way away from the awkwardness

    if so how does one learn to do that?

  48. SuperZero
    SuperZero
    February 4, 2021 at 12:45 am | #

    Pteronadons don’t exist either, Dina.

  49. Oberon
    Oberon
    February 20, 2021 at 8:30 am | #

    I’m way late, but it’s “I think a wider angel would be best.”

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