[Removed by chibi ninjas for being inappropriate for children.] If that were any more adorable, I’d need a shot of insulin for the sweet warm fuzzy feelings building up inside.
I like to think that Mr. Ed is an immortal unicorn and the same horse that Catherine the Great made whoopie with and Caligula made a senator or whatever.
I’m really curious to see what Dina’s upbringing was like. I mean, I don’t know much about social disorders, but if she doesn’t have one this really seems to be…I dunno…off. No one could possibly have spent eighteen years in such a social vacuum as to result in this kind of behavior. Her parents must’ve made Squee Casil’s look attentive and caring.
She’s like some weird mix of Amelia Bedelia and Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory.
Then I have to wonder just how many drugs she took back in high school. That was the usual explanation for the really detached first year students I knew.
I was homeschooled, and I didn’t blossom socially until college. Even after college, I have a hard time finding ways to make new friends. She’ll break out of that bubble eventually… characters have arcs. The one she had with Mike in It’s Walky showed a decent amount of depth to her character. I hope she gets similar exposure here.
She was raised by a VHS tape of a (very boring) documentary about paleontology. In an odd twist of fate, Ninja Rick will be introduced as her ninja-loving but well-adjusted younger brother, who was raised by their parents but not told about his sister abandoned in the woods near the video store’s Dumpster.
I’ve actually known someone exactly like this who was around 18 or into their early twenties. I have no idea how they got that way… One day they just kinda up and vanished without a word. Still not sure why, just that they’re still alive because once in a blue moon one of their art site profiles favorites something new.
So adorable it didn’t occur to me until five minutes later to wonder why Amber doesn’t have an alarm. Pretty sure all my reasoning abilities had shut down entirely for that whole five minutes.
Only a matter of time before someone figures out how to harness this for evil.
Amber might be too heavy a sleeper to trust alarms, or she might be like me and not trust herself to reset her one alarm clock for the next morning. You didn’t lose reasoning abilities; you just had other theories that didn’t leave your subconscious mind. Unfortunately for you, that can already be harnessed for evil, although I forget how.
little does amber know, dina’s way of waking someone up is by quietly saying, “psst. hey. wake up.” once from behind a door on the other side of the room.
Actually, she says it more than once. She actually repeats it indefinitely, without variation, quietly from behind the door on the other side of the room.
It’s not insanity to expect a different result if you think each attempt makes a tiny difference!
My new crazy theory -derived from a comment I made below- aside from the dorm meeting at the start and that time in class when she got Walky’s notes, she’s actually been asleep. She sleeps with her eyes open, and sleepwalks, sleeptalks, and has a limited ability to interact, but that’s just her subconscious speaking.
Remember, all these times we’ve found her standing around her dorm room – and we’ve seen no solid evidence that she sleeps lying down…
I’m a lot like Dina in many ways, and that looks like exactly the sort of thing that I’d do as deadpan humor that lots of people just see as strangeness. Just a thought.
You just know Dina has the exact same expression when she’s eating, sleeping, paying attention in class, reading, riding a roller coaster, having sex, or stabbing people to death.
Also, my damn computer is going so slow, I actually think it might be faster just to WALK to Willis’ house, get him to give a copy of the damn strip, and walk back home. For reference, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
It’s been slowing down every day around 10:30 PM.
I think my university is trying to tell me to go to bed.
I doubt her parents (or guardians, whatever) would send her to live in a dorm if she was retarded. Besides, she appeared to be able to imitate “normal” when prompted by Amber. If anything she seems high on something, but thankfully not ectasy or stuff that would dissolve her sense of “personal space”.
The more I think about it schizophrenia fits pretty well. After all; it maybe she does knows what the T-shirt means, it’s just her ‘other self’ that really knows and her current personality is some sort of protective shell.
I guess I didn’t really know how schizophrenia worked. Though I did know a girl with Schizophrenia and was basing my post on that, she had, what appeared to me as weird child-like state.
I now feel a bit of a dick for ignoring her.
It might not be how schizophrenia, because “split personality” is largely a construct of Hollywood, but some of her behavior also fits on the schizotypal spectrum.
Uh, what you describe is something more like being a Multiple/System aka dissasociative identity disorder or multiple personalities which is….. not schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is more hallucinations/delusions and disorganized thought processes.
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also that Gran must hate, if she's still alive, how Old Juliette is the same but with gray hair
one of my favorite things is when a commenter explodes WHEN DO THESE CHARACTERS GET THERAPY but directed towards a character who canonically has a regular therapist
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We need a Dina plushie!
And her hat.
Her Dig It shirt and hat are on sale right now.
I saw the shirt, didn’t know about the hat.
I NEED BOTH
30 bucks for the hat?!?!?!?! Darn you Willis!
Well, Willis did sew those hats by hand after all.
Yeah, saw that just after posting. Makes sense now
Ahahahahahaha, they’re not available anymore
“I know! I’ll make a hat by hand and price it so not TOO many people will buy it! ^_^”
Time passes
“… AHHHHHHH!!! (Infinite suffering)”
:.(
…
Actually, between that and a friend of mine, I think I can make a DINA cosplayer.
Need pictures.
VISUAL REPRESENTATION OR THE EVENT DID NOT TRANSPIRE
TL:DR!
Nice! I’ma start saying that.
This is an improvement for her…?
D’aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
D’aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!
yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaa!
[Removed by chibi ninjas for being inappropriate for children.] If that were any more adorable, I’d need a shot of insulin for the sweet warm fuzzy feelings building up inside.
Oh my. She really isn’t used to dealing with people, is she?
Dina must have been even MORE sheltered than Joyce and that is saying something.
I want to see them meet now.
Joyce’s reaction to someone who believes in evolution is likely to be priceless.
Is Dina special??
….. Ed.
The Talking Horse???
No, the short bus.
REFERENCE
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MY HEAD
sorry!
MY HEAD
You have Sorry! on your head? \=S
The 2nd MY HEAD wasn’t meant to be there.
It’s always so embarrassing to reveal your second head by accident.
OH MY! *^_^*
At least it was in the privacy of the comments and not copy pasted into 4chan or something for the world to see.
Plasma Mongoose is the Pop-A-Matic Bubble.
I have dice inside me?
I like to think that Mr. Ed is an immortal unicorn and the same horse that Catherine the Great made whoopie with and Caligula made a senator or whatever.
You mean Bad Horse (the Thoroughbred of Sin)?
Yes. All four are the same immortal equine.
he got the application that you just! sent! in!
It needs evaluation, so let the games begin!
i love dina. she’s the greatest character in any of willis’ stories (tied with mike of course)
This is why it was so fun for them to be dating.
Dinah and Mike? Nothing could possibly go wrong! Especially in a
Willis comic!
…oh, wait…
*curls into a ball in the corner sobbing*
It’s okay, I’m sure she won’t die a horribley gorey death via explosives. I mean how could she? It’s not like she has nothing but science classes.
… Then again, it only takes one.
i would point more toward the mike side.
Oh Dina, I want you to become the main character and just look at other characters awkwardly as they do interesting things.
If we had an awkwardly-watching cutout of Dina like we did with Gleeful Robin, we could make our own!
Oh my goodness I suddenly want this desperately.
Maybe one of the ones where Dina is looking up at Amber?
Oh, no! Between superheroing and classwork and occasional sleeping, will Amber’s WOW life suffer?
She’s got a lvl 120 Paladin, somehow I don’t think she will suffer much.
I dunno…wow accounts get hacked like kardashian marriages get annulled.
Assuming she’s playing wow.
Hacked or not, by level 120 she can solo current end game raids in nothing but greens.
http://www.hiyoooo.com/
Maybe Dina could be a WoW player,too… but chances are, she goldfarms.
This seems like Dina’s literal first interaction with another human being, in any way, shape or form. This is just… really odd.
No, Ethan and Mike met her before. She said hi, then pulled the door open again so that it covered her.
DINA IS WATCHING YOU SLEEP
Ph3ar teh cut3 1’s!!!
Nah, mang. Is “PH34R T3H CUT3 0N3S”.
I suppose you could write it not in all caps, but that’s how it’s silk-screeened on the t-shirt.
Dina LIKES to watch.
…and record…
But she is no match for Ceiling Joyce.
at least this amber is happy(ish)
also i freaking love this dina xD
I’m really curious to see what Dina’s upbringing was like. I mean, I don’t know much about social disorders, but if she doesn’t have one this really seems to be…I dunno…off. No one could possibly have spent eighteen years in such a social vacuum as to result in this kind of behavior. Her parents must’ve made Squee Casil’s look attentive and caring.
She’s like some weird mix of Amelia Bedelia and Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory.
it’s called homeschooling
Dina was not homeschooled.
She was raised by gorillas???
Nah, just lionsaurs. Yeah, just totally made that up.
I should have said gorillasaurs.
She’s a martian???
This will satisfy.
Then I have to wonder just how many drugs she took back in high school. That was the usual explanation for the really detached first year students I knew.
So you think she overdosed on the LDS?
The 4th is strong with you, Plasma-Mon… as illogical as it might be to mix my franchises here.
The 4th… Amendment? But I’m clean man, I’m clean.
Oh you meant the 4th Star Trek movie, I didn’t notice the spelling mistake until now.
Star Trek, I thought you meant that wierd religious cult. And I like you current avatar, but who is it this time?
The idea that you can overdose on the Latter Day Saints amuses me somehow now I think about it.
Today’s ava is Chiri Kitsu, a nice gal with OCD who often commits homicide with her trusty shovel.
I thought he was taking about that weird religious cult too. Then he mentioned Star Trek and it turns out he was.
Ahhh, a misspelling! I got really confused when I thought you asked if she overdosed on the Latter-Day Saints.
That thar is a 25 yr old pun, not a misspelling!
ARRRR! me hearties!
I was homeschooled, and I didn’t blossom socially until college. Even after college, I have a hard time finding ways to make new friends. She’ll break out of that bubble eventually… characters have arcs. The one she had with Mike in It’s Walky showed a decent amount of depth to her character. I hope she gets similar exposure here.
I wasn’t homeschooled (in fact, I went to a fair few extracurricular social activities), and I am precisely this literal-minded and socially awkward.
She was raised by a VHS tape of a (very boring) documentary about paleontology. In an odd twist of fate, Ninja Rick will be introduced as her ninja-loving but well-adjusted younger brother, who was raised by their parents but not told about his sister abandoned in the woods near the video store’s Dumpster.
I’ve actually known someone exactly like this who was around 18 or into their early twenties. I have no idea how they got that way… One day they just kinda up and vanished without a word. Still not sure why, just that they’re still alive because once in a blue moon one of their art site profiles favorites something new.
Dina needs a keeper.
The Question: could the week of Dina strips continue to get more and more adorable indefinitely?
A: It just got slightly creepy.
Told you all she was creepadorable!
Still sticking with adorkable.
But what if she’s adorabloodthirsty?
Then we must protect our necks from her thirsty hands.
So adorable it didn’t occur to me until five minutes later to wonder why Amber doesn’t have an alarm. Pretty sure all my reasoning abilities had shut down entirely for that whole five minutes.
Only a matter of time before someone figures out how to harness this for evil.
Amber might be too heavy a sleeper to trust alarms, or she might be like me and not trust herself to reset her one alarm clock for the next morning. You didn’t lose reasoning abilities; you just had other theories that didn’t leave your subconscious mind. Unfortunately for you, that can already be harnessed for evil, although I forget how.
She also could have an internal alarm clock in which won’t work if it’s been interrupted by lack of sleep the previous night.
She could also be so exhausted from her all-nighter that she doesn’t trust herself to wake up with anything less than a blowhorn and a cattle prod.
little does amber know, dina’s way of waking someone up is by quietly saying, “psst. hey. wake up.” once from behind a door on the other side of the room.
Actually, she says it more than once. She actually repeats it indefinitely, without variation, quietly from behind the door on the other side of the room.
It’s not insanity to expect a different result if you think each attempt makes a tiny difference!
i now regret not buying a hat. D:
Dina, you confuse me sometimes.
And I’m not even sure if that’s a compliment or an insult.
What was actually said on the 4th panel.
I respectfully disagree!
So you believe she SHOULD watch her? OH MY!
I think she’s creepy enough not to care, and stealthy enough not to be noticed…until the end that is.
What happens at the end? I really feel like I’m missing the joke ’cause I thought Amber would be less likely to notice at the… conclusion.
That’s soooo wrong, PM… but yet, it fits so well…
I know it was, but I couldn’t resist.
It was more like, “Now count to a hundred in base twenty-seven while I hide.”
Dina covered her ears last comic and her eyes this comic, will she be covering her mouth next comic?
No, next comic will feature an appearance by Walky, bearing a dinosaur in his hands, whereupon Dina will cover his mouth.
With her face. For a Nipponosaur.
Surely you mean with her Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace?
Dumbiverse Dina may just be the weirdest character Willis has ever created.
And/or the best character Willis has ever created.
Dina is trolling Amber sooooo hard right now.
Crazy theory: Dina is actually an alien, newly arrived on Earth. She’s masquerading as a college student to better understand our species.
Or she’s that cat from Shortpacked in disguise.
I’m still waiting to see what the name of her pet iguana is called…
don
Is Don. Is Good.
My new crazy theory -derived from a comment I made below- aside from the dorm meeting at the start and that time in class when she got Walky’s notes, she’s actually been asleep. She sleeps with her eyes open, and sleepwalks, sleeptalks, and has a limited ability to interact, but that’s just her subconscious speaking.
Remember, all these times we’ve found her standing around her dorm room – and we’ve seen no solid evidence that she sleeps lying down…
It’s a crossover form Questionable Content. She’s one of those AnthroPCs in a human-like chassis.
The dinosaur hat still watches you, Amber…
…and so it shall unto eternity!
I’m a lot like Dina in many ways, and that looks like exactly the sort of thing that I’d do as deadpan humor that lots of people just see as strangeness. Just a thought.
Dear God, Dina is still unbelievably adorable.
You just know Dina has the exact same expression when she’s eating, sleeping, paying attention in class, reading, riding a roller coaster, having sex, or stabbing people to death.
I’d be curious enough to see if you’re right, though maybe not by showing her doing all of these things in the same scene.
I actually want to see “paying attention in class” and “riding a roller coaster” done as a single scene.
And if she has the same expression while she’s sleeping, then that would mean that she sleeps with her eyes open – which could be horrifying.
Dina, paleontologist and voyeur.
Dina LIKES to watch.
Also, my damn computer is going so slow, I actually think it might be faster just to WALK to Willis’ house, get him to give a copy of the damn strip, and walk back home. For reference, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
It’s been slowing down every day around 10:30 PM.
I think my university is trying to tell me to go to bed.
Dina is the *awkwardest* turtle.
Dina reminds me of David Putty. From Seinfeld. The guy who would sit motionless on his couch, just looking straight ahead at nothing.
Dina is positively adorable in her social incompetence.
I wont mind watching her nap…errr… I mean, IGNORE ME.
Ha. I love that episode.
She’s so stoopid.
STUPID! You so STU-PIIIIIIIIIIID!
Ahhh, a red snapper. Mmmmm, very tasty.
SUPPLIES
Dina is so adorable. But. I have to ask.
What does this have to do with pajama jeans??? D=<
if people are going to watch you sleep, might as well look dam good doing it.
It will be a surprise reveal that Dina is wearing them. See! There! In the third panel!
This was in reply to Joraiem directly above. Incidentally.
Dina is so lovable.
The word that comes to mind is “retarded”.
I doubt her parents (or guardians, whatever) would send her to live in a dorm if she was retarded. Besides, she appeared to be able to imitate “normal” when prompted by Amber. If anything she seems high on something, but thankfully not ectasy or stuff that would dissolve her sense of “personal space”.
I sorta get the feeling Dina has Aspergers or something. Nobody’s THAT oblivious.
I get the feeling Dina just wants to be helpful, liked and fit in without really having any social aptitude in the slightest.
*Looks on google *
So yeah that would fit with AS.
Schizophrenia is possible too.
She could also just be an idiot. Or, more to the point, have literally zero sense whatsoever.
She definitely seems autism spectrum.
The more I think about it schizophrenia fits pretty well. After all; it maybe she does knows what the T-shirt means, it’s just her ‘other self’ that really knows and her current personality is some sort of protective shell.
I don’t think that’s what schizophrenia is.
I guess I didn’t really know how schizophrenia worked. Though I did know a girl with Schizophrenia and was basing my post on that, she had, what appeared to me as weird child-like state.
I now feel a bit of a dick for ignoring her.
It might not be how schizophrenia, because “split personality” is largely a construct of Hollywood, but some of her behavior also fits on the schizotypal spectrum.
I forget how to make words look like links (and don’t care) so here’s wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypal
See also this, if you hate yourself and have nothing to do for thenext 14 years.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SplitPersonality
Uh, what you describe is something more like being a Multiple/System aka dissasociative identity disorder or multiple personalities which is….. not schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is more hallucinations/delusions and disorganized thought processes.
Dina! Y U SO CUTE!?
I want Dina to be Amazi-girl’s sidekick,
just to ensure Dina gets more screen time. And hilarity like this will ensue.
I don’t know where to post this, but I just want everyone to know I just made Amazi-girl on DC Universe Online now that the game is Free to play.
Does Dina happen to have a short robotic friend named Momo?