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Phenomenal

by David M Willis on January 31, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Trial and Sarah
└ Tags: carla, dina, joyce, ultra car

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  1. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    January 31, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Nothing could have prepared me for Dina’s final line.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      January 31, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

      I am also deeply perturbed. For a protector of the innocent, Amber seems deeply committed to destroying Dina’s.

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        January 31, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

        Uhhh…..

        • justin8448
          justin8448
          January 31, 2022 at 2:14 am | #

          The comic after it is great too.

          • justin8448
            justin8448
            January 31, 2022 at 2:17 am | #

            I actually meant to link to that comic with different text followed by mentioning that the next comic after that one is also great. I didn’t intend to reference The Wellerman’s comic, which does not precede this one.

            Ah, well. Close enough.

            • The Wellerman
              The Wellerman
              January 31, 2022 at 2:53 am | #

              Seriously, this is one of my favorite strips, I really admire Dina and how she stood up for herself like that!!! 😎🤘

        • True Survivor
          True Survivor
          January 31, 2022 at 10:11 pm | #

          Good point. I meant in more in the sense that known should have to know what ‘horny jail’ is.

      • maarvarq
        maarvarq
        January 31, 2022 at 1:58 am | #

        I remember Dina getting really annoyed at people thinking that she was innocent.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          January 31, 2022 at 2:07 am | #

          Here here! Infantilization is especially insidious like this 😤.

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          January 31, 2022 at 1:25 pm | #

          She was – I thought – less angry at innocent (she was unperturbed by peoples reactions about if she was not supposed to swear “Joyce hasn’t said shit or fuck”) as specifically the infantilization and not being regarded as an adult when she made out with Becky. It seems in her book innocent is ok, but immature is not.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 31, 2022 at 2:12 pm | #

          I think this is just a case of Dina being less online than Amber. It’s not innocence or immaturity, she’s just out of the loop.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      January 31, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

      Does anyone else think that Dina never really “arrives” in a comic? Like, her every appearance I just imagine the “camera” panning over to reveal that’s she’s there and has been for an indeterminate amount of time.

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        January 31, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

        She teleports the most out of any character. She usually uses doors to hide it but she may be slowly becoming aware of the 4th wall.

        • Segnosaur
          Segnosaur
          January 31, 2022 at 12:45 am | #

          I thought it was Joyce that teleported, while Dina had the power of invisibility.

          • Robbie
            Robbie
            January 31, 2022 at 1:40 am | #

            Joyce teleports to Dorothy and Dina teleports to behind any door. There are limitations and strengths to both

          • Decidedly Orthogonal
            Decidedly Orthogonal
            January 31, 2022 at 1:27 pm | #

            I’m not sure about Joyce, but Dina I think shifts her 3d z-axis position, which allows her to both maintain scientific validity, appear to teleport, *and* be ‘invisible’ to those trapped in the base 2d plane of the comic while still able to observe it herself.

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              January 31, 2022 at 2:12 pm | #

              She can just noclip to her destination.

              • Roborat
                Roborat
                January 31, 2022 at 5:27 pm | #

                I thought that was just a MegaTokyo thing, is it spreading to other comics?

        • True Survivor
          True Survivor
          January 31, 2022 at 4:51 pm | #

          Wait we can talk about this? That is not even the weirdest thing about Dina: she seems to be able to survive purely on a diet of sugar cereals and soda (and that one time chicken nuggets), can stand without moving for hours or days at a time, and is easily able to subdue prey many times her size. Its like Willis secretly never gave up the SiFy genre at all. Honestly, its kind of weird that Joyce became an atheist, when half her friends don’t even obey the laws of biology or physics.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        January 31, 2022 at 1:40 am | #

        Dina moves through the quantum mechanic system of uncertainty. She exists in a superposition of being in multiple locations at the same time. Only under certain conditions of observation is her location determined.

      • Alyssa
        Alyssa
        January 31, 2022 at 9:27 am | #

        I mean given the position of the door in the frame I think this appearance, at least, is absolutely a camera pan. How long has she been there? Who knows?

  2. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    January 31, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    OK, even after looking up what both of those mean, I am even more confused now 😑

    Are Joyce or Carla using the sincere or sarcastic undertone of “galaxy brain”? Also who’s in this “horny jail”?

    This guessing game stinks!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      January 31, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

      Horny Jail is the part of Amber’s brain where she imprisons Amazi-Girl when it’s not roller derby time.

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        January 31, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

        Given which of them spends more time shipping everyone she meets, I’d imagine AG would be sending Amber to horny jail. I also cannot read it without hearing PotasticP’s “you’re going to jail,” audio.

    • Tan
      Tan
      January 31, 2022 at 12:28 am | #

      Carla is saying that her plans-within-plans are beyond the understanding of Joyce’s mere normal brain. Joyce is saying ‘nuh-uh!’

      As for who needs to be sent to horny jail, given that Amber was the one that said it to Dina, probably either Dina does, or some third party Amber was talking about (perhaps the chat of her livestream). But probably Dina. She was probably talking about some interaction with Becky with an overly sexual implication.

      • fudo81
        fudo81
        January 31, 2022 at 2:47 am | #

        Couldn’t Amber be talking about herself? Seems more likely to me.

        • Tan
          Tan
          January 31, 2022 at 3:24 am | #

          Possible but unlikely. The usual construction is “Go to horny jail” as an imperative toward someone else.

          • The Wellerman
            The Wellerman
            January 31, 2022 at 6:50 am | #

            Whatever the case, we must keep in mind that Amber’s might once again be hella loopy from lack of sleep.

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 31, 2022 at 4:49 pm | #

            If Dina was talking about her feelings about Becky and herself, it’s possible that Amber was using it as an imperative. It seems more likely to me that Amber was discussing someone else or even herself. Presumably we’ll get context next strip.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        January 31, 2022 at 8:51 am | #

        Yeah, but my understanding of the galaxy brain meme is that a “galaxy brain” take is one that superficially appears to be a smarter extrapolation from the normal brain one by a mind that can see all the angles but, when you stop to think about it, is actually very stupid.

        Like, I spend a lot of time on Lefty Twitter, and I often see them QRTing some of the “five-dimensional chess” rightwingers with the comment “This is some Galaxy Brain shit.” This is not meant as a compliment on their insight.

  3. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    January 31, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

    What concerns me about conversing with memes is that they often fade from popular culture (and memory) so fast that in a few years people are going to look back at there texts (or this comic) and have no idea what’s going on.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      January 31, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

      Do you prefer the West Side Story approach of making up your own memes/slang?

    • crow
      crow
      January 31, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

      This sure will be a tough problem after the apocalypse, when the internet shuts down but print editions of Dumbing of Age still exist.

      • Dean
        Dean
        January 31, 2022 at 1:11 am | #

        The print editions will mostly be used for food and clothing.

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          January 31, 2022 at 9:10 am | #

          You mean like as a fashion guide and food cookbook?

          • BadRoad
            BadRoad
            January 31, 2022 at 10:25 am | #

            “We don’t know what ‘pepper’ and ‘macaroni’ *are*, but we know you don’t mix them.”

    • LiterallyJustSomeGuy
      LiterallyJustSomeGuy
      January 31, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

      In the case of this comic, I think the context makes it clear what is going on even if people aren’t conversant with these memes.

      I often find myself late to the party about memes, though, since the internet circles in which I travel aren’t the ones generating the memes.

    • drs
      drs
      January 31, 2022 at 12:39 am | #

      All your Darmok belong to us.

      • True Survivor
        True Survivor
        January 31, 2022 at 12:55 am | #

        And Jalad at Tanagra.

        • anonymsly
          anonymsly
          January 31, 2022 at 4:02 am | #

          Kayshon, when he became a puppet.

      • Khyrin
        Khyrin
        January 31, 2022 at 9:00 am | #

        Steve Rogers, when Nick Fury mentioned Flying Monkeys.

    • Shadowsnail
      Shadowsnail
      January 31, 2022 at 8:35 am | #

      You’ve got it backwards – in a few years, we’ll all be speaking like Tamarians.
      Pikachu, his face aghast!

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        January 31, 2022 at 8:59 am | #

        I love how the Tamarian way of communicating is basically meme references. Still not sure how their language would work when doing stuff like making spaceships or other highly technical tasks though.

        • Khyrin
          Khyrin
          January 31, 2022 at 9:08 am | #

          I’m not sure about that, but secondary material explains that “In fields such as engineering and programming, a musical language was used to convey precise equations, numbers and instructions; thus explaining how Tamarians could effectively operate starships.”

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            January 31, 2022 at 10:56 am | #

            It’s one of those cool concepts that’s useful for thematic points and the plot of the week, but doesn’t really hold together as worldbuilding if you take it seriously. So if you do try, you wind up having to patch it with ideas like that.

            Which is fine. It doesn’t matter if it wouldn’t really work. It made a good episode and can make people think about how we communicate, even if it doesn’t really make any sense.

      • Michelle J. Caboose
        Michelle J. Caboose
        February 4, 2022 at 5:51 pm | #

        shockedpikachu.jpg

        Sorry… I spend too much time on Imgur…

    • Zatar
      Zatar
      January 31, 2022 at 10:05 pm | #

      I think that the ones in this comic have been aroundf long enoufgh to at least be remebered.

  4. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 31, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

    BONK

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      January 31, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

      seriously wordpress?! how the fuck hard was it to post one word >:|

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        January 31, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

        maybe spell it backwards?

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        January 31, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

        ‘Tis a poor craftsman that blames their tools Ana. Fix your chrononometricalized magigewgiwhatzit. It should be better maintained.

      • LiterallyJustSomeGuy
        LiterallyJustSomeGuy
        January 31, 2022 at 12:28 am | #

        *gasp!* Ana’s power is waning! Someone has found the mythical lag button to unseat their awesome time powers!

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          January 31, 2022 at 12:35 am | #

          yeah it’s called the HTML tag <b> around a single word

          • The Wellerman
            The Wellerman
            January 31, 2022 at 12:35 am | #

            Wouldn’t that be the “strong” tag? 😛

            • King Daniel
              King Daniel
              January 31, 2022 at 1:12 am | #

              The tag also works here, I’ve literally never ever used a “” tag.

              • Jamie
                Jamie
                January 31, 2022 at 1:29 am | #

                Today I get to tell someone about &lt; and &gt;, I guess.

                • Decidedly Orthogonal
                  Decidedly Orthogonal
                  January 31, 2022 at 9:12 am | #

                  </b> too, apparently.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      January 31, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

      HOMPKE!

  5. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    January 31, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

    Amber does deserve to be in horny jail for a little bit

    • Andy
      Andy
      January 31, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

      I was gonna ask if it’s really Amber that’s in horny jail, but then I remembered the last story arc we saw her in and it really definitely is.

  6. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 31, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

    You probably don’t want to know

  7. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    January 31, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

    Two questions come to mind: a) whom has Amber sentenced to horny jail, and b) why is it Becky?

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      January 31, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

      I suspect Amber has sent herself to horny jail for her horny crimes in the previous chapter

      • Nathan
        Nathan
        January 31, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

        Frankly, most of this cast deserves to be in horny jail for one reason or another.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          January 31, 2022 at 12:39 am | #

          True, but Amber has a lot of recent horny offenses and is the most likely suspect here

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 31, 2022 at 7:22 pm | #

          Frankly, most of this comment section deserves to be in horny jail for one reason or another.

          Fixed that for you.

  8. Yumi
    Yumi
    January 31, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

    Yay for a strip with both Dina and Carla in it. Now for a strip with them interacting…
    (They have technically interacted in a past strip, but it was pretty minimal.)

  9. StClair
    StClair
    January 31, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

    nuh uh! it is you, YOU who are pwned!

    • Casi
      Casi
      January 31, 2022 at 12:28 am | #

      You have no chance to survive make your time

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        January 31, 2022 at 9:06 am | #

        All your base are belong to us

  10. CrazyJ
    CrazyJ
    January 31, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

    Liz and Sarah were going to annoy each other for at least two hours even if Carla refused. I mean the very point of this road trip is so that Sarah doesn’t have to see Liz again until the next major holiday (also so Liz doesn’t screw up her college career but that’s a secondary consideration)

  11. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 31, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

    Horny jail isn’t so bad. I mean it smells weird but I have my own personal cell there. Besides I can talk about how much I like boobs in there. (The answer is a lot).

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      January 31, 2022 at 12:23 am | #

      Would you rather go to Horny Jail or Marshmallow Hell? 😛

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        January 31, 2022 at 12:34 am | #

        Wanting to go to the later is cause to be put in the former.

        • mrnoidea
          mrnoidea
          January 31, 2022 at 12:50 am | #

          Well THAT’S just entrapment.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          January 31, 2022 at 1:36 am | #

          I don’t want to be a grammar or spelling or any other kind of Nazi, but there is a double “t” in latter, the other word is for “more late”.

          But I’ve been to Marshmallow Hell, and it’s a place I’d rather not visit again.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        January 31, 2022 at 12:48 am | #

        Marshmallow hell since that would involve boobs. o3o That’s how I wanna go when I die. Live by the boobies die by the boobies.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          January 31, 2022 at 12:50 am | #

          I hope you like “smores”! I know I do! 😋

        • Wizard
          Wizard
          January 31, 2022 at 2:17 am | #

          Careful, there. Do you really want to spend the last moments of life discovering exactly what boobs you don’t want?

  12. Jess
    Jess
    January 31, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

    I read that last panel in a jeopardy voice. I love it. lol

  13. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 31, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

    *the hacked Muzak plays Bob Dylan’s “Jack O’Diamonds”*

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      January 31, 2022 at 12:48 am | #

      A Hard Card To Play.

  14. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 31, 2022 at 12:24 am | #

    Carla is the best.

    And LMAO, watching Joyce trying to explain horny jail should be fucking hilarious.

    • Segnosaur
      Segnosaur
      January 31, 2022 at 12:46 am | #

      Does Joyce even know what “horny jail” actually is?

      • woobie
        woobie
        January 31, 2022 at 1:04 am | #

        She may think she resides there.

  15. alongcameaspider
    alongcameaspider
    January 31, 2022 at 12:24 am | #

    I like how Joyce just completely sees through Carla’s “jerk with a heart of gold” shtick

    Also Dina and Joyce conversation incoming about Atheism incoming, after the conversation about memes of course (after Joyce looks up the term “horny jail”)

  16. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    January 31, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

    Honestly, not a bad idea for a book title, though my vote goes to “Now That I’ve Figured Out God Doesn’t Exist, That Basically Makes Me a Brain Genius.“

  17. Florence
    Florence
    January 31, 2022 at 12:28 am | #

    This is just bugs and daffy but over niceness

  18. thakoru
    thakoru
    January 31, 2022 at 12:29 am | #

    Well now the question is: What did Dina say to warrant the invocation of Horny Jail?

    • Robbie
      Robbie
      January 31, 2022 at 12:32 am | #

      Surely it’s Amber that deserves horny jail, unless Dina and Becky have been doing science

      • ANeM
        ANeM
        January 31, 2022 at 12:40 am | #

        If Dina were recounting her conversation with Joe and Liz to Amber that could very well warrant a sentence to Horny Jail.

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        January 31, 2022 at 1:00 am | #

        I’m highly doubt Amber would be doing Horny Things right now.

        I highly think Becky wants to boink due to her fight with Joyce and her own conflicting feelings about her upbringing.

        • darkgloomie
          darkgloomie
          January 31, 2022 at 2:40 am | #

          Amber spent last arc telling her exes she imagined them together sexually. That totally deserves horny jail

      • CallynD
        CallynD
        January 31, 2022 at 1:04 am | #

        Ehh, I know what Scientist means on Imgur. If Dina and Becky have been doing Science they get the *bonk*

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          January 31, 2022 at 1:09 am | #

          Wait, what does it mean on Imgur?

          • PirateTawnee
            PirateTawnee
            January 31, 2022 at 1:31 am | #

            loosely, science = porn. “Does she do Science” is a frequent question under certain images.

            • Robbie
              Robbie
              January 31, 2022 at 1:34 am | #

              Oh lol I just meant Dina feels pants feelings when she thinks about doing science with her girlfriend

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              January 31, 2022 at 1:51 am | #

              Or it can mean an old meme from Dresden Codak:
              http://dresdencodak.com/2008/05/02/copan/

              • The Wellerman
                The Wellerman
                January 31, 2022 at 2:29 am | #

                🥺🥲 That was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. Thank you.

          • CallynD
            CallynD
            January 31, 2022 at 1:51 am | #

            Scientists post nudes. Not on Imgur, but in other places. Also, I was not expecting to have a Dina avatar with this post, but it works.

            • The Wellerman
              The Wellerman
              January 31, 2022 at 2:02 am | #

              Do we now? And where do you think we post them?

              • CallynD
                CallynD
                January 31, 2022 at 10:14 am | #

                reddit, OnlyFans, wherever.

                • milu
                  milu
                  January 31, 2022 at 1:22 pm | #

                  reddit.com/r/butts_for_science

                  …i’m so sorry

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  January 31, 2022 at 7:26 pm | #

                  Why should you be sorry for presenting me with a dilemma.

                  Curiousity vs. good sense. Who wins this time.

                • milu
                  milu
                  January 31, 2022 at 8:54 pm | #

                  I guess good sense won out or you would’ve realized what I was actually apologizing for =P

  19. Robbie
    Robbie
    January 31, 2022 at 12:31 am | #

    Bonk!

  20. Robbie
    Robbie
    January 31, 2022 at 12:39 am | #

    Carla is the most galaxy brain in the entire cast tbh. Sorry Joyce

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      January 31, 2022 at 12:48 am | #

      Do you mean that in the sincere or sarcastic sense?

      • Robbie
        Robbie
        January 31, 2022 at 1:33 am | #

        I don’t know what the sarcastic sense would be

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          January 31, 2022 at 1:46 am | #

          I didn’t know what it was talking about at all until this comic, and I looked it up and apparently it can be used sarcastically to describe something or someone arrogantly ignorant?

          Eh, it’s like a guessing game to see what they mean by it 😑

          • Robbie
            Robbie
            January 31, 2022 at 1:53 am | #

            Carla is saying her plan was genius, possibly in a convoluted way.

          • Fuzzy
            Fuzzy
            January 31, 2022 at 2:07 pm | #

            It’s not an especially sarcastic phrase, it has about the same potential for being sarcastic as everything else. Just like one could say, “Wow, you sure are a nice guy,” in a deadpan way after someone brags about stealing candy from a baby. (Usually, if the person you’re talking about would describe THEMSELF with the same word and mean it, then it’s a good candidate for sarcasm.)

            • milu
              milu
              January 31, 2022 at 2:34 pm | #

              it’s a meme though so it is kind of inherently sarcastic.

              The joke is that Carla is being silly and self-aware but Joyce takes it a bit too literally. At least that’s my read =)

  21. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    January 31, 2022 at 12:45 am | #

    Brain And Brain, What Is Brain?!

  22. woobie
    woobie
    January 31, 2022 at 1:02 am | #

    Galaxy Brains don’t tell normal brains their ranking.

    • Zaxares
      Zaxares
      January 31, 2022 at 6:05 am | #

      Truth. They are BEYOND simple comprehension such as ranking. To attempt to rate oneself according to others is a sign that they still cling to individualism and thus cannot be One with the Cosmos. 😉

  23. Jamie
    Jamie
    January 31, 2022 at 1:27 am | #

    I hereby request a full storyline of the resultant conversation.

  24. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 31, 2022 at 2:07 am | #

    a place where Dina belongs

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      January 31, 2022 at 3:11 am | #

      Wait, isn’t Dina Grey-Ace?

      It’d make more sense for Amber to be there, or Becky to send herself there!

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        January 31, 2022 at 4:54 am | #

        as for as I’m concerned, everyone can go to the horny jail.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          January 31, 2022 at 9:45 am | #

          Carla is ace and sex-repulsed, surely she doesn’t belong there either?

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 31, 2022 at 8:22 am | #

        She goes in the little “just visiting” strip around the edge of the jail tile.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 31, 2022 at 10:58 am | #

          Does horny jail allow conjugal visits?

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            January 31, 2022 at 12:25 pm | #

            Yes, but only once. Then you’re not just visiting anymore.

  25. J
    J
    January 31, 2022 at 2:19 am | #

    Classic Carla. At least it’s not to the Amazon.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 31, 2022 at 3:36 am | #

      Nope. Zoomr doesn’t send people to the Amazon. LYFT is sending people to Amazon.

  26. Eldritchy
    Eldritchy
    January 31, 2022 at 3:29 am | #

    Horny jail, it’s where Becky is All the time and refuses to leave.

  27. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    January 31, 2022 at 3:33 am | #

    Missed opportunity: Dina isn’t wearing her triceratop when asking about horny jail.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 31, 2022 at 1:20 pm | #

      We know she’s wearing a tank top in an upcoming chapter though. That will probably drive Becky to spontaneously burst into flames.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/changeya/

  28. AKP
    AKP
    January 31, 2022 at 3:39 am | #

    Hi, not related to today’s comic, but I figured this is a place I hear a lot of thoughtful people talk about life experiences, so. I’m a long time atheist and I am genuinely curious about why atheists convert to specific religions when it’s not for people or communities. What that journey tends to look like and why it happens.

    Does anyone have stories or know a place I can read those stories without getting proselytized to?

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      January 31, 2022 at 3:52 am | #

      I don’t know if it’s the same situation, but I got curious about other religions, occultism…Even about chistianism, but watching about people entering in trance by Holy Spirit, and etc

  29. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    January 31, 2022 at 3:46 am | #

    Hello there!

    Milu and I had created a montage video of the I’ll Leave you a Phantom chapter last page.
    After the January 17th mega-strip, Milo took an idea from Guigui and shared mixed audio and cropped images from the strip in this comment. My work was just mixing all these parts into a video.

    So, the finished work is here!!

    Hope you enjoy the vídeo.

    • milu
      milu
      January 31, 2022 at 9:26 am | #

      Hollaaaaa!

      Yes, we’re very proud of ourselves (right Amos?), please tell us how awesome we are. You may use gifs and animal emojis (all are accepted except for the T-rex which in many apps has a bad posture). mwah!

      • Amós Batista
        Amós Batista
        January 31, 2022 at 12:06 pm | #

        Hell yeah, I am!

      • Sev
        Sev
        February 2, 2022 at 7:46 pm | #

        Milu, Amos and Guigui are awesome and I am a bug!

        • milu
          milu
          February 3, 2022 at 10:44 am | #

          ahahaha

  30. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    January 31, 2022 at 6:41 am | #

    Sorry Carla, but Joyce is right. Just admit you are a good person for once!

  31. Thomas
    Thomas
    January 31, 2022 at 8:58 am | #

    How did Sarah, who’s not close with anyone except Joyce, ever get close enough to Carla to warrant her asking for a favour? Also, is Carla indeed a giant jerk to slam the door in Joyce’s face like that?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 31, 2022 at 2:19 pm | #

      Carla and Sarah are both Sophomores. They’ve probably known each other longer than most of the others in the cast.

  32. Keulen
    Keulen
    January 31, 2022 at 9:03 am | #

    I’m sure the words on her door are supposed to say “Ultra Carla”, but with Joyce’s head in the way it spells out “Ultra Car”. Nice reference to the other universe version of her.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      January 31, 2022 at 9:56 am | #

      It does actually read “Ultra Car”, as we’ve seen in other strips—the Dumbiverse Ultra Car was the protagonist of her short-lived titular animated cartoon series created by the “reclusive-but-wealthy” in-universe David Willis (better-known in-universe as the creator of the still-ongoing Dexter and Monkey Master series), which was canned by the network ostensibly because the merchandise wasn’t selling well…but not before it had gained a devoted lifelong fan in child!Carla, who as she grew older not only decided to pattern her appearance after Ultra Car (dyeing her hair red for instance), but is implied to have actually chosen the new name “Carla” for herself as a result of how crucially-important Ultra Car was o her childhood.

      • milu
        milu
        January 31, 2022 at 1:32 pm | #

        the door does in fact say Ultra Carla.

        Incidentally, i don’t think this has been linked today but this interaction is reminiscent of this other very excellent one last semester:

        “Carla is great and I am a bug!”

  33. Sol
    Sol
    January 31, 2022 at 9:23 am | #

    Damn, I was hoping for a strip that’s just 4 panels of Liz and Sarah sitting in grumpy silence in the car where the only thing that changes is the background.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      January 31, 2022 at 11:03 am | #

      We’re going to get those, but they’ll be interspersed among the rest of the stuff going on back on campus today.

      • Sol
        Sol
        January 31, 2022 at 12:10 pm | #

        They’ll pop up on a cliffhanger so that Willis can laugh maniacally at our pain.

  34. Inbar Fink
    Inbar Fink
    January 31, 2022 at 9:26 am | #

    1. I love Carla so much

    2. Huh, since the previous comic had Liz in the middle seat – I assumed Joyce was also in the car with Sarah and Liz. Guess there’s some other ridesharing random person in the Off-Panel Seat because I cannot imagine sitting Middle Seat by choice.

    3. YAY DINA! I was looking forward for more Dina and Joyce interactions since Joyce ‘came out’ as an Atheist. Dina is also an Atheist, and she’s a lot more outspoken about it compared to Dorothy’s nonconfrontational attitude (or at least Dina is more confrontational when Faith starts trying to meddle with actual scientific findings).
    I wonder how she’ll react when she finds out that Joyce has ‘renounced magical thinking’ and to the whole Becky vs. Joyce conflict. Because on one hand she and Joyce were never really super-close and she Loves Becky, but on the other hand the reason why they never got a long *was* mostly Joyce’s Young Earth Creationist Bullshit.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      January 31, 2022 at 9:58 am | #

      According to Willis in the comments yesterday, Sarah deliberately made Liz sit in the middle seat so Liz wouldn’t be able to escape as easily. I don’t think “choice” factored much into it. 😛

    • Axel_Grease
      Axel_Grease
      January 31, 2022 at 10:13 am | #

      I would really like Dina to become involved in the atheism drama, but that might resolve things too quickly.

      • alongcameaspider
        alongcameaspider
        January 31, 2022 at 10:37 am | #

        On the other hand it might cause drama between Dina and Becky since we know Becky’s trying to nudge Joyce back to Christianity

        • anonymsly
          anonymsly
          January 31, 2022 at 6:18 pm | #

          Given how Dina reacted when she thought Joyce was pulling Becky back into fundie-land, I would suspect Dina not to be down with Becky trying to shut down Joyce similarly.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 31, 2022 at 11:05 am | #

        It would be interesting if it started with Dina and Joyce talking about it. I suspect Becky and Dina talking will happen, but that’ll be later.

  35. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    January 31, 2022 at 2:04 pm | #

    Sorry, Carla. You’re a good’un whether you like it or not.

  36. Yugnat
    Yugnat
    January 31, 2022 at 2:11 pm | #

    I find it strangely wholesome that Joyce is now on a level of familiarity with Dina that she can immediately know what the situation is without her needing to elaborate.

  37. Spencer
    Spencer
    January 31, 2022 at 3:40 pm | #

    My prediction: Dina takes Joyce’s side, not realizing it is a side.

    My hopes and dreams: Horrible, painful, soul-wrenching drama for everyone involved.

  38. thumb
    thumb
    January 31, 2022 at 4:54 pm | #

    Irascible Joyce is super fun when she’s not being an asshat.

  39. Diane
    Diane
    January 31, 2022 at 7:34 pm | #

    I thought Horny Jail was Amber’s permanent residence.

  40. Jay
    Jay
    January 31, 2022 at 7:37 pm | #

    OK, in context that last line might be the funniest thing I’ve read this year.

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