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of COURSE that’s her costume
what else would it be?
Something with feathers?
it lacks feathers
As far as we understand it now, an adult may or may not have had feathers, and likely wasn’t covered in them.
More importantly it’s that terrible upright Barney body plan
I’m surprised Joyce was so quick to recognize Dina without her hat.
She’s wearing a full-body hat.
Interesting (at least to me) that Joyce’s eyeline is with the Rex eyes, not the throat.
Of course. If she were looking at the throat she would be making eye contact with real eyes and that’s existentially horrifying.
Do you not have eyes in your throat?
Sadly no, I am not a Ninja Turtle
Joyce is…. not the brightest of the bunch
This is hugely unfair. It’s a fairly natural instinct to look at what looks most like a face, and Dina’s face seems to be mostly obscured. I think it’s silly to assume Joyce doesn’t know where Dina’s face is, where she’s looking is hardly a direct link to where she thinks Dina’s face is.
Also we know Joyce gets good grades. (the implication being here that the only reason some of her grades had dipped was because she couldn’t see in the larger classes) Joyce is plenty bright.
The hat is the T-rex’s tongue.
Probably her voice. (Or it’s just the easiest guess when you see a dinosaur standing next to Becky.)
Gotta hide the iguana!
Ruth is not having a good day and it’s not a good time to need her mercy right now.
I was trying to figure out why Joyce would hide, then remembered the lizard. Odds are, Ruth already knows. And, just dosen’t care.
It also JUST occurred to me the alt-text is a reference to Oz
We’re off to see the lizaaaard!
Isn’t that the plot of the Rugrats movie?
I can’t believe I didn’t catch that!!!!
I am both thrilled and mildly disappointed in myself.
The Rugrats had a movie?
Sadly “Hide the Iguana” sounds dirtier than it is.
(Sounds like a pickup line at a bar… “Wanna come back to my place and play Hide the Iguana”)
I laughed harder at this than I should have.
If it looks like an iguana, consult your doctor immediately. Unless you’re American, in which case you can probably find a cheap-ish alternative on like, Etsy or something.
I don’t think Ruth is even focused on these dorks right now. She’s got a heart to break.
Waaa-ha-ha-hoooo!!!!!!
Dina’s costume, the energy is PERFECT!!!!
🦖
*plays “Swampland” by Waterflame on hacked muzak*
So is Joyce just gonna dodge Ruth at the party she invited Ruth to?
Yes.
BTW in case you’re wondering, her costume is almost certaintly a Jurassic Park dinosaur, not a scientifically accurate one.
Besides what few details I can make out in the blue palette, dinosaurs most likely did not roar. Rather, they growled and hissed.
Their vocalization would work the same as birds do so chirping and the like is also possible. If you want a taste for hor how T.rex might’ve sounded look up how cassowaries sound. It’s a trip.
Hey I’ve actually been looking for scientifically accurate T-rex sounds for a DOA fan game I’m making, so thanks a bunch!
Cassowaries live in jungles mind so they have evolutionary pressure to make deep sounds (low notes travel through vegetarion better) while T.rex did not.
Oh! Thank you! What environments did the T Rex live in?
North america in the late ctetacious i believe was mostly partial woodland? Im honestly not sure but it was too big for jungles and so were its prey.
Subtropical forest.
The T-Rex mostly lived inside Pokéballs between battles, sometimes inside of a computer in a hospital.
Prehistoric Planet has a pretty solid portrayal. Lot of low growling and closed-mouth vocalizations, drawing pretty heavily on Crocodilian vocalizations.
Sorry but it’s just really funny to me to hear any dinosaur facts from Dr Thag Simmons
well, they are (or were) the recognized expert…
Well, Thag got the point about them.
Hompk!
She can be scientifically accurate the other 364 days a year. Halloween is fun movie monster dinosaur day.
It’s Halloween – She gets to appear as her favourite monster: Scientific inaccuracy caused by people clinging to outdated ideas
I feel like people forget that the first Jurassic Park came out almost 30 years ago. It absolutely had inaccuracies that were known at the time, but it also was in a decent number of ways more accurate than anything else at the time. Portraying dinosaur tails as not dragging on the ground for example, was a huge statement in the early 90s. (ironically Dina’s costume is probably less accurate in this respect, but I expect that choice was made for practical reasons)
Also for all the flak they get about velociraptors, they were startlingly close, just the name was a bit off, and Utahraptor was just named as a species around the time the first movie came out.
And Dina herself may talk about the Jurassic Park dinosaurs as “movie monsters”, but they were very much portrayed as animals, with the danger to the human characters the result of fairly natural animal behavior. A lot (again, definitely not all) of the criticisms of accuracy in Jurassic Park have the benefit of hindsight.
I dimly recall it was the abuse of chaos theory that bothered me most at the time, though I don’t really remember the details.
I think Dina’s aware that she can’t be too much of a stickler for accuracy in terms of costumes.
It’s missing feathers, for one thing. Along with a bunch of other inaccuracies Dina would likely mention if someone asked.
She’s already written a comprehensive list: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/piano/
I’m so happy for Dina that she gets to wear this as her part of a matching couples costume. Love this for her.
I wish I could play Lewis Grizzard’s “Reptile Farm” comedy routine here.
No feathers?
Also roaring? Most likely a Jurassic Park dinosaur, plus Becky’s costume.
On the topic of roaring, Dina was operating under her best knowledge at the time. Remember this is before the timeskip, whereas this change came after the timeskip.
T.rex once adult likely didn’t have (much) plumage as we’ve found enough skin imprints without to confirm that. Babies absolutely were covered though and adults migh’ve had little remnants.
Also dang, accidental report.
sauce?
Dang it accodental report again
I do not have any particular papers on hand. But yeah we’ve found numerous imprints of T.rex skin. The back is still unaccounted for so partial coverage is still a possibility but the general consensus is fairly bare.
However, T.rex in particular appears to be a bit of an outlier as more basal tyrannosaurs did have feathers and they were very common in ceolosaurs in general so there’s nothing conclusive yet.
Thanks! Say, are you a paleontologist?
I am, and Ladymissfit is right, except for not remembering the coelurosaurs.
Thanks!!! You’re a paleontologist? That’s AWESOME 🤩
If you’re interested, a game I’m making seeks to do justice to scientifically accurate dinosaurs, and I’m always looking for help too. (although review for scientific accuracy won’t become relevant until I have a first draft done).
Some writing by Mark Witton on the subject
The inaccuracy is what makes it scary
From skin impressions T. rex would have been sparsely feathered if at all.
Becky’s dressed as Ellie Sattler and Dina’s Jurassic Park dino. They’re doing a couples costume.
moments before disaster
I appreciate that Ruth still pretends not to have peripheral vision when Fuckface is involved.
Ruth has weightier matters on her mind at the moment.
I suppose she did make several remarks about Billie’s weight, early on. In fairness, Billie does have a pleasant amount of weight on her, in some very nice places, so I like to think that Ruth’s eyes were wandering even that far back and she couldn’t verbalise it in a non-terrible way. Or maybe I’m projecting and extrapolating too much from your choice of words.
I think the “weightier matters” more hand to do with metaphorical or emotional weight.
Although also, it’s not hard for any human to outweigh an iguana. I would wager most do it within a few months of birth.
Yeah, those inflatable dinosaur costumes and iguanas aren’t very heavy.
Ah, the inflatable dinosaur costume. A staple of Halloween in college. Also hard to work with all day.
Self-fulfilled prophecy of “Imperial March” incoming.
LIFE FINDS A WAY.
Dina has no feathers. I am disappoint.
I was just thinking that.
She’s wearing a boa under the costume.
It’s spooky season
What’s spookier to Dina then a scientifically inaccurate dinosaur?
I mean, she’s being Rexy from Jurassic Park to match Becky’s Ellie Satler costume, so it’s movie-accurate rather than scientifically.
And Dina has expressed a fondness for the film while acknowledging its innacuracies.
And it’s technically a couples costume.
The consensus on T. rex is that it would have been very lightly feathered if at all. Scaly is correct here.
The consensus seems to change every couple of years, and I don’t follow the science closely enough to know what’s most recent. The T-Rex could have had glowing dorsal spines and radioactive breath, for all the general population knows.
The understanding of feathers in Tyrannosauroids has changed as new material is discovered and studied.
Basal Tyrannosauroids like Yutyrannus were feathered, and it was a reasonable assumption that their descendants retained those feathers, even though it turned out to be wrong when skin impressions found of T. rex which were featherless
I wonder who is in the dinosaur costume.
Roz?
Now Becky and Joyce each have a tyrannical lizard king (queen?) all their own.
Good thing this isn’t Pokemon, or they would have to make them duel each other.
Question tangentaly related to the comic…
Would Joyce and Becky be allowed to watch Jurassic Park when growing up, or did they watch it after they went to college? After all, they had some pretty tight restrictions when growing up (couldn’t watch Power Rangers because it promoted “eastern religion”, couldn’t watch Frozen because it implied parents sometimes make mistake.) Jurassic Park does treat evolution in a pretty straight-forward “matter of fact” way, so you figure Joyce and Becky’s parents might have forbidden them from seeing it.
As Carl Sagan once said, “You can have creationism or you can have Jurassic Park. Not both.”
As Abraham Lincoln once said, “If you read it on the Internet, it must be true. “
In Lincoln’s time, I think it was actually called DARPANET, named after his son.
No idea. Because the thing is, their parents could also be hypocrites where allowances were random, inconsistent or illogical. But it is also possible they did similar to Star Wars where Joyce was only allowed to see snippets of the movie that they personally chose and allowed.
This is *excellent* team costuming.
I see. Hide one lizard with another.*
(I know, the relationship of dinosaurs to what we think of as reptiles now is a bit complicated, but I mean in the “terrible lizards” name-meaning sense.)
So; did Dina buy/was gifted, or make that costume?
I think that’s (as mentioned above) one of the inflatable ones, so not self-made.
Even if it was pre-made, she probably made at least a few modifications to it for optimal mobility and/or other purposes.
Very clearly one of the iconic inflatable T. rex costumes.
…it just struck me, have we seen any hint of Fuckface since the timeskip…?
Do you count the bonus strips?
If not, i sure hope he’s OK.
Bonus strips count, if they’re set after the timeskip.
(I was just thinking, what if Fuckface got caught on Halloween–since he’s not supposed to be allowed in the dorms…)
Yeah that’s what I meant. I think there’s one featuring post timeskip Carla, Malaya and Fuckface, but we don’t know exactly when that took place.
I was wondering about that yesterday, but hadn’t thought of checking Patreon. He’s shown up a few times. New character design Malaya, so no past shenanigans.
Normally you’d have to have Malaya around to see Fuckface, so it makes sense he would be a rare sighting. (See Malaya is terribly unpleasant to be aroundr.)
Fuckface’s constant expression is caused by only having the lizard brain and not any of the higher brain functions (and yes this was a pun)
Okay, Dina is adorable in her costume (and potentially lethal). But Ruth as the Grim Reaper is exceptional! She has that genuine “aura of death and sadness” around her that makes others fear her and start worrying about the future.
Plants wilt and wither in her presence.
Dina just got the costume prize of the party instantly.
A lizard to hide the lizard
Hide the lizard behind a bigger lizard. No one will notice the lizard. Good thinking.
Does this count as a “Summon Bigger Fish” trope, but with a lizard?
(aren’t you glad I don’t do links, so you aren’t tempted to visit *that* place)
That’s like the fifth time in as many days that somebody’s alluded to TV Tropes being some malicious time-stealing entity. Just don’t click on more links, that’s all it takes.
You say that like it’s easy. lol
I have ADHD. Clicking links and going down internet rabbit holes is pretty much what I was made for.
Internet rabbit holes are ADHD-shaped
I have ADHD myself, used to run into those ALL the time LOL.
Huh. Perhaps this is a clue… to the nature of the force that draws us neurodivergents together…
Riiiight. And just eat one potato chip.
I’ve been there a few times and it never grabbed me. It just felt like people spent way too much time and effort thinking about all of that crap. Waste of time and grey matter. (gray?)
Fuckface on Joyce’s head reminds me that I have a komodo dragon plushie that I sometimes put on my head like it’s a hat.
Everything is a hat if you’re brave enough.
Some things can only be a hat once per person though. Like skyscrapers. Or blue whales.
Hey, wait a minute. Fuckface hasn’t made any post-skip appearances yet!
… He’s okay, right?
I suddenly want to see a DoA and SomethingPositive crossover so Dina can meet Vanessa
TBH I would’ve liked to have seen that before the events currently going on, so Davan could meet Mike. That would be great and terrible.