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June 8, 2026

Orphaning

by David M Willis on August 8, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 05 – This Was Halloween
└ Tags: becky, dina, jennifer, ruth

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    August 8, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    HELL YEAH!! House

    I mean, what did she expect when holding a mirror up to the people she hates the most

    Carla LOVES THAT SHIT

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 8, 2022 at 12:42 am | #

      Nah. Too fakey.

  2. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    August 8, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    A T-Rex RAMPAGE!!!!

    HELL YEAH!!!!! 🤘😆🤘 🦖🥚🌌 ✌️😈

    *plays “Godzilla Bio Wars Theme” on hacked muzak*

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      August 8, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

      –followed by The Brothers Johnson “Stomp”*

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 8, 2022 at 12:47 am | #

        Followed by Barn… Aught!

        This post was found near Clif’s body that appeared to have been stomped on repeatedly by a large animal. Police have ruled his death a coincidence.

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    August 8, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    In her head, Dina knows that the T. Rex lived in a time of no buildings, was not actually big enough to stomp them if they had existed, and probably would have had no inclination to do so even if it was capable of doing so.

    In her heart, she knows this is exactly what nature intended.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      August 8, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      She’s the common popular idea of a T-Rex! You can tell by the size and the RARRing. It’s scientifically inaccurate / very spooky!

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 8, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

        We don’t know for a fact that dinosaurs didn’t go RARR.

        They couldn’t always be HOMPKing.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          August 8, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

          More often than HOMPK, they could GROWL and HISS!

        • AbacusWizard
          AbacusWizard
          August 8, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

          This is a flashback though; did she know about HOMPK at this time?

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            August 8, 2022 at 12:40 am | #

            True, I think Dina learned about chirpy dinosaurs in the wintertime, so this flashback might’ve been before the great HOMPKening. But surely she knew about feathers.

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

          • Bicycle Bill
            Bicycle Bill
            August 8, 2022 at 12:42 am | #

            Dina has always known about HOMPK!  She was merely waiting for the proper time to educate the rest of us.

            • Clif
              Clif
              August 8, 2022 at 12:51 am | #

              This,

              And when she learned it, has nothing to do with the well established scientific fact that we know in our hearts that large dinosaurs also went RARR!

              • Bicycle Bill
                Bicycle Bill
                August 8, 2022 at 2:40 am | #

                Actually, according to Johnny Hart (creator of the comic strip B.C., dinosaurs say “GRONK!”

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  August 8, 2022 at 11:24 am | #

                  Who are we to argue with eyewitness accounts?

                • AbacusWizard
                  AbacusWizard
                  August 9, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

                  I wouldn’t recommend trusting the claims of somebody who writes a comic strip that is specifically titled “B.C.” but then makes the characters evangelical Christians.

      • ahecht
        ahecht
        August 8, 2022 at 12:39 am | #

        Not to mention the upright posture.

        • Clif
          Clif
          August 8, 2022 at 11:25 am | #

          The one you just mentioned?

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      August 8, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      Dina carries the spirits of dinosaurs with her at all times.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      August 8, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      A T. rex could probably do some serious damage to most pre-modern buildings, they were quite powerful animals, even though they couldn’t literally crush a building underfoot

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 8, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

        Buildings were smaller back then on account of the Earth being younger.

      • StClair
        StClair
        August 8, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

        What about a log cabin?

        • Clif
          Clif
          August 8, 2022 at 12:31 am | #

          They were also smaller in the time of dinosaurs.

        • BarerMender
          BarerMender
          August 8, 2022 at 12:33 am | #

          Yeah, those little mammals just coming on the scene loved log cabins. Unfortunately, T. rexes could crush them without even noticing, and the little mammals would holler, “Gosh darn it! Heck!” because real cussing hadn’t evolved yet.

          • Clif
            Clif
            August 8, 2022 at 12:59 am | #

            Eventually there were some mutant teenage boy little mammals and they would hollor “Gosh darn it all to heck!” And as a result they attracted more girls because they were cooler. And thus cussing slowly evolved over the millennium.

            • BarerMender
              BarerMender
              August 8, 2022 at 1:20 am | #

              :))

            • milu
              milu
              August 8, 2022 at 5:12 am | #

              That’s debated.
              Another hypothesis is that the development of cussing was driven by its effectiveness in parental care. mammals are famously altricial (it’s in the name) and so the development of behavioural traits allowing parents (or other adults in social species) to cost-effectively discipline their young would allow them to increase brood size and/or improve survival rates. Nothing like heavy language to impress upon your young that if they don’t fucking behave, you swear to god, you will leave their sorry ass right here in the middle of the giant fern forest and let them find their own goddamn way back to the burrow and please don’t come whining if they get lost and the anurognathids make fun of them, you ungrateful little shit.

              • Clif
                Clif
                August 8, 2022 at 11:23 am | #

                While mammal parents are indeed altricky, such advanced and nuanced language did not and could not spring full blown off the tip of that organ manipulated by the genioglossus, the hyoglossus, the styloglossus, and the palatoglossus; rather such language required time to evolve and was readopted by exasperated parents in whatever state of advancement cussing had reached at that time.

                • milu
                  milu
                  August 8, 2022 at 11:42 am | #

                  I have made my case and submit the present debate to due review by our peers (fellow internet randos) to evaluate our respective claims on the basis of the usual criteria, viz,
                  1. Ockham’s various hair removal implements
                  2. Confirmation biases
                  3. Cool-soundingness of science-y jargon
                  4. Personal sympathies.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          August 8, 2022 at 12:33 am | #

          OK, who else here also thinks Dina would absolutely LOVE the Emmy Award winning show Primal? 😍🦖

          • Clif
            Clif
            August 8, 2022 at 12:37 am | #

            It depends. How accurate were their dinosaurs?

            • Rabisch
              Rabisch
              August 8, 2022 at 3:54 am | #

              They are not accurate, but they are amazing, intelligent and have feelings.

              • milu
                milu
                August 8, 2022 at 6:27 am | #

                hey just like that big, pet praying mantis i dreamt about last night!

                *sigh* why no intelligent, domesticated praying mantises reality

                why

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  August 8, 2022 at 11:30 am | #

                  As soon as we finish backbreeding chickens into pet dinosaurs we’ll get right onto domesticated giant praying mantises that can be trained as guard mantises to bite the heads off intruders.

                • Plaaaa
                  Plaaaa
                  August 8, 2022 at 5:14 pm | #

                  If historically inaccurate dinosaurs and large mutant Praying Mantis are what you want, check out Primeval.

    • S.R.
      S.R.
      August 8, 2022 at 9:27 am | #

      Nothing to say that a T-rex wouldn’t get some enrichment out of crushing things!

    • RowenMorland
      RowenMorland
      August 8, 2022 at 6:03 pm | #

      We need some art of Dinah and Vanessa of Something Positive, happily destroying cardboard cityscapes together.

  4. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    August 8, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    Wow, I’m surprised that Becky wants both of her parents to see Dina and accept that she’s dating. Her mother I could understand wanting to share Dina with her but why toedad?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      August 8, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

      To rub it in his face.

      … or, you know, to part of a larger fantasy in which she has a healthy relationship with a non-wacko father.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 8, 2022 at 4:23 am | #

        Non-wacko and alive father. You know so she’s not-an-orphan?

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          August 8, 2022 at 2:16 pm | #

          Has = present tense = still alive. … or a ghost, or watching from heaven, but in those cases Becky wouldn’t need a Hell House as a substitute.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      August 8, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

      Hovertext is presumably from Becky’s POV, given that it answers this exact question.

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        August 8, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

        I wonder, does she believe her dad is in hell or heaven? Personally I’d put money down on hell if I believed in it.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          August 8, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

          Becky’s actually talked about it a few times in the past—she doesn’t believe in the existence of hell, and believes her father would at least be able to remain in contact with her mother in the afterlife.

          • Kyrik Michalowski
            Kyrik Michalowski
            August 8, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

            That’s a pleasant way to look at things. If that is how she’s taking it, then good for her.

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 8, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

      To taunt him with it.

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        August 8, 2022 at 12:36 am | #

        Look, dad, at the fine young pussy I’m getting. See you next Thanksgiving. Enjoy your AstroGlide.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 8, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

      As a giant toe, perhaps he would naturally approve of quality stomping.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      August 8, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

      In her heart, she really really really wishes things could have been different, even tho she knows it wasn’t likely to happen.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      August 8, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

      Given the context I think “accept that she’s dating Dina” is optional at best

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        August 8, 2022 at 8:22 am | #

        I think that’s the whole point re: Toedead. He encountered Dina a couple times and was… less than accepting.

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/evilutionist/

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/deceptress/

        (They were in a grand total of 20 strips together, but he was unconscious for half of those because hammer.)

    • Seralyna
      Seralyna
      August 8, 2022 at 8:59 am | #

      Although her mother was obviously significantly less awful than her dad, I get the impression that she still has a pretty complicated relationship to her memories of her as well. It’s probably something she was already used to thinking about by the time her dad died, and it’s probably less black and white than ‘Dad bad Mom Good’ for her

    • Segnosaur
      Segnosaur
      August 8, 2022 at 9:45 am | #

      My assumption is that Becky’s statement is a bit backwards… She wanted to give Dina an idea of what her parents were like rather than the other way around.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        August 8, 2022 at 10:15 pm | #

        I read it as an unattainable wish for an accepting, non-awful, non-dead version of her parents, who would be happy to meet Dina. Because, that’s what it would take to get to share Dina with them.

        She knows that they’re dead, and that this is not going to happen, of course. So she’s kinda trying to scratch that itch by stepping into a weird fundie hellscape again, but this time she’s confident, and can talk back, and the hellscape is all recontextualized by her happy relationship with Dina. That’s as close as Becky can get to her unattainable wish.

        It’s sad that Becky’s wish is unattainable, but very happy that she’s having a blast with Dina, and feeling empowered about it.

  5. Clif
    Clif
    August 8, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    I like Becky’s ability to focus on what’s important.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      August 8, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

      Becky’s no fool, she had to know what was coming and she went through it just to prove a point… and also to let Dina destroy some of it.

  6. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    August 8, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

    Ahhhh, the motive becomes clear!

  7. AeromechanicalAce
    AeromechanicalAce
    August 8, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

    In theaters next week. DinaSaurus Destroys Fundieville!

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      August 8, 2022 at 12:20 am | #

      You are all gonna LOVE the DOA game I’m working on, i can just tell.

  8. Owlmirror
    Owlmirror
    August 8, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

    This is the third comic to have “bille” rather than “jennifer”.

    Meaningful, or mistake?

    • Owlmirror
      Owlmirror
      August 8, 2022 at 12:23 am | #

      I mean, since all of the “billie” tags were switched to “jennifer”, back when.

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 8, 2022 at 12:29 am | #

        This was before she was Jennifer.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          August 8, 2022 at 8:15 am | #

          And after!

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        August 8, 2022 at 12:30 am | #

        My money’s down to it being an error, since while a hovertext near the beginning of this chapter joked about switching the “Jennifer” tag back to “Billie” for the duration of the chapter, both that strip and the ones following remain tagged “Jennifer”, and the current tags seem to treat “Billie” and “Jennifer” as separate individuals.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          August 8, 2022 at 12:30 am | #

          UNLESS…this is clearly evidence that “Jennifer” is truly Mike in disguise, as Willis confirmed so long ago!

        • Adam Black
          Adam Black
          August 8, 2022 at 2:17 am | #

          that usually means they are .

          • milu
            milu
            August 8, 2022 at 4:53 am | #

            “Usually”…???

  9. Clif
    Clif
    August 8, 2022 at 12:26 am | #

    Close. I prefer the triple feature.

    Coming this Halloween:
    The Orphaning
    When DinaSaurus Ruled the Earth
    Ruthless in Indiana.

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 8, 2022 at 12:27 am | #

      Which was supposed to be a reply to AeromechanicalAce above.

  10. Mollyscribbles
    Mollyscribbles
    August 8, 2022 at 12:32 am | #

    I’m suddenly reminded of a Jurassic Park fic I read a while back that was set at the Creation Museum.

    • milu
      milu
      August 8, 2022 at 4:18 am | #

      Hahahahaha

  11. Kitschensyngk
    Kitschensyngk
    August 8, 2022 at 12:33 am | #

    Cut to Becky and Dina stomping on a cardboard cutout of Noah.

    “Leave ME off the ark, will you?”

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      August 8, 2022 at 12:38 am | #

      I was taught that Noah did take some dinosaurs on the Ark, but only the smol ones and babies.

      Then they were all hunted to extinction shortly after the Flood in accordance with the new “Thou Shalt Eat Meat Henceforth” command. Also something something relict populations something something dragon inspirations something something Loch Ness something something cryptids.

      • milu
        milu
        August 8, 2022 at 4:52 am | #

        Something something the flood shook up a lot of sediment and all the fossils were created then and the denser the bones the lower down in the ensuing deposed strata they sunk.

        It makes perfect sense if you think about it very quickly and then stop thinking about it!

  12. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 8, 2022 at 12:35 am | #

    Well what else would you do with a snugglable dinosaur?

  13. cmd1095
    cmd1095
    August 8, 2022 at 12:42 am | #

    Becky continuing to be the kind of petty I aspire towards XD

  14. AKP
    AKP
    August 8, 2022 at 12:54 am | #

    Panel 4 is more than a little bit heartbreaking.

  15. Stu
    Stu
    August 8, 2022 at 12:55 am | #

    Dina x Vanessa (from Something Positive) crossover strip when?

    • june gloom
      june gloom
      August 8, 2022 at 12:57 am | #

      I was thinking of Vanessa too!

  16. A Normal Clown
    A Normal Clown
    August 8, 2022 at 12:55 am | #

    Came here just to say if the arc continues into October, I want it renamed to “This Is Halloween” please.

    • milu
      milu
      August 8, 2022 at 4:46 am | #

      It won’t, it’s due to end in a couple weeks. Sorray

  17. Cyntalan
    Cyntalan
    August 8, 2022 at 1:08 am | #

    How has Dina not laid into Becky for not pronouncing the hyphen yet?

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      August 8, 2022 at 1:43 am | #

      Dina would probably lay into Becky if she did pronounce the hyphen. T. rex is the scientifically-correct name, as the nomenclature-standard abbreviation of the full binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex.

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        The Wellerman
        August 8, 2022 at 2:24 am | #

        OK I am honestly confused. Human, how do you pronounce a hyphen?

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          August 8, 2022 at 2:46 am | #

          “ə haɪfən”

          😛

          • Reaver
            Reaver
            August 8, 2022 at 5:58 am | #

            HA!

          • Arian
            Arian
            August 8, 2022 at 9:19 am | #

            θæŋk ju

        • milu
          milu
          August 8, 2022 at 4:44 am | #

          Huh, did Willis a corrected strip? There’s no hyphen now.

          @Wellerman: its a joke =) typographical symbols are of course not pronounced, therefore there’s no way Dina would know to school Becky about it. Cyntalan could have written something bland like “Becky’s bubble has a hyphen instead of a period for “T. Rex” what’s up with that” but instead they made it funny like =)

          • King Daniel
            King Daniel
            August 8, 2022 at 8:50 pm | #

            If there was any strip correction, it was fairly immediate and before I even refreshed the page to show “latest comic”; I assumed Cyntalan was under the (mistaken, but apparently more common than you might expect) impression that “T-rex” is the proper scientific name instead of T. rex/Tyrannosaurus rex.

            • milu
              milu
              August 8, 2022 at 9:12 pm | #

              Ooooooh. I read Cyntalan’s comment exactly backwards then. That is, i failed to parse the word “not” in their comment. My bad for increasing the amount of confusion in the universe, and tgank you for reversing the damage and now all is well with the world once more. Phew

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          August 8, 2022 at 8:29 am | #

          There was a whole bonus strip about this a few books ago.

        • Amós Batista
          Amós Batista
          August 8, 2022 at 10:25 am | #

          A huge two-seconds pause?

  18. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 8, 2022 at 2:27 am | #

    Stop making me cry, fourth panel Becky

    • milu
      milu
      August 8, 2022 at 4:48 am | #

      Why can’t you be more like fifth-panel Becky, fourth-panel Becky

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        August 8, 2022 at 8:14 am | #

        You mean “bury the feels with a joke” Becky?

        • milu
          milu
          August 8, 2022 at 9:42 am | #

          Being vulnerable in public is a sign of weakness that people might exploit! Best to swiftly cover them up with a joke. There’s a reason they call it a gag! heyyooo

        • Eldritchy
          Eldritchy
          August 8, 2022 at 12:24 pm | #

          To be fair it might be also “Busting all this Fundie stuff with my Atheistic Lesbian Dino Girlfriend is cathartic to me.”

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      August 8, 2022 at 10:26 am | #

      That went straight to the heart.

  19. Eldritchy
    Eldritchy
    August 8, 2022 at 2:53 am | #

    It’s Dinazilla! Well due to international copyright laws it’s not but let’s pretend like it is!

    • Wraithy2773
      Wraithy2773
      August 8, 2022 at 3:45 am | #

      *scoff* Excuse me, the character’s name is actually Dijira, dumb American! It was only that cheap Americanization import with Rebecca Burr that bastardized the name to Dinazilla!

      • Eldritchy
        Eldritchy
        August 8, 2022 at 5:25 am | #

        *gets angry while munching on Pierogis* Disrespectful! How dare you call me an American! *munch munch*

        • milu
          milu
          August 8, 2022 at 9:58 am | #

          Oooh pierogis with a dash of mordant irony, bet that tasted fine ^^

          • Eldritchy
            Eldritchy
            August 8, 2022 at 11:22 am | #

            Oh I learnt a new word, mordant!

            • milu
              milu
              August 8, 2022 at 11:31 am | #

              Oh no, it’s a pretty old word I think

  20. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    August 8, 2022 at 3:51 am | #

    Becky feels like Mary is one of her family because she has the same beliefs of her parents? Mary is like an annoying cousin… what a disgrace!

  21. FlamestAndLight
    FlamestAndLight
    August 8, 2022 at 7:18 am | #

    the eye window reminds me a lot of the original Chex Quest for some reason

  22. Spriteless Aunty
    Spriteless Aunty
    August 8, 2022 at 7:21 am | #

    “How are things going? Since, you know, the orphaning.” Would be a book title that asks questions at least.

  23. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    August 8, 2022 at 7:22 am | #

    We need Dina-in-costume to meet Kaiju Vanessa from Something Positive.

  24. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    August 8, 2022 at 7:42 am | #

    Dina: “fi na lly !!”

  25. Regalli
    Regalli
    August 8, 2022 at 9:09 am | #

    You know Becky, checks out. Plus she got to mess around with Mary. Best choice!

  26. Keulen
    Keulen
    August 8, 2022 at 1:13 pm | #

    That hell house is gonna have to be taken down eventually, might as well let Dina have some fun doing it.

  27. Alex
    Alex
    August 8, 2022 at 2:39 pm | #

    This reminds me of my favorite memory from high school. We had just had student council elections and the school was still covered in election posters, now useless. My teacher, known for being a bit of a maverick, decided we should all run through the school and tear down the posters. It was the most fun I’ve ever had at that school, and because it was the teacher’s idea none of us got in any trouble.

  28. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    August 8, 2022 at 10:21 pm | #

    Becky’s smile in the final panel gives me the impression that she is going to receive a great deal of satisfaction from Dina destroying things.

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