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by David M Willis on July 17, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Saturday's All Right for Slighting
└ Tags: dina, jennifer, joyce, sarah

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    July 17, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    NO IRONY THERE OR ANYTHING

    • George
      George
      July 17, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

      NOPE, NO IRONY HERE. NONE AT ALL. MY FACE JUST DOES THIS SOMETIMES.

      • LuckyStar7
        LuckyStar7
        July 20, 2012 at 6:29 pm | #

        OF COURSE ITS NOT AWKWARD

      • Cacturne
        Cacturne
        January 10, 2016 at 10:28 pm | #

        The dina face only contributes to this comment

  2. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    July 17, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    DINA IS A WEEPING ANGEL!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 17, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      Dammit, I blinked!

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 17, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

        Don’t blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back, don’t look away and don’t blink. Good luck. *blinks*

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      July 17, 2012 at 12:39 am | #

      EEEEEEEEK!

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 17, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

        Hey Doctor, can’t you do anything about the Angels infestation? Or are you stuck in 1969 and the Angels got the Box?

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          July 17, 2012 at 1:08 am | #

          Yeah, posting on the internet is hard in 1969. It requires a magnetized needle and a steady hand.

          • das-g
            das-g
            July 18, 2012 at 6:28 pm | #

            Or butterflies.

        • AckAckAck
          AckAckAck
          July 17, 2012 at 2:07 am | #

          Maybe you can ask Dr Whooves help instead :p

  3. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    July 17, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    I can hear a Joyce/Dina ship being assembled.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 17, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      assembling a ship is hard. just ask mickey

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      July 17, 2012 at 2:08 am | #

      I can hear a preparation for long range torpedo to sink that ship.

    • Resne
      Resne
      July 17, 2012 at 3:34 am | #

      Wind at our backs, lads! Full sail, hoist anchor and prepare to make way! The open sea of Faen’Dom is our oyster!

  4. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    July 17, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Joyce…when yous say stuff like that you know all the ravenous shippers take it the wrong way.

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      July 17, 2012 at 2:10 am | #

      She don’t even need to say those words. Shippers knows no bound.

      She simply poured a can full of gasoline to the fire.

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        July 17, 2012 at 3:43 am | #

        I think shippers would rather she pour lotion. Or hot wax, depending on what you’re into.

        • Rex Hondo
          Rex Hondo
          July 17, 2012 at 1:05 pm | #

          Scented massage oil…

    • Rayrayrave
      Rayrayrave
      July 17, 2012 at 10:07 pm | #

      This comic just sailed a joyceXsarah ship for me, actually.

  5. Joe H
    Joe H
    July 17, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    *swaddle*

    • Thor
      Thor
      July 17, 2012 at 1:24 am | #

      Is that what all the kids are doing these days?

      “Hey, baby. What says you come back to my room and I’ll swaddle you until you can’t walk straight.”

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 17, 2012 at 3:12 am | #

        If you literally swaddled them, they wouldn’t be walking too well anyhow.

  6. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    July 17, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    dina was always my most favorite character in the series. she’s probably going to date mike again to show how un-innocent she is, b/c willis is a heartless person toying with our emotions

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      July 17, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

      Willis doesn’t want to repeat himself, though.

      Perhaps she’ll end up with Ruth. It’d accomplish about the same thing.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        July 17, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

        naw she’s gonna go to the museum, fall in love with the wax dinosaur figure and ave many wax dinosaur babies.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          July 17, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

          …and getting covered in ‘wax tadpoles’.

        • Ancestral Hamster
          Ancestral Hamster
          July 17, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

          And leave nipple prints to puzzle the police.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            July 17, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

            you make one little implication that an asian college girl is going to make love to a wax sculpture of a dinosaur and everyone can’t seem to get their mind out of the gutter.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              July 17, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

              HOW CAN THIS BE? 😛

              • Rex Hondo
                Rex Hondo
                July 17, 2012 at 4:50 pm | #

                I’m not sure, but I’ll bet somebody will say something about sexism soon enough. 😉

            • Ancestral Hamster
              Ancestral Hamster
              July 17, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

              Actually, it’s an obscure reference to a book that inspired a Disney movie about British nannies stealing a dinosaur skeleton from the British Museum. It was so long ago that I can’t remember the title of either book or film, but I do remember the nipple print incident and how a young bobby was trying to figure out how he’d use it to break open the case.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                July 17, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

                “One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing”

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  July 17, 2012 at 12:41 am | #

                  “Again? That’s like what? The third time this week?”

                • Ancestral Hamster
                  Ancestral Hamster
                  July 17, 2012 at 11:50 am | #

                  Yes, that was the film title. Thanks for the reminder.

  7. Sensedog
    Sensedog
    July 17, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    I can’t help but enjoy the subtext in the last panel.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 17, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

      The only way Joyce knows how to teach is biblically.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 17, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

        Hey Plas, you’re using a character from Dead or Alive, right?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          July 17, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

          Correct, Leifang to be exact.

          • Ancestral Hamster
            Ancestral Hamster
            July 17, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

            Hey, it’s the Asian guy who works at Shortpacked! 😛

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              July 17, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

              But she doesn’t look anything like Guile..Blanka or whatever his name was again.

              • Jackson
                Jackson
                July 17, 2012 at 3:28 pm | #

                Ky Kiske?

  8. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    July 17, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    The end of the comic will reveal that Dina was never real and was just a mass halucination brought on by the stress of college life and the desire for someone worse at socializing than themselves.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      July 17, 2012 at 3:21 am | #

      That would explain why she rooms with Amber then.

    • Just for kix
      Just for kix
      July 17, 2012 at 3:45 am | #

      Yotomoe is M. Night Shyamalan

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        July 17, 2012 at 1:08 pm | #

        Expect a rapid drop-off in the quality of his posts after his first couple of good ones.

        • John
          John
          October 23, 2013 at 2:10 pm | #

          I come from the far future year of 2013 to warn you of Yotomoe’s Avatar movie: Dina/Faz shipping!

  9. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    July 17, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

    I’m not certain what Sarah’s face is indicating in the last panel.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      July 17, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

      Mild intestinal discomfort?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 17, 2012 at 12:44 am | #

        That works for me. 😀

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        July 17, 2012 at 1:09 pm | #

        When will your laxative kick in?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          July 17, 2012 at 4:25 pm | #

          When you are way too far from the nearest available stall.

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      July 17, 2012 at 6:34 am | #

      Because Joyce just described how Sarah feels about Joyce. It’s a monent, they’re bonding.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        July 17, 2012 at 7:39 am | #

        oh. so that face is her brain exploding at the thought of having common ground with Joyce. Got it.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        July 17, 2012 at 10:42 am | #

        That’s what I thought, but the alternate read of Joyce’s comment is hard to ignore, and given that expression… now I’m thinking we’re seeing the exact point where the simultaneous thoughts “Oh my lord Joyce and I think alike” and “Joyce sounds so lesbian right now!” merge and become “Wait a second, what does that mean about how I feel about Joyce?”

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      July 17, 2012 at 4:57 pm | #

      She’s blushing because she already knows how much Dina knows of the “ways of the world.”

      Bow chicka bow wow

  10. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    July 17, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

    Is it just me or are Joyce’s two statements contradictory without a but or however in it. also I’m glad Sarah’s taking an interest in herstory instead of that chauvanistic history

  11. Melizza
    Melizza
    July 17, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

    i blinked and dina showed up in my ro—-

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 17, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

      In What!? Your Robe? Your Rope? Your roses? wheeeeeeere!!!???

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 17, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

        It’s too late. Melizza’s now either got sent back in time or possibly turned into one of “them”.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 17, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

      Your roadhouse? rodeo? rogues gallery? roof? roundabout?

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 17, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

        Your runabout? I’LL STEAL IT. NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          July 17, 2012 at 12:41 am | #

          Confound that Dina! She drives me to drink!

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            July 17, 2012 at 12:44 am | #

            She took you to a pub? That was nice of her.

            • Roborat
              Roborat
              July 17, 2012 at 3:04 pm | #

              She has a car? Then why is she riding the bus?

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                July 17, 2012 at 4:27 pm | #

                No, she has a bus, it’s hers. 😀

  12. TemplarKnight
    TemplarKnight
    July 17, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

    That’s like teaching french to someone two weeks after you start your first french class.

    “Just have to stay one step ahead.”

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      July 17, 2012 at 4:54 pm | #

      So, Joyce is going to be teaching Dina to french, or finding somebody to teach her, first, before she starts Dina’s lessons?

  13. Aizat
    Aizat
    July 17, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

    Dina, the DOAverse verion of Derpy.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 17, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

      Now I’m imagining her with a derpy voice. I am quite displeased.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 17, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

        I don’t know what went wrong.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      July 17, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

      She needs to just start turning up everywhere. Any time there’s a crowd, Dina will be somewhere in the background.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 17, 2012 at 12:45 am | #

        Maybe she has her own TARDIS.

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          July 17, 2012 at 1:12 am | #

          I would totally watch Dina Who.

          “I met some pepperpots, who were actually canned squids, and they tried to kill me with their egg whisks, but I pointed my penlight that goes WHHHHHRRR at their spaceship parts, and they all died and I flew away in my phone box. It happens quite frequently.”

          I vote Dina gets a fez. Or at least a bow-tie.

          • Bryn
            Bryn
            July 17, 2012 at 3:37 am | #

            Dina should get a Stetson. Stetsons are cool.

      • TheLastOutlaw
        TheLastOutlaw
        July 17, 2012 at 8:40 pm | #

        Click the Dina tag, she appears in more backgrounds than you’d expect. At least more than I expected.

  14. Buckybone
    Buckybone
    July 17, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

    And Joyce will love her and pet her and call her Dina.

  15. John
    John
    July 17, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

    I wonder what Sarah thinks “swaddle” means.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 17, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

      Sliding and waddling at the same time?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 17, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

      It obviousely means to sweetly throttle.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 17, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

        Not to be a spoilsport but to swaddle is to bind up tightly with cloth.

        • BigMadDraco
          BigMadDraco
          July 17, 2012 at 12:41 am | #

          And as we all know, there is absolutely no way to take the binding of a person in a tight cloth sexually.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            July 17, 2012 at 12:53 am | #

            That would be ridiculous. 😛

  16. Philippe G.
    Philippe G.
    July 17, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

    “I just want to swaddle her and teach her the ways of the world” Oh, I have a very dirty mind. “Rarr!” indeed.

    • Kryss LaBryn
      Kryss LaBryn
      July 17, 2012 at 6:18 pm | #

      I misread “swaddle” as “paddle” at first… >.>

  17. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    July 17, 2012 at 1:49 am | #

    I don’t even know where to begin with this one.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 17, 2012 at 2:09 am | #

      Begin from the beginning silly!

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        July 17, 2012 at 2:55 am | #

        That would make sense.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 17, 2012 at 7:35 am | #

          Damn…I started from panel 3…no wonder I was so confused.

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      July 17, 2012 at 1:11 pm | #

      Start at the top and work your way down.

      • Ezra Fell
        Ezra Fell
        July 17, 2012 at 1:46 pm | #

        I feel like your comment needs porn groove…..

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          July 17, 2012 at 6:18 pm | #

          Bow chika wow wow!

  18. AckAckAck
    AckAckAck
    July 17, 2012 at 2:01 am | #

    I have a friend like Dina (not inept, just so “transparent” he pop up unexpectedly among us often), he is a nice guy though. Much more talktative than Dina but love to “disappear” even when he’s still in the group.

    Tbh friend like that is rare. They are good guys and we need to support them more. But tbh I don’t want Joyce to be the one who teach her. Maybe Walky…. ok scratch that, I will Dorothy or AmaziGirl. She need confidence, not another heartbreak.

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      July 17, 2012 at 2:02 am | #

      Gah no edit button:

      I will pick Dorothy or Amazigirl to teach her.

  19. spriteless
    spriteless
    July 17, 2012 at 2:09 am | #

    WAVES OF PROGESTERONE! NURTURE THOSE GIRLS< GIRLS!

  20. Kensou
    Kensou
    July 17, 2012 at 2:11 am | #

    If Joyce had substituted “smack” for “swaddle”, Sarah might have a better idea. =3

  21. Cholma
    Cholma
    July 17, 2012 at 2:25 am | #

    I just realized that none of them have shopping bags; guess the trip was a bust. Billie failed at teaching Joyce to shop. (she was obviously too fixated on shipping Walky/Dorothy)

    • Aydr
      Aydr
      July 17, 2012 at 2:38 am | #

      You sure that they’re done? That might be another building behind them… I kinda doubt that they’re not even gonna be shown shopping at all.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      July 17, 2012 at 10:37 am | #

      I don’t think that Sarah would have waited through a few hours of shopping before asking this question – I think the bus just barely pulled out of frame in panel 1.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      July 17, 2012 at 3:07 pm | #

      Have you forgotten the pace this comic moves at? They have just gotten off the bus and are walking to the store.

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      July 17, 2012 at 5:31 pm | #

      I thought they just left the store. Weren’t they at the mall when Walky ran into Dorothy?

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        July 17, 2012 at 5:35 pm | #

        Gahh! Never mind. I just went back and checked. I guess that was actually a common area of the Dorm, not the mall. Oops.

  22. Valdrax
    Valdrax
    July 17, 2012 at 3:25 am | #

    This is why I like Sarah.

  23. Gargamel
    Gargamel
    July 17, 2012 at 3:42 am | #

    No Sarah that what she means.
    Giggety.:-)

    • Gargamel
      Gargamel
      July 17, 2012 at 3:56 am | #

      Stupid tablet
      No that’s not what she means Sarah.

      Giggity!;-)

  24. Yumi
    Yumi
    July 17, 2012 at 5:26 am | #

    Is it really so puzzling why Sarah’s blushing like that? Its not cuz she’s confused about what swaddling means its cuz that’s how she feels about Joyce. Also I find that a strange use of the word swaddling

  25. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    July 17, 2012 at 5:47 am | #

    … Anyone else get the feeling that Dina’s going to turn out to be some incredibly deviant individual with profiles on Fetlife and such? … No? It’s just me?

    • Arturo
      Arturo
      July 17, 2012 at 6:39 am | #

      I web searched “Fetlife” and I only slightly regret it.

  26. Raoullefere
    Raoullefere
    July 17, 2012 at 6:43 am | #

    Dina’s clever facade ensures that no one will ever guess she is Amazi-girl…

    …which is why, if shipped she must be, I think Dina should sail with Dotty, who makes a grand replacement for Mike.

  27. Jeff D.
    Jeff D.
    July 17, 2012 at 9:02 am | #

    Dina is a quantum waveform?

  28. davidbreslin101
    davidbreslin101
    July 17, 2012 at 11:45 am | #

    “It’s nice having someone around who’s less socialised than ME.” Love Joyce for a) having this moment of self-recognition and b) smiling while she says it.
    Plus, there’s some really great facial expressions in this strip… you could probably create a “how-to” guide for cartoonists just from recent DoA strips!

  29. kater
    kater
    July 17, 2012 at 1:07 pm | #

    Oh Joyce, please be friends with Dina and get in to long arguments about whether fossils were put on earth to test our faith or if dinosaurs and man coexisted. Please, please, please, please!

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      July 17, 2012 at 3:08 pm | #

      OMFG, please do this. That would be priceless.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 17, 2012 at 7:01 pm | #

        I bet Joyce subscribes to this theory.

  30. Al the Migthy
    Al the Migthy
    July 17, 2012 at 8:08 pm | #

    Joyce in the last panel reminds me of that “now kiss” meme.

  31. historyman68
    historyman68
    July 23, 2012 at 2:16 am | #

    I like how Joyce is kind of mimicking Dina’s slightly-crosseyed look in panel two.

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