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Missing out

by David M Willis on August 1, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Saturday's All Right for Slighting
└ Tags: dina, sarah

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  1. addude
    addude
    August 1, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Dina is my animal spirit

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 1, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      Dina is a totem?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 1, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

        I would buy a Dina totem.
        So long as it looked like her last pose from this

        • Luke
          Luke
          August 1, 2012 at 2:05 am | #

          That’d be the best totem ever. I should tell the Cherokee in my blood about that, I think he’d enjoy it.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            August 1, 2012 at 2:42 am | #

            you should see a doctor about that.

            • Cody B
              Cody B
              August 3, 2012 at 8:44 am | #

              Willis! Make things so we can buy them!

              • Rachel Roth
                Rachel Roth
                August 5, 2014 at 7:36 pm | #

                Yes, make us Dina Greeting cards and shirts so we can celebrate!

    • Steven
      Steven
      August 1, 2012 at 3:35 am | #

      Dina is my Spirit Pokémon.

      • nitpicker
        nitpicker
        August 1, 2012 at 7:47 pm | #

        Dina is my Patronus.

        • ThunderBeard
          ThunderBeard
          November 27, 2013 at 6:10 am | #

          Dina is my Daemon.

          • shadowsneakz
            shadowsneakz
            October 3, 2015 at 4:21 am | #

            Dina is my FAAAACE.

  2. Kafloobop
    Kafloobop
    August 1, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Trust me sister you ain’t missing a thing.

  3. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    August 1, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    She knows how to look on the bright side.

  4. Michelle Alford
    Michelle Alford
    August 1, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    What’s this about dinosaurs not changing? I feel like half the dinosaurs I learned about as a kid aren’t dinosaurs anymore or have different names.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 1, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

      and all the planets are now moons, and all the islands were really continents, and all the teenage mutant turtles are aliens.

      • Icalasari
        Icalasari
        August 13, 2012 at 8:36 pm | #

        Yotomoe, we ignore the blasphemy that comes out of what Michael Bay creates

    • Ian
      Ian
      August 1, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

      It’s not the dinosaurs that are changing. It is our understanding of them.

      • Martigro
        Martigro
        August 1, 2012 at 12:00 pm | #

        I cannot press “Like” on this comment. But I like it. And so I am forced to express my liking of this comment by commenting on it.

  5. Tekkactus
    Tekkactus
    August 1, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    I wonder how Dina feels about feathered theropods.

    • Bill M.
      Bill M.
      August 1, 2012 at 12:40 pm | #

      I fully expect she found out about them and accepted them the same way I did, through Dinosaur Train. Besides, all that means is chickens are modern-day descendants of dinosaurs.

    • Volkai
      Volkai
      August 1, 2012 at 6:52 pm | #

      The feathers add an interesting twist that must be researched further.

  6. Michael
    Michael
    August 1, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    I’m pretty sure suddenly having feathers the whole time is a pretty big change right before her eyes

    • gangler
      gangler
      August 1, 2012 at 1:42 am | #

      That never changed. We just learned more.

  7. John
    John
    August 1, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    You say that, Dina, but I remember seeing actual rage from people being confronted with the feathers thing.

    Also, like this comic. It’s a good interaction.

    • John
      John
      August 1, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      Augh! My gravatar changed! I used to be goggles girl! Okay, this one’s okay too.

      • Brasca1
        Brasca1
        August 1, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

        Mine was Monkey Master although I don’t mind, but I still wonder why it changed.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 1, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

          Gravatars change periodically

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          August 1, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

          The Raidah icon got introduced, I think. Thus the gravatars were all reassigned.

        • Tan
          Tan
          August 1, 2012 at 11:08 am | #

          No gravatars are constant but the customized ones.

          And then there’s Plasma Mongoose.

          • Spazman
            Spazman
            August 4, 2012 at 4:20 am | #

            really? Then I wonder what mine got changed to.

  8. Alex Stritar
    Alex Stritar
    August 1, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    … That clinches it, Dina is my favorate character ever in anything.

    • Jehosaphat
      Jehosaphat
      August 1, 2012 at 1:59 am | #

      Dina is winning all the things. ALL THE THINGS!!

      • Groove
        Groove
        August 1, 2012 at 4:25 am | #

        Yeah, I love Dina.

        I’m so glad she gets to have the words to say.

        • Spazman
          Spazman
          August 4, 2012 at 4:21 am | #

          This is Dina. There are many like it but this one still has the “new Dina smell.”

          She smells like dinosaurs.

    • Tapio Peltonen
      Tapio Peltonen
      August 1, 2012 at 3:20 am | #

      I always liked Dina, but DoA Dina is somehow even more adorable than It’s Walky’s Dina.

      • TheLastOutlaw
        TheLastOutlaw
        August 1, 2012 at 6:47 am | #

        It’s the dino hat. It has a +5 modifier to her adorable stat. The old was a +5 to science.

      • Volkai
        Volkai
        August 1, 2012 at 7:01 pm | #

        It helps that she hasn’t yet attempted to manipulate someone via constant application of booze.

        That… that was not so adorable.

        Also, slightly less dead. Dying is also not an adorable thing to do. In Dina’s case it was heroic, but heroic and adorable do not always go hand-in-hand.

        • Historyman68
          Historyman68
          August 4, 2012 at 1:19 pm | #

          Not quite adorable, but kind of consistent with her scientific mind. If you don’t understand how people work, and you discover a way to get them to work more consistently, then good job! Yeah, it’s manipulation, but still, consistent at least.

  9. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    August 1, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    And so the Doctor appeared and whisked Dina away to the cretaceous period.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 1, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      Hey now. That’s a surprise. New season hasn’t started yet.

      • Chupi
        Chupi
        August 1, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

        What the hell has been holding it up, anyway? Doesn’t it typically start pretty much right after the Christmas special?

        • AndysDrawings
          AndysDrawings
          August 1, 2012 at 4:17 am | #

          Since the relaunch, it has started pretty regularly on Easter weekend. Moffat says he had it moved to later in the year because he was annoyed with having it on in the summer months – it’s a show to be enjoyed in the dark, not with sunlight streaming through the windows and the knowledge you could be outside enjoying the sun.

          • Groove
            Groove
            August 1, 2012 at 4:26 am | #

            He was also busy co-writing Sherlock earlier in the year.

    • Allison
      Allison
      August 1, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

      Well there /are/ supposed to be dinosaurs this series. Personally, I think she’d make a good addition to the Primeval team…

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      August 2, 2012 at 3:12 pm | #

      Where they were both promptly eaten, then the micro organisms that travelled with them caused the dinosaur extinction.

  10. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 1, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    It took me this long to realize that Sarah is a pretty bad influence on Dina.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 1, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      It’s a bit soon for Sarah to be classed as any kind of influence on Dina.

    • SpaceInvader42
      SpaceInvader42
      August 1, 2012 at 1:07 am | #

      I agree, it’s really rather unfair of Sarah to infect Dina with her hatred of people. Just because she had some bad experiences doesn’t mean that everyone everywhere is bad and deserves only to be hated.

      • Khrene Cleaver
        Khrene Cleaver
        August 1, 2012 at 1:27 am | #

        Yeah Sarah needs a hug… and maybe a good lay.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 1, 2012 at 1:39 am | #

          Meanwhile*
          Joe: My Joe sense is tingling!

          • Jehosaphat
            Jehosaphat
            August 1, 2012 at 2:01 am | #

            Joe *from behind the foliage*: “Sooo… you girls gonna make out any time soon?”

            • TheLastOutlaw
              TheLastOutlaw
              August 1, 2012 at 6:51 am | #

              Yep, that would be Joe.

              • Spazman
                Spazman
                August 4, 2012 at 4:23 am | #

                or The Todd.

                *sighs*

                I miss Scrubs.

      • TheLastOutlaw
        TheLastOutlaw
        August 1, 2012 at 6:53 am | #

        Now I’m picturing Sarah as the emperor and Dina as Vader in training. “Let the hate flow through you!”

        I wish I time to draw this because it would be awesome.

    • Dr. Bolty
      Dr. Bolty
      August 1, 2012 at 1:22 am | #

      Eh, Dina’s got on just fine without much social interaction so far. She seems pretty capable of handling herself when she actually has to. I don’t think a dose of cynicism is going to ruin her ability to get along in the world.

      • fellixe
        fellixe
        August 1, 2012 at 2:47 am | #

        *having bad thoughts about Dina ‘handling herself’

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      August 4, 2012 at 1:22 pm | #

      I don’t think Dina’s impressionable enough to have Sarah’s feelings become her de-facto opinions. She’s getting data from one source, she needs data from other sources before coming to a conclusion. And keep in mind, they both just got snubbed by some bullies- it’s fair that they’ll both be a little bitter at humanity.

  11. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 1, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    Not sure if this counts as a warm and fussy moment or not.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 1, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

      This moment can’t compare to Joyces Boots.

      • Krashthemystro
        Krashthemystro
        August 1, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

        I thought the appropriate term was sweater vest puppies.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 1, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

          I thought the appropriate term was Boots but whatevs

        • Jehosaphat
          Jehosaphat
          August 1, 2012 at 1:50 am | #

          Why would Joyce stick boots in her sweater vest? Thats just silly!

      • Khrene Cleaver
        Khrene Cleaver
        August 1, 2012 at 1:25 am | #

        I’m JOYCE witch! You see these motherlovin’ BOOTS! Let the no-premarital-hanky-panky-party begin!

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 1, 2012 at 2:49 am | #

          So if you poor beer on her she’ll melt?

  12. Edd
    Edd
    August 1, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

    Dina is so great she deserves her own wallpaper.
    Especially since last time we saw her in the original series she was, um, turned into wallpaper.

    • Audiophillie
      Audiophillie
      August 1, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

      That just made me cry a little inside. D:

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 1, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

      No, no, not true! We saw her in the end bit with Ruth and Walky and everyone who died! *Still sad*

      • Edd
        Edd
        August 1, 2012 at 4:52 am | #

        Totally forgot about that.
        In that scene they clearly establish that it is a repository for dead souls, unless Dina was right and Walky was hallucinating, but Mike shows up so the first theory is right.
        In either case Dina is still dead. There is no need to be in denial dude, just read the writing on the wall.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          August 1, 2012 at 12:31 pm | #

          Well, yes, but it’s much better than the last time we see her being all exploded. I know she’s dead, it’s just that that scene was significantly less explode-y.

          • Edd
            Edd
            August 1, 2012 at 3:50 pm | #

            Blarg, my “writing on the wall” joke was wasted.

            But yea, that scene was a good way to give closure to her death.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      August 1, 2012 at 1:08 am | #

      Really? I thought she was turned into carpeting.

      • Khrene Cleaver
        Khrene Cleaver
        August 1, 2012 at 1:23 am | #

        Either way Dina makes for a bloody good interior designer!

        • Isoprops
          Isoprops
          August 1, 2012 at 4:24 am | #

          Its whats on the inside that counts.

  13. AliaPie
    AliaPie
    August 1, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

    Dina you are so adorable aaaaah.

  14. Deemah
    Deemah
    August 1, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

    Oh Dina.

    She just needs her own show. Or just her own comic.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 1, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

      just call it “That’s our Dina”
      I’ll have to draw that out.

  15. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    August 1, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

    Except our knowledge of dinosaurs, as with all things about the past recorded or not, is constantly changing and adjusting to new studies and observations. Nothing is static, not even the past.

    I mean, does Dina still think brontosaurs were real?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 1, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

      I think unless it’s the square root of a negative number, everything is real.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        August 1, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

        Math jokes.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          August 1, 2012 at 1:17 am | #

          At least he’s imaginative.

          • Khrene Cleaver
            Khrene Cleaver
            August 1, 2012 at 1:21 am | #

            Please get real

            • Gundi
              Gundi
              August 1, 2012 at 2:22 am | #

              Can I get a slice of this pi?

              • Kernanator
                Kernanator
                August 1, 2012 at 2:36 am | #

                You guys are so irrational.

                • Yotomoe
                  Yotomoe
                  August 1, 2012 at 2:43 am | #

                  Stop acting so improper or I’m going to have to divide you

    • Chupi
      Chupi
      August 1, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

      She’s more or less describing “I have Asperger’s.” In fact this entire storyline since they arrived at the mall has. So given that if I recall correctly, Dina’s personality is based on someone Willis encountered or knew in real life she probably keeps up with it juuuuust fine.

      God knows nothing happens in the AvP franchises without my mind scanning over and theorizing about every little new detail and integrating it into the bundles of knowledge already acquired… Yet somehow I just can’t seem to get my head around performing proper social routines. It’s a lot easier online or in writing than in person, but… Well, you get the idea.

      • Bruceski
        Bruceski
        August 1, 2012 at 4:19 am | #

        I dunno, the line between “socially inept” and actual not-self-diagnosed-Asperger’s is pretty fuzzy. When you’re very analytical it can be relaxing to take all those niggles about people and decide not to worry about them. It’s made me a lot happier, if a bit oblivious.

        • Chupi
          Chupi
          August 1, 2012 at 5:35 am | #

          True enough. Though really, watching Dina here and Abed in Community feels a whole lot like looking into a mirror sometimes. A slightly exaggerated mirror, with race and sometimes gender bending involved. Funnily, neither of them are officially diagnosed. But the basis of the behavior at least feels obvious. But maybe my brain is just making some links that aren’t really there in order to more closely relate.

          • Alyssa
            Alyssa
            August 1, 2012 at 8:01 am | #

            I was looking at this scene and pretty much thinking “OMG SOMEONE LIKE ME.” (I am legit diagnosed with Aspergers, and was on the border between that and autistic disorder… took people forever to figure it out though, partially because I tried really hard to keep them from doing so.)

          • Bruceski
            Bruceski
            August 1, 2012 at 10:57 am | #

            Feels like a mirror here as well, and I fall solidly on the “socially inept” side of the line. I’m sure we’re both picking out some details in particular.

            • Alyssa
              Alyssa
              August 3, 2012 at 7:44 am | #

              The fact that she showed no hesitation to act like a dinosaur in public, at all, kinda suggested to me, and that she needed to ask about the posture, suggested to me that it might be something Autism Spectrum Also, her body language feels odd, and it seems like she’s looking at noses, not eyes.

          • Historyman68
            Historyman68
            August 4, 2012 at 1:28 pm | #

            Yeah, panel 3 had a definite “Abed speech” feel to it. As I understand it, Abed himself was at least partially based on Dan Harmon. Though of course, most writers will tell you that EVERY character came from inside themselves.

            To bring it back to the comic, clearly there’s an aspect of Dina inside Willis, as I think his Transformers Wiki obsessiveness possibly indicates- and the fact that he’s such a good observer of people, as this entire career of his indicates. There’s a part of every character in him.

    • gangler
      gangler
      August 1, 2012 at 1:53 am | #

      Of course the past is static. You stated it quite clearly. Our knowledge changes. The past itself does not.

      With people you can learn something today and find it to no longer be true tomorrow. They are not the same person they were when you learned this. The information is out of date.

      With Dinosaurs you can learn that what you learned yesterday was inaccurate, but the dinosaurs themselves don’t change so that the information that was true yesterday becomes false as of today.

      They’re entirely different things. You learn about disosaurs. They do not change. This is not true of people.

      • David
        David M Willis
        August 1, 2012 at 11:25 am | #

        Thank you.

      • Volkai
        Volkai
        August 1, 2012 at 7:08 pm | #

        Beat me to it.

  16. Alex
    Alex
    August 1, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

    Is it safe for me to assume that Dina falls somewhere on the Autism spectrum? Difficulty relating to other people, fixation on a single topic, seems to fit as far as I’m aware.

    Apologies if I’m making a false assumption here.

    • Animaniac
      Animaniac
      August 1, 2012 at 12:48 am | #

      As Willis keeps pointing out: Dina has never been [i]diagnosed[/i] as anything

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        August 1, 2012 at 1:11 am | #

        Try triangle brackets next time instead of square one. The tags are all listed below the text box before posting.

      • Buckybone
        Buckybone
        August 1, 2012 at 1:17 am | #

        Just because she hasn’t been diagnosed doesn’t mean she doesn’t have it.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 1, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

      Dina could just be a weird girl. All you people and your diagnostics and junk. It just sounds like people are always trying to find something wrong with people just because they don’t fit into their definition of what a normal girl should be like. I dunno…I don’t like that people are so obsessed with Dina’s physiological mental development.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        August 1, 2012 at 1:12 am | #

        Have you met most people? The instant they meet you, they classify you into some category. Sometimes, they even judge mental acuity, such as here. It’s human nature: you will be judged.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 1, 2012 at 1:41 am | #

          If I’d met most people, then I’d probably have amassed an amazing collection of languages.

    • Alyssa
      Alyssa
      August 1, 2012 at 8:03 am | #

      I totally thought the same thing, speaking as someone who is spectrum.

  17. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    August 1, 2012 at 12:49 am | #

    Given than we tend to discover new things about dinosaurs as each year passes I wouldn’t be so sure. But yeah people can be really hard to understand.

    • Jetstream
      Jetstream
      August 1, 2012 at 1:23 am | #

      Yeah but while your understanding of them deepens and you learn new things, Dinosaurs themselves are static. It’s the learning that’s insufficient, not their own dynamic nature.

      • Romanticide
        Romanticide
        August 2, 2012 at 2:28 am | #

        that is a good point though… by the moment you think you have understood certain facets of some people they change again…

  18. Shade
    Shade
    August 1, 2012 at 12:54 am | #

    Gonna have to side with Sarah, in general. People suck.

    You guys know people can in fact not understand people as a whole without being autistic right?

    • Buckybone
      Buckybone
      August 1, 2012 at 1:47 am | #

      It isn’t so much Dina not understanding people, it’s the rest of her social skills. Add her apparent obsession with dinosaurs, and it would be enough to get an Asperger’s diagnosis from the school psychologist in my hometown.

    • Bruceski
      Bruceski
      August 1, 2012 at 4:22 am | #

      People suck, but persons can be pretty awesome.

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        August 1, 2012 at 4:54 am | #

        How was it that Agent K put it? “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”

    • HeatPhoenix
      HeatPhoenix
      August 1, 2012 at 5:56 am | #

      And autistic people can be well-adapted human beings that don’t whine at humanities flaws at every turn.

      Tch, misanthropy, childish.

  19. Swissaboo
    Swissaboo
    August 1, 2012 at 12:55 am | #

    Oh misanthropy, so adorably naive.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      August 1, 2012 at 9:45 am | #

      Tch, optimism, so adorably childish.

      (Not entirely serious, but…yeah, a lot of people suck a lot of the time. It is as it is.)

      • thomas0comer
        thomas0comer
        August 1, 2012 at 12:23 pm | #

        I prefer cynical optimism. The glass is half-full, because the rains of change are pouring in through that hole in your roof. And it’ll flood soon.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        August 4, 2012 at 1:31 pm | #

        Apparently, when people are pessimistic, they’re understanding more of the real situation than when they’re optimistic. Not quite sure how they did that study, but it is interesting. Not enough to get me to stop being optimistic, though.

  20. Rognik
    Rognik
    August 1, 2012 at 1:15 am | #

    You want Dina to get to know people? Give her a job dealing with the public. Being forced to deal with people will either teach you about people quickly, or get you fired.

    I’m almost certain Sarah has had some public service jobs in the past. Nothing like having to deal with the dredges of humanity to make you hate the world and everyone in it.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 1, 2012 at 1:42 am | #

      I would love to see Dina working at the customer service desk of any store.

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      August 1, 2012 at 4:57 am | #

      True. Cashiering at Meijer for a couple of years certainly taught me that I didn’t want to work a job dealing with the public any more.

      • James
        James
        August 1, 2012 at 12:51 pm | #

        Truth.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      August 4, 2012 at 1:34 pm | #

      I’ve had a couple service industry jobs- Apple Store, pizza place, coffee shop – and I’ve enjoyed all of them a bunch. Sure, there’s annoying customers at times, but it’s generally been the management who have gotten on my nerves rather than the customers. The feeling of appreciation when you give someone something they want is really quite a nice feeling.

  21. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    August 1, 2012 at 1:22 am | #

    Dina’s cute. I like Sarah, she’s got her head and a** wired together.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      August 1, 2012 at 1:28 am | #

      I don’t think that sounded as flattering towards Sarah as you may have thought it did in your head.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      August 1, 2012 at 2:38 am | #

      So, you Sarah because she’s got her head up her ass?

      That doesn’t sound like a good thing.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 1, 2012 at 2:44 am | #

        maybe he admires the flexibility.

      • Bruceski
        Bruceski
        August 1, 2012 at 4:23 am | #

        It means her butt jiggles when she talks.

  22. TheRealAllPurposeGuru
    TheRealAllPurposeGuru
    August 1, 2012 at 1:43 am | #

    Today’s Google Doodle reminds me of Sal. Except instead of playing field hockey in the Olympics, I envision her doing donuts in the middle of the field hockey field on her motorcycle.

  23. jake36x
    jake36x
    August 1, 2012 at 2:03 am | #

    Yum donuts

  24. Bugberry
    Bugberry
    August 1, 2012 at 2:21 am | #

    Dina is the Dino-Goddess, always and forever.

  25. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    August 1, 2012 at 3:42 am | #

    Is… Is Sarah making a new friend?? The mind boggles! O.o

  26. TexasUberAlles
    TexasUberAlles
    August 1, 2012 at 5:21 am | #

    Oh mah gawd, Dina is Brainiac.

    Any moment now she’s going to start talking about her plans to digitize the entire Sol system and then destroy it so that no new information can be generated and she will forever know everything that could possibly be known about it.

    • Jimmy
      Jimmy
      August 1, 2012 at 6:36 am | #

      Sounds like she’s joined the Brain Spawn. She’d better watch out for Fry and the Nibblonians!

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 1, 2012 at 3:20 pm | #

        With Walky being Fry of cause.

  27. Doom shepherd
    Doom shepherd
    August 1, 2012 at 6:47 am | #

    I love this friendship. Combine these two characters, sprinkle in a little Mike, and you have me.

    Clearly, this will all end horribly.

  28. Gneiss
    Gneiss
    August 1, 2012 at 8:25 am | #

    Poor Sarah. She’s my favorite character, but she’s so bitter, I hope she and Dina end up being good friends.

  29. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    August 1, 2012 at 8:34 am | #

    It just get better and better

  30. Rally-oh
    Rally-oh
    August 1, 2012 at 10:12 am | #

    I just have to say that lamp post in the first post is very awesome.

  31. Rally-oh
    Rally-oh
    August 1, 2012 at 10:13 am | #

    Gah, I mean in the first panel.

  32. JA
    JA
    August 1, 2012 at 9:32 pm | #

    I hate people too. Especially those who drive under the speed limit in the left lane.

    GET THE HELL IN THE RIGHT LANE FFS!!!

  33. Scoops!
    Scoops!
    August 1, 2012 at 10:38 pm | #

    Have there been requests for “Rarr!” shirts, yet?

  34. Tunasammich
    Tunasammich
    August 4, 2012 at 3:54 pm | #

    Awwww I want Dina and Sarah to be BFFs

  35. Hitoshi
    Hitoshi
    August 27, 2012 at 3:39 am | #

    I have trouble understanding people and most of the ones I do, I hate. I’m the inbetweener of the group!

  36. Michelle J Caboose
    Michelle J Caboose
    December 15, 2012 at 4:23 am | #

    Now I just want to give Sarah a big hug. Not because I think she needs one, but because I agree with her.

    I also want to give Dina a big hug, but that’s because she’s just so adorable.

  37. Rik
    Rik
    March 15, 2013 at 1:05 pm | #

    Is Dina an aspie?

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