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by David M Willis on August 6, 2015 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Walking with Dina
└ Tags: amber, blaine, dina, faz, ross, sierra

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    August 6, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    Dinaaaaaaa, those who fail history are doomed to repeat it D=

    (here’s hoping for ALL THE DISTRACTIONS)

    • Lucina
      Lucina
      August 6, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      I think the point of the flashback is to suggest she’s not going to repeat the same mistake. I think we’re about to see some hilarious hijinks as Dina leads Becky’s father on a wild goose chase.

      Or I could be wrong and I’m about to cry.

      • darkoneko
        darkoneko
        August 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

        The last panel heavily implies she’s up to something.

        • Wire Segal
          Wire Segal
          August 6, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

          She looks like she’s ready to annihilate toedad. Let’s hope she channels that epically evil glare into equally epic hijinks.

          • AgentKeen
            AgentKeen
            August 6, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

            RELEASE THE RAPTOR!

            • The Other Mike
              The Other Mike
              August 6, 2015 at 3:50 am | #

              I have this sudden image of Dina as one of the raptors in the motorcycle chase scene in Jurassic World.

              • Usayasha
                Usayasha
                August 6, 2015 at 10:11 am | #

                All I can think of is the edit where they gave the raptors motorcycles.

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  August 6, 2015 at 4:14 pm | #

                  Wait. What edit is that?
                  Theory 1 – She is about to take him to Amber. Amber has given her advice before and can handle things.
                  Theory 2 – She is about to take him to Ruth. Taking Faz to Ruth is precedence. She recognizes Ruth as an authority figure who can handle things.
                  Theory 3 – She is about to take him to Joyce at the meeting. He knows Joyce is on campus already and should be able to locate her anyway. Wild conclusions occur.
                  Theory 4 – She is about to take his mangled body to Becky as promised.
                  Tempting but unlikely.
                  Theory 5 – She is about to take him to Leslie. Does she know Leslie?
                  Theory 6 – She has a clever mind that works in it’s own way. She is about to do something completely unexpected that will seem logical in retrospect.
                  Theory 7 – Just as disaster looms Mike or Walky saves the day.

                • Freemage
                  Freemage
                  August 6, 2015 at 10:09 pm | #

                  Similar to #1, but I’m hoping for this: “Amber. This is Becky’s father, who is here to visit her–you know, like your father came to visit you. I am looking for Becky right now. I think she may be on that path that goes through the quad, the one with no clear lines of visibility to the main campus, that is so far away that no one would hear a man being beaten badly enough to be hospitalized.”

                • Icalasari
                  Icalasari
                  August 6, 2015 at 11:46 pm | #

                  “You know, the one where you could easily remove femurs and apply them to the FAAAAAACE?”

            • Les
              Les
              August 6, 2015 at 6:48 am | #

              I agree, but right now she’s in plant eater mode, so she’d need to switch costumes. However, a plant eater could take a long time ambling across campus luring toedad along as bait…

              • Volkai
                Volkai
                August 6, 2015 at 10:28 am | #

                Is she in plant eater mode… or is she in plant eater disguise?

                • Church
                  Church
                  August 6, 2015 at 8:13 pm | #

                  :O

                • HMRC4EVR
                  HMRC4EVR
                  August 6, 2015 at 9:49 pm | #

                  If she yells ‘Terrorize’, Toedad’s dead.

                  If she yells ‘Maximize’ he’ll get a stern lecture from Primal, then Rattrap will kick him in the balls before Dinobot makes him ‘not an issue anymore’.

        • John
          John
          August 6, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

          Yeah, she does seem to understand that the words “escaped to” implies less than good intentions by the father.

        • jeffepp
          jeffepp
          August 6, 2015 at 1:52 am | #

          She has a cunning plan.

          • Justin
            Justin
            August 6, 2015 at 1:55 am | #

            A cunning plan for a…..Clever Girl, perhaps~?

          • Chris
            Chris
            August 6, 2015 at 4:11 am | #

            Does it involve a turnip?

          • Chris
            Chris
            August 6, 2015 at 4:16 am | #

            Is it so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel?

          • showler
            showler
            August 6, 2015 at 7:52 am | #

            Remember how David complained that Becky looked too much like Ruth? Works both ways and could be useful here.

            “Oh, I thought this incredibly angry redhead was the girl from the picture you showed me.”

            • Icalasari
              Icalasari
              August 6, 2015 at 11:47 pm | #

              You know what? This would be VERY acceptable

              ESPECIALLY if she gave just enough bait to get Toe Dad to go into a bigotted rant

        • Senko
          Senko
          August 6, 2015 at 3:55 am | #

          I’m thinking she intends to take him to her but is worried she’s making another mistake. He’s quite a bit different to the last dad she met afterall.

        • octochan
          octochan
          August 6, 2015 at 8:59 am | #

          “And he was never seen again, the end.”

      • Riku
        Riku
        August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

        Honestly I assumed she was gonna take her to Amber

        • Pat
          Pat
          August 6, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

          That was my thinking as well.

          • darkoneko
            darkoneko
            August 6, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

            That would mean bringing him to the floor, which is an increased chance of him seeing Becky (like going from Joyce’s room to Billie’s).
            There’s also a chance Amber isn’t there, too.

            it seems like a dangerous and uncertain plan

            • Julez
              Julez
              August 6, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

              Joyce’s room is connected to Billie’s by the half bath though. She wouldn’t need to go into the hall.

              • darkoneko
                darkoneko
                August 6, 2015 at 12:40 am | #

                …oh, good point.

            • Pat
              Pat
              August 6, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

              True.

        • Halloween Jack
          Halloween Jack
          August 6, 2015 at 1:32 pm | #

          Yerp. All she has to do to incite Amber’s berserker rage is to get Toedad monologuing.

        • Freemage
          Freemage
          August 6, 2015 at 10:11 pm | #

          Amazi-Girl. She’s going to take her to see Amazi-Girl, who has experience dealing with… substandard father figures.

      • sjmcc13
        sjmcc13
        August 6, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

        Dina is scientifically minded, she might try for more information then act…

    • Tayo
      Tayo
      August 6, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      dina doesnt look like the type to fail a history class (unless she was thinking about dinosaurs the whole time)

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

        why is this class only about the latest few centuries? fauna far larger than man has existed many times longer! why does your textbook marginalize their contribution??

        • xKiv
          xKiv
          August 6, 2015 at 8:09 pm | #

          Because they didn’t leave textbooks!

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 6, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

        Dina would be more interested in PRE-history.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          August 6, 2015 at 8:14 pm | #

          In truth, there is no such thing as ‘pre-history’. That which came before history is, simply, more history.

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            August 7, 2015 at 11:58 pm | #

            History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning “inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation”) is the study of the past, particularly how it relates to humans.

            so “pre-history” is kinda “before we thought to think about what happened”

    • Durandal_1707
      Durandal_1707
      August 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      The flashback panel (as well as her expression in the last panel) makes it pretty clear that Dina realizes what is going on here, and is about to attempt some kind of Daring Plan™.

      • Tom T.
        Tom T.
        August 6, 2015 at 12:54 am | #

        Given her obsessions, my guess is that she plans to lure him into some sort of tar pit.

        • merbrat
          merbrat
          August 6, 2015 at 2:33 am | #

          Heh. Nice one! ^

        • Cybersnark
          Cybersnark
          August 6, 2015 at 10:15 am | #

          With his size, he does qualify as megafauna.

      • N0083rP00F
        N0083rP00F
        August 6, 2015 at 8:29 am | #

        That should be a Cunning Plan™ http://www.seeamanaboutablog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/blackadder-a-cunning-plan.jpg

        • Booyahman
          Booyahman
          August 6, 2015 at 8:54 am | #

          Or an ? Is linking other comics here okay? I’d guess so. I don’t see any rules against it…

          • Booyahman
            Booyahman
            August 6, 2015 at 8:56 am | #

            Phew, messed that one up. Lemme try again.
            Evil Plan

    • That Damn Rat
      That Damn Rat
      August 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      No, she’s keeping him from wandering loose and blowing Becky’s cover, she just needs to find a way to surreptitiously summon Amazi-Girl to take him out.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        August 6, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

        “Becky is short for ‘Ruth’, correct?”

        • gkheyf
          gkheyf
          August 6, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

          rebecuth…for those who love every meaning of the phrase “mad redhead”.

          also, the pairing from heck

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      His use of the word “escape” should raise a few flags.

    • Mr. Random
      Mr. Random
      August 6, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

      … If you look at her eyes, you might see the glimmer of an evil plan forming.

      • Twitcher
        Twitcher
        August 6, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

        I’m thinking Dina ‘ll be taking Ross to a different passionate redhead.

        • a person
          a person
          August 6, 2015 at 1:19 am | #

          I am hoping for this. Please be taking him to get his ass handed to him by ruth…. since, ya know, she’s an RA and he’s not supposed to be there..

          • Zoinker
            Zoinker
            August 6, 2015 at 12:42 pm | #

            Well, neither is Becky…

            • Yet_One_More_Idiot
              Yet_One_More_Idiot
              August 6, 2015 at 2:26 pm | #

              Well yeah, but I’d imagine that Ruthie’s more likely to go easy on Becky who’s running away from a controlling parent, than said controlling parent…

      • Mollyscribbles
        Mollyscribbles
        August 6, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

        Technically a non-evil plan, given the circumstances.

      • ahecht
        ahecht
        August 6, 2015 at 4:48 pm | #

        For whatever reason, Willis chose not to color in the whites of Dina’s eyes in the last panel, and although I finally saw her pupil floating mid-skin, my brain cannot unsee the lines under Dina’s eyes as her eyes closed in resignation, as opposed to the scheming under the hood that I think we are supposed to see. I did a quick-and-dirt MSPaint job of adding back the whites of Dina’s eyes here, which I think makes her intentions clearer: http://imgur.com/tvSKx5w

    • Ryan
      Ryan
      August 6, 2015 at 3:09 am | #

      Dina knows what she’s doing. She intentionally interrupted him before he could say Becky’s name to anyone else who might recognize it.

  2. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    August 6, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    Hey, she caught up.

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      Now do not Dina it up, Dina !

      • cybik
        cybik
        August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

        I think she will Dina2 it up.

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          August 6, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

          2Dina 2Triceratops

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            August 6, 2015 at 9:27 am | #

            2 Dinosuars, 1 cup?

          • bodmans
            bodmans
            August 6, 2015 at 3:11 pm | #

            not 2Dina3ceratops?

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

        But to Dina something up means to make it 1000X better.

      • John
        John
        August 6, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

        Dinup2theStreets.

        • AeolianPlankton
          AeolianPlankton
          August 6, 2015 at 1:00 pm | #

          Triceratops in the streets, velociraptor in the sheets

  3. Chubomik
    Chubomik
    August 6, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    At least her dad had some kind of menace to his look. Becky’s is just a fat dude with no lips.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      He’s like if Nick Offerman ate John Candy.

      • otusasio451
        otusasio451
        August 6, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

        Who ate Jim Belushi.

        • Jason
          Jason
          August 6, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

          It’s like a comedian turducken.

          • Undrave
            Undrave
            August 6, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

            But like… evil.

      • Paul1963
        Paul1963
        August 6, 2015 at 11:37 am | #

        But without the charm.

    • Darkoneko
      Darkoneko
      August 6, 2015 at 7:20 am | #

      Toedad’s tones and word are pretty menacing, on the other hand. Blaine is a honey-talker.

  4. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    “She’s right off this cliff”
    “Well I see no reason why you’d lie.”

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      My campus was sorely lacking in cliffs, and it’s in a mountainous region!

      • Derek
        Derek
        August 6, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

        My campus had some nice cliffs. They even liked to build buildings on them. An entrance on the 5th floor on one side, and an entrance on the 1st floor on the other, and that’s the short side! Probably less than 100 feet apart, horizontally.

        • darkoneko
          darkoneko
          August 6, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

          I really like that idea, but it seems like a good way to have a cracking building 50 years down thanks to natural ground movements.

          • N0083rP00F
            N0083rP00F
            August 6, 2015 at 8:33 am | #

            That all depends on how stable the ground is. I remember one off campus building that was built into a cliff.

        • DaveTheInverted
          DaveTheInverted
          August 6, 2015 at 4:49 am | #

          CMU, Wean Hall?

          • Derek
            Derek
            August 7, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

            Dingdingding!

      • Mollyscribbles
        Mollyscribbles
        August 6, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

        If there’s no cliffs available, you can just tell him she’s on the roof, by the pool.

      • Peruhain
        Peruhain
        August 6, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

        My campus was full of cliffs, and it was all too common for people to throw themselves off of them. Or fall by accident due to an excess of alcohol in their system.

        • Blue
          Blue
          August 6, 2015 at 10:13 am | #

          Cornell?

      • N0083rP00F
        N0083rP00F
        August 6, 2015 at 8:37 am | #

        My campus had Cliffs all over the place. Most professors didn’t care for them, but one took morbid glee in exploiting their oversights.

        It’s the Notes I’m talking about. What were you all thinking?

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      August 6, 2015 at 1:01 am | #

      “Are you sure she’s down there in the mass of spikes?”

  5. Zombie
    Zombie
    August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Dina, this is your chance to make things better forever. Lead him to a carnivorous dinosaur, I believe in you.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 6, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      …is ethan still wearing that hat? bet all ross needs is a hunk of well-chinned t-rex. call upon your minions, dina!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 6, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      If anyone can find one at this hour, it’s her.

  6. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Dina’s got some sort of master genius plan! Involving dinosaurs!

    • Mandy
      Mandy
      August 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      Yeah!! In all seriousness, I am interested to see what her plan is. She won’t make the mistake of trusting a poorly-hidden asshole operating under the guise of a father again. Maybe she’ll take him to Ruth?

    • Nono
      Nono
      August 6, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

      Okay, after reading the comic again, I can only guess that Dina’s plan is to get Ross away from people who might have seen Becky. Especially Joyce, who’s in the room. The longer Ross is here, the higher the chances of him running into someone who’s going to spill the beans.

      • darkoneko
        darkoneko
        August 6, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

        They’re not in the meeting room, but at the building’s (main ?) entrance.

        • Nono
          Nono
          August 6, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

          Wouldn’t be that far of a stretch to look for his homosexual daughter in a questioning meeting.

        • Cybersnark
          Cybersnark
          August 6, 2015 at 10:25 am | #

          Based on the backgrounds, it looks like the meeting was in some open-air lobby-ish area. Probably near the main entrance and thus where the Dina/Toedad scene is happening –near enough for Joyce (and Ethan, the human lighthouse) to potentially be within sight and/or earshot.

          Dina needs to lure this threat away from the feeding grounds before her pack is compromised.

          • darkoneko
            darkoneko
            August 6, 2015 at 12:57 pm | #

            the human lighthouse XD

  7. Tayo
    Tayo
    August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    DUN DUN DINAAAA

  8. Andr3wtime
    Andr3wtime
    August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Dina’s gonna summon the rest of the Dino Power Rangers and whoop his ass.

    • HMRC4EVR
      HMRC4EVR
      August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      You know, I’d love to see a in-continuity storyline where a Zordon like being gets Dina and four others to be Power Rangers for like a week. But by the end it’s such an unbelievable story they can’t tell anyone yet all the readers know it’s cannon.

      Something akin to that one episode of Reboot

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 6, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

        although dina is metamorphosing before our very eyes, i still suspect the power ranger story would sound normal coming from her. possibly just above the lake trip

    • SonicBlueRanger
      SonicBlueRanger
      August 6, 2015 at 8:30 am | #

      Well there’s gotta be some Power Coins/Dino Gems/Energems around here somewhere.

      Maybe Tommy’s teaching Paleontology in IU now. We need all the Power Rangers to kick this guys ass.

  9. TSB
    TSB
    August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Taking him to Ruthless to get run off, maybe? Good luck, Dina!

    • sps48
      sps48
      August 6, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

      That’s my prediction.

  10. Twilightomens
    Twilightomens
    August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Take him to where you will defeat him, Dina

  11. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    ahem I mean, the Doasaurus saruyamensis was a…a…nope, I can’t do itNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      August 6, 2015 at 2:05 am | #

      Until recently, the Doasaurus saruyamensis was not believed to prey on species larger than itself. However, recent digs have found fragments of what resemble D. hallucephalus bones around their territory, suggesting that D. saruyamensis may have been more aggressive than originally assumed.

  12. Darth Cariss
    Darth Cariss
    August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Oh boy, this ought to be good.

  13. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    And then Dina gores him with her horns and the story gets really dark.

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      August 6, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      Then Ruth appears at the scene, yelling.

      “God DAMNIT I told y’all to clean after yourselves. If the blood dries we’ll never get those stains off !”

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      Dina first taste of human blood.

    • otusasio451
      otusasio451
      August 6, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

      Evidence has shown that Doasaurus sauyamensis could show rare instances of aggression, and was equipped with a jointed epoccipital fringe and three prominent brow horns to enact said aggression. Whilst the environmental stimuli for this aggresion is still unknown, it is possible that, given the close relationship between D. saruyamensis and young female D. lesbiensis (synonym: D. hallucephalus), presence of the adult male D. lesbiensiswould prompt this aggression in defense of their young female offspring.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 6, 2015 at 1:55 am | #

        But they haven’t had time to get lesbian pregnant yet, much less carry to term.

        • tyersome
          tyersome
          August 6, 2015 at 10:07 am | #

          Well, since Varanus komodoensis are parthenogenic … maybe Doasaurus, like some aphids, were capable of parthenogenesis and born pregnant?

  14. Nono
    Nono
    August 6, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    I… can’t see a cunning plan in here. Is Dina going to report Ross or something? Which would have no effect, Becky isn’t even a student here.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      She could get him removed from the grounds. as he doesn’t know if Becky is even there he can’t strike back.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      but trespassers surely get dealt with?

      • Pat
        Pat
        August 6, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

        Most campuses are pretty open to the public, aren’t they?
        My university had a gated campus, but people could still go through the front gate during the day and enter most of the buildings. They had to go through security, but unless they were already blacklisted (which was only a handful of people), that was barely a delay.
        And I’m pretty sure that was an unusually high level of privacy compared to most others.

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          August 6, 2015 at 6:43 am | #

          Ruth has already stated if you’re not on the approved list you’re not allowed on the property.

          • Pat
            Pat
            August 7, 2015 at 3:14 pm | #

            Wasn’t that in the dorm?

      • TJ Pittsburgh
        TJ Pittsburgh
        August 6, 2015 at 6:13 pm | #

        What’s that about butt-trespassers?

        Or perhaps you meant Trespassers William?

        (I’ve had too much coffee today.)

    • That Damn Rat
      That Damn Rat
      August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      This is the kind of cunning plan, known as winging it

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 6, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

        as dinos often did

        • tyersome
          tyersome
          August 6, 2015 at 10:09 am | #

          I certainly expect some sort of flap to occur …

  15. Amelia
    Amelia
    August 6, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    i am CONVINCED that she is planning something i BELIEVE IN U DINA

  16. Sorath
    Sorath
    August 6, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    please don’t kill toedad, Dina

    • brionl
      brionl
      August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      At least try to make it look like an accident.

    • Pat
      Pat
      August 6, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

      Eh, do what you gotta, Dina.

    • thebatman22
      thebatman22
      August 6, 2015 at 5:13 am | #

      And why the fuck not?

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        August 6, 2015 at 5:28 am | #

        The paper-work and reports are all needlessly tiresome to fill out.

        • tyersome
          tyersome
          August 6, 2015 at 10:10 am | #

          Hey, I represent your taking my name in vain! 😉

      • Darkoneko
        Darkoneko
        August 6, 2015 at 7:22 am | #

        Because we, uh, don’t want Dina to become a murderer ?

        • thebatman22
          thebatman22
          August 7, 2015 at 1:02 am | #

          I repeat. And why the fuck not?

  17. CaptainBatson
    CaptainBatson
    August 6, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Dina, I trust that you have a plan.

  18. detective boomwolf
    detective boomwolf
    August 6, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    All part of the plan. This is all part of the plan.

    Sweet Mycaruba let this be part of a succesful plan.

  19. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    August 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Huh, I would’ve thought Dina’s flashbacks would be the same shade of green as her thought bubbles.

    Also I have no idea what her play here is. I’m on pins and needles.

    • Cephalo the Pod
      Cephalo the Pod
      August 6, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      I didn’t know I always wanted this.

  20. CommunistCanada
    CommunistCanada
    August 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Blaine isn’t tagged? But Faz is?

    • GallowsOfGalatea
      GallowsOfGalatea
      August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      AND I KNOW WHY!! see below

    • setsun
      setsun
      August 6, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      That’s because Blaine doesn’t get tagged, he tags you.

      In your FAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEE

      With his fist.

      For a quarter

  21. GallowsOfGalatea
    GallowsOfGalatea
    August 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Blaine is not in the tags. Speculation: Blaine = Ross?

    • Cephalo the Pod
      Cephalo the Pod
      August 6, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      …interesting.

    • detective boomwolf
      detective boomwolf
      August 6, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

      Their both horrible fathers. K, add another to the (now) 3 Horsemen(/woman/toehead) of the Dumbpocalypse.

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      August 6, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

      He is tagged now.

  22. Viktoria
    Viktoria
    August 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    I predict I’ll be posting “Clever Girl” in 3 strips. (the one that goes live on Sunday)

    • Bibulb
      Bibulb
      August 6, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      Exactly my train of thought.

  23. electromagneticDestroyosaur
    electromagneticDestroyosaur
    August 6, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    I feel like Dina has a plan (and if I had to guess, the plan involves unleashing the rabid animal powers of Amazi-Girl on this toe-face)

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      August 6, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

      I’m wondering how stealthily one can send a HELP!! message on a phone while walking.

  24. John
    John
    August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    I never thought a triceratops hoodie could be made to look ominous and mysterious, but Dina’s really making it work there in the last panel.

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      August 6, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      At first I thought her eyes were closed in sadness and defeat. Then I spotted her pupil, indicating that her eye is opened, but in shadow. And suddenly that expression got a LOT scarier.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      August 6, 2015 at 12:59 am | #

      He shouldn’t have made her angry. (Toedads) wouldn’t like her when she’s angry.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        August 6, 2015 at 1:54 am | #

        The triceratops is fierce when provoked.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          August 6, 2015 at 9:52 am | #

          What, fierce? But it’s an herbivore!

          http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/when-herbivores-attack

  25. gkheyf
    gkheyf
    August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    whoa…dina is getting srs. frack the raptor, we’re getting on tricera-top up in hrrr!

    dina is also re-playing on loop amber saying that friends are allowed to make mistakes…but not all mistakes

  26. m-m
    m-m
    August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    nice little cliffhanger. *on pins and needles* *i need another metaphor to add to this mix*

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      *edge of my seat* is how I’m feeling.

  27. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    So what’s the plan? Take him out back and kneecap him mafia style?

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 6, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

      are we certain that he actually has kneecaps? i find myself doubting his anatomy

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        August 6, 2015 at 2:56 pm | #

        Maybe he is Hank’s dad?

    • tim gueguen
      tim gueguen
      August 6, 2015 at 1:05 am | #

      “Ruth, this gentleman wants to donate his femurs to you.”

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        August 6, 2015 at 8:05 pm | #

        You could say he already has – his legs don’t really bend…

  28. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    “I hope I’m doing the right thing”.

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      Your avatar is fitting.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        August 6, 2015 at 9:56 am | #

        This is Plas – avatar always fits.

        • darkoneko
          darkoneko
          August 6, 2015 at 12:59 pm | #

          …so cats sits ?

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            August 6, 2015 at 8:04 pm | #

            No, Dina sits. No cat sits! Cat does not fit!

  29. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Next comic:
    Ross: “Are you sure she is in the bottom of this pit of angry velicoraptors?”

    But seriously, this is (hopefully) a clever ploy by Dina (one might even say worthy of a girl who possesses an apt amount of guile and intelligence or some such synonym). I mean, if he was to just ask around wildly, it is only a matter of time before Toedad runs into someone well meaning but clueless who actually leads him to Becky. This way, she can hopefully guide him off the scent and maybe even alert an authority who can intervene…

    Or she is about to fail tragically in protecting her gf… 🙁

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      August 6, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      About one minute, really. He was about to ask Sierra, which live on the same floor.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      August 6, 2015 at 2:10 am | #

      A pit of angry velociraptors?
      Hm. I have a morbid desire to know how quickly a pit’s worth of hungry turkeys could bleed an adult human in common clothing – let’s say denim – to death.

      • tyersome
        tyersome
        August 6, 2015 at 10:20 am | #

        Well … a single turkey sent an employee of my favorite cemetery to hospital … so a pit full of hungry turkeys may be a better simulation of a pit of angry velociraptors that you might think!

        • Toes14
          Toes14
          August 6, 2015 at 10:25 am | #

          Just look what happened on the old South Park episode!

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          August 6, 2015 at 11:54 am | #

          Even better – GEESE. Geese will f**k you up!

  30. Doom Shepherd
    Doom Shepherd
    August 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Time for a wild Compsognathus chase.

    • otusasio451
      otusasio451
      August 6, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

      Doasaurus saruyamensis and Compognathus longipes were several million years apart, with C. longipes existing in the Late Jurassic, and D. saruyamensis existing in the newly-cointed Walkerian Epoch of the Mid-Cretaceous period.

      • DSL
        DSL
        August 6, 2015 at 6:11 pm | #

        D. saryuamensis exists across time and space.

  31. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    August 6, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Lead him away, Dina!

  32. Kris
    Kris
    August 6, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Your daughter? She’s in the never before seen campus viper pit I swear!

  33. Arkantos
    Arkantos
    August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    Well this can only end well.

    • xKiv
      xKiv
      August 6, 2015 at 9:06 pm | #

      In a well.

  34. Nym
    Nym
    August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    “Ran away from me” and “escaped” are two glaring red signs as to how Ross views his daughter and his relationship with her.

    • LittleMissMissy
      LittleMissMissy
      August 6, 2015 at 7:31 pm | #

      Control freak who thinks being a parent means that he ‘owns’ his child.

      Seems likely.

  35. brumagem
    brumagem
    August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    OH NO. DON’T BE A HERO DINA.

    • brumagem
      brumagem
      August 6, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

      My intuition tells me this may be what leads up to the hospital visit in November’s strips, and that I may be FRETTING AND CRYING A LOT.

      • darkoneko
        darkoneko
        August 6, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

        No no no no no don’t feed that theory don’t feed that theory my brain already has trouble shutting it off.

      • Durandal_1707
        Durandal_1707
        August 6, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

        What hospital visit? I just looked through November’s strips, and didn’t see anything.

        • darkoneko
          darkoneko
          August 6, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

          http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/125868231997/bloomington-ambulances-are-x-treme-nonplayskool

          • Durandal_1707
            Durandal_1707
            August 6, 2015 at 1:03 am | #

            Ah, that does look ominous, doesn’t it. Especially given that OG Dina was the martyr character. And also given that we’re in the middle of a storyline that’s been following Dina as she goes along meeting the other characters and making each of their lives better in some way…

            …eeyikes.

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              August 6, 2015 at 6:44 am | #

              That’s from the next story arc, “To Those Who’d Ground Me”.

              I’m guessing Toedad will be returning with the Browns tomorrow.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        August 6, 2015 at 6:40 am | #

        It was the best she could do.

    • nothri
      nothri
      August 6, 2015 at 4:52 am | #

      FOLLOW YOUR OWN ADVICE, AMAZIGIRL GRAVATAR.

  36. Cody
    Cody
    August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    This should be interesting.

  37. acoraz
    acoraz
    August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    Here we see Dina’s descent into Amazi-Girl’s arch-nemesis, Dinogal. After goring Toedad with her horns, she begins a life of crime, adopting improvised weapons based upon the natural abilities of her precious dinosaurs: A toe claw, like a raptor. Tiny arms, like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. A spiky tail like a Stegosaurus. She attacks those who deny evolution (and especially those who call it evilution), all the while singing the Jurassic Park theme music.

    …I’d watch it.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 6, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

      for a nickel, i’d produce it

      • otusasio451
        otusasio451
        August 6, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

        For a dime, I’d direct it!

        • Very Good Karma
          Very Good Karma
          August 6, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

          For a quarter, I’d play every part.

        • Kim
          Kim
          August 6, 2015 at 12:40 am | #

          For a dollar, I’d buy it!

          • Someone
            Someone
            August 6, 2015 at 1:00 am | #

            for a silver dollar I’d sell it

            • nothri
              nothri
              August 6, 2015 at 4:55 am | #

              For a hundred million dollars I’d defend it against lawsuits.

              What? My services don’t come cheap.

    • Someone
      Someone
      August 6, 2015 at 1:02 am | #

      Dinogal sounds to heroic, she should be called The Raptor.

      • xKiv
        xKiv
        August 6, 2015 at 9:37 pm | #

        And her mandatory enemy, The Rapture.

  38. Synnerman
    Synnerman
    August 6, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    Come on Dina… take him to campus security or to Ruthless.

  39. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    August 6, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

    She may not have a well formulated plan in her head yet ; but she had urgently to stop ToeDad from asking another student that WOULD have led him.

    …I hope she won’t get hurt. ToeDad is already starting to show irrascibility and will take it pretty bad once he realise he’s been fooled.

    • Pat
      Pat
      August 6, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

      If he realizes he’s been fooled, he’ll probably realize Becky is there. Dina wouldn’t trick him if she wasn’t.

  40. Sarah-2
    Sarah-2
    August 6, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

    Take him to Ruth, take him to Ruth, TAKEHIM TO AMAZiGIRL or take him to Ruth

    • Sibre
      Sibre
      August 6, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

      Ruth is a freckled redhead. It’d be an easy “mistake”.

    • Someone
      Someone
      August 6, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

      I can never tell if Ruth does things like fight Blaine because she wants to help Amber or because she just wants an excuse to justifiably beat someone up.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        August 6, 2015 at 2:15 am | #

        I suspect it’s both. It could be that she loves the chance to get violent on someone she doesn’t have to refrain from severely injuring, but can’t bring herself to do it unless it seems like the right thing to do, and she genuinely enjoys the ‘helping people’ aspect of it even beyond the rush of the fight.
        Or not. Only The Willis probably knows.

  41. Sarah
    Sarah
    August 6, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    I kind of hope Dina takes him to the Group Meet and sic the Questioning Individuals on him

    Sadly he would see Joyce there and tell her parents

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 6, 2015 at 1:42 am | #

      It kinda would violate the idea of a “safe space”

      • Lord Stoneheart
        Lord Stoneheart
        August 6, 2015 at 11:00 am | #

        I’m really confused as to why people want Dina to take Ross to the Questioning meeting. It’s not like brining him there will cause everyone to jump him and beat him up. It will make Ross uncomfortable, but his reaction will probably be to loudly condemn everyone there, and in general make people who are questioning their sexuality to feel really uncomfortable. Bringing a controlling, bigoted asshole to a meeting that is trying to make people more understanding of themselves and others seems to entirely defeat the purpose of the meeting.

  42. AtomsOrSystems
    AtomsOrSystems
    August 6, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

    And no one ever saw their big toe, ever again.

    • brumagem
      brumagem
      August 6, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

      Only the face of Ross McIntire

  43. Aeron
    Aeron
    August 6, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

    Suddenly, all four of Dinasaur’s eyes have the same murderous determination. :3

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 6, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

      that…this comment sent a chill up my spine the likes of which i had never expected to experience while thinking of dina

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      August 6, 2015 at 12:50 am | #

      “Yes, Dina, give into your righteous fury. Wield my tri-horn power!

      Good… good…”

  44. whedonsaur
    whedonsaur
    August 6, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

    curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

  45. MM
    MM
    August 6, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

    Whatever Dina’s next move is, I’m sure it’ll be the best she can do.

    • TheLurkerAbove
      TheLurkerAbove
      August 6, 2015 at 12:25 am | #

      Now I feel sad. D:

    • Erin
      Erin
      August 6, 2015 at 9:33 am | #

      Noooooooooo 🙁

  46. Lapin
    Lapin
    August 6, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

    Gawddamnit Willis, there are so many options she can choose and I don’t know which she’s going with. From a realistic perspective, I hope it’s campus security who can legally remove him from the campus and inform him he has no legal right to trespass, nor does he have any legal right to kidnap his adult daughter if she is even in fact on the campus property.

    From a meaner perspective, I hope she takes him to Amber.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 6, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

      on a similar note, i hope she takes him to amber while she is not bound by the rules of her mask and is fully aware of the toe’s butt-holitude

      …and possibly sarah with a bat

      • detective boomwolf
        detective boomwolf
        August 6, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

        The next dynamic duo- Amazigirl and Sarah with a Bat in: The Attack of the Buutwad Toehead!

      • Cthulhu's Intern
        Cthulhu's Intern
        August 6, 2015 at 1:24 am | #

        She takes them to Amber, Sal, and Ruth. And thus begins the Dumbiverse’s Avengers.

        • Cthulhu's Intern
          Cthulhu's Intern
          August 6, 2015 at 1:24 am | #

          Oh shit, how’d I forget Sarah?

          • gkheyf
            gkheyf
            August 6, 2015 at 6:23 am | #

            Dunno, but wouldn’t the Avengers have an interesting dynamic with Amber and Sal? Their superhero backstories would be linked in an uncomfortable way.

            I would say that Amazi-girl is definitely Captain America, Ruth is the Hulk, Sarah can be Thor with a bat, and Sal is… Black Widow?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 6, 2015 at 2:54 am | #

      The significant point is this: No-one knows for sure that Becky is at IU, not even Ross himself. By not going through the authorities for whatever reason, he’s already shot himself in the foot. He’s going to end up with an aggravated trespass charge and maybe even harassment against Joyce and Dina. It just depends on how deep his river of ‘dumb’ is before he realises that continuing to push is just filling his life with ore complications and that he needs a ‘Plan-B’.

      Huh… Maybe a team-up with Blaine? Maybe they meet in the hospital where they’re gluing Blaine back together and are putting slave on Ross’s taser and pepper spray burns?

      • Lapin
        Lapin
        August 6, 2015 at 8:15 pm | #

        Exactly. He has no legal right to be on their property, especially if he’s harassing students. Not to mention that even if his /adult/ daughter is on the campus, which cannot be confirmed by the security staff, he has intentions of essentially kidnapping her, which is also illegal. Even if he had gone through the police, Becky is a legal adult. He has no custodial rights over her anymore, and has no legal right to know her location.

        Becky needs to get a RO, actually, now that I think about it, just to be sure.

  47. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    August 6, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

    Okay. So.

    Taking him to Ruth is a Bad Idea. Becky is supposed to be secret from Ruth. Of course, Dina might not have figured this part out, on account of how she’s just figured out that Dina wasn’t just here on vacation and might not have thought all the implications through.

    Taking him to Amber… probably not a great idea. He looks tougher than Blaine, and even if Amber and/or Amazi-girl could administer a beat down, it would be bad for her psychological health bringing her into this scenario with zero warning.

    What I REALLY want to see is Dina escorting him back to the Questioning meeting and saying, “I saw her in this crowd just a bit ago, ask around. It might take them a bit to open up but if you tell them the WHOLE story I’m sure you’ll get them talking.”

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      August 6, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

      *that Becky wasn’t here on vacation.

      Dina’s probably figured out that Dina’s not just here on vacation.

      Also, is that one unnamed head in Panel 4 that Sierra’s talking to Mary? It looks like Mary.

  48. ahuh
    ahuh
    August 6, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

    I’m hoping it involves Dina and Ruth walking him off campus(after calling security or while accompanied by them) and solemnly proclaiming him banned from entering campus or communicating with persons thereof and banning any and all residents and fellows of the college from communicating with him, assisting him, standing within two ells of him, sleeping under the same roof, or reading any poster placed by him. And then spitting at his feet for good measure.

  49. Bleeters
    Bleeters
    August 6, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

    Months later, police announce they are calling off the search for toedad. No body was ever found.

  50. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    August 6, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

    Fortunately, no one has had a red flashback with Amber in it yet.

  51. Jason
    Jason
    August 6, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

    I hope it ends with Becky’s new employer Galasso getting all up in Ross’s face.

  52. Jason
    Jason
    August 6, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

    Man, i know that was his original pose, but I still find it hilarious that Blaine’s standing like that in Dina’s flashback. It’s like he’s about to start singing “YMCA”.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 6, 2015 at 5:10 am | #

      Although he’s a bad man and a dangerous one, I’ve always found something vaguely pathetic and funny about Blaine. He’s obviously a man who has made a string of disastrously bad decisions and is compounding them with ever worse decisions and plans with time.

      He’s a desperate man, likely with a death-mark against his name from a string of dangerous loan sharks and bookies. This makes him dangerous in turn, especially to Amber who I suspect he regards as a saleable asset. However, that doesn’t stop him coming across as faintly ridiculous as he tries to put on the ‘goofily genial good dad’ act for the benefit of the general public.

      There is nothing more dangerous than a dead man walking and, if Blaine can’t find money soon, he’s a dead man.

      The next most dangerous kind of man is a man who has persuaded himself that God requires him to commit an atrocity to save someone, even if it kills them in the process. That is what Ross is.

  53. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    August 6, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

    Your speculations are all wrong. Dina will take Evildad to Mike, whose mighty super sarcasm powers will reduce Evildad to a quivering wreck.

    • MM
      MM
      August 6, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

      Or Roz.

      • darkoneko
        darkoneko
        August 6, 2015 at 12:39 am | #

        “Hey, I saw your video, big fan” ?

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          August 6, 2015 at 1:39 am | #

          Everyone: “Wait, what?”

  54. doubleW
    doubleW
    August 6, 2015 at 12:43 am | #

    Calling it – Dina takes him to the Questioning meetup, and the very idea of questioning one’s sexuality causes the empty hole in his soul to finally collapse and remove him from the universe. Or he gets chased off by a crowd of LGTB kids, whichever.

    • Someone
      Someone
      August 6, 2015 at 1:16 am | #

      either that or going to the meeting causes him to see the error of his ways and he sacrifices himself to save everyone before dying in Becky’s arms.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      August 6, 2015 at 10:10 am | #

      Please no, the last thing a mass of kids on the verge of figuring themselves out is some loud homophobe ranting at them about how their sinful life is going to send them straight to Hell and reminding them of the worst possible incarnation of a coming out to the parents could look like.

      • Lord Stoneheart
        Lord Stoneheart
        August 6, 2015 at 1:44 pm | #

        That’s what I was thinking, put in clearer terms. I’m really confused as to why people want him to be taken to the questioning meeting.

        • doubleW
          doubleW
          August 6, 2015 at 4:59 pm | #

          Wanting to see him be defeated by the power of solidarity and friendship, I guess. I could go disastrously wrong, as has been said. I guess we all want to see him be soundly defeated somehow, we can agree on that, right?.

          • Lord Stoneheart
            Lord Stoneheart
            August 6, 2015 at 5:05 pm | #

            Yeah, he’s not a low grade cartoon villain who will be defeated by simply being around positive emotions. Most likely he would just ruin everyone else day by him being a loud, obnoxious bigot.

            • doubleW
              doubleW
              August 7, 2015 at 3:11 pm | #

              Point taken, I was being very silly.

  55. Tacos
    Tacos
    August 6, 2015 at 12:43 am | #

    Dina has a plan. I don’t know what it is though. I’d like it if it ended with toedad getting run over by a bus or something. Probably won’t happen but I can dream.

  56. MelanieWaffle
    MelanieWaffle
    August 6, 2015 at 12:44 am | #

    Oh this is getting good! I can’t wait for tomorrow night!

  57. Mada
    Mada
    August 6, 2015 at 12:48 am | #

    Dina takes him to the questioning thing. Pleeeeeeease. Pleeeeeeeeease.

  58. The Gardener
    The Gardener
    August 6, 2015 at 12:49 am | #

    Man, I totally misread Dina’s expression at first. I thought the line indicating the bottom of her eye was her actual eye, closed in resignation. I’m glad this doesn’t seem to be the case.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 6, 2015 at 1:40 am | #

      She hid her own eyes. The Triceratops has the wheel now.

  59. kay
    kay
    August 6, 2015 at 12:54 am | #

    Plz let this be the best distraction of all time. WE ARE ALL COUNTING ON YOU, DINO GIRL.

  60. Someone
    Someone
    August 6, 2015 at 12:56 am | #

    New objective: Keep Toe Dad distracted.

  61. Streben
    Streben
    August 6, 2015 at 12:56 am | #

    Go Dina Go! We believe in you! VIVA LA DISTRACTION!

  62. sjmcc13
    sjmcc13
    August 6, 2015 at 12:56 am | #

    Anyone know what faith Dina belongs to? I half want her to lead ToeDad to some a shrine for eastern religion, like Buddhism or Shinto.

    • Someone
      Someone
      August 6, 2015 at 1:01 am | #

      I’m willing to bet that she’s atheist.

      • Superdud
        Superdud
        August 6, 2015 at 1:33 am | #

        She’s actually a Dinosaurian. And of the one true featherist denomination, naturally. The feather-rejectionists blaspheme against the Holy Truth of the Dinosaur; shame on them!

    • brumagem
      brumagem
      August 6, 2015 at 1:16 am | #

      I think it’s a safe bet there are no Shinto shrines within 100 miles of Bloomington (or Indiana for that matter).

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 6, 2015 at 2:06 am | #

        I’ll take that bet. https://www.iwu.edu/news/2014/09-shinto-shrine-finds-home-at-illinois-wesleyan.html

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          August 6, 2015 at 2:11 am | #

          And I would lose, it’s 200 miles by bicycle between the two… One letter difference in the address, IL and IN

  63. Kenjia
    Kenjia
    August 6, 2015 at 12:57 am | #

    Dina looks like she’s about to take a bite out of Toe in that last panel. Awesome.

  64. vlademir1
    vlademir1
    August 6, 2015 at 1:04 am | #

    OK, ya know… I think Dina knows ninjitsu in this continuity because she has hidden her cunning plan in plain sight. It’s been staring you all in the face for days and it seems like no one has connected the dots… or maybe no one else is talking. Maybe, now, I’ve said too much?

  65. Blue Dragon
    Blue Dragon
    August 6, 2015 at 1:04 am | #

    Even if Dina’s plan fails, there is a backup plan. It is called the easy to climb tree just outside Billie’s window.

  66. TheZachariah
    TheZachariah
    August 6, 2015 at 1:05 am | #

    But the look of that Triceratops in the last panel though…

  67. Superdud
    Superdud
    August 6, 2015 at 1:16 am | #

    Dina, no, murder is not the answer. Remember, Triceratops are herbivores.

    • John
      John
      August 6, 2015 at 1:45 am | #

      So are hippos, Cape buffalo, and rhinos.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        August 6, 2015 at 2:19 am | #

        Amongst other things.

        • Superdud
          Superdud
          August 6, 2015 at 5:09 am | #

          Darn, my Jurassic Park-logic argument is foiled! I guess Dina would be proud.

          • timemonkey
            timemonkey
            August 6, 2015 at 6:32 am | #

            The Jurassic Park logic only worked because the herbavores were so big they didn’t care about humans. Herbavores are far more aggressive than carnivores are.

            • StClair
              StClair
              August 6, 2015 at 1:04 pm | #

              I read something once where the tone of a horse’s whinny was described as “get away or you will die and I will be glad.”

  68. Pierre-Eric
    Pierre-Eric
    August 6, 2015 at 1:22 am | #

    It’s a TRAP!

    • Random
      Random
      August 6, 2015 at 5:23 am | #

      when it happens to someone like toedad, it’s called a surprise

  69. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    August 6, 2015 at 1:26 am | #

    In this remembered panel, wasn’t this the episode that led to Faz being wrapped in tape from head to toe and a discussion ensuing about where to dispose of him? Was it Dina that did the wrapping? or the disposing?

    I was certain that Dina was afraid of him and aware of his nature because of the well presented strip yesterday. No way she is going to lead him to Becky.

    I can’t wait to see where she takes him. The Questioning meeting would be very interesting. Enough people there to sit on Toedad if he tried any crap.

    Wherever she goes with him, I don’t think he is going to like it. I hope.

    • tim gueguen
      tim gueguen
      August 6, 2015 at 6:22 pm | #

      Actually it looks like Dina used a rope and grappling hook to corral Faz.
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/return/

  70. White Rice
    White Rice
    August 6, 2015 at 1:28 am | #

    First off: hooray for Dina formulating a plan (or at least beginning to do so)
    Second: does Ross just have a perms-smirk or something? His entire being just feels off. Could that line under his mustache just be a face line/wrinkle/whatever, and his chin/jawline is actually his mouth…his giant, derpy mouth. And his ‘stache is false, and just stuck onto the tip of his nose, because he doesn’t know how to nose.

    • White Rice
      White Rice
      August 6, 2015 at 1:30 am | #

      (I know where his nose actually ends, but that first panel has just the right angle where his moth & nose perfectly line up for that chin-mouth look that’s just so wrong…I can’t unsee it)

  71. Jack Faire
    Jack Faire
    August 6, 2015 at 1:34 am | #

    If someone refers to their kid’s running away as an Escape that’s my cue to immediately call the police.

  72. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 6, 2015 at 1:35 am | #

    Let’s imagine for a moment a universe in which Ross was still a homophobic bigot but not actually the abusive turd we see before us now. In that universe Becky still got in trouble for having a budding relationship with Kaitlin and was still rushed from Anderson’s by an angry father. But at the crucial moment THAT Ross swallowed his pride and said something to the effect of… “fine”.

    That Becky still left in the night in search for the one person who would understand (and love?) her. But that Becky had money in her pocket, a change of clothes and ToeDad’s cell phone (which, yes, had angry birds on it), because distraught or not, sinner or not she was still his daughter and when it came down to it he cared less about controlling her, and more about her not becoming one of Leslie’s “sweet lesbian facts”. That Becky would still feel no need AT ALL to return home or to Anderson’s but when she applied for jobs or housing or scholarship she did it with a financial security more substantial than a packet of Arby’s sauce and a college sweater. That Becky could spend the worst days of her life NOT looking over her shoulder for a man who SHOULD by right be her protector but now had become her enemy. That Becky would NOT have to ask her best friend and only support to lie to her parents. That Becky would NOT have to consider the choice between ritualized abuse at correction camps and life on the streets.

    And even for all that, the Ross I’m describing would still be a complete waste of space, fulfilling the bare minimum of parental – of human – decency. That Ross would be a fucking piece of shit and Becky would do well to get as far away from him as she could – but he would STILL BE MILES BETTER THAN THE TITTY-SHITTING MOTHER GUZZLING COCK FUCK conga that call himself Becky’s father here.

    FUCK YOU ROSS!!!!!!!

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      August 6, 2015 at 2:14 am | #

      No, tell us how you really feel… 😉

    • Gamaran Sepudomyn
      Gamaran Sepudomyn
      August 6, 2015 at 7:52 am | #

      He’said almost worse than Blaine, in a way. Blaine I just wish would get a lifetime of jail and possibly a mental breakdown from realizing how horrible he is, but Ross, well, if you’ve read Discworld, think Felmet’s attempts to get rid of the blood on his hands. I just want Ross gone. Even being retroactively erased from history would make me feel bad for the person that erased him for having to interact with Ross for that.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      August 6, 2015 at 10:04 am | #

      You know what’s depressing? As part of those “sweet lesbian facts” that’s pretty much as good as a lot of people can hope to get. Bare minimum support and not actively being thrown from the house or dragged off to reparative therapy. Where home is just constantly “disappointed” in you and ties every failure to work the system back to your queerness and how you’ve “strayed” from the path. Where you are quietly spoken to to not bring your partner to Thanksgiving so it won’t “cause a scene”. Where you technically by the sheerest margin have parents.

      That’s often the best that can be hoped for and so few get even that.

      That’s almost the most tragic thing about Becky’s story. That it is not uncommon, right down to the attempt on the part of the abusive controlling asshole to try and disrupt any point of stability you might luck yourself into and poison everything they can until you can finally escape them for good… but never knowing if it really is for good.

    • Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      August 6, 2015 at 10:29 am | #

      I’m just imagining a universe where people aren’t about to get so angry that they have a stroke while thinking about this comic.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        August 6, 2015 at 11:41 am | #

        The extremely real pain LGBT kids go through because of their shit parents does that.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        August 6, 2015 at 11:52 am | #

        To be honest I’m kinda trying to be funny. Not that this storyline doesn’t provoke emotions in me but the chewing scenery part is just me running along with a gag. If it truly bothers anyone (does it?) I’ll drop it.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          August 6, 2015 at 1:50 pm | #

          To clarify: I mean everything I write, but I can say it without screaming.

        • Captain Whatever on the planet of things
          Captain Whatever on the planet of things
          August 6, 2015 at 7:20 pm | #

          Oh no it doesn’t bother me really – if it did I’m free to not read it anyway. I did just honestly think that it was a shame that a webcomic might make someone so angry. No one needs to feel that way at the start of the day.

          I’ll stop being a hippy for now – carry on!

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            August 6, 2015 at 8:38 pm | #

            Glad we cleared that up 🙂

            But yeah, it does make me just that angry because, as Spencer said, even if Becky and Ross are fictional they serve as a reminder of the real plight of real people.

  73. Kocel
    Kocel
    August 6, 2015 at 1:38 am | #

    And that was the day Dina took up gardening! She even went all the way back home to start it, with a large plastic bag full of gardening supplies!

  74. Pinja
    Pinja
    August 6, 2015 at 1:53 am | #

    Are we going to find out those horns are real when Dina lures him to a back alley and gores him I wonder.

  75. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 6, 2015 at 2:16 am | #

    Ross, using terms like ‘escaped’ and such pre-emptive language are not things likely to persuade people to help you. I know that you’re used to demanding, coercing and forcing compliance but it isn’t going to work in this scenario. Of course, watching him throw bombs at every bridge of co-operation is sort of the joke here, isn’t it?

    Right now, I’m worried about Dina. I’ve got a horrible feeling that she’s going to do something dangerously brave and brilliant. The thing is, if she leads Ross on a wild goose chase, I’m afraid that he might hurt her. She’s only a heathen girl, after all, it isn’t as if doing so would be wrong in his distorted world-view.

    • Drakey
      Drakey
      August 6, 2015 at 5:48 pm | #

      That last bit doesn’t really jive. Where do you get that he doesn’t think it would be wrong to hurt her because “she’s only a heathen girl?”
      I don’t see Ross in the uniform of the Spanish Inquisition. Yes, he’s big and scary and bigoted, and he might get angry and lose control, but not even the Westboro Baptist Church says that God gives them permission to beat up non-Christians. What you just said there was exactly as offensive as if you had said that he might hurt her for not being a Muslim.

      • Drakey
        Drakey
        August 6, 2015 at 5:58 pm | #

        Not, I should clarify, that I like this guy or want to defend him. I don’t. It’s just that so far all he’s shown is homophobia and overcontrolling. We have heard no history of violence, seen no physically threatening actions from him that I recall, Becky seems to be afraid of the consequences he can have for her life, but not of him hurting her, and however scary he may look, he’s taking a relatively passive tactic in searching for his daughter.

        He’s a piece of shit, but you’re saying that he believes he can get away with beating up on people because he’s Christian and they’re not, and that it’s his being Christian that gives him that belief.

        There are people like that, but they’re rare. That’s not what Christianity is: anyone who tells you it is is just using Christianity as an excuse.

  76. OhNoUDiNt
    OhNoUDiNt
    August 6, 2015 at 2:26 am | #

    Violence will ensue. Violins will ensue. One or the other. Possibly both.

  77. Kaara
    Kaara
    August 6, 2015 at 2:28 am | #

    Which ass-kicker should we serve him to? Ruthless or Amazigirl?

    • Toes14
      Toes14
      August 6, 2015 at 10:30 am | #

      Personally, I’d like to see Jacob thump him into the ground. He’s big enough, though he hasn’t shown a mean streak yet, and he really doesn’t know Becky/Joyce/Dina.

  78. Torra
    Torra
    August 6, 2015 at 2:33 am | #

    I have no idea what Dina is up to. The most I would be able to do in this situation is just lead him as far away as possible but even then that probably wouldn’t help. Leading to Ruth wouldn’t help as Dina has now realised Becky has ‘run away’ so shouldn’t be here, what is Amazi-Girl going to be able to do, realistically, and leading him to Becky ha ha ha nopeee.

    Good luck Dina!!

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 6, 2015 at 2:45 am | #

      “Welcome to Campus Security. How can I help you?”

      “This individual is an intruder on the campus; he is behaving in an aggressive and violent way and he is following me around raving about his missing daughter. Can you do something about him?”

      “Why you little…” *Buzz of taser and hiss of pepper spray* “AAARRRGH!”

  79. Zan Thrax
    Zan Thrax
    August 6, 2015 at 2:45 am | #

    Hey ToeDad, if you want random strangers to help you find your adult child that’s “run away” from you, you might not want to straight up say that they’ve escaped. It makes it really obvious (to everyone who isn’t you) that they might have had a really good reason for wanting to get away from you in the first place.

  80. Heather
    Heather
    August 6, 2015 at 2:55 am | #

    Oh god Dina don’t put yourself in too much danger. I’m becoming really uncomfortable for you. I mean he’s not quite Blaine and I’m perhaps jumping to conclusions, but big authoritative christian dudes who are homophobes are less then good in track records when it comes to just women in general even if he thinks you’re straight and he never finds out you’ve kissed Becky. And then there’s whole controlling streak he’s always had for Becky that has probably ramped up to 11 when it comes to daughters. (I’m guessing Becky doesn’t have a brother, so we can’t compare though).

    It just wouldn’t be surprising since rampant sexism and homophobia can be often connected. Even though I’m in the closet generally with few cracks in the door- if a dude starts sprouting homophobic bs I immediately become scared for my own safety even though he might never know- but the simple fact I’m also a girl and look like what a lot of people have as an idea of one means he’s probably a danger. When you’re obsessed with gender roles both sexism and homophobia can be a result after all

    And it’s really highly likely that to him as a fundementalist- women are just there to serve men, just as men serve god- so he won’t take kindly to /any/ kind of ‘betrayal’- but even more so from you then he would a guy.

    Agggggh.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      August 6, 2015 at 10:07 am | #

      Yeah, the way Dina’s mind works may afford her some protection from his likely emotional abuse and shitting on queer and independent women in that she may be more likely to separate that into “his shit” in her head rather than internalizing it, but it’s still a big risk to take.

      Such men can get scary violent or just scary in general if they don’t feel their egos as men being placated at all times.

  81. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    August 6, 2015 at 3:27 am | #

    What is it about the way he was written that makes me think he has some kind of weird Russian accent?

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      August 6, 2015 at 7:45 am | #

      Maybe he works in a sushi shop, as well

      (niet)

      • Cybersnark
        Cybersnark
        August 6, 2015 at 10:45 am | #

        … I suddenly want to see a DoA/Drrrr crossover.

        Simon vs Galasso, Mike vs. Izaya, Ruthless vs. Shizuo, Dina bonding with Varona. . .

        • darkoneko
          darkoneko
          August 6, 2015 at 1:06 pm | #

          eh, chances are Shizuo would actually get along with ruth.

  82. SDGlyph
    SDGlyph
    August 6, 2015 at 3:53 am | #

    ‘…escaped to’? Freudian slip, Ross, or just some latent self-awareness?

  83. Arikel
    Arikel
    August 6, 2015 at 4:20 am | #

    Here’s what’s gonna happen, she’s gonna try to help Becky by somehow fooling her dad or something, and it’s gonna backfire.

    Personally though, I hope she keeps her dad busy, and they have this little bonding moment and then when he meets Becky he would be ok with it because it’s Dina, and then they have a relationship and then I can change my gravatar to Dina.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 6, 2015 at 9:33 am | #

      Unlikely. That bigotry is ingrained HARD, and there’s no way he’s going to let Becky out of his control and open to more subversive influences.

    • Haintsu
      Haintsu
      August 6, 2015 at 10:25 am | #

      I like your reality. Can I live there?

  84. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 6, 2015 at 4:20 am | #

    Ooooh, look how Piece of shit A (Blaine) and Piece of shit B (Ross) align in the first and second panel. Nice.

  85. Strangeshapes
    Strangeshapes
    August 6, 2015 at 4:43 am | #

    I love the way Dina lowers her horns in the last panel. Preparing to defend and attack the predator!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 6, 2015 at 5:57 am | #

      I’m completely convinced that’s exactly what she is doing.

    • Egwenna
      Egwenna
      August 6, 2015 at 12:18 pm | #

      I agree about the horns! She’s suddenly aware and nicely balancing defense while she moves on the offense. Go Dina Go!

  86. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    August 6, 2015 at 5:00 am | #

    Funny how he used the word “escaped”

  87. Mr. Morningstar
    Mr. Morningstar
    August 6, 2015 at 5:06 am | #

    Hopefully she tries to warn becky somehow. Since she clearly knows this guy is an utter piece of shit.

    I just wonder how she would do so with him standing over her shoulder.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 6, 2015 at 5:20 am | #

      I would argue that attempting to contact Becky or Joyce in any way would put them in danger.

      I suspect that Dina is going to attempt to provoke Ross into doing something overtly threatening and/or harmful to her in a public place so Campus Police will expel him and make him persona non gracia on the campus.

      I’m still hoping for a strip where, as the cops are bundling a thorougly-tased and -pepper-sprayed Ross into a car, Joyce calls him a ‘total poopy-head’ and a ‘naughty-part sucker’.

      I’m also wondering if there will be a strip where Joyce’s mother discredits herself a little by tying herself in moral knots trying to justify his actions and make it all somehow Becky’s fault.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        August 6, 2015 at 5:59 am | #

        Joyce: “total poopy-head”

        Everyone else in a cast, strip after strip, three weeks: *faints*

  88. Varius
    Varius
    August 6, 2015 at 5:57 am | #

    TowArd is wearing camo pants.

    Terrorist.

  89. Crumplepunch
    Crumplepunch
    August 6, 2015 at 6:43 am | #

    I was just starting to wonder if the man’s misguided view might be worth some sympathy. He is doing this because he cares for his daughter, after all. Even “ran away from me” might come from a place of compassion and concern.

    Then comes the word choice “Escaped to”.

    Nope. Fuck this guy. Resume the hate.

    • Annalabagaba
      Annalabagaba
      August 6, 2015 at 6:59 am | #

      You know I do think it’s still a misguided concern. Doesn’t stop him from being a dick but still. It’s like those parents who pressure their kids into becoming doctors when it’s clear they aren’t suited to be one. The parents mean well they just don’t stop to think that their ‘right’ isn’t the ultimate right.

    • Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      Captain Whatever on the planet of things
      August 6, 2015 at 10:32 am | #

      And bring in Amazi-Girl! Hate and violence is what makes the world go round, right?

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        August 6, 2015 at 11:45 am | #

        He pulled his daughter out of college for being gay.

        He was going to send her to corrective therapy.

        He’s followed her here with the intent of dragging her back home despite Becky being a legal adult.

        I’m genuinely pretty okay with this shitstain getting what he deserves.

      • Rheios
        Rheios
        August 6, 2015 at 12:35 pm | #

        Historically, kindof? Well that and increased population growth caused by both farm based communities and/or lack of good choices on both reproduction and resources. I mean you gotta have enough people to fight over the resources, right?

  90. kishimobot
    kishimobot
    August 6, 2015 at 7:09 am | #

    And queue whacky Home Alone booby trap hijinks?

  91. HeySo
    HeySo
    August 6, 2015 at 7:14 am | #

    They’ll never find his body =X

  92. anonymous
    anonymous
    August 6, 2015 at 7:21 am | #

    the quiet ones are usually the most dangerous. dina is the ONLY person we have never seen lose her temper sucessfully. remember this is a girl who has studied every single prehistoric creature extensively. she might be planning to lead him away from collateral damage/potential harm victims, then ambush and attack him.

    im not saying she has the claws of a raptor and the fangs of a t-rex, and given the nature of this comic, i dont expect disembowlment from a kick, but i have a hunch that unless she is leading him to becky, or the author intervenes, she is going to cause some serious dino style fighting harm upon him.

    remember, she is quiet and observes. but she might have some SEVERE skill beneath that surface.

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      August 6, 2015 at 1:09 pm | #

      Disembowlment kick ? now I have that Kanbaru vs Araragi fight scene stuck in head.

    • chris73
      chris73
      August 6, 2015 at 4:35 pm | #

      Unfortunately this seems to be a serious storyline so its grounded in a bit more reality (unlike Mike beating up Joe) and Dina is tiny so unless she gets lucky she won’t be able to do much to Toedad

  93. John Madden
    John Madden
    August 6, 2015 at 7:46 am | #

    Aw shit.

  94. Gamaran Sepudomyn
    Gamaran Sepudomyn
    August 6, 2015 at 7:58 am | #

    Unrelated to today’s strip in particular, but have we ever seen the back of Dina’s new goodie? Who wants to bet that she’s customized ito with quills?

    • Jen
      Jen
      August 6, 2015 at 8:25 am | #

      Yup, we’ve seen the back. 🙂 http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/meetup/

  95. Pat Myers
    Pat Myers
    August 6, 2015 at 8:08 am | #

    Dina, no! Think about this first! Where will you hide the body?

  96. man jean
    man jean
    August 6, 2015 at 9:19 am | #

    holding my breath. come on dina…

  97. HMRC4EVR
    HMRC4EVR
    August 6, 2015 at 9:32 am | #

    Right now Becky needs a hero….she’s holdina out for a hero tonight

  98. Megz
    Megz
    August 6, 2015 at 9:51 am | #

    Here’s hoping she’s leading him toward security with words like “This man doesn’t belong here! He’s trying to kidnap a girl! Help!” ready to go. I don’t give a fuck if he’s Becky’s dad, if she doesn’t want to go with him then his taking her away would be kidnapping.

  99. Toes14
    Toes14
    August 6, 2015 at 10:20 am | #

    Next I predict Toedad will insult Dina’s fascination with Dinosaurs on the way to ‘find’ his daughter. She will be hard pressed between deciding on arguing with him about it or continuing to lead him on a wild ‘Dasornis’ chase.

    http://www.livescience.com/2906-prehistoric-giant-goose-skull.html

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 6, 2015 at 10:57 am | #

      FWIW, I doubt that Ross would recognise a Triceratops; he doubtless avoids any information about palaeontology like it was infected with the plague. He probably knows enough about popular culture to know about that demonic pass-time of cosplay; he’s probably assuming it’s something from some animé.

      • sjmcc13
        sjmcc13
        August 6, 2015 at 5:03 pm | #

        Or video game series…

    • Gamaran Sepudomyn
      Gamaran Sepudomyn
      August 6, 2015 at 4:22 pm | #

      More like get him chased by a Gastornis. Or a kea, in an emergency.

  100. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 6, 2015 at 10:55 am | #

    I think that ‘lead him to security’ prediction is the strongest one right now. Oddly enough, I wonder if most of Dina’s distress is the thought that Becky (and Joyce, whom one would normally have difficulty believing was even capable of deception) had lied to her.

    I think it would be a nice close to this chapter if Becky were to tell Dina her whole story and the two end up hugging. Meanwhile, a guilty-feeling Joyce, who had been doing a Dina and standing in the shadows, tries to convince herself that she isn’t an idiot for missing what Ross has been doing to his daughter all these years.

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      August 6, 2015 at 1:12 pm | #

      Her own parents have been doing pretty much the same thing, tho.

  101. Robbzilla
    Robbzilla
    August 6, 2015 at 11:10 am | #

    It’s a traaap!

  102. Folly
    Folly
    August 6, 2015 at 11:13 am | #

    She’s going to the Gay meeting.

  103. Edupoet81
    Edupoet81
    August 6, 2015 at 11:19 am | #

    Dina is a character I find myself relating to in many ways. All the same, she has proven, time and again, to be far better than me in certain key aspects. At last night’s dorm party, she proved to be far better than me at standing up for herself. In the current storyline, she has demonstrated with Sarah and Ethan that she is better than me when it comes to owning her differences, and using them to connect with people in a meaningful way. Is she better than me at thinking on her feet and coming up with effective plans at the spur of the moment? That remains to be seen, but I very much hope for Becky’s sake that she is.
    I’m not sure how much sense this makes. Today is one of those days when I can’t quite get my mind and body started. In any case, I look forward to finding out where this is going.

  104. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    August 6, 2015 at 11:44 am | #

    Amber’s house is at 13 Memory Lane, Flashback, The Past. Actually, the road kinda goes THROUGH the house at that point. Amber makes cookies for all the passers-by!

  105. Kaunisenkeli
    Kaunisenkeli
    August 6, 2015 at 12:33 pm | #

    Definitely forming a plan. Between the flashback and the fact that she agreed to “show him to her” after he said she was a waste of time, I think there is clear evidence that she knew she needed to divert him before he got his claws into someone who would actually show him to his daughter.

    Dina, just know that I will be hoping your plan works and works well (if it involves grotesque maiming, I won’t complain, but if not… well, that’s cool too, I guess, as long as it works).

  106. davidbreslin101
    davidbreslin101
    August 6, 2015 at 12:58 pm | #

    Never piss off a herbivore whose head alone weighs twice as much as you.

    • Badluck1313
      Badluck1313
      August 6, 2015 at 8:24 pm | #

      Wait, are we talking about a Triceratops, or Toedad?

  107. TheSuicidalGiraffe
    TheSuicidalGiraffe
    August 6, 2015 at 4:33 pm | #

    I’ve seen that look before… Dina might end up chopping up this guys body and feeding it to somone

  108. Zapmolcuno
    Zapmolcuno
    August 6, 2015 at 5:00 pm | #

    DEAD OR ALIVE, YOU’RE COMING WITH ME

    • Zapmolcuno
      Zapmolcuno
      August 6, 2015 at 5:02 pm | #

      Holy heck my gravatar account still exists

  109. Jenny Islander
    Jenny Islander
    August 6, 2015 at 5:22 pm | #

    She’s going to lead him to Amber for an Amazi-Girl beatdown because she knows they are the same person and she doesn’t understand the need for separation between them.

    • Ben
      Ben
      August 6, 2015 at 6:50 pm | #

      OR take her rightful place as the Dina-saur at Amazi-Girl’s side. 😀

  110. Tenn
    Tenn
    August 6, 2015 at 5:32 pm | #

    Deception!

    • Smiling Cat
      Smiling Cat
      August 6, 2015 at 8:00 pm | #

      mammal deception!

  111. hof1991
    hof1991
    August 6, 2015 at 7:44 pm | #

    Dina with agency is the best Dina.It’s not character development, it’s the revealing of existing character.

  112. Smiling Cat
    Smiling Cat
    August 6, 2015 at 8:02 pm | #

    Anybody else think she’ll lead him to Ruth?

    “I apologize about your femurs. Was this the incorrect redhead?”

  113. Jeffrywith1e
    Jeffrywith1e
    August 6, 2015 at 9:29 pm | #

    clever girl

  114. neeks
    neeks
    August 6, 2015 at 10:53 pm | #

    Huh, did I accidentally predict where this is going? Admittedly it was in jest and about dorothy’s dad, but still.

  115. Rideps1
    Rideps1
    August 6, 2015 at 11:51 pm | #

    Why is it that every single time I fall behind on reading webcomics for one reason or another, no matter the day, David Willis finishes me up with a cliffhanger?

    DAMN YOU WILLIS!
    never change pls

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