probably not, but if this was like scott pilgrim, danny would be the only character to get story focus, and judging by the popularity vote, I don’t think the comic would be quite as fun and diverse.
More like everyone would BE everyone’s evil exes and the fighting would never stop. Or maybe that’s what you meant and I didn’t actually alter your point any.
Now that I think about it, Scott and Danny have sort of the same personality where they’re basically decent people who can occasionally act like assholes without thinking about it.
As far as I know, that describes every decent person … (granted I’ve never met any ‘saints’, but the historical versions seem to range from psychopath to basically decent but fallible).
Kinda, though Scott is really characterized by his ability to pivot from gung-ho confidence to crippling anxiety on a dime, sometimes even within the same line. The one problem with the movie adaptation, really, was that Michael Cera could only really do one of the two.
We know for sure that electronic equipment actually functions around Dina cause Amber can use her computer without issue, so clearly Dina doesn’t watch as well as Slenderman. Or maybe she watches better. I dunno.
Exscue me, I see you are quite involved with your coitus, but-
[coitus intensifies]
-could you please-
[coitus intensifies]
I don’t mean to disturb you, but you’re lying on top of my-
[coitus intensifies]
I’ll just wait here until you’re done.
Sure you did, that’s Dina. And the other one is Amber, we see her face all the time (well not ALL the time but frequently). Or are you talking about the Barney face on the T-shirt, because the eyes got eyelashes and changed expression in that last panel.
My working assumption is that every mean, spiteful fundamentalist Christian actually is that way because they hate themself, so yeah, probably. (Not that farfetched, since none of them are as perfect as they believe their god requires them to be.)
Clearly this whole “Joyce is autobiographical” thing is a red herring. Mary is the one who’s going to end up being the Internet Porn Lady. Right now she’s drawing a comic called Roommates! for the IU paper, and also posting it on her Tumblr. It stars sanctimonious jerk Melissa Bradshaw and her horndog roommate Rose, who on move-in day climbed up to the floor above to see if there were any guys there to bang. In a couple arcs aliens appear out of nowhere and abduct Rose and Melissa’s stalkery pseudo-boyfriend Jason, and then things get weird.
Don’t forget her brooding ex-ish-boyfriend Sam who’s secret twins with Dana “Talky” Talkerson who was a childhood frenemy with Jonathan “Sandy” Sandbourne who had a relationship with his old babysitter Rodney before he (Rodney) sacrificed himself to save Melissa’s drunk butt after a few months of foreboding depression on her part. Then Sandy and Mellissa got together, but not before Joseph showed up and tried to ruin the whole thing.
Also, I never realized how transparently pseudonymous Danny Wilcox’s name was until this moment.
Ahem. But yeah, I stuck to my Dina loyalties for the last poll 🙂
And then I had to vote for Ruth and Sal because they’re delightfully sarcastic creatures..
Becky is adorbes, but I can’t pick five 🙁
No, I didn’t miscount.
Did you not see Mike there, scribbling his name in?
I like Dina, but I figured she’d do fine without me, and gave my votes to characters I figured needed them more. Leslie is unacceptably low on the list.
I normally vote for Mike, but it feels like forever since he’s been around. I mean, quick appearances, sure, but no plots featuring him even secondarily.
She might be but unaware of it, being so highly hetero-normative and possibly aspie. She may have interpreted no desire to bang guys as no desire to bang at all, and never even considered banging or getting banged by girls.
I prefer to think of it as some dinosaurs were already birds, but it took them awhile to figure it out (even with the hint in their name) … but perhaps that’s just a fantasy of flight …
Yes, but there is a complex personality behind that face and aspie-like behavior. I would like to see an arc explore that, possibly Becky seeing what kind of sexuality Dina expresses. As I posted up thread, Dina might have interpreted no desire to bang guys as no desire to bang period, and never even considered that she might be batting for the other team.
Seriously Willis, it’s like you’re drawing me. And at that, I change my name to Crazy Dina and my email to “All_Hail_Dina@Dina.Dina”.
At least this once, because COME ON! I’ve been in this situation more than once in the last month. (last month being a period of 31 days, not based on the calendar dates)
Yes, but if I get a gravitar, I lose my other randomly assigned gravitar, and loose the ability to get other randomly assigned gravitars. It stops customizing my gravitars per strip and goes with one overall gravitar, which I don’t want cause I have an evil looking one on another site that I happen to like.
Dina is the only character I could be friends with for more than a week. Well, Dorothy maybe. The others, including Becky, are cool but more like acquaintance material.
Dina is often pretty insightful and knows more about social situations than people think. She’s one of the few who know about Amber’s vigilante alter-ego and is just really passionate about her interests. She’s great.
Does anyone know how I go about setting things up so that a particular gravatar gets used for a particular site? I don’t want to use this gravatar anywhere but Dumbing of Age, for obvious reasons.
I believe you can set a different gravatar for each email address you have. But! For many email accounts, including gmail, you can add a plus sign and then anything you want after it before the @ sign and it will still work as your address. So if your email is paul@gmail.com, then you can also use paul+sexoloco@gmail.com and assign that gravatar to that address. Then just use that same address in the comment form on this site.
Amber’s not actually shocked or embarrassed. She’s intensely aroused. It’s not her fault, it’s just that cereal and Mountain Dew for lunch is her fetish.
I just realized.
I mean, I’m asexual, so the whole Slipshine thing seems more a cheesy, targeted gimick than anything remotely interesting [as it applies to any comic].
But I’d totally sign up to see a Dina one, just because, wow, can you imagine her approach to sex?
Because I can’t, and that’s what makes it intriguing.
I mean, I’ll probably be disappointed, not being the target audience, but I figure if there’s at least one dinosaur-sex-pun in there, it’ll be worth the trip 😛
Her alternate universe self definitely wasn’t, and the orientation of characters stays the same compared to the Walkyverse. She seemed to find maturity attractive.
That doesn’t mean he wasn’t, though. In fact, I believe Willis confirmed that, yeah, Danny is retroactively bi in the Walkyverse as well. It is just we have never seem him being attracted to men there.
i mean, i never read it’s walky so i don’t know how strongly she liked mike or whoever else, but being attracted to a person doesn’t necessarily mean you’re attracted sexually to that person, or to sex at all
She had a grinding session that destroyed a lab with Walky and might have raped Mike. She didn’t really get that using alcohol to change his personality was bad.
Having zero social skills is not the same thing as being asexual. I can see her cornering one of the unattached male characters (are there any besides Mike?) and saying “I want you to fool my body into thinking it has fulfilled its biological obligation”.
Gah! That is the Questionable Content strip I was trying to find when I was trying to construct the sort of pickup line Dina might use: “I want you to help me trick my body into believing that it has fulfilled its genetic imperative.”
I forgot to add:
1) She doesn’t have zero social skills. And, while she seems to lack a lot of experience, she is learning quickly. I tried to learn for many years (and still am) but I make barely progress.
2) A friend of mine and I both never had a grilfriend. A common acquaintance suspected my friend to be a closeted gay because of this, however didn’t make any assumptions regarding me, since my social ineptness was reason enough.
In conclusion, Dinas social ineptness leads people to beleive she is ace, whereas my social ineptness prevented similar assumptions.
If I read the Slipshines, character development would be my major motivation. However, if I were there already, … I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of more happening.
Doing something in a way that might seem purely academic doesn’t prevent one from having fun with it. I approach pretty much anything academically, because it is fun. I study myself during masturbation and it strongly tends to enhance the sensation. And even if Dina received no direct pleasure from the stimulation of certain organs, she might enjoy sex for secondary effects. Depending on your chosen definition this alone would make her non-asexual.
Also, voyeurism most often includes the violation of someones privacy. I want to disassociate myself from this. I like to observe, learn and study, but I would never ignore someones privacy for that. And we have no indication of Dina handling this differently.
I have been unable to locate any images of that Barney shirt, but I am positive I have seen it somewhere before. Are there any pictures in Shortpacked that might have used that shirt on a character?
She’s basically asking if she and others find her being amazi-girl attractive, which considering the way her hanky-panky sessions with Danny always start, they very much do, and Amber’s not exactly the type of person to talk openly about that stuff.
I figured it’s because she’s still trying to keep her Amazi-Girl identity a secret.
It seems strange to think you can keep a secret like that from your roommate, never mind an invisible and observant roommate like Dina, but then again heavily compartmentalized personalities are probably inevitably a bit too good at denial for their own sake…
If Dina were a bit more explicitly devious (essentially, replace Dumbiverse Dina with It’sWalky! Dina for a bit) and really wanted to know, she could probably convince Joe to drag it out of Danny.
In other news, Dina pulls the gap closer in the popularity poll, with an 8% percentage difference. And it seems Amber has overtaken Joyce for 3rd place! Probably not for any reason!
Gah! How does href work? I thought the text entered as title would appear highlight, as a clickable link, and instead that text did not appear at all, only the text after the right angle bracket. I will try again:
the “a href=” is where the link goes. The “title=” is where the title text goes (hence the the name). The words that you click on go between the “a href” and the “/a href” tags.
Don’t worry, I had trouble with this myself a while back. Nothing like trial and error to teach you how to use html.
Now, I’m no expert on Willis artistry, but, to my knowledge, that is an entirely new face I’ve never seen before. What do we call that? Hyper Ultra Turbo Embarrassment?
Amber is my favourite character so her being happy should be a good thing, except I’m then reminded that she’s also nursing some serious psychological problems that she’s obliviously making even worse.
Unrelated: Voted Dina, Becky, Amber. Top three are Becky, Dina, and Amber in that order. Kinda miffed my un-selected number 4 (Carla) isn’t so high up, but hey, at least I got the top three.
I can’t figure out how to contact Willis without having a social media account, but I wanted to make him aware that I found one of his comics on another site with no credit to him. http://9gag.com/gag/aDw5NKw I hate seeing authors denied credit for their work.
I know this is a little old, had some computer problems, but I figured with the topic of this DoA these 2 Spinnerette pageswere quite appropriate. Maybe a bit more NSFW than this comic, but it’s all talk, no scenes…
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It’s true, you know. Put an attractive person in a raptor suit with rainbow feathers, and no sexual being can resist.
I know I’d scream clever girl
This just makes me think of the Archer joke pilot where he’s a raptor.
That is the only episode of Archer that Dina has seen.
I’m guessing you mean this episode? Friend sent me a link. Bit interesting without all the lines, but I’m sure Dina could understand it… 😛
Somewhere on the internet, there’s someone with an oddly specific fetish for exactly what you just described.
Dina-netics: The Prehistoric Science of Sexual Health
also. did they enter the magical land of Toronto?
’cause that’s TOTES a Scott Pilgrim character where Amber used to be
CANNOT UNSEE
Lol for ever in my eyes
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Is anyone else worried Willis hired Bryan Lee O’Malley as an assistant?
You say that like its a bad thing.
probably not, but if this was like scott pilgrim, danny would be the only character to get story focus, and judging by the popularity vote, I don’t think the comic would be quite as fun and diverse.
Man, if DOA was in the Scott Pilgrim universe, everyone would be battling everyone else’s evil exes. Pretty much all the time. Constantly.
…instead of getting lots of sexy time with them?
Can’t we have both?
More like everyone would BE everyone’s evil exes and the fighting would never stop. Or maybe that’s what you meant and I didn’t actually alter your point any.
It would also mean Ruth would have access to the subspace highways, making her even more terrifying.
Now that I think about it, Scott and Danny have sort of the same personality where they’re basically decent people who can occasionally act like assholes without thinking about it.
As far as I know, that describes every decent person … (granted I’ve never met any ‘saints’, but the historical versions seem to range from psychopath to basically decent but fallible).
Kinda, though Scott is really characterized by his ability to pivot from gung-ho confidence to crippling anxiety on a dime, sometimes even within the same line. The one problem with the movie adaptation, really, was that Michael Cera could only really do one of the two.
Amber O’Malley VS The Plumage
Honestly, that was my first thought when I saw Becky’s “hey, everyone, I’m a lesbian” double thumbs up. Again, not necessarily a bad thing.
Dina were you watching
Oh, she bought the Slipshine.
Amber Walks the Dinosaur. (And also opens the door and gets on the floor)
She is always watching, like Slenderman.
NO
Am I doing it wrong? ﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
Slenderman makes me rage so irrationally, so no, you’re probably doing it right. XD
how about just try doing it.
We know for sure that electronic equipment actually functions around Dina cause Amber can use her computer without issue, so clearly Dina doesn’t watch as well as Slenderman. Or maybe she watches better. I dunno.
No one ever notices whether she’s there or not, so she very well might have been.
Exscue me, I see you are quite involved with your coitus, but-
[coitus intensifies]
-could you please-
[coitus intensifies]
I don’t mean to disturb you, but you’re lying on top of my-
[coitus intensifies]
I’ll just wait here until you’re done.
Weren’t we all !?
Wait, no, they were in Danny’s dorm, not Amber’s.
Oh diana hahaha
Dina, DINA D I N A. Not diana.
Stands for Dinosaur In North America?
Exactly what you said… with sarcasm?
Exactly what she said, not as a question.
Well Amber does have an amazing plumage. 😀
The plumage don’t enter into it!
More like her ‘plumage’ was entered into. ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)
She’s just pining for the fjords.
Thank you.
She’s puckered out from a long squawk.
She needs to work on her mating call though. Keeps attracting homosexual males.
(Yes I am aware Danny is Bi)
After realizing everyone she dates is gay, Amber decides to start dating women instead.
/turns the women straight
With Amber’s luck, that’s when she starts finding straight ones.
Well, she’s really only interacted with Sarah, Joyce, Dorothy, Dina and Billie, so… 3/4 out of 5?
Non-heterosexual is accurate.
That’s better than Danny’s awareness. (yet, at least – give him time, this comic is super-slo-mo)
Never seen that face before…
Sure you did, that’s Dina. And the other one is Amber, we see her face all the time (well not ALL the time but frequently). Or are you talking about the Barney face on the T-shirt, because the eyes got eyelashes and changed expression in that last panel.
That face at the end is really amazing. I hope we see more like that.
The face of pure, unadulterated panic and embarassment.
Get Mary to draw a bit more, it’s got the makings of anime.
I wonder why Mary is such a bongo. Does she have any personal problems?
Mary is everyone’s personal problem.
Schizophrenia.
My working assumption is that every mean, spiteful fundamentalist Christian actually is that way because they hate themself, so yeah, probably. (Not that farfetched, since none of them are as perfect as they believe their god requires them to be.)
Clearly this whole “Joyce is autobiographical” thing is a red herring. Mary is the one who’s going to end up being the Internet Porn Lady. Right now she’s drawing a comic called Roommates! for the IU paper, and also posting it on her Tumblr. It stars sanctimonious jerk Melissa Bradshaw and her horndog roommate Rose, who on move-in day climbed up to the floor above to see if there were any guys there to bang. In a couple arcs aliens appear out of nowhere and abduct Rose and Melissa’s stalkery pseudo-boyfriend Jason, and then things get weird.
Don’t forget her brooding ex-ish-boyfriend Sam who’s secret twins with Dana “Talky” Talkerson who was a childhood frenemy with Jonathan “Sandy” Sandbourne who had a relationship with his old babysitter Rodney before he (Rodney) sacrificed himself to save Melissa’s drunk butt after a few months of foreboding depression on her part. Then Sandy and Mellissa got together, but not before Joseph showed up and tried to ruin the whole thing.
Also, I never realized how transparently pseudonymous Danny Wilcox’s name was until this moment.
She turned extravagant colours!
Now that is an interesting observation. But not so much as that face is!
If billionaire Bruce wayne was as transparent as Amber we would not have to worry about Batman.
Batman is already well aware of the aphrodisiac effect of his costume. About 5/8 of the action he gets is banging lady supervillains on rooftops.
Dina wasn’t the #1 most popular character for a few seconds. WE CAN FIX THIS
Indeed! Everyone who voted for Becky but didn’t vote for Dina should feel truly ashamed right now!
You are mistaken friend. Becky is the best character. Anyone who disagrees is either lying or A Nazi.
Well, I AM German-born..
Ahem. But yeah, I stuck to my Dina loyalties for the last poll 🙂
And then I had to vote for Ruth and Sal because they’re delightfully sarcastic creatures..
Becky is adorbes, but I can’t pick five 🙁
No, I didn’t miscount.
Did you not see Mike there, scribbling his name in?
I like Dina, but I figured she’d do fine without me, and gave my votes to characters I figured needed them more. Leslie is unacceptably low on the list.
Ditto. Though I went for more core characters.
I normally vote for Mike, but it feels like forever since he’s been around. I mean, quick appearances, sure, but no plots featuring him even secondarily.
I know, it sucks :/
Dina, you’re almost my favorite character. Get into an affair with Becky and you’ll definitely be top.
Giggity?
That double entendre.
I didn’t think about it. Thank you for that observation!
The unintentional ones are the best. 😀
Unless she isn’t into that, of course.
She might be but unaware of it, being so highly hetero-normative and possibly aspie. She may have interpreted no desire to bang guys as no desire to bang at all, and never even considered banging or getting banged by girls.
She had the desire to bang guys in the Walkyverse.
I dunno, I feel like Becky is more of a top.
Sure, but if anyone is going to spring up on you from behind..
…a door…
Jesus Christ, Amber’s face.
Don’t say it.
FAAAAACE
OFF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIyvSKCnBnk
…aaaaaannnd Dina’s back at the top of my favorite characters list.
Yee gads! Amber’s eyes will haunt me… haunt me for days….
….was she in the room?
or is she Batman?
Dina was standing in the corner of the room just taking notes. She wasn’t even hiding.
Stealth is Dino girls greatest power.
So, in other words, the Amazi-Girl costume is a secondary sexual characteristic.
Does she need it? Her primary sexual characteristics are pretty powerful on their own.
You sure you’re not thinking of other secondary characteristics (from a biological point of view)?
Yeah, I think we need to save discussion of primary sexual characteristics for the slipshine.
Wow. That is a hell of an expression Dina inspired there.
Dina’s got you pegged, Amby.
Also in a size 6. ٩(^ᴗ^)۶
I see what you did there. Both things you did there.
We already have one girl lusting after her straight roommate. How cool would be two?
Your dedication to innuendo is inspiring. You’re here every day saying things that need to be said.
One day I’ll finally get off my ass and make my own comic. And you will all miss me.
And I will be there for you old friend to show support, and to pass down judgement on you Like an angry God when I finally start reviewing webcomics.
But how will we know it’s you?
The name, I’m guessing.
Could be fun. MAKE IT SO, Yotomoe… When you’re ready. If you don’t mind, that is.
Nope, we’ll be reading it. And, commenting on it. You’ll never be free of us. Doesn’t that feel better?
Oh my gosh that is literally the best face.
Stupid sexy spikes. They hold too much power.
Must… think… of… kittens…. No… ANGRY… kittens… covered… in spikes…. makes me angry…. GGRRAAAAAAAAHHHH!
That is the ultimate “Why are you talking about this in public?” expression.
Been a lot of that going around.
Hmm, gravatars aren’t working like I tried to set them up.
It looks just fine to me.
As Plasma Mongoose said a few days ago, you have to wait a bit.
S’funny, I had mine set up years ago…and went back to it and re-entered everything around xmas time…and y’all still seein’ Sarah, aren’t you?
LMAO That face! XD
You know…
I didn’t buy the porn, but I think we’ve seen evidence that Dina’s hypothesis is correct.
Or at the very least it turns Amber on.
Affirmative. Probably Danny-boy too, if to a slightly lesser degree.
*plays the theme song to “Famous Five On The Case”*
And with that, Dina now takes her place in my heart as favorite character.
C-can I take my other two votes back and give all three to Dina?
The masks make it better 😉
Damn Dina, you nailed it exactly on the head.
… that’s not how dinosaurs did it! If they were that inept they’d have died out …
Instead of evolving into birds? Yes, of course.
I prefer to think of it as some dinosaurs were already birds, but it took them awhile to figure it out (even with the hint in their name) … but perhaps that’s just a fantasy of flight …
Jumping out from behind the cereal dispenser, Dina velociraptors Amber into absolute panic.
Clever girl.
Given superhero costumes are hot in the bedroom, yes, Dina is correct.
Well, why else would she wear yellow at night?
Because it’s a lot more fun for her than sunglasses at night?
And we already have a contender for DoA’s Best FAAAACCCE of 2015.
I’ll say it again…
Dina needs her own storyline.
I dunno. I feel like she works so well largely because she doesn’t get her own storylines, and gets caught up in others’ or acts as an interlude.
Yes, but there is a complex personality behind that face and aspie-like behavior. I would like to see an arc explore that, possibly Becky seeing what kind of sexuality Dina expresses. As I posted up thread, Dina might have interpreted no desire to bang guys as no desire to bang period, and never even considered that she might be batting for the other team.
That is SO me right now.
Seriously Willis, it’s like you’re drawing me. And at that, I change my name to Crazy Dina and my email to “All_Hail_Dina@Dina.Dina”.
At least this once, because COME ON! I’ve been in this situation more than once in the last month. (last month being a period of 31 days, not based on the calendar dates)
It’s a pity your randomly assigned Gravatar is Sarah rather Dina. Oh well.
Easily changed…
Yes, but if I get a gravitar, I lose my other randomly assigned gravitar, and loose the ability to get other randomly assigned gravitars. It stops customizing my gravitars per strip and goes with one overall gravitar, which I don’t want cause I have an evil looking one on another site that I happen to like.
Modify your email until it fits?
I never understood everybody’s love for Dina until now. I love you Dina, so much.
Dina is the only character I could be friends with for more than a week. Well, Dorothy maybe. The others, including Becky, are cool but more like acquaintance material.
Dina is often pretty insightful and knows more about social situations than people think. She’s one of the few who know about Amber’s vigilante alter-ego and is just really passionate about her interests. She’s great.
Well, she isn’t wrong.
We don’t know that yet, it’s just a hypothesis.
lollllllll. Amber’s shocked face is making my day.
This sounds like something I might have asked a few years ago.
Seriously asked, I mean.
Does anyone know how I go about setting things up so that a particular gravatar gets used for a particular site? I don’t want to use this gravatar anywhere but Dumbing of Age, for obvious reasons.
I think you would haft to make a lot of accounts.
I believe you can set a different gravatar for each email address you have. But! For many email accounts, including gmail, you can add a plus sign and then anything you want after it before the @ sign and it will still work as your address. So if your email is paul@gmail.com, then you can also use paul+sexoloco@gmail.com and assign that gravatar to that address. Then just use that same address in the comment form on this site.
Indeed! and the + notation is great for many things, like autofiltering and spam control
I learned a thing today. Thank you, Ryan.
HAHAHA! I love you, Dina, and this is why. 😀
“You see, you’re costume was missing from our closet that night you copula-”
“OH MY GOD, DINA!”
*twitch*
“Your.”
Crap, I’m usually good about that…
Dina’s shirt looks unimpressed in that last panel.
Something something Danny dressed in a Ninja Turtle costume…
Would that make him Danatello?
I regret nothing.
Amber’s not actually shocked or embarrassed. She’s intensely aroused. It’s not her fault, it’s just that cereal and Mountain Dew for lunch is her fetish.
*insert dinosaur sex innuendo.*
Huh huh you said “insert”
“Hey, look at the feathers on that one!”
Is that a cloaca in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
I just realized.
I mean, I’m asexual, so the whole Slipshine thing seems more a cheesy, targeted gimick than anything remotely interesting [as it applies to any comic].
But I’d totally sign up to see a Dina one, just because, wow, can you imagine her approach to sex?
Because I can’t, and that’s what makes it intriguing.
I mean, I’ll probably be disappointed, not being the target audience, but I figure if there’s at least one dinosaur-sex-pun in there, it’ll be worth the trip 😛
Likewise on every single thing you just said, yes good
Ironically she appeared in the first Slipshine in a way that made me think she really is ace. Not sure if there’s Word of God about that.
Her alternate universe self definitely wasn’t, and the orientation of characters stays the same compared to the Walkyverse. She seemed to find maturity attractive.
Not all the time, mind. Danny showed no evidence of being bisexual in the walkyverse.
That doesn’t mean he wasn’t, though. In fact, I believe Willis confirmed that, yeah, Danny is retroactively bi in the Walkyverse as well. It is just we have never seem him being attracted to men there.
she could be ace but heteroromantic
i mean, i never read it’s walky so i don’t know how strongly she liked mike or whoever else, but being attracted to a person doesn’t necessarily mean you’re attracted sexually to that person, or to sex at all
She had a grinding session that destroyed a lab with Walky and might have raped Mike. She didn’t really get that using alcohol to change his personality was bad.
I never considered that anyone might read the slipshines for anything other than the character development.
And I am also fairly certain that Dina is asexual. Her approach to sex is purely academic. You might say she is a voyeur.
Having zero social skills is not the same thing as being asexual. I can see her cornering one of the unattached male characters (are there any besides Mike?) and saying “I want you to fool my body into thinking it has fulfilled its biological obligation”.
Jacob, Joe, and Faz are all single.
But I don’t think
sheanyone in their right mind could possibly want the last one on that list.Are you saying Wen is not in her right mind?
She’s basically a genderswapped Faz so no, definitely not.
But do make dinosaurs better pillowtalk than Wexler?
Gah! That is the Questionable Content strip I was trying to find when I was trying to construct the sort of pickup line Dina might use: “I want you to help me trick my body into believing that it has fulfilled its genetic imperative.”
I forgot to add:
1) She doesn’t have zero social skills. And, while she seems to lack a lot of experience, she is learning quickly. I tried to learn for many years (and still am) but I make barely progress.
2) A friend of mine and I both never had a grilfriend. A common acquaintance suspected my friend to be a closeted gay because of this, however didn’t make any assumptions regarding me, since my social ineptness was reason enough.
In conclusion, Dinas social ineptness leads people to beleive she is ace, whereas my social ineptness prevented similar assumptions.
… so this means your palindromic moniker is non-random?
It is rather random, except for the being-palindromic part. From what were you concluding?
Ah, but voyeurs derive sexual pleasure from observing; Dina seems to have, as you said, a “purely academic” interest.
If I read the Slipshines, character development would be my major motivation. However, if I were there already, … I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of more happening.
Doing something in a way that might seem purely academic doesn’t prevent one from having fun with it. I approach pretty much anything academically, because it is fun. I study myself during masturbation and it strongly tends to enhance the sensation. And even if Dina received no direct pleasure from the stimulation of certain organs, she might enjoy sex for secondary effects. Depending on your chosen definition this alone would make her non-asexual.
Also, voyeurism most often includes the violation of someones privacy. I want to disassociate myself from this. I like to observe, learn and study, but I would never ignore someones privacy for that. And we have no indication of Dina handling this differently.
What on earth is growing out of Amber’s lower teeth?
Her gums?
I regret to inform you that those are likely half-chewed bits of the bacon visible on her plate in panel one.
Finally more Dina yessss. She’s ace too, isn’t she? I’ve been assuming that since Walky Performs A Sex.
Other universes’ Dinae appear to be heterosexual, though terminally socially awkward. Presumably this holds true for this one as well.
I have been unable to locate any images of that Barney shirt, but I am positive I have seen it somewhere before. Are there any pictures in Shortpacked that might have used that shirt on a character?
Um, I don’t understand. Why is Amber flipping out over that question?
She’s basically asking if she and others find her being amazi-girl attractive, which considering the way her hanky-panky sessions with Danny always start, they very much do, and Amber’s not exactly the type of person to talk openly about that stuff.
Because you are not supposed to casually address people’s secret alter egos in public.
I figured it’s because she’s still trying to keep her Amazi-Girl identity a secret.
It seems strange to think you can keep a secret like that from your roommate, never mind an invisible and observant roommate like Dina, but then again heavily compartmentalized personalities are probably inevitably a bit too good at denial for their own sake…
She’s basically saying:
“I’ve figured that you had sex this week.
Now tell me details about it!”
And Amber, self-acclaimed social mess, is not happy discussing her fetish.
If Dina were a bit more explicitly devious (essentially, replace Dumbiverse Dina with It’sWalky! Dina for a bit) and really wanted to know, she could probably convince Joe to drag it out of Danny.
That’s not how Dina does things. She would catch Danny in a rope trap and interrogate him while he’s dangling upside down.
CLEARLY yes
Love the subtle lines around her irises, really gives that extra subtle hint that her eyes are popping out of her head!
They look just like Joyce’s eyes did after Ruth’s epic femur threat.
It is the look of pure terror.
At least her primary sexual display frill isn’t too orange.
OMG Acid Reflux is still on the net? I hadn’t even thought about it in years and years.
Dina, asking the tough questions!
She’s channeling her inner Mike here!
In other news, Dina pulls the gap closer in the popularity poll, with an 8% percentage difference. And it seems Amber has overtaken Joyce for 3rd place! Probably not for any reason!
Dina is so frickin’ awesome…
Seconded. She seems to know nothing about what’s going on, but actually she’s figured it all out.
Amber seems fat and happy and I like it.
, indeed.
Gah! How does href work? I thought the text entered as title would appear highlight, as a clickable link, and instead that text did not appear at all, only the text after the right angle bracket. I will try again:
The title is optional and appears as hovertext, the text after the larger-sign and before the closing </a> is the clackable link.
clickable!
the “a href=” is where the link goes. The “title=” is where the title text goes (hence the the name). The words that you click on go between the “a href” and the “/a href” tags.
Don’t worry, I had trouble with this myself a while back. Nothing like trial and error to teach you how to use html.
So let’s trial this again:
Some men are predisposed towards such.
This time with intentional hovertext.
Perfect!
DINA FREAKIN KNOOOOWWWS
Yep. Dina is still my favourite character. XD
Oh, Dina. You sneaky devil. 😛
That was most appropriate, Dina. This was the best to read after getting up this morn.
Dina ‘done broke Amber.
That’s a pretty common idea why feather’s were invented at all – or at least colored feathers.
Daisy: But does it have a chest window?
Now, I’m no expert on Willis artistry, but, to my knowledge, that is an entirely new face I’ve never seen before. What do we call that? Hyper Ultra Turbo Embarrassment?
This is classic Japanese manga embarrassment.
Super ultra great delicious wonderful bad.
It’s a good thing Amber didn’t have a mouthful of food there. If she had, the spittake could have wiped out half the city.
I was already laughing from the comic when I read your statement. Now I can feel a rib trying to escape…..can’t breathe…
Counting down to gravatars based on last panel’s Amber: 5, 4, 3, 2…
Dina is still second in the character poll . . . this is a travesty.
So Mike knows right? Mike is old friends with Ethan and Amber, and he’s seen Amazi-Girl. He’s smart. is that a stretch?
There haven’t been any hints that he knows, but it’s certainly plausible, and he’s Mike. I tend to assume that he knows everything.
I can often get a chuckle or two out of these whenever it’s not a feels moment or drama moment.
It’s been a while since I just outright laughed for nearly a minute from this comic.
This is beautiful.
Amber is my favourite character so her being happy should be a good thing, except I’m then reminded that she’s also nursing some serious psychological problems that she’s obliviously making even worse.
This strip really puts dina wanting to try on the amazi-girl costume into a completely different light.
I see what you did there Willis… you’re trying to sway the vote from Becky for second place Dina… it’s working. Dina has become more awesome.
My only aphrodisiac is justice!
Look at Amber in panel 2! She looks so cute and happy! Don’t break her heart, Willis!
…She even has to ask?
Amber face is… best face.
Holy crap, what a face! Good job, Dina, good job! =D
HAhahahaha!!! 😀
This is basically Dina speak for “You seems happy. Are you finally getting laid?”
I laughed so hard I wheezed. Like one hard HAAAAAAAAAA~*hhheeeeh*
This comic has made me laugh hard enough to hurt myself. Bravo.
Unrelated: Voted Dina, Becky, Amber. Top three are Becky, Dina, and Amber in that order. Kinda miffed my un-selected number 4 (Carla) isn’t so high up, but hey, at least I got the top three.
Dina is the best oh my god
The bad news lights are on… The bad news lights are blinking… rrring, rrring, rrring…It’s for you. Kablam!
I can’t figure out how to contact Willis without having a social media account, but I wanted to make him aware that I found one of his comics on another site with no credit to him. http://9gag.com/gag/aDw5NKw I hate seeing authors denied credit for their work.
I know this is a little old, had some computer problems, but I figured with the topic of this DoA these 2 Spinnerette pages were quite appropriate. Maybe a bit more NSFW than this comic, but it’s all talk, no scenes…
Dammit Dina, You shocked Amber so much she has anime face.
Oops, I meant FAAAAAACE.
those EYES THO