What if that was Blaine’s whole purpose! His asshattery was just a ploy to leave Faz and be free. Years of doucheness just to have this opportunity to be rid of the life suck that is Faz.
Wow, what a horrible plan. Dude is an idiot as well as an uberdick.
I did that every year in college from sophomore on. You needed at least one year of living in the dorms to get hired.
Pretty idyllic job, actually. Pay sucked, but I’d just sit there all night buzzing the drunks in and doing my homework. Maybe get a pizza and watch movies on my laptop. As long as I had no classes until afternoon, 11-7 shifts were great.
For some reason, I’ve always had the impression that Asma was a professional (or graduate) working for the hall, not an undergraduate. Not sure why that is.
My own university had paid, adult (as in, post-21 age range) staff running security and reception in the residential halls and main buildings. The most that the sophomore and third-year students did was “guardian angel” type work (sort of like RAs but less authoritarian, more big-sibling, including running nights out at the local bars* etc and making sure everyone got home ok). I had that gig for a couple months, til it turned out all my freshers were perfectly capable of handling themselves solo.
* UK based, thus, they were legally good to go get hammered from day one.
We called ’em “head residents” in my university days. They were adults, had an apartment in the dorms so were there most all the time, and were directly employed by the University.
Ruth nailed the exact extent to which Billie would successfully carry out her mission. Ruth was sufficiently confident that Billie would tail Blaine without losing him to include her as part of his identification, but also confident that she wouldn’t figure out what to do with him herself.
He will continue watching Dina from every available vent. She won’t see him, but she’ll feel his eyes all over her body, touching her in places that aren’t even real because it’s Faz and he probably doesn’t understand female anatomy.
I think the jokes Willis was going for is Asma asked if he needed anything retrieved before he left, and he was like ‘no let me leave here’ only to jump cut to him forgetting Faz
Unexpected surge of sympathy for Faz, who’s apparently nothing but a personal effect to Blaine. And a leave-behindable sort of personal effect at that.
And yeah, Wen probably will pop out when we least expect it. Oh god, I just thought about Faz and Wen having sex in the dorm. I need brain bleach stat.
It’s like timemonkey tried to allude to something that might or might not be within the purview of Dumbing of Age readers, without directly mentioning it so as not to break Willis’s rule about talking about his other continuities – and did so quite elegantly, no less!
There is a group home for all the people that cared for Faz and suffered nearly irreparable emotional and cognitive damage as a result.
There is an bill in the works requiring a warning label on Faz.
I was actually wondering if his outburst at Amber effected him at all. Since it didn’t, should we assume he’s used to his dad being like that? (We are seriously going to make Faz a woobie in this universe, arnt we?)
My thoughts are “talking to girl who isn’t a relative and therefore okay to mack on” is far more important to Faz than coming to grips with his angry step father and the fact that his step sister just shoryuken’d him. Priorities.
I know I’m going to be absolutely alone in what I’m about to say but I think Faz and Dina would make an interesting couple. However that may only be because I’m fond of the cliche romantic circumstance where a boy manages to get a disinterested girl to like him in the end.
THERAPOD FACTS: The Herrerasauridae are an early group represented by Herrerasaurus, which was discovered in a wonderful middle-late Triassic period fossil locality (the famous Ischigualasto Formation) in Argentina in the 1970s. Another herrerasaur is Staurikosaurus, which has been known since the 1960s from remains found in Brazil. More recently (in 1993), another herrerasaur-like fossil was found in the same general area and named Eoraptor, or “dawn thief.” It appears to be closely related to the herrerasaurs, but smaller in size and slightly older. Both Eoraptor and the herrerasaurs seem to have been small to medium-sized carnivores. These curious animals have some basic theropod characteristics, but lack others; in fact, they lack some dinosaurian characteristics as well. The Herrerasauridae and Eoraptor may be the earliest group of theropods, or it is quite possible that they are not even theropods at all, but rather non-dinosaurs (dinosauromorphs) closely related to the ancestor of dinosaurs. The fact is, we don’t know for sure. Experts in dinosaur systematics are currently embroiled in a controversy over the exact relationships of the Herrerasauridae to theropods and other dinosaurs.
(copied from the first link to which Google sent me)
I’ve always thought that “need” referred to someone with an extreme knowledge of and fascination with various real life subjects (dinosaurs, computer technology, advanced mathematics etc.), while “geek” referred to that same knowledge and fascination applied to fictional narratives (Star Trek, Star Wars, Middle Earth etc.)
I’ve heard it differentiated like: nerds have no social skills, but geeks have enough social skills to get along swimmingly with other geeks (and/or argue endlessly with other geeks).
On the one hand, I applaud Willis for not ending this in a violent manner. On the other hand, I feel kind of cockblocked that it didn’t end in a violent manner. With Blaine becoming a gooey, black tar, weeping mess. I”m so confused.
I also ship Dina and Faz. BECAUSE I HATE THE WORLD!
I’m glad it didn’t end violently, actually. I still hate Blaine and think he deserves to be punished for his abusive actions, but as much as I’d love to see that play out via a physical altercation, I’d hate to see Ruth/Billie/Amber/whomever else get in trouble for assaulting him.
He made the first move on Ruth. And people are generally more okay with a woman hitting a man. I’m not saying that’s good, I just think they’ll be fine.
You know, even if Ruth hadn’t made it so obvious who she meant, Blaine would’ve given himself away by revealing that he knows the sex of the R.A. in question, thus showing that he (most likely) knows exactly who Asma was referring to.
Yeah, but the blood is still a dead giveaway….unless there’s a lot of violence against parents during that day and the lobby is full of battered and bruised parents.
But I mean, had Ruth used a more general description like “guy with a jacket and glasses,” Asma would still be clued into the fact that Blaine’s the right guy since he knew that the R.A. in question is a “she” and not a “he.”
You’re joking, but from my own time as an RA, I really can’t remember a single family weekend that didn’t involve some form of medical emergency. Usually several.
Asma said “Clark Wing”, so it just means that Blaine is familiar enough with the dorm to know which is the ladies’ wing, which is not a stretch for someone with a child in the dorm.
Except that gives away that he’s the parent of someone in that wing, and since it’s an R.A. from that wing that requested a parent be removed… It still makes Blaine at least a very good candidate for being the parent in question.
Nah, his kid doesn’t have to be in that wing for him to know that it’s ladies in that wing. Dr. Rosenthal’s kid is in Beck Wing, for example, but I’d bet ya anything he still knows where to find the girls…
And even if it did, it’d apply to roughly a quarter of the adults milling around here, which doesn’t make a great filter.
The defensive and not-really-a-denial, “How do you know it’s me?” instead of something more like, “Huh? What? Why?” is a better indicator.
And that link was precisely as advertised. Although, your diagram could have used some labels. It kind of just looked like a doodle of a small Korean boy with a massive dong.
I do appreciate a work of fiction that acknowledges that there actually are authority figures in the setting, and the main characters don’t have to do anything themselves.
Has Billie always been that pale? I’m just now noticing how very, very white she is. And this is coming from a pasty-skinned ginger, so that’s really saying something.
I don’t thinks so. Asma knows about Billie’s alcoholism. It was prominent on the file Asma was looking at when checking Billie in on the first day. The ‘tude may be wholly her own.
He will continue to wander the halls of residence… until the end of his days… never finding the exit, never quite managing to score.
NB end of his days being when he dies of starvation in a few weeks. Or maybe of thirst, being barred first from the womens, and then the mens washrooms.
I’m hoping we get a scene of Blaine continuing to fume as he walks down the sidewalk away from the building, wondering where his idiot step-son is, and then we get a zoom-out cut of Faz being chucked out a window.
Maybe it’s just the way Dina structures her sentences coupled with her overall adorableness, but I swear every time I read a comic that includes her, she sounds like Hynden Walch’s Starfire in my head.
…Am I the only one who takes Blaine’s willingness to leave without complaint as a sign that he fully intends to come back to finish what he started as soon as Asma turns the other way?
“The Great Irritator Challengeri seduces females with its arousing scent and deep familiarity with books on how to seduce females. Here is a chart representing the movement of the Irritator Challengeri’s phallus during mating. As you can see, it moves in a most pleasurable pattern that is guaranteed to maximally stimulate the females’ lady parts. I perceive signs of arousal on your face.”
I had a realization. Remember yesterday how we all wondered how Billie could’ve forgotten her mission?
Basically, burgeoning bisexual Billie is blameless. Sal, who she finds sexy, sauntered out in a schoolgirl skirt. Our fearless former-cheerleader couldn’t concentrate. Damn distraction.
Basically, busty burgeoning bisexual Billie is blameless. Sadly, she saw sexy Sal saunter out in a schoolgirl skirt. The fair, fearless former cheerleader couldn’t concentrate. Damn distraction.
Nah, it’s not meant to be humorous (and I quit reading Dominic Deegan around the time of that “justifying rape to save someone’s life” debacle, because of said debacle… or really because I was disgusted with the plot points themselves).
That is subjective, timemonkey. To you, Sal is least attractive but to some people, Sal is attractive. Maybe it’s the tough biker look or the southern drawl or it could be the school girl look.
I’m desk worker and I can say that in this sort of situation, we would call security anyhow. I don’t think we’d ever be expected to deal with a potentially violent situation on our own – furthermore, leave the desk unattended. At very least, the RD would do it.
The Dina + Faz pairing is growing on me. Part of me feels sorry for Faz, another part feels sorry for Dina for being the object of Faz’s current attentions. And yet… they’re two people who don’t know really how to interact with people that well.
Now I have this image of Amber returning to her dorm room and closing the door … only to find Dina and Faz biting each others’ arms and neck; Dina’s trying to kill him raptor-style, and Faz thinks she wants sex with him so he’s reciprocating. Which one Amber thinks is entirely dependent on the humor of the situation.
“How do you know she was talking about me?” So even when trying to wriggle out of a situation, Blaine’s ego can’t keep from injecting ‘me’ into the conversation. In fact, part of me wonders if he’s secretly pleased with being the ‘big bad’ who has to be shown off campus.
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Huh… Guess the problem solved itself!
Not completely. Faz is still there.
No problem here.
That’s what garbage disposals is for. >:)
I would’ve gone with a flaming barrel but that works too, I guess.
Not a wood-chipper? It seemed to work okay in ‘Fargo’.
Or a salami slicer works too.
The giant composter as featured in the 4th Doctor Who story ‘The Seeds of Doom’ would work even better.
But then Blaine would have become part of a giant meat- eating crinoid (sp)
If by part of you mean part of its digestive system than you might be right.
We could always feed him to the Star Whale in The Beast Below, or maybe the Macra from Gridlock?
Aw I actually feel sorry for him somehow… Blaine just leaves him ;O
What if that was Blaine’s whole purpose! His asshattery was just a ploy to leave Faz and be free. Years of doucheness just to have this opportunity to be rid of the life suck that is Faz.
Wow, what a horrible plan. Dude is an idiot as well as an uberdick.
Can’t blame him though!
Asma don’t take no shit.
That’s helpful!
Except that Amber isn’t on campus anymore…
Finally.
She needs that room to live.
No butt whooping for Blaine? 🙁
He’ll get it eventually!
Yeah, by an angry mob waiting outside with ropes and pitchforks.
He’ll get his but we won’t likely get to see it for a few years yet.
Do we get to meet Asma’s parents?
I don’t think she’s a freshman.
Yeah, probably not if she works the desk.
I did that every year in college from sophomore on. You needed at least one year of living in the dorms to get hired.
Pretty idyllic job, actually. Pay sucked, but I’d just sit there all night buzzing the drunks in and doing my homework. Maybe get a pizza and watch movies on my laptop. As long as I had no classes until afternoon, 11-7 shifts were great.
For some reason, I’ve always had the impression that Asma was a professional (or graduate) working for the hall, not an undergraduate. Not sure why that is.
My own university had paid, adult (as in, post-21 age range) staff running security and reception in the residential halls and main buildings. The most that the sophomore and third-year students did was “guardian angel” type work (sort of like RAs but less authoritarian, more big-sibling, including running nights out at the local bars* etc and making sure everyone got home ok). I had that gig for a couple months, til it turned out all my freshers were perfectly capable of handling themselves solo.
* UK based, thus, they were legally good to go get hammered from day one.
At mine the desk was run by security guards at night but student employees during the day.
We called ’em “head residents” in my university days. They were adults, had an apartment in the dorms so were there most all the time, and were directly employed by the University.
That what we do as hotel night auditor.
( pay is better though)
golly i hope so
Keepin’ it smooth, Billie.
Listening to Faz can kill brain cells.
But punching Faz is calming…
But ineffective.
Well, they haven’t legalized killing assholes yet..or any violent act against assholes.
You’re clearly watching the wrong porn!
He’s like one of those inflateable punching bags that bounces back up.
Weebles wobble but they’re not called Blaine.
So Ruth has accurately estimated Billie’s competence level.
Ruth might have sent Billie along as a secondary confirmation tag of Blaine’s identity, without meaning anything about her general competence.
Or did you mean that positively? As in Ruth knew Billie would follow through on what she told her.
Ruth nailed the exact extent to which Billie would successfully carry out her mission. Ruth was sufficiently confident that Billie would tail Blaine without losing him to include her as part of his identification, but also confident that she wouldn’t figure out what to do with him herself.
Yeah. There seemed to be a air of increased trust between them when they confronted Blaine.
AM I THE ONLY ONE CONCERNED ABOUT DINA LOSING THERAPOD FACTS?
Since that includes stuff about T-Rex’s, no. No you’re not.
It is indeed a great tragedy. I would be distraught if my therapod facts lost cranial space.
That reply with that gravatar… so apropos.
Faz needs to get eaten by a theropod. OR transformed into a theropod. Or get married to a theropod.
Or all three, but in reverse order.
So is Faz getting abandoned there, hiding in the ducts and causing shenanigans?
He will continue watching Dina from every available vent. She won’t see him, but she’ll feel his eyes all over her body, touching her in places that aren’t even real because it’s Faz and he probably doesn’t understand female anatomy.
You scare me.
This pleases me.
Eww. That’s so creepy and totally Faz.
I have touched her thorax with my mind.
That statement just made my jimmies rustled….whatever that means.
The Great Faz would like someday to rustle a female’s jimmies. He is in possession of a PDF that illustrates how to locate them.
Where’s that brain bleach?
In Faz’s pants.
I think the jokes Willis was going for is Asma asked if he needed anything retrieved before he left, and he was like ‘no let me leave here’ only to jump cut to him forgetting Faz
Soo, does Lavaticmay mean ‘stater of obvious’?
Faz will have to eat rats to survive.
Even rsts would run awy from the Faz.
Rats >_<
I bet rsts would run away from Faz too if he ever ran into one.
W-why am I beginning to ship that?
I’m not sure, but it’s a possible indicator that you are an awful, terrible person and should be quarantined immediately.
You need some serious therapy.
BRAIN BLEACH! Get me a brain bleach.
I’VE BEEN SHIPPING IT FROM DAY ONE.
Requesting orbital bombardment of that ship! Quick, before it can sail!
Nuke it from orbit. Only then we can be sure.
(Or whatever that line from Aliens go)
He really has, though. I’m pretty sure he was shipping it before Faz even showed up.
Dina and Faz, or the brain bleach?
I totally ship them.
And by “ship”, I mean, “hope Dina disembowels Faz with the hooked claw on her foot”.
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
OH MY GOD I WAS RIGHT!!
Unexpected surge of sympathy for Faz, who’s apparently nothing but a personal effect to Blaine. And a leave-behindable sort of personal effect at that.
Agreed. Faz is irritating but it breaks my heart that there isn’t a single person in the world who cares for him. Everyone should have that.
I’m sure there’s someone out there for Faz. Possibly a frighteningly similar person. Possibly female.
I’m not certain Wen will that happen in DoA.
If I wish hard enough and Willis remains Willis it will one day be true.
I saw what you did there.
And yeah, Wen probably will pop out when we least expect it. Oh god, I just thought about Faz and Wen having sex in the dorm. I need brain bleach stat.
Just wait til Wilis takes us back to Joe’s Dad and Amber’s Mom, ahem, interacting
>:D
It’s like timemonkey tried to allude to something that might or might not be within the purview of Dumbing of Age readers, without directly mentioning it so as not to break Willis’s rule about talking about his other continuities – and did so quite elegantly, no less!
And then… well, yeah. You.
There is a group home for all the people that cared for Faz and suffered nearly irreparable emotional and cognitive damage as a result.
There is an bill in the works requiring a warning label on Faz.
I was actually wondering if his outburst at Amber effected him at all. Since it didn’t, should we assume he’s used to his dad being like that? (We are seriously going to make Faz a woobie in this universe, arnt we?)
Well, as stupid as he is, and as obnoxious as he was in his earlier DoA strip appearances, the final panel today is hilarious.
Also, I feel sorry for anyone who’s forced to deal with Blaine at all, much less on a daily basis.
My thoughts are “talking to girl who isn’t a relative and therefore okay to mack on” is far more important to Faz than coming to grips with his angry step father and the fact that his step sister just shoryuken’d him. Priorities.
It is more important due to its rarity.
run dina. run as fast as you can. preserve the precious facts for they are more valuable than what faz currently is spouting.
More valuable? Yes.
As funny? Arguably not.
Dina, repeated thrusting of your fist to the face of Faz is not just welcomed..they’re allowed.
Faz would only like it because a girl is touching him.
A gloved fist then.
Faz knows that gloves are necessary for love, for Faz read it in on the internet. Thus, Faz welcomes your gloved touch.
Oh my god, Faz is like an unholy fusion of Ryo Saeba and Brock…just without all the good parts that made both of them likeable.
Please…no more Faz here. Keep him locked in SP!
Don’t listen. Never listen. He gets left here and roams around the campus forever!
And he becomes the main character.
I wouldn’t mind this…uwe..he..he!
Faz is like a virus once he is one comic he will spread to all the walkyverse!
He’s going to start showing up in newspaper comics after conquering the web comic world.
Faz hates Mondays.
And then Neo will have to fight him until they both die to keep the fictional world from collapsing under infinite Faz.
Keep him locked in the BLAGOLE.
I know I’m going to be absolutely alone in what I’m about to say but I think Faz and Dina would make an interesting couple. However that may only be because I’m fond of the cliche romantic circumstance where a boy manages to get a disinterested girl to like him in the end.
Don’t worry, Mr. Rice. I also ship Dina and Faz.
Faz had a very persuasive chart as to why he needs support.
I ship them so hard you don’t even know.
I actually kind of like the idea of Dina warming up to him, but their relationship is nothing but strange and hilarious and is never taken seriously.
Plus he’s stranded here now so he’s already moving in.
BLAINE, NOOOOO!
TAKE HIM WITH YOOOOOOOOU! *Tosses Faz*
I GIVE HIM TO YOU
I am conflicted. Dina needs to make room for more than therapod facts, but not like this. Not. Like. This.
NOT LIKE THIIIS!
But she needs to know where Faz’s muscles WOULD be. He is teaching her human biology, something Dina knows very little about! HE COMPLETES HER.
Faz personally affects everything around him in a negative way. As an effect I suppose nausea counts.
Ruth is a magnificent bastard. Way to tag and bag him, Ruthless.
Jennifer Billingsworth: Noted Alcoholic sounds like a great idea for a spinoff series
That’s basically this comic.
I would donate my house for that spinoff.
On the other Side, I don’t own a house, so I will be more than satisfied with DoA for the moment.
Also, Billie. Your Three D aspects are some of your best features. Just sayin’.
I see two D’s. Where’s the third?
GNIGHT EVERYBODY! *Vaudeville dances offstage*
Drinks, of course.
Dat ass.
Dat’s 3Ds and an A.
I bow to you sir.
*Animaniacs end theme*
Billie is an alien?
So I guess this arc ends with Faz getting left behind at the university. It can only go downhill from there, I’m sure.
By this graph you can see that it will go UPHILL.
Never say that, it almost sounds like an challenge. When we are getting to the minus value’s, people are getting killed by cancer.
The comic will eventually be called Dumbing Cancer Cancer.
The graph represents UPNESS.
Well that was a little anticlimactic…
Despite what seems to be the common consensus, I can’t help but think that this isn’t really over. Just a lull in the activity.
I hate to be Dina here, but it’s “theropods”.
There has been a buildup to this since panel 3.
And by “this” I mean the noted alcoholic joke and by “panel” I mean strip.
THERAPOD FACTS: The Herrerasauridae are an early group represented by Herrerasaurus, which was discovered in a wonderful middle-late Triassic period fossil locality (the famous Ischigualasto Formation) in Argentina in the 1970s. Another herrerasaur is Staurikosaurus, which has been known since the 1960s from remains found in Brazil. More recently (in 1993), another herrerasaur-like fossil was found in the same general area and named Eoraptor, or “dawn thief.” It appears to be closely related to the herrerasaurs, but smaller in size and slightly older. Both Eoraptor and the herrerasaurs seem to have been small to medium-sized carnivores. These curious animals have some basic theropod characteristics, but lack others; in fact, they lack some dinosaurian characteristics as well. The Herrerasauridae and Eoraptor may be the earliest group of theropods, or it is quite possible that they are not even theropods at all, but rather non-dinosaurs (dinosauromorphs) closely related to the ancestor of dinosaurs. The fact is, we don’t know for sure. Experts in dinosaur systematics are currently embroiled in a controversy over the exact relationships of the Herrerasauridae to theropods and other dinosaurs.
(copied from the first link to which Google sent me)
That’s some first class nerdin’ there Neek. Lovin’ it.
MORE LIKE GEEK!
BUUUUUUUUUUURRRRNN!!
He’s not even nerding properly, he just copypasta’d
My taxonomic classification went as follows;
Research and quote the source = nerd.
Knowing it by heart already (like Dina) = geek.
I am willing to admit error though. Am I wrong?
I’ve always thought that “need” referred to someone with an extreme knowledge of and fascination with various real life subjects (dinosaurs, computer technology, advanced mathematics etc.), while “geek” referred to that same knowledge and fascination applied to fictional narratives (Star Trek, Star Wars, Middle Earth etc.)
That’s just my definition, though.
I’ve heard it differentiated like: nerds have no social skills, but geeks have enough social skills to get along swimmingly with other geeks (and/or argue endlessly with other geeks).
I’ve heard that they’re all ridiculous arbitrary labels whose meanings vary by geographic region, or even by social group within a specific region!
O HAY HOW BOUT THAT
This, plus geek is cool, nerd is an insult. After all, it’s geek cred, not nerd cred.
I figure geeks are like the sorcerers to nerds’ wizards.
I always think of geeks as having unembarrased over-the top enthusiams. Buddy from The Incredibles is a geek. Mark Zuckerberg is a nerd.
On the one hand, I applaud Willis for not ending this in a violent manner. On the other hand, I feel kind of cockblocked that it didn’t end in a violent manner. With Blaine becoming a gooey, black tar, weeping mess. I”m so confused.
I also ship Dina and Faz. BECAUSE I HATE THE WORLD!
I’m glad it didn’t end violently, actually. I still hate Blaine and think he deserves to be punished for his abusive actions, but as much as I’d love to see that play out via a physical altercation, I’d hate to see Ruth/Billie/Amber/whomever else get in trouble for assaulting him.
You make a valid point, Totz. That would have been bad.
If only Righteous Beatings were a thing acceptable in courts. Surely, nobody would abuse such a system.
Or hell, a law supporting grievous bodily harm against assholes.
He made the first move on Ruth. And people are generally more okay with a woman hitting a man. I’m not saying that’s good, I just think they’ll be fine.
What did the world ever did to you to do this?
It stole my meatball sub. Well, okay, one person stole my meatball sub.
I figured I’d be fair and hate the world equally. Just in case.
Your meatball sub was delicious! Hahahaahahahahaahahaha
You! My sandwich related honor! We must fight!
…Or we could put the moral of this story to use and get a proper authority figure to mediate. Or we could sword duel.
Who wants to go through the proper authorities and possibly grow as individuals? WE DUEL WITH SWORDS!!!!
Yes they are the best couple!!! High Five!
The most epic of High Fives.
It would have to be in space, on a mountain, doing drugs to be any higher.
I am right there with you…
Hate! Hate! Hate!
I wanted to sarcastically called Blaine “Father of the Year” but then I remembered…it’s Blaine!
Personal effects? No, just a son. Nothing important.
His son if Faz, so of course it’s nothing important.
Oh, oh, look at Billie’s face. Fourth day looks a little shaky.
Dina looks as if she is getting ready to hurl, but I don’t even think that could deter Faz.
Faz knows your bile is just your body preparing for the kissing of Faz. I learned this fact on animal planet.
DOA Faz is the Clark wing mascot!
You know, even if Ruth hadn’t made it so obvious who she meant, Blaine would’ve given himself away by revealing that he knows the sex of the R.A. in question, thus showing that he (most likely) knows exactly who Asma was referring to.
Good thing Blaine’s an idiot!
Yeah, but the blood is still a dead giveaway….unless there’s a lot of violence against parents during that day and the lobby is full of battered and bruised parents.
Exactly.
But I mean, had Ruth used a more general description like “guy with a jacket and glasses,” Asma would still be clued into the fact that Blaine’s the right guy since he knew that the R.A. in question is a “she” and not a “he.”
There is a ton of violence that day. Family weekends are hellish, torturous things that nobody wants to participate in.
You’re joking, but from my own time as an RA, I really can’t remember a single family weekend that didn’t involve some form of medical emergency. Usually several.
Well, it is common on family visit weekend; however the blood is usually from walking in on their kids having sexy times, not violence.
Asma said “Clark Wing”, so it just means that Blaine is familiar enough with the dorm to know which is the ladies’ wing, which is not a stretch for someone with a child in the dorm.
Except that gives away that he’s the parent of someone in that wing, and since it’s an R.A. from that wing that requested a parent be removed… It still makes Blaine at least a very good candidate for being the parent in question.
Nah, his kid doesn’t have to be in that wing for him to know that it’s ladies in that wing. Dr. Rosenthal’s kid is in Beck Wing, for example, but I’d bet ya anything he still knows where to find the girls…
And even if it did, it’d apply to roughly a quarter of the adults milling around here, which doesn’t make a great filter.
The defensive and not-really-a-denial, “How do you know it’s me?” instead of something more like, “Huh? What? Why?” is a better indicator.
No seriousely, I’m feeling Sad that Faz x Dina is not working out so far. I SHIP THEM SOOOOOOOOO HARD.
The only ship Dina wants with Faz is for him to be on the Titanic.
Faz’s love would keep him afloat and the sharks would be too grossed out to eat him.
Faz’s boner would keep him warm.
Wait a minute. I thought Faz’s boner could be used as a flotation device?
Here is a diagram of Faz’s boner being used as a floatation device (image not to scale).
Why did I click on that. Why.
Because you have too much faith in humanity.
And that link was precisely as advertised. Although, your diagram could have used some labels. It kind of just looked like a doodle of a small Korean boy with a massive dong.
I don’t even know if she would understand that.
I do appreciate a work of fiction that acknowledges that there actually are authority figures in the setting, and the main characters don’t have to do anything themselves.
Dammit Ruth…you made Billie sad. 🙁
I don’t think that’s an entirely sad face. A little bit of that face says “WTF, Ruth!”
Dina, ask yourself this, What Would Raptor Jesus Do in this situation.
Eat him, EAT HIM!….or claw his face off.
Eat him, EAT HIM!….AND claw his face off.
There, fixed it for you.
Well, which is it? That sounds like a pretty crucial conjunction.
Has Billie always been that pale? I’m just now noticing how very, very white she is. And this is coming from a pasty-skinned ginger, so that’s really saying something.
I bet that happens a lot to many light-skinned people who avoid the sun for long periods of time.
That and bone density loss (vitamin D helps bones absorb calcium).
So Billie’s not actually drunk, just showing signs of rickets?
Probably not- fair skinned peeps are better at metabolizing dietary vitamin d, which, not being vegan, she would get plenty of.
Am I sensing Billie/Ruth drama? Is my dramadar correct? Oh god please yes.
I don’t thinks so. Asma knows about Billie’s alcoholism. It was prominent on the file Asma was looking at when checking Billie in on the first day. The ‘tude may be wholly her own.
Did you know Faz that if you jumped into an active volcano, you would be pleasingly crisp? 😛
And do you know that people die if they are killed, Faz?
But if you have Dragon Balls, they don’t have to stay dead.
Yeah but I’m not wasting my wish on bringing Faz back.
Use it to bring back Krillin. He’s probably dead.
SENZU BEAN! /flick
Or happily married to hot cyborg….and people think he’s the chew toy.
No, Krillin is the most compotent human (which means he dies more than any alien or monster)
Yamcha is the chew toy.
Faz will be forced to live off of scraps of food.
Also, nice save, Billie.
“WILL DRAW CHARTS FOR FOOD”
He’ll major in economics?
LOL
He will continue to wander the halls of residence… until the end of his days… never finding the exit, never quite managing to score.
NB end of his days being when he dies of starvation in a few weeks. Or maybe of thirst, being barred first from the womens, and then the mens washrooms.
Faz does not eat. He gains power from the women he has conquered.
Now if we can escort that grinning sleazebag out of the building, there will be cheers.
Amen to that bro. May he never get into Dina’s pants.
But may he get into her heart.
Okay, so we’ve gotten rid of Joe. Now what? 😛
I’m hoping we get a scene of Blaine continuing to fume as he walks down the sidewalk away from the building, wondering where his idiot step-son is, and then we get a zoom-out cut of Faz being chucked out a window.
And lands right on top of Blaine…which Dina(or any member of her family) then yells “AND STAY OUT!”
Maybe it’s just the way Dina structures her sentences coupled with her overall adorableness, but I swear every time I read a comic that includes her, she sounds like Hynden Walch’s Starfire in my head.
I am no longer able to avoid hearing this.
Honestly, I hear her more like Tara Strong’s Twilight Sparkle.
…or a cross between Twilight Sparkle and Raven (both voiced by Tara Strong).
Really? I always heard her talking like BMO/ Mabel’s friend from gravity falls.
I always hear Dorothy as Twilight Sparkle … and Dina as Fluttershy obviously
whoooooa far out!! Reading this made me realize– the way I read Dina’s voice is pretty damn close to Starfire’s (just a pitch or two lower).
I -knew- she reminded me of -someone-… o_O
CANNOT UNHEAR
So, Dina is Starfire, Sal is Applejack –we need to cast everyone now.
I’ve been hearing Joyce as Tara Strong and Dorothy as Mae Whitman (Katara), if it counts.
…Am I the only one who takes Blaine’s willingness to leave without complaint as a sign that he fully intends to come back to finish what he started as soon as Asma turns the other way?
Blaine may be stupid, and an abusive ass, but I doubt he’s stupid enough to re-enter the building immediately.
He’ll probably stalk around and wait for Amber to come outside or be near another entrance to make his move.
Dina! Summon Yoshi to swallow him and leave him in an egg.
So Dina is actually Homer Simpson in disguise?
Please go away Faz…. X(
Ah… the attic theory?
“The Great Irritator Challengeri seduces females with its arousing scent and deep familiarity with books on how to seduce females. Here is a chart representing the movement of the Irritator Challengeri’s phallus during mating. As you can see, it moves in a most pleasurable pattern that is guaranteed to maximally stimulate the females’ lady parts. I perceive signs of arousal on your face.”
Dina badly needs a distraction so she can escape.
Dina:”Look! A female who wishes to partake in your greatness”
Faz:*turns around* “Where?”
That is accurate as all females would like to partake in Faz’s greatness.
Yotomoe? Now I know how you feel about Danny, because I feel the same thing about Faz.
Dina is only angry because she’s disturbed by her attraction to Faz’s skinny, useless little T-Rex arms.
+1
I had a realization. Remember yesterday how we all wondered how Billie could’ve forgotten her mission?
Basically, burgeoning bisexual Billie is blameless. Sal, who she finds sexy, sauntered out in a schoolgirl skirt. Our fearless former-cheerleader couldn’t concentrate. Damn distraction.
Hold on, I can fix that with better alliteration:
Basically, busty burgeoning bisexual Billie is blameless. Sadly, she saw sexy Sal saunter out in a schoolgirl skirt. The fair, fearless former cheerleader couldn’t concentrate. Damn distraction.
Despite what Dominic Deegan would have you believe, alliteration is not a substitute for humor.
Correct. It is the only humor.
Nah, it’s not meant to be humorous (and I quit reading Dominic Deegan around the time of that “justifying rape to save someone’s life” debacle, because of said debacle… or really because I was disgusted with the plot points themselves).
I’m just a dork who likes puns and alliteration.
But Sal is the least attractive woman in the comic!
That is subjective, timemonkey. To you, Sal is least attractive but to some people, Sal is attractive. Maybe it’s the tough biker look or the southern drawl or it could be the school girl look.
Not to Billie, she’s not.
Remember when Ms. Billingsworth hit on Sal whilst drunk?
You’ve *got* to be kidding!
Draw your sword and say that again!
She’s not the least attractive but still pales in comparison to the adorableness that is Sierra.
Nuh-uh!
Poor Faz (says the guy who doesn ‘t know the other continuities).
Also, yes, more Asma!
I’m desk worker and I can say that in this sort of situation, we would call security anyhow. I don’t think we’d ever be expected to deal with a potentially violent situation on our own – furthermore, leave the desk unattended. At very least, the RD would do it.
I’ve always had the impression that (despite us only really seeing her behind the desk) Asma is in more of an RD role.
and he forgets his son…well, so much for this guy having any kind of redeemable qualities
Not forgotten, infiltrated.
OH MY GOD, THIS IS ALL PART OF BLAINE’S NEFARIOUS PLOT TO UNDERMINE INDIANA UNIVERSITY.
Da…Da…Daaaaa!
I love Dina’s line there. I’ll need to use it next time I want someone to stop talking.
I dunno, given the right conditions Dina and Faz look kidos shipable.
The Dina + Faz pairing is growing on me. Part of me feels sorry for Faz, another part feels sorry for Dina for being the object of Faz’s current attentions. And yet… they’re two people who don’t know really how to interact with people that well.
Now I have this image of Amber returning to her dorm room and closing the door … only to find Dina and Faz biting each others’ arms and neck; Dina’s trying to kill him raptor-style, and Faz thinks she wants sex with him so he’s reciprocating. Which one Amber thinks is entirely dependent on the humor of the situation.
“Please stop talking. Each new thing you say makes me want to pick my teeth with your femurs.”
–that’s what you meant to say, right Dina?
I actually support Faz/Dinah.
Dina doesn’t.
Not to make any excuses for Blaine or anything, but I’d probably “forget” Faz as well.
What?! Blaine got to just walk out with a scrap of dignity before he had his ass handed to him? DAMN YOU WILLIS!!
“How do you know she was talking about me?” So even when trying to wriggle out of a situation, Blaine’s ego can’t keep from injecting ‘me’ into the conversation. In fact, part of me wonders if he’s secretly pleased with being the ‘big bad’ who has to be shown off campus.
Faz is just annoying, while Blaine is EVIL.