This is going to end with someone asking and Dina just taking her hat off after Becky pulls a whole bunch of wacky shenanigans to try and get her to, isn’t it?
I dunno. Given how Becky and Dina have modeled such excellent consent practices so far, I would genuinely be interested with a storyline of Becky working through the baggage of asking for something her brain sees as sexual and asking Dina and then respecting the answer that she gives one way or another.
I wonder if this was deliberately planned, or if it’s merely a delightful coincidence that this storyline is running at the same time as that GWS chaser arc.
Well, David Willis has a comic buffer of three months or something, but GWS is on reruns with fixed schedule. He could have all of the comics printed out and labelled with dates.
Panel 3 is shocked and terrified.
Panel 4 is still terrified and struggling towards acceptance.
Panel 5 is “great, what the hell do I do with this acceptance I was working so hard to scrape together?” It’s the best.
The laugh because of Joyce’s reactions and the confusion because she did take her hat off at least once that we know of (when she was wearing her Triceratop).
Also, Dina’s lose hair in panel one looks like she’s on a business call XD
Still didn’t really see Dina “bare”, though. Dina kept the hood pulled forward all the time, even while kissing. And since she’s also very short, the top of her head was, for all practical purpouses, hidden.
Depends as to what you quantify ‘clothed’ as, for it can vary from person to person. ‘Fully Unclothed’ it a little less subjective, for to which non cloth based items, like jewelry, may count or not, also depending on one’s view.
What’s really sweet is how Joyce was totally steeling herself for Becky telling her she wants to do premarital hanky-panky to Dina, because she doesn’t want to appear judgemental about it this time, if that’s what they decide they want.
I know. It shows how much Joyce has grown in such a short time. It flusters her, but she’s all prepared to not freak out about it in front of Becky and she seems somewhat disappointed at the end like, bu-but I tried so hard not to freak out but I don’t at all see how that could be considered sexual.
Overall joke may be a bit obvious in some way. You know, the whole “talking about as if something dirty is going down… but it’s all innocent”.
BUT, let’s give credit where credit is due here. Up until this point, DamnYouWillis has by and large managed to steer us away from asking “Does Dina ever go anywhere without hats?” How does she look like hat/hoodieless?” and so on. I mean, there’s probably been a stray comment here and there, but it’s not like it’s a comment field meme or anything. In most other comics, it would be. In this, the characters of the persons are so strong, he manages to distract us from these kind of things.
Not a chicken. Chickens are not extinct, so therefore, she cannot study them without them changing before her very eyes. Looking at their bones is not like looking into an unchanging time capsule. That was, after all, one of the main reasons she is studying dinosaurs to begin with.
If she is ever going “modern”, it will most likely be a dodo or a passenger pigeon.
I think what’s interesting with the joke is the little inversion in it. It’s all innocent… to us.
But to Becky who’s been raised in an intensely anti-sex culture, denied the internet or most depictions/explanations of sex, and denied a lot of space to even think about what is sexual to her, this is super sexual.
Like, it’s not to Joyce or to the audience. It might not even be so for Dina, but Becky is definitely feeling her libido burst at the thought and so for her, this is as serious a conversation as if she was asking for some space so she could fuck Dina.
So, in light of recent events, and also of Dina looking so goshdamn adorable in the last two panels, I think we all deserve a little thing called “Dina is the Best” linkgasm, showing strips where Dina is the best (apologies to DamnYouWillis for having to approve this. And I promise, no links to MRA sites or other horrible places on the internet):
We got a whole chapter just walking with Dina! Strictly speaking, you don’t need links from the rest of this chapter since you’re just gonna binge-read it now… But I’ll give some to you anyway. I’m nice, right?
Nahh, there are quite a lot of strips where she’s just barely in the background. If Dina’s not to be talking, at least she should be prominently in the foreground, like in today’s strip.
She only learns later that she’s been seeing the “top” of Dina’s head all along and has been confusing her with the human host she has been attached to low these many years.
Nah. I don’t expect her to just ask. I expect there to be a long drawn out thing. But it’ll all fail, and then, at the last moment, she’ll ask.
Alternatively, Becky never gets around to asking, and something tragic happens, and the joy at seeing her hatless is overshadowed by the sadness and/or anger about the bad thing that just happened.
Of course, for those of us who read “It’s Walky”, the moment that we first see Dina hatless there was a certainly an unforgettable moment. One could even say “heartwarming” though that doesn’t go far enough.
I’d say more, but anything further would be too damned spoilery.
This isn’t the first time that I’ve got a strong impression that Becky is by far the more innocent of these two. Something tells me that, for all her naivete, Joyce is a far more sexual of the two of them and, possibly, thinks more in sexual terms.
Meanwhile, what is Becky possibly talking about? Several ideas occur to me but, ultimately, it all comes down to getting Dina out of her hat.
Makes sense. The dirty thoughts about boys that Joyce had were something that was conditionally forbidden. She wasn’t supposed to feel that way now but she would be permitted to feel that way someday. Only about her husband, of course.
The dirty thoughts about girls that Becky had were absolutely totally forbidden ever under any circumstances. So Becky had to bury her sexuality under a lot thicker layer of denial than Joyce did.
This is really adorable. Becky makes sure to tell Joyce when she needs some “us time” with Dina – very tactfully to avoid hurt feelings. Joyce makes sure to let her know that is fine…
…and even when Becky sails off to wacky-land she makes sure Joyce is there for her for support and to be her wingman. This is a Big Step for Becky. Good thing Joyce has her back.
I also love how Dina is perfectly fine with standing to be ogled while Becky and Joyce whisper in the corner.
It also looks like Becky totally recognized / remembered how Dina had felt a little insecure while she was gone and wants to make sure she knows she’s important, and that her interest in spending time with her isn’t dependent on Joyce not being available.
And of course Dina is always content to wait quietly and think about dinosaurs
That’s because “OMG” is short for “Oh my God”, which is taking the Lord’s name in vain, and so Becky and Joyce were trained in the substitute “OGM” for “Oh goodness me”.
Howard has no excuse other than that he was copying Becky.
There’s that old song “You Can Leave Your Hat On.” If Dina is that attached to her hat, but not her other clothing I think it could work out for the two of them.
Obviously, Dina wears hats to cover up the horrible scar she got in a traumatic incident involving another member of the cast, though neither of them recognizes the other.
Panel 2: I love this panel for how it shows their friendship. Becky takes care to be very tactful in her request for taking some time off for some alone time with Dina and Joyce is super understanding and supportive. It really shows you how strong this friendship is and has been for a long time and how much they genuinely care about each other’s feelings.
Also, I’m loving Becky’s teal jersey. Sporty lesbian is a good aesthetic for her.
Panel 3: Aww, this is so critical of a panel, because in the past Joyce would have gone all freak out panel over this. The idea of her friend, of anyone being potentially engaging in the pre-marital hanky panky would have thrown her into shock.
But instead, she’s holding on. It still flusters her, but she only gets wide-eyed at the idea and more or less holds her composure and remains overall supportive. And this shows how much she’s grown, especially in accepting Becky and Dina’s relationship as not out of the norm.
But it also shows that she’s losing more and more of a connection to the regressive anti-sex teachings of her church. Like, her church genuinely painfully let her down this weekend. Showed her its worst face and left her abandoned and treated like the true sinner. And it’s making all the proclamations she was carefully raised with seem somewhat less important.
Before if she let go of the premarital hanky-panky rule, she’d feel she’d lose everything, all original sin, all she was taught. But now? She’s not viewing it as big of a deal.
She’s “slipping away from God” to use the Fundie vernacular. And she’ll be a happier person because of it.
Also, I’m 100% betting that Becky’s one of those irish-blood types that blush all the way down their neck when they are turned on/embarrassed.
Panel 4: Oh my, Joyce isn’t even wide-eyed at this point. Like, she’s a little uncomfortable, but nowhere near where she’s ever been before. She’s grown so fucking much.
Panel 5: And she’s even disappointed in Becky a little here, like, what, I don’t consider that sexual, go on and view each other’s heads in peace, young lesbian, but that’s because her mind was racing to what is more traditionally considered sexual.
But what I find interesting is Becky’s face. This isn’t Becky just getting a rise out of Joyce. She 100% finds the idea of dehatting Dina to be intimate and sexual and well… she’s not wrong. Like, Dina has never shown her head. She sleeps with the hat, she showers with the hat, it is a part of her and her identity.
Asking to see under it would be an intimacy. One Becky would have to request and accept a no graciously for and would show a large amount of trust and closeness similar to what is true for the removal of clothes and seeing someone naked.
As it’s part of her armor, it’s removal is a vulnerability and vulnerabilities shown with trust and love can be amazingly powerful. And the more uncommon that vulnerability is, the more powerful it is when you’re entrusted with it.
Some of my more profound intimate moments with partners have been similar events, where something less sexual, but more rare and vulnerable like this was shown and that was incredibly moving to be trusted in that way.
And given how amazing Becky has been with boundaries with Dina, I’m genuinely looking forward to her awkwardly trying to bring up the subject with a lot of nervousness and politely posing the question rather than her trying to just snatch the hat off GWS style.
Because to Becky, this is a sexual request and it wouldn’t be the same if it was forcibly taken rather than freely given for what I would hope would be fairly obvious reasons to everyone.
I’m curious if Joyce’s… “okayness” with pre-marital hanky-panky actually extends to heterosexual relations, or only to homosexual ones, as the latter is so far outside Joyce’s previously established rules that she’s having to build up how she feels about it from scratch (plus the fact that it is her best friend/sister), while she hasn’t actually been thrown outside her comfort zone of views on heterosexual sex, at least until someone actually calls her on her potential hypocracy.
She already knows that she has lost Dorothy and Walky to the Cragged Shame Pits of the Lust Wolves, but she doesn’t seem to be spending must energy worrying about it lately. Is that because she has too much else on her mind, because she has decided pre-marital hanky-panky is not that bad a sin, or because she is resigned to the fact that there is nothing she can do to stop them?
She was very happy about Billie’s secret “boyfriend” and didn’t seem to be worried that Billie was out all night with “him”.
I really am proud of Joyce. She is there for Becky, even in the face of Hanky Panky.
I also love how you noted that this IS an act of intimacy for Dina, and how Becky treats it as such. Silly as it is, this is Becky and Dina doing what they have been doing from day one – feeling their way forward in their relationship on THEIR terms, not anyone else’s.
Becky has few preconceptions of what a queer relationship looks like because she was never even told it was possible much less what it entailed. And Dina has few preconceptions because she is either some flavor of ace or has had ace-like growing up experiences of not fully comprehending most human sexuality.
As such, they’re building something together that’s wholly its own and not sweating whether or not it seems “weird” from the outside.
Velociraptors are the turkey-sized ones despite the Jurassic Park films’ insistence otherwise. Utahraptors are more like the size of what Jurassic Park calls velociraptors.
And you look away, then you look back. Now Tan is on a shark, with a fricking laser beam on it’s head. Then Terry Crews appears and does some awesome stuff.
and finally a jaunty tune plays in the background.
You’re back! Please don’t leave. It was hard not being able to read your well thought critiques. I’d throw money at you, if I had some to spare. And, well, debase you as a person, too.
No, Becky. You would need a bomb powerful enough to blow up the whole campus, and then create a situation where Dina has to choose between being exploded alone or being exploded along with the campus, AND YOU DON’T WANNA DO THAT!
I’m wondering if the Slipshine will pixelate the top of Dina’s head. 🙂
In all seriousness, how long have these two been coupleing in story-time? It seems like it’s only been a couple weeks. I couldn’t even get my wife to kiss me until we’d been dating six weeks. Fiction-people always seem to move so fast.
Just over a week, I think. The party was Saturday, they formally got together the next day. Monday was the happy fun gun time on campus incident. This is the following Monday.
College relationships tend to vary – some of mine took weeks to get even to kissing – much like yours. Others we sort of fell into bed and decided we were dating afterwards. 🙂
5the truth is Dina was a rejected member of the dino squad she was let go because she could never get the transformation right probably because the dino forms in that show were so scientifically inaccurate and that is actually raptor flesh
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“But Becky, I can see it from here!”
“NOT HER T. REX HEAD HER HUMAN HEAD”
“…YOU GO TOO FAR“
T-Rex?
Watch it!
+1
Me am play gods!
This is going to end with someone asking and Dina just taking her hat off after Becky pulls a whole bunch of wacky shenanigans to try and get her to, isn’t it?
Yeah, I’m seeing shenanigans in the future, and something silly at the end.
oh thank god! Man do we need some!
<a href="http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/dontcare/"nope
what the heck
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/dontcare/
I am willing to bet that Mike will be the one to ask her.
Meanwhile, over at the GWS Chaser…
“Coincidence,” you say?! I DON’T THINK SO.
(…yeah, I think so).
I dunno. Given how Becky and Dina have modeled such excellent consent practices so far, I would genuinely be interested with a storyline of Becky working through the baggage of asking for something her brain sees as sexual and asking Dina and then respecting the answer that she gives one way or another.
What ‘Base’ is taking someone’s hat off and seeing the top of their head?
Shortstop.
I Don’t Give a Darn.
Naturally.
Alright, so we give the hat to Shortstop…
Hitting the ball
Well HELLO new webcomic series. Thanks Ana Chronistic ^-^
“New” is a relative term…
Enjoy the quarterly at best updates!
Wow. That one was quite brilliant. DAMN YOU…. Ana… Chronistic… What… I’mma hafta read that now -_-
I still think there’s a plexiglass dome under that hat, with a tiny velociraptor operating the controls.
It created Dina so he could open doors! (What, velociraptors can’t open doors, Jurassic Park lied about that.)
Being they are the size of a chicken, they can use the doggy door!
Turkey, not chicken.
Are they good roasted? With sweetpotatoes & cranberry sauce?
Signs point to yes.
Well, maybe skip the cranberries.
That’s why it’s a tiny velociraptor!
Don’t judge it by its size!
Id like to imagine she’s like one of the Androids from Dragonball Z and it’s her brain in the dome.
Actually, it’s beetles. A horde of flesh-eating beetles.
Don’t do it, Becky. DON’T UNLEASH THE BEETLES.
Microraptor?
Can’t be, there isn’t a large screw sticking out of the back of her head.
shoot for the stars.
That’s so adorable, its like mormons fantasizing about that next inch of ankle above the hemline
Or moving during premarital sex.
*gasp*
That’s shortstop.
Wat
I keep reading joice as toys in tags….kinky
I thought the hat was the top of her head?
Maybe she actually got her hair sty;ed and dyed to LOOK like a hat.
No, she uses it to conceal the triceratops head she has underneath, I’ve also heard it’s terrific at overshadowing sexual identities.
Whoa! Girls With Slingshots rerun synchronicity!!
holy shit
I doubt this story will end like that one, but it’s amusing to think about.
Unfortunately that storyline will be over in a week or two, while this one probably won’t be done until December.
While it would be rare for her age and sex, it’s not impossible.
It would just suggest that her hat is not the only thing she’s wearing.
(Trying my hardest not to spoil the obvious in GWS, since no one else has.)
I wonder if this was deliberately planned, or if it’s merely a delightful coincidence that this storyline is running at the same time as that GWS chaser arc.
I am not suggesting Dina has male pattern baldness or Trichotillomania, but anything is possible.
Well, David Willis has a comic buffer of three months or something, but GWS is on reruns with fixed schedule. He could have all of the comics printed out and labelled with dates.
Cool avatar, dude!
Aw, you beat me to it!
will becky still love dina once she finds out dina is bald?
whoa nelly save it for slipshine
what hat
“What hump?”
What duck?
What what!
in the butt!
all we need now is half a man, bugrit ron and a talking dog!
The what, the what and the what?
Pratchett references.
Ah. So do I qualify for two of them?
Oh good, I thought someone made a really obscure Pinky and the Brain reference, and I just wasn’t getting it.
That one! The one right on top of your head!
Don’t you mean: “Nize hat”?
Reminding me of Double D from EEnE
For the longest time I thought the hat was their hair, and that they were a girl.
Rule 63?
I love the Joyce faces in this strip
Happy
Disappointed/Accepting
Vaguely Terrified?
Somewhat… neutral I guess
GADAMMIT BECKY
And Dina does a jump scare where she’s suddenly right there near your face trying to look all cute and innocent before she bites off your face O_O
Trying?
Panel 3 is shocked and terrified.
Panel 4 is still terrified and struggling towards acceptance.
Panel 5 is “great, what the hell do I do with this acceptance I was working so hard to scrape together?” It’s the best.
She is keeping her eggs toasty warm in there.
You didn’t really think she was human, did you? After all the hints she dropped?
“That’s offensive!”
L-lewd
*Dina raises her hat an inch*
*Becky swoons, faints*
I laughed and then I got confused O_O
The laugh because of Joyce’s reactions and the confusion because she did take her hat off at least once that we know of (when she was wearing her Triceratop).
Also, Dina’s lose hair in panel one looks like she’s on a business call XD
Still didn’t really see Dina “bare”, though. Dina kept the hood pulled forward all the time, even while kissing. And since she’s also very short, the top of her head was, for all practical purpouses, hidden.
No point. It’s raptors— all the way down.
It’s not that far – Dina’s only three raptors tall.
[Insert Sexist Legs Joke Here]
A dame walked in, or maybe she was already here, just behind the door. She had raptors that went all the way to the floor.
-My best attempt at #JocelyneNoir parody.
Not bad.
Dina’s a kappa?
Kappa-saurus! Next Japanese monster movie idea right here!
Bagge is now thinking about Becky smooching a hatless Dina.
Because Bagge is really, really, really kinky that way.
mayyybee… 🙂
Or is it perhaps a Dina without her other clothes, but still her hat on?
Yes! Yes! Yes!
https://youtu.be/Xt8VLdlhMvs
Would a clotheless, but still wearing a hat Dina be considered naked or actually fully clothed though? That is the question of the ages.
Depends as to what you quantify ‘clothed’ as, for it can vary from person to person. ‘Fully Unclothed’ it a little less subjective, for to which non cloth based items, like jewelry, may count or not, also depending on one’s view.
LLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWD.
More likely thinking about smooching Dina’s hat.
It’s not a smooching Becky is enjoying when she can look at the top of Dina’s head.
the hate must never come off
Except when she is wearing her Triceratop 😉
Well, that’s an unfortunate typo…
Unless we’re talking about Mary, I think.
That hat will hijack Dina’s body in order to protect itself. No one touches the hat.
The hat is actually a headcrab in disguise.
Ah Becky, you know you only worded it like that to give Joyce a heart attack!
Why would you think Becky would do that to Joyce?
Oh, right…
Personally this was one of my favorite moments ever, but I suppose a page with Dina is slightly more relevant.
That hair though, just seems unnatural.
What’s really sweet is how Joyce was totally steeling herself for Becky telling her she wants to do premarital hanky-panky to Dina, because she doesn’t want to appear judgemental about it this time, if that’s what they decide they want.
I know. It shows how much Joyce has grown in such a short time. It flusters her, but she’s all prepared to not freak out about it in front of Becky and she seems somewhat disappointed at the end like, bu-but I tried so hard not to freak out but I don’t at all see how that could be considered sexual.
Where does Dina keep the egg-shaped chamber with the robot claw that applies her hat? I’ve never seen it in the background.
Now I am flashing back to that episode of Love, American Style about the woman who would do anything. Except take off her gloves.
Ironically enough, that is the only episode of that show that I remember.
Anyway, my own reactions.
Overall joke may be a bit obvious in some way. You know, the whole “talking about as if something dirty is going down… but it’s all innocent”.
BUT, let’s give credit where credit is due here. Up until this point, DamnYouWillis has by and large managed to steer us away from asking “Does Dina ever go anywhere without hats?” How does she look like hat/hoodieless?” and so on. I mean, there’s probably been a stray comment here and there, but it’s not like it’s a comment field meme or anything. In most other comics, it would be. In this, the characters of the persons are so strong, he manages to distract us from these kind of things.
Also, Dina is super-adorable.
SUPER-ADORABLE!
As an emperor, I assume you know something about fancy headgear. Please elucidate: as her character evolves, will she end up wearing a chicken hat?
Not a chicken. Chickens are not extinct, so therefore, she cannot study them without them changing before her very eyes. Looking at their bones is not like looking into an unchanging time capsule. That was, after all, one of the main reasons she is studying dinosaurs to begin with.
If she is ever going “modern”, it will most likely be a dodo or a passenger pigeon.
I think what’s interesting with the joke is the little inversion in it. It’s all innocent… to us.
But to Becky who’s been raised in an intensely anti-sex culture, denied the internet or most depictions/explanations of sex, and denied a lot of space to even think about what is sexual to her, this is super sexual.
Like, it’s not to Joyce or to the audience. It might not even be so for Dina, but Becky is definitely feeling her libido burst at the thought and so for her, this is as serious a conversation as if she was asking for some space so she could fuck Dina.
Wait, it’s not?
But what if Dina IS the hat?
Will she die if removed from her host?
It’s a hat, not a PAK.
So, in light of recent events, and also of Dina looking so goshdamn adorable in the last two panels, I think we all deserve a little thing called “Dina is the Best” linkgasm, showing strips where Dina is the best (apologies to DamnYouWillis for having to approve this. And I promise, no links to MRA sites or other horrible places on the internet):
In which we learn that Dina is probably descended from the Discworld bogeymen.
In which Dina proves that she knows about polite human interaction.
Dina agrees that stuffy English TAs should be eaten by dinosaurs.
Dina is very concerned for Amber’s late night activities!
Dina shows a sensible attitude towards swimming in lakes
Dina is an expert in any sport she attempts.
Dina knows what makes for proper conversation.
Dina wishes to study humans… As long as we’re extinct.
Dina is very much like a T-Rex, in that she can only see movement.
Dina always chooses the best solution in any situation.
I mainly put this link in for the benefit of the posters “butts” and “butting”. And also Slartibastfeast Butt-on
Dina can play two instruments. That’s at least one more instrument than you can. Yes, you. I’m looking at you. No, not you, I know you can play four, you overachiever. But you, you know nothing!
Dina is an expert at bonding with other people.
Dina is a master of the ninja sass. Joyce never saw it coming!
Dina loves doing what we all dream of doing. And she’s great with tools too!
Dina is always ready to improve herself!
Nobody can make friends as easily as Dina can.
Dina is the hero we all need, but don’t deserve!
Dina is the best at showing sympathy!!!
If you are going to play games with Dina, prepare to be outplayed!
Dina is always prepared to have a good laugh.
Dina is incapable of doing anything wrong, therefore this strip is not canon, and I demand that DamnYouWillis deletes it forever!
Faces here, and faces there! Faces, faces, everywhere! Thankfully, Dina is there to stop them!
The beginning of the best relationship ever! (Yeah, no funny comment about this. It’s just too sweet.)
Underestimate Dina at your own peril. You have been warned.
We got a whole chapter just walking with Dina! Strictly speaking, you don’t need links from the rest of this chapter since you’re just gonna binge-read it now… But I’ll give some to you anyway. I’m nice, right?
As Dina grows in college, her communication skills vastly improves.
Dina knows: With great stealth skills comes great costume responsibility.
Dina is the best guardian angel anyone could hope for.
I wish I had a Dina to be there for me when I’m feeling down…
Again, no silly comment. Just enjoy.
APPROPRIATE LIES ARE APPROPRIATE!
Dina knows that for a team to succeed, you must play to each team member’s strength.
If everyone could talk about dinosaurs all the time, none of us would wear out Dina’s social interaction batteries. STOP TALKING ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE!
Dina knows how to dress sexy. Be like Dina, be hot!
Dina, the answer to ALL lesbian prayers!
Who is the most adorable smooching couple in the whole wide world? Is it Dina and Becky? Yes, yes it is!
If you’re not willing to attack a man three times your size to defend your partner, you don’t deserve them!
Same as last comment.
Dina knows how to show respect to appropriate authority figures.
Forget the “paleo diet”, Dina follows the true paleontological diet!
Dina is a giver. She gives and gives, until her capacity for giving is exhausted.
Dina doesn’t do normal snark or sass. Dina does “snark” in the form of genuine truth bombs.
Dina knows that good communication is the foundation for a healthy relationship!
The following text message: “Becky, my mouth approaches your mouth at approximately 5 centimeters meters per second, with the lips making a shape so as to maximise the area that makes it qualify as kissing when meeting yours.” (Bagge, what is Becky’s response to this?)
Let’s face it, there cannot be a “Dina is the best” list without her patented Cute and Not at All Creepy Smile™, can there?
If they ever remake “Bodyguard”, then Dina should play the bodyguard. A gazillion times better than Kevin Costner!
Beware the super-cute attack of the three atrociraptors that are hiding in human clothes and wearing a human mask and calling themselves “Dina”!
EPIC PIPEBOMB OF TRUTH DELIVERED.
I love it when people tell me it’s my fault. I usually say “Thank you!” I just love Dina here, totally owning the “fault” of delivering enough Epic Pipeboms of Truth to Sarah that eventually some of them got through!
What in the hell am I even seeing here….?
Links to all the best Dina strips!
Just use the Dina tag?
Nahh, there are quite a lot of strips where she’s just barely in the background. If Dina’s not to be talking, at least she should be prominently in the foreground, like in today’s strip.
You forgot the absolute best Dina strip ever.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/kidnapped/
I like how your avatar is looking -very- disapprovingly of me.
I’m also impressed how quickly you found out I did not include that strip.
Honestly, it’s my absolute favorite DoA strip ever. Doesn’t hurt that it resulted in my most popular comment.
That was a very good comment indeed.
It’s a really good comment.
“Well, it’s alright.”
Just a note, bull sharks can swim hundreds of miles upstream and have been known to attack people in fresh water.
I find that unlikely, if only because sharks are less likely to bite someone than a dog would.
Sharks in general, yes, but bull sharks are noted assholes. See, e.g., http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/discover/species-profiles/carcharhinus-leucas
(Okay, “assholes” is anthropomorphizing a little. A lot. Wev.)
T. Rex had excellent, better-than-eagles-grade eyesight, actually.
1st Sign of the DoA Apocalypse: Dina with no hat
2nd Sign: Sierra wearing shoes
3rd Sign: Joe turning down a hot babe
4-7: ???
4. Sal permanently stops weakening gloves.
5. A therapist appears in strip… and actually effects lasting positive changes!
6. Mike doesn’t act like an asshole.
7. Joyce says “Fuck”.
Nahh, we’re going to see Mike not acting like an asshole as soon as DYW makes the “Mike gets drunk” story.
8 – Mary is caring and helpful,
9. Profit?
*gasp*
Ooh, kinky!
Today in DoA: Girls with Slingshots!
“What, you thought I meant her vulva? Pssh. I’ve seen so much of that it looks like air.”
She only learns later that she’s been seeing the “top” of Dina’s head all along and has been confusing her with the human host she has been attached to low these many years.
*applause and approving nods*
Oh, and obvious hacked muzak for this strip.
Odd, tho, that KB (or her body double) is sans chapeau (pardon my French, svp), in that scene
Meanwhile, Dina’s thinking, “Maybe today I’ll get to see Becky’s right ear!”
And taste it? What would that do to Becky?
Something akin to this?
http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=958
😀
That makes me very happy… giddy and happy!
Joyce is best wingman
Standing still and looking embarrassed and confused are the two major qualities of a wingman.
I thought they were supposed to pilot fighter jets with you and say catchy one-liners?
Well, since Joyce dreams of being a fighter pilot…
And now I’m craving mac & cheese.
I wonder how strongly Joyce would disapprove of adding tuna.
Kinky!
So long as no one tries to Goose her…
This is both so cute and deeply embarrassing at the same time.
I just love the look of Joyce in the last two panels.
Panel four: Y-you’re going to do WHAT?!?!?!
Panel five: You going to do -what- now?!?
The world needs to know.
So…. Becky’s goal for today is to get head?
(sorry, but SOMEONE was going to say it, and I couldn’t take the suspense of who it would be)
A respectable goal, imo. So long as it isn’t force, obviously.
Not exactly a hard one to do. “Hey, Dina. Can I borrow your hat for a minute?”
She let Ethan wear it, when she was in the full suit.
Unfortunately for Becky, this is not Leftover Soup, and Becky is not Ellen.
Nah. I don’t expect her to just ask. I expect there to be a long drawn out thing. But it’ll all fail, and then, at the last moment, she’ll ask.
Alternatively, Becky never gets around to asking, and something tragic happens, and the joy at seeing her hatless is overshadowed by the sadness and/or anger about the bad thing that just happened.
Becky’s looking to get some head
*shakes fist* Reltzik!!
Now say: “I’ll get you next time, Reltzik! Next time!”
Oh, and remember to keep your face out of the shot.
As you rocket away.
Does this count as a head-job?
Next Slipshine?
Didn’t think I could like Becky more
Well at least this time Joyce’s face didn’t freeze in that position for more than the one panel. She is growing up 🙂
You go Becky. Love her and Dina together.
After all Becky’s been through, she deserves some low-stakes hijinks.
God YES! She wastes no time to be the wacky!Becky she wants to be. I bet you anything she has an elaborate plan in mind.
So she’s been talking to Carla then, I take it.
Ok, Dina can keep her hat on. Becky just needs to pierce a hole in the hat. Simple as that, like busting a hymen.
Sounds more like trepanning.
“That would have worked if you hadn’t stopped me.”
Speaking of busting… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ikXim4wevc
Hymens do not work that way.
Perhaps I’ll just leave this here.
Guys, we’re missing the obvious answer. Underneath the hat is…
Another hat!
WIIG-II!
Dina-Kabuto au.
Of course, for those of us who read “It’s Walky”, the moment that we first see Dina hatless there was a certainly an unforgettable moment. One could even say “heartwarming” though that doesn’t go far enough.
I’d say more, but anything further would be too damned spoilery.
RUB MY TUMMY WITH IT
YES
L-lewd…
DEAD.
I see Dina’s smile and I say to myself yep, they’ve been smooching it up.
This isn’t the first time that I’ve got a strong impression that Becky is by far the more innocent of these two. Something tells me that, for all her naivete, Joyce is a far more sexual of the two of them and, possibly, thinks more in sexual terms.
Meanwhile, what is Becky possibly talking about? Several ideas occur to me but, ultimately, it all comes down to getting Dina out of her hat.
Makes sense. The dirty thoughts about boys that Joyce had were something that was conditionally forbidden. She wasn’t supposed to feel that way now but she would be permitted to feel that way someday. Only about her husband, of course.
The dirty thoughts about girls that Becky had were absolutely totally forbidden ever under any circumstances. So Becky had to bury her sexuality under a lot thicker layer of denial than Joyce did.
Becky: Don’t you ever take off that stupid hat?
Dina: I take off my hat for one thing, one thing only.
Becky: Oh…
Becky: Take your hat off… I mean if you want to…
Dina: I want to.
(Couldn’t find the video clip.)
This is really adorable. Becky makes sure to tell Joyce when she needs some “us time” with Dina – very tactfully to avoid hurt feelings. Joyce makes sure to let her know that is fine…
…and even when Becky sails off to wacky-land she makes sure Joyce is there for her for support and to be her wingman. This is a Big Step for Becky. Good thing Joyce has her back.
I also love how Dina is perfectly fine with standing to be ogled while Becky and Joyce whisper in the corner.
It also looks like Becky totally recognized / remembered how Dina had felt a little insecure while she was gone and wants to make sure she knows she’s important, and that her interest in spending time with her isn’t dependent on Joyce not being available.
And of course Dina is always content to wait quietly and think about dinosaurs
I know! It’s such a good illustration of their friendship and shows how much they consider the other’s feelings in their actions.
Th…that mouseover text…
That wound finally scarred over, Willis, please don’t scratch me.
Don’t scratch me
No more.
Worst Slipshine ever!
You misspelled “Best” there.
L-lewd…
Dammit Becky you nearly broke Joyce. Again. She’s fragile Becky.
Like a window.
It’s Joyce’s expression in panel 5 that really gets me chuckling. She seems to be saying: “You got me all worked up for that?”
I mean, really?
Good luck with that, Becky.
OMG. I love the fact that Joyce’s eyebrows completely left her head in panel 3.
Houston, geosynchronous orbit has been achieved.
American sex ed has not done Becky any favors either.
Becky: “I gonna see her WITHOUT HAT!”
Howard: “But what if you get LESBIAN PREGNANT.”
Becky: “OGM!!”
Howard: “OGM!!”
…that would have been funnier if I had actually remembered the correct spelling of OMG.
Three letters. Three. I still messed up.
You’ve been too busy thinking about beautiful ladies doing beautiful things with other beautiful ladies to be able to focus on spelling.
I’m pretty sure we can all understand that.
ADORABLE ladies. A huge overlap, but an important distinction 🙂
And in the case of Becky and Dina: ADORKABLE!
You know, just to be as precise as can possibly be.
If you ever want a giggle – say out loud scrambled acronyms when you typo them. “What fuck the? Oh god my!”
That’s because “OMG” is short for “Oh my God”, which is taking the Lord’s name in vain, and so Becky and Joyce were trained in the substitute “OGM” for “Oh goodness me”.
Howard has no excuse other than that he was copying Becky.
HEADCANON
Eh, I’ll buy it.
I just thought it was short “oh goodness me”. Or somethinf to avoid using god’s name in vain.
If you think that’s bad, just think about the fact that she hasn’t even had American Sex Ed. She’s 100% going into this blind.
That’s okay.
She has internet access via Dina’s phone. She can do research.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
She could go blind?
Nonsens. Her youth pastor has told her all sort of things.
That cheesy fellow? He probably doesn’t know a vagina from the state of Vermont.
Oh gay mod!
Careful Becky, she can get a hell of a grip on her hats if the Walkyverse is any indication.
It’s another mouth. With too many teeth.
Say goodbye to your hands Becky.
Is she a Skullgirl?
Oh, and unless I forget: Dooooooooooooofus. 🙂
Willis tricked me so hardcore, until the last panel I though Becky was talking about having sex with Dina. Then I laughed my ass off.
Joyce seems almost disappointed
Damn it all, I’m trying to not be all bigoted here, and you’re just ruining it!
I was thinking more along the lines of “Dang it, Becky! How can I live vicariously through you if your plan doesn’t even involve smooching?!”
Old Christian Values™ tend to pop up, though it’s been 10-20 years since I left them behind.
Next Slipshine moment, Becky has a go at Dina without the hat!
Eh, it’s too risky.
As adorable as Becky is being here, I can’t help but think her real goal for today should be emergency housing arrangements.
… which might be what she’s actually up to underneath her wackiness.
She will live in the hat?
Will Joyce end up walking to class alone and run into scarface?
There’s that old song “You Can Leave Your Hat On.” If Dina is that attached to her hat, but not her other clothing I think it could work out for the two of them.
Heh, nice Squid Girl reference.
There’s a shoe winding back right now. It’s too happy, that’s how I know.
As Becky can’t literally fuck with Joyce, she settled for figuratively fucking with Joyce.
Seemingly a national pastime.
I have Olivia Newton-John’s “Let’s get physical” in my head.
Dina’s hat made me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_500_Hats_of_Bartholomew_Cubbins , but GWS is good too.
I love everything about these three, but Becky is objectively the best character
I’m not sure you can use the word ‘objectively’ objectively with that Gravatar.
The top of the head is the sexiest part of woman.
As far as smell goes… it pretty much is.
I know this fits more yesterdays comic than todays but i just found it. you can rent friends
http://rentafriend.com/index/
“cuz it’ll be between my legs eeeey brought it back around to sex”
hahahahahahaha
It is so amusing that Joyce forgets that her best friend is STILL her best friend, and wouldn’t share THAT with her. Joyce’s face last panel is great.
Obviously, Dina wears hats to cover up the horrible scar she got in a traumatic incident involving another member of the cast, though neither of them recognizes the other.
Dibs on Other Rachel in the pool.
I’ll take 5 on Joe.
I’ll take 10 on Joyce.
YOU SAW NOTHING
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Panel 2: I love this panel for how it shows their friendship. Becky takes care to be very tactful in her request for taking some time off for some alone time with Dina and Joyce is super understanding and supportive. It really shows you how strong this friendship is and has been for a long time and how much they genuinely care about each other’s feelings.
Also, I’m loving Becky’s teal jersey. Sporty lesbian is a good aesthetic for her.
Panel 3: Aww, this is so critical of a panel, because in the past Joyce would have gone all freak out panel over this. The idea of her friend, of anyone being potentially engaging in the pre-marital hanky panky would have thrown her into shock.
But instead, she’s holding on. It still flusters her, but she only gets wide-eyed at the idea and more or less holds her composure and remains overall supportive. And this shows how much she’s grown, especially in accepting Becky and Dina’s relationship as not out of the norm.
But it also shows that she’s losing more and more of a connection to the regressive anti-sex teachings of her church. Like, her church genuinely painfully let her down this weekend. Showed her its worst face and left her abandoned and treated like the true sinner. And it’s making all the proclamations she was carefully raised with seem somewhat less important.
Before if she let go of the premarital hanky-panky rule, she’d feel she’d lose everything, all original sin, all she was taught. But now? She’s not viewing it as big of a deal.
She’s “slipping away from God” to use the Fundie vernacular. And she’ll be a happier person because of it.
Also, I’m 100% betting that Becky’s one of those irish-blood types that blush all the way down their neck when they are turned on/embarrassed.
Panel 4: Oh my, Joyce isn’t even wide-eyed at this point. Like, she’s a little uncomfortable, but nowhere near where she’s ever been before. She’s grown so fucking much.
Panel 5: And she’s even disappointed in Becky a little here, like, what, I don’t consider that sexual, go on and view each other’s heads in peace, young lesbian, but that’s because her mind was racing to what is more traditionally considered sexual.
But what I find interesting is Becky’s face. This isn’t Becky just getting a rise out of Joyce. She 100% finds the idea of dehatting Dina to be intimate and sexual and well… she’s not wrong. Like, Dina has never shown her head. She sleeps with the hat, she showers with the hat, it is a part of her and her identity.
Asking to see under it would be an intimacy. One Becky would have to request and accept a no graciously for and would show a large amount of trust and closeness similar to what is true for the removal of clothes and seeing someone naked.
As it’s part of her armor, it’s removal is a vulnerability and vulnerabilities shown with trust and love can be amazingly powerful. And the more uncommon that vulnerability is, the more powerful it is when you’re entrusted with it.
Some of my more profound intimate moments with partners have been similar events, where something less sexual, but more rare and vulnerable like this was shown and that was incredibly moving to be trusted in that way.
And given how amazing Becky has been with boundaries with Dina, I’m genuinely looking forward to her awkwardly trying to bring up the subject with a lot of nervousness and politely posing the question rather than her trying to just snatch the hat off GWS style.
Because to Becky, this is a sexual request and it wouldn’t be the same if it was forcibly taken rather than freely given for what I would hope would be fairly obvious reasons to everyone.
On Panels 3 & 4 I was hoping for another Zombie Joyce face, but noooo. Damn You, Willis!
I’m curious if Joyce’s… “okayness” with pre-marital hanky-panky actually extends to heterosexual relations, or only to homosexual ones, as the latter is so far outside Joyce’s previously established rules that she’s having to build up how she feels about it from scratch (plus the fact that it is her best friend/sister), while she hasn’t actually been thrown outside her comfort zone of views on heterosexual sex, at least until someone actually calls her on her potential hypocracy.
She already knows that she has lost Dorothy and Walky to the Cragged Shame Pits of the Lust Wolves, but she doesn’t seem to be spending must energy worrying about it lately. Is that because she has too much else on her mind, because she has decided pre-marital hanky-panky is not that bad a sin, or because she is resigned to the fact that there is nothing she can do to stop them?
She was very happy about Billie’s secret “boyfriend” and didn’t seem to be worried that Billie was out all night with “him”.
Now I am wondering how much thought Joyce has put into the question of exactly where the hanky-panky line is for two women.
Is it better, since a life-changing event (a child) can’t occur; or worse, since it involves non-hetero coupling?
I really am proud of Joyce. She is there for Becky, even in the face of Hanky Panky.
I also love how you noted that this IS an act of intimacy for Dina, and how Becky treats it as such. Silly as it is, this is Becky and Dina doing what they have been doing from day one – feeling their way forward in their relationship on THEIR terms, not anyone else’s.
This!
Becky has few preconceptions of what a queer relationship looks like because she was never even told it was possible much less what it entailed. And Dina has few preconceptions because she is either some flavor of ace or has had ace-like growing up experiences of not fully comprehending most human sexuality.
As such, they’re building something together that’s wholly its own and not sweating whether or not it seems “weird” from the outside.
Who knew that two nuts could go together? I may have been older than Becky when I found that out.
I did not think I could like their relationship more, but now that you and Cerberus have pointed that aspect of it out, it seems to be possible
Anything’s possible when you switch to Cerberus and Bagge comments. I’m on a dinosaur.
What kind?
Utahraptor?
That’s the one that’s Dina’s height is equivalent to 3 times of, right?
Velociraptors are the turkey-sized ones despite the Jurassic Park films’ insistence otherwise. Utahraptors are more like the size of what Jurassic Park calls velociraptors.
Ah, so what is Dina three tall then? I recall that being stated but can’t seem to find it.
And you look away, then you look back. Now Tan is on a shark, with a fricking laser beam on it’s head. Then Terry Crews appears and does some awesome stuff.
and finally a jaunty tune plays in the background.
You’re back! Please don’t leave. It was hard not being able to read your well thought critiques. I’d throw money at you, if I had some to spare. And, well, debase you as a person, too.
There’s something about Dina.
I love all of these ladies.
Dina’s pretty much a Touhou
Becky: “It’s time.”
Me: “She’s not talking about sex.”
Becky: “It is so, so past time.”
Me: “She’s not talking about sex.”
Becky: “By the time this day is over…”
Me: “She’s not talking about sex.”
Becky: “…I swear…”
Me: “She’s not talking about sex.”
Becky: “…I’m gonna see the top of her head.”
Me: “CALLED IT!”
I was all like, “Nice try Willis. I see the game you’re playing.”
I’m now scared to see tomorrow’s comic, for some reason. At least I know he won’t be editing it in response to this comment, that’d be weird.
No, Becky. You would need a bomb powerful enough to blow up the whole campus, and then create a situation where Dina has to choose between being exploded alone or being exploded along with the campus, AND YOU DON’T WANNA DO THAT!
I don’t even think she’s exchanged words with Mike in the universe.
….I can think of two ways to intepret that. The hat thing was the second way. The first way may yet appear on Slipshine.
If the Almighty Willis using the same timing as the last one, I hope not.
…What?
I’m wondering if the Slipshine will pixelate the top of Dina’s head. 🙂
In all seriousness, how long have these two been coupleing in story-time? It seems like it’s only been a couple weeks. I couldn’t even get my wife to kiss me until we’d been dating six weeks. Fiction-people always seem to move so fast.
Just over a week, I think. The party was Saturday, they formally got together the next day. Monday was the happy fun gun time on campus incident. This is the following Monday.
College relationships tend to vary – some of mine took weeks to get even to kissing – much like yours. Others we sort of fell into bed and decided we were dating afterwards. 🙂
Yeah…
5the truth is Dina was a rejected member of the dino squad she was let go because she could never get the transformation right probably because the dino forms in that show were so scientifically inaccurate and that is actually raptor flesh
Thank you!! I am glad for the levity after many stressful strips.
I love the thing you do with the pause marks in panel 3, Willis. That’s a great way of adding emotion to the text. 😀
Becky is a TF2 player: confirmed.
Those last two panels. Dina is listening to our comments, I am sure of it.