This is such a small thing, but I loved that enbies came first. I think we’re usually last, if we’re mentioned at all, so it was a very refreshing change of pace 🙂
time to take enough to pay off half the school’s tuition 8D; (which carla’s parents could prolly do but idk if they’d do so even if carla asked whether she’d admit to caring to that many ppl to do so in hte first place ll)
Less than $30K per year. All food, dorm, tuition, and fees included. BUT, if you involve for-profit student-loan servicers at any point, well, then, you’re gonna pass the $50K mark within 5-10 years. Sooner if any defaulting happens.
I don’t know either, but let me introduce you to a game. Under the comic you will see a Random button. You hit it, go to a random comic and make note of the name of the strip. Then you do it again a second time, and then a third time. You concatenate the three names into a single line and then come back here and report what you got. The rule is that you can only do this once per day.
But the sequel is called Now You See Me 2, which is one of the worst decisions ever made by a movie studio that isn’t connected to Man of Steel in some way.
I feel like if it was these two that got together and spent A LOT of time together, they might accidentally the apocalypse lol. They just randomly walk into a military base and see the big red button.
Either that or dina would show Charlie the headgear trick much earlier and they both become the Smartest people in the college, graduating to become scientists that Force the World to recognize what dinos really looked like and also Cure Cancer.
I do like Dina/Becky more though, totally better for the universe as a hole.
Honestly, I could see Dina and Charlie becoming good friends. (I also could see a poly thing happening maybe, but that seems to improbable. Becky’d probably to insecure, unless it meant threesomes and she found charlie really hot, and then carla… IDK what her reaction would be. (And would they even want to? IDK))
Can we just have the entire comic from now on be Dina And Charlie’s Fabulous Adventures with like, Letters to the Editor interludes from the rest of the cast about what they’re doing? Maybe like the Christmas Issue could have them all coming together as a special series of cameos, including a three issue per each crossover miniseries with Amazi-Girl and the Derby Girls?
Willis is going to have to start doing three bonus Patreon strips from now on. One creator’s choice, one fan submissions, and one Carla and Charlie in random places. Maybe they occasionally kick someone in the face.
Ok, so I don’t normally respond to day old comments but I am a huge-ass Ranma fan and I was just trying to represent Ryoga with a pig emoji followed by question marks to represent confusion from being lost. Honest mistake.
If a bearded old man pops up out of nowhere inside that vault and asks DIna and Charlie “How Are The Dodgers Doing”…I’ll blow my top!!! 🙂 (…old running Jack Benny joke….sorry youngsters).
I wonder if it’s just that baklava is more complex or takes longer? Like, I feel like I could probably make a doughnut but I think phyllo might make me cry.
Well , i don’t think carla and dina are really close (tho i don’t know if dina has friends outside sarah, and dating becky) but i imagine carla wouldn’t think she’d be ‘stolen away’/dina’s not that type of person, tho i suppose jealousy/emotions aren’t logical
I appreciate that this is a concern about their relative meta-abilities. Not that she doesn’t have her own insecurities, but Carla is both the best and selected the best girlfriend, so its not her immediate concern.
While we already knew how Dina can share her siperpowers through touching, so too will she gain the powers and/or weaknesses of the ones she are touching.
Okay, they can fix this. They just have to come up with a misconception about Christianity, and Joyce will be reflexively summoned to them. Then Joyce can just teleport them all to wherever Dorothy is.
As a last resort, we can prep a bowl of cadbury eggs for Robin. It won’t fix anything, but it will cause so many problems that “stuck in a bank vault” will be comparatively fine.
I also appreciate that Dina helps out Charlie with her neurodivergent needs right away, because unlike Joyce, she doesn’t assume that this help will be given.
I love to see Dina and Charlie become friends so naturally. But I also hope Carla will ne the one designing and building the perfect headpiece for her.
If there are any DoA characters capable of crossing over into other webcomics, it might be these two when they’re superpositioning themselves throughout the wave function.
Charlie: *mulitple choice*
We’re inside the lip of an active volcano in Hawaii?
We’re anywhere in Gaza?
We’re on the Moon?
We’re in an experimental breeding reactor in North Korea?
We’re in a clothing store?
Dina: Aha! *let’s go of Charlie’s hand*. Now, let’s find you a tighter hat…
Dina: Wait. This is a vault, but is it a bank vault? We should examine more carefully.
*examination ensues*
Dina: This vault appears to contain artifacts and fossils. I do not think it is storage for a museum. This appears to be the private collection of a paleontological and archeological hoarder! Let us document this with our phone cameras.
*photography ensues*
Charlie: These fossil eggs say “Oviraptor. Gobi Desert, Mongolia”
Dina: *looks extremely covetous*
Dina: . . . and we will take one as a physical example of the evidence.
*puts egg in pocket*
Dina: *looks at phone* Hm. No signal. I hope that Becky is not worried about me. Let us try to find our way back to campus. Charlie, give me your hand again. . .
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Enbies, ladies and gentlemen,
Fasten your seatbelts!
B)
*plays “Fasten Your Seatbelt” by Pendulum on hacked muzak*
It will be fine.
This is such a small thing, but I loved that enbies came first. I think we’re usually last, if we’re mentioned at all, so it was a very refreshing change of pace 🙂
+1, it warmed my heart!
Plus it does look like we need out seatbelts truly tied, isn’t it? Where are have they teleported to.
They traveled back in time before the break in.
speaking as one who enby myself, this way it should be ^^
Can’t rob a bank with all that sudden visibility!
Please let this be a normal field trip…
With (Dina/Charlie, your choice)? No way!
Am I the only one who read the alt-text as, “Man of Steel Porno“?
Hello, Carla. Look at your gal. Now back at me. Now back at your gal. Now back to me.
Sadly, she isn’t me, but she could blab like she’s me, if she stopped using lizards as her head gear and switched to skullcaps.
Look down, back up, she’s got a hat. With the hat, your gal could focus.
What’s in your hands? Back at me.
I have it. It’s your Charlie with her hand interlinked with my hand right now.
Look again, your Charlie is now vanished.
Anything is possible when your gal has no focus and I’m undetected.
I’m in a vault.
Well, now we know where he got the diamonds….
the diamonds, my god
<3 The last line got me good!
time to take enough to pay off half the school’s tuition 8D; (which carla’s parents could prolly do but idk if they’d do so even if carla asked whether she’d admit to caring to that many ppl to do so in hte first place ll)
Let’s be honest – all the money and valuables in that vault wouldn’t be able to pay off a tenth of the students tuition at any non-community college
Tuition and housing at IU costs about $26,000 per year for in-state students.
https://admissions.indiana.edu/cost-financial-aid/index.html
Less than $30K per year. All food, dorm, tuition, and fees included. BUT, if you involve for-profit student-loan servicers at any point, well, then, you’re gonna pass the $50K mark within 5-10 years. Sooner if any defaulting happens.
whistles Old Spice theme
dang, beat me to it
*golf clap*
Perfection.
You win 1 internet
+1
What’s the closest bank to campus?
I think this has to be the bank vault from Now You See Me. Fantastic film by the way.
The alt-text specifies that it’s from Man of Steel.
But I am not sure which promotional image it refers to.
I don’t know either, but let me introduce you to a game. Under the comic you will see a Random button. You hit it, go to a random comic and make note of the name of the strip. Then you do it again a second time, and then a third time. You concatenate the three names into a single line and then come back here and report what you got. The rule is that you can only do this once per day.
Pity Public Homicide.
Terribly Dinner music Hand-ky panky
Daddy Memorial Stadium Right/Left.
Manhood Kindergarten Bigger.
…starting to regret playing this game.
Sweet roof bottom-out sign up
…yeah, it scans as a sentence
Predator disgrace poop
Ooo
Twisted news glances
…feeling that right now
Throwdown Sweeping Crotchety
Fraud Purple-striped Two
Now take three words that -might- be strip names and see if anyone notices.
Fakey Genius cartoon-drawing person Helmet
New gear unlocked!
Cold Turkey Coffin Butt Taco. Starts out ominous, then veers surreal.
Piano Convention Yeet-Cute
Wile E. Coyote accidentally causes the Roadrunner to side-step right into the arms of his true love.
Risk
Place Them
Guilty
Holy shit sdlkgjs DINA CHARLIE NOOOO X’DDD
Henry Cavill as Superman
I am almost certain that they spent more on advertising than they did on the actual movie LOL
Hey, now, that script alone was worth at _least_ a thousand dollars.
But the sequel is called Now You See Me 2, which is one of the worst decisions ever made by a movie studio that isn’t connected to Man of Steel in some way.
(I know, I know, if they’d called it …Now You Don’t, they’d have needed to think of a whole new title for the third one.)
Depends. What do you mean by “closest” within multi-dimensional geometries that don’t conform to relativistic spaces, let alone Euclidean ones?
Not to mention non-Euclidiean spaces that are angular rather than curved.
no NO NOOOOO NO stop the anGLEs aRE NoT rEAL ZaLGO IS TONY THE PONY HE COMES
Fuck yeah, we’re Dichronauts now.
plot twist: they’re not even in indiana anymore, they teleported somehow to a bank in canada
The movie about their exploits will be orders of magnitude better than the execrable movie Jumper (a bad “adaptation” of the novel).
You assume they walked there. With a door that large, Dina could easily teleport two people behind it.
Y’all don’t have banks on campus?
You can tell Dina’s surprised, she used a rare contraction.
We shoulda known they’d be the duo with the most hi-jinx potential
“Pressure does equal comfort” not during hell weeks…
I love it when, on occasion, the laws of reality just completely break down.
…scratch that, Dina going wherever the hell she wants is a law of the universe.
Always has been.
To you that’s the laws of reality breaking down.
In Ohio that’s just a Tuesday.
I see Mr. Willis has the wherewithal to keep his most valuable assets in a safe.
There’s actually been a completed build of It’s Walky!: Resurrection in there this whole time, but Willis forgot the lock combination.
This is making me smile so much.
Always has been.
Ignore duplicate comment.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
So step 1 is put the hat back on, THEN go find its replacement
Failed step one, accidentally robbed a bank
One of them used a safe word?
Damn. I’m running out of Internets to give away.
I gave my last one away yesterday
Top tier punchline.
Genuine laugh out loud for me
I feel like if it was these two that got together and spent A LOT of time together, they might accidentally the apocalypse lol. They just randomly walk into a military base and see the big red button.
Either that or dina would show Charlie the headgear trick much earlier and they both become the Smartest people in the college, graduating to become scientists that Force the World to recognize what dinos really looked like and also Cure Cancer.
I do like Dina/Becky more though, totally better for the universe as a hole.
I once accidentally the apocalypse. I hate it when that happens.
Good Omens, but with Dina and Charlie.
A whole apacalypse?
It was a small apocalypse.
alpaca lips
No, more of a llamageddon.
Llamageddon was okay, but Slotherhouse was way better.
Perhaps this is why soggies may rule.
Beat me to it.
Honestly, I could see Dina and Charlie becoming good friends. (I also could see a poly thing happening maybe, but that seems to improbable. Becky’d probably to insecure, unless it meant threesomes and she found charlie really hot, and then carla… IDK what her reaction would be. (And would they even want to? IDK))
ngl i was worried she was tryin to talk herself down from bein jealous, i didnt expecr a very real worry
Man, this feels like an It’s Walky! punchline! Amazing
Can we just have the entire comic from now on be Dina And Charlie’s Fabulous Adventures with like, Letters to the Editor interludes from the rest of the cast about what they’re doing? Maybe like the Christmas Issue could have them all coming together as a special series of cameos, including a three issue per each crossover miniseries with Amazi-Girl and the Derby Girls?
Alternately I could learn to write fanfiction.
It’s just like writing regular fiction but you use someone else’s characters and/or setting.
But hopefully with less stressing out and crying about the writing process.
Willis is going to have to start doing three bonus Patreon strips from now on. One creator’s choice, one fan submissions, and one Carla and Charlie in random places. Maybe they occasionally kick someone in the face.
That’s Mike’s job.
It’s been a while since Dina has been taken somewhere she wasn’t going to because of someone else.
I don’t think it’s happened since the beach party.
I can’t wait ’til they run into Ryoga on the International Space Station.
🐖???
Ryoga was a character in Ranma 1/2 who was constantly getting lost.
Ok, so I don’t normally respond to day old comments but I am a huge-ass Ranma fan and I was just trying to represent Ryoga with a pig emoji followed by question marks to represent confusion from being lost. Honest mistake.
Oh god I can imagine that!
If a bearded old man pops up out of nowhere inside that vault and asks DIna and Charlie “How Are The Dodgers Doing”…I’ll blow my top!!! 🙂 (…old running Jack Benny joke….sorry youngsters).
It’s almost as good as the one where the hold-up man asks him, “Your money or your life” and Jack is still deciding.
“I’m thinking! I’m thinking!”
HEIST! HEIST! HEIST!
I’ll get the balaclavas!
And I’ll get the baklava!
Mmm, tasty
I’ve never understood why there aren’t as many baklava shops as there are doughnut shops.
I wonder if it’s just that baklava is more complex or takes longer? Like, I feel like I could probably make a doughnut but I think phyllo might make me cry.
They’re holding LEFT hands. Both of them. This is more important to me than how they got into the bank vault.
(in panel 2 at least)
welp; being gay and doing crime is a law. . . better get to crackin that safe.
Safe is already cracked.
Now this is the kind of wild gag I’ve been missing since Shortpacked ended!
REVERSE BANK HEIST……. this is the next arc. this must be why amazi-girl is present in the storyline
Happy Autumn Equinox to all who celebrate! ^^
Happy Equinox!!
BTW sorry if not place to mention but,
have we met before? your energy seems really familiar….
there was someone who talked a lot like you, under the name of Wandering Lynx who commented here
either that or i am rather tipsy rn haha
Happy Mabon.
Quick, fill your pockets with circulated bills and you’ll have money for as many hat options as you want!
lol, love how she’s more concerned about their combined ‘effects’ as opposed to being jealous
I feel like she is at least a bit jealous. She knows how powerful Dina is.
……….. But also, knowing Charlie means the possibility of them getting lost as hell is way more concerning sdlkgjss
Well , i don’t think carla and dina are really close (tho i don’t know if dina has friends outside sarah, and dating becky) but i imagine carla wouldn’t think she’d be ‘stolen away’/dina’s not that type of person, tho i suppose jealousy/emotions aren’t logical
I appreciate that this is a concern about their relative meta-abilities. Not that she doesn’t have her own insecurities, but Carla is both the best and selected the best girlfriend, so its not her immediate concern.
While we already knew how Dina can share her siperpowers through touching, so too will she gain the powers and/or weaknesses of the ones she are touching.
Interesting…
This may be the most “Shortpacked” strip in DOA thus far.
The only way it would be better if they ended up in the Amazon jungle…
Dina and Charlie exit the bank and discover that it is in the middle of the Amazon jungle.
How many dead bodies are in the next room?
🙂
So we accept suspension of disbelief on this but not the Speedrun? Lol
/Jk
Video games are Serious Business™, to be taken seriously and only portrayed 1:1 with reality. Bank vaults are fake news and can do as they please.
Let’s be fair, since they dropped Gold Standard, money is completely made up XD
If this ends up being a major plot point instead of a one-off gag I’m sure people will start complaining about it.
Okay, they can fix this. They just have to come up with a misconception about Christianity, and Joyce will be reflexively summoned to them. Then Joyce can just teleport them all to wherever Dorothy is.
As a last resort, we can prep a bowl of cadbury eggs for Robin. It won’t fix anything, but it will cause so many problems that “stuck in a bank vault” will be comparatively fine.
…. so what do we do once you’ve accidentally got EVERYONE in the vault?
You take the fox across the river.
Orgy?
Or Carla could just state some misinformation about dinosaurs to bring them back.
I get why with Sal, but is it explained anywhere why Carla is wearing gloves all the time?
She skates, and a fall on concrete can fuck your hands up.
They are cool! Also maybe they make it easier when she tinkers with her inventions? Like no sweaty palms while her fingers are exposed?
I knew they should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque
Yeah this is kind of what I imagined a team-up between Zoro and Ryoga would look like. Carla is lucky they are still in the same dimension as her.
I absolutely adore this strip! 10000% Love this!
CRIME ARC
CRIME ARC
Carla *really* should appreciate and be thankful of the fact that Dina doesn’t want to steal her girl.
Is the last panel real or just Carla’s imagination?
Probably ain’t her imagination, on account of Carla can’t even be bothered to remember what people other than her look like XD
Well, at this rate Becky will soon be heartbroken
YOU WENT SNEAKING INTO A BANK VAULT WITHOUT ME
HOW CAN I BE GAY AND DO CRIMES IF YOU DO THE CRIMES WITHOUT ME?!
to be fair Becky seemed not to react when Dina stole a mega bottle of booze without her
Put the hat back on, Charlie!
I also appreciate that Dina helps out Charlie with her neurodivergent needs right away, because unlike Joyce, she doesn’t assume that this help will be given.
I love to see Dina and Charlie become friends so naturally. But I also hope Carla will ne the one designing and building the perfect headpiece for her.
this power could be harnessed. ~<3
If there are any DoA characters capable of crossing over into other webcomics, it might be these two when they’re superpositioning themselves throughout the wave function.
Dina has shown up in both “Questionable Content” and “Girl Genius.”
Next up is Something*Positive which has had a cameo from Ultra Car after Carla changed to the gynoid chassis.
I think there was a strongly hinted memorial service for Mike in SP also.
Wait. Where in Girl Genius?
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Volume 19, under heading “Gil and Trelawney Have a Quiet Breakfast.”
Tighter? Wow, the hat looked tight yesterday.
(I can’t blame her, btw)
… Man of Steel porno image. What?
P r o m o. Like promotional.
Whyinhell is Carla just standing there instead of going with them? This was quite preventable.
Carla’s been stunned by Dina’s charisma. She wasn’t prepared.
Take Carla to a vault and she’ll end up swimming around in the gold like Scrooge McDuck.
Spinoff time!
At least they don’t appear to left their dimension or time…
” It’s not unlike them to get lost, but…oh God, not this kind of lost …”
They took “be gay, do crimes” to another level
What.
Dina: How did we end up here?
Charlie: *mulitple choice*
We’re inside the lip of an active volcano in Hawaii?
We’re anywhere in Gaza?
We’re on the Moon?
We’re in an experimental breeding reactor in North Korea?
We’re in a clothing store?
Dina: Aha! *let’s go of Charlie’s hand*. Now, let’s find you a tighter hat…
Dina: You seem better than Joyce.
Well, at least they’re not break a long-established Mario Bros. 64 speed run record together. That would be UNREALISTIC!
Student Loans: Paid off!
Oh my Goddess this is awesome.
Dina in a locked secure room again?!
There’s some flashbacks. DYW! IYKYK
By their powers combined, they are…the PERFECT CRIMINALS!
Imo commit fanfic…
Dina: Wait. This is a vault, but is it a bank vault? We should examine more carefully.
*examination ensues*
Dina: This vault appears to contain artifacts and fossils. I do not think it is storage for a museum. This appears to be the private collection of a paleontological and archeological hoarder! Let us document this with our phone cameras.
*photography ensues*
Charlie: These fossil eggs say “Oviraptor. Gobi Desert, Mongolia”
Dina: *looks extremely covetous*
Dina: . . . and we will take one as a physical example of the evidence.
*puts egg in pocket*
Dina: *looks at phone* Hm. No signal. I hope that Becky is not worried about me. Let us try to find our way back to campus. Charlie, give me your hand again. . .