Thanks to everyone, re: the Kickstarter! We’re doin’ a Book 10!
You can stop paying attention to down here for a while.
But not until after you read this: There’s a poll down to the right where you can help choose Book 10’s default doodle character!
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“I’ll show YOU white noise–wait no”
Wasn’t that a nickname Sal gave someone? Either Danny or Jason.
Hasn’t that been almost every US and Canadian Gov’t, ever?
Never occurred to me, but Dina would make an adorable zombie.
“Awww…sorry, I mean ARGH!”
Guessing she would be particularly selective about “brains”?
“Why is that zombie speaking in clear, articulate, grammaticly precise sentences?”
“Don’t ask questions like that. You RUN or you HIDE. When there’s a zombie that’s clearly not your normal zombie, you RUN or you HIDE first and you ask questions never.”
I mean, you COULD fight.
Actually a carnivore dinosaur like her is MUCH more formidable and scary than a zombie.
For one dinosaurs are much smarter. And they can jump over fences.
Okay, okay, I get what you’re saying, but hear me out:
Dino-zombies.
Not really any more scary than a dinosaur. Plus the lack of brain power and speed make would make it a lot less formidable.
Unless of course you’re talking about those “zombie” mutants like Nemesis in Resident Evil 3.
That’s just Dino Crisis you’re describing.
Zom-zom from Megatokyo is pretty boss.
Yeah, but they’re a zombie Kaiju. Totally different.
… I would argue the whole bit about the obvious paleontological influences on the artistic respresentation of Gojira, and from there to dragon-class Kaiju and thus ‘zillas and Zom-Zom in particular. However, this is the internet and either one will see the connections and be receptive to the relation, or they are subscribed to a particular mythos and/or mentality on the subject and won’t likely be receptive to such a dialogue. I am content to be proven wrong, but am not particularly motivated to find said evidence myself. Perhaps if it would result in some kind of Mothra-ZomZom shipshine by Yotomoe.
Joe may have Snapped Sarah back to grumpy, but between a few days ago and today, she still seems oddly… pleasant.
Maybe the hate sink thing worked!
…For Sarah, that is. Joe still needs some dang professional therapy or something
And several days recovering in hospital.
“I felt a disturbance in the force.”
Hompk!
Can Becky and Dina’s relationship recover from this betrayal? Place your Bets here, folks!
Now, we don’t know if it’s a betrayal until we see which part of the overalls were ripped.
Pretty sure she took the top part. You can see dangling straps, and Walky says they’re “just pants now”.
Given that no other clothing article was ripped off, this confirms that no betrayal has occurred.
Wait, where exactly was that pocket located?
It’s the bib pocket. Well, it used to be the bib pocket. Now it’s…some sort of avant-garde purse?
No I mean where exactly was that bib pocket?
Hint hint…
Amber’s short and bosomy; I suppose they are the easiest target
Betrayal identification: INCONCLUSIVE
Wait, I just noticed? How could I not consider this before? What’s holding those now pants up now that the straps are gone?!?
Fierceness.
Thiccness
Today’s vote for winner of the Internet!
beat me to the punch. XD
Thicc support
An ample posterior and several ounces of Gorilla glue.
Bold of you to assume they’re being held up at all.
She might need to borrow Walky’s hoodie.
I’m going to say that a clear explanation to Dina of “I know what I said was wrong, but I needed extricated from that situation by the swiftest and most forceful means possible” would probably result in a “next time just text rather than spreading misinformation”, followed in a few days by a return to the mean.
Reproach followed by rapprochement.
I see what you did there, Rassilon T. Davros.
Yay, I hoped somebody would!
You think the jealousy is because Dina just ripped off someone else’s clothes with her teeth but she’s actually jealous of everyone getting to see Dina’s hair all mussed up.
You know there a line between making jokes and actually being right.
No there isn’t. Some of the best jokes are actually hilarious observations of truth.
Humor consists of knowing someone well enough to select for them an appropriate truth.
No one tell Becky what Malaya and Ultra Car got up to in Shortpacked!
What was it again? Some kind of gas jacking fetish? Or was it “Lick Your Car Day”?
Oh dear. Looks like I’ve said too much.
I was thinking specifically of the “contest” that resulted in Ultra Car needing a new glove and Malaya needing a new pair of pants
Ha, found it https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/record-time
Please tell me that comic is still available. I’ve had a hard time searching through short packed for some odd reason.
Yep. Guessing I posted the link right before you asked
Confirmed.
Yeah! XD XD I really like Dina’s messed up hair <3 <3 <3
‘Hot Walky’ is really gunning for the title of silliest Dumbing of Age plotline
It’s really an elaborate set-up to introduce a new chinese-food restaurant with a terrible name.
Nah, it’s the newest pop-single dance craze. This generation’s Macarena.
I don’t get it
Hot Wok-y
And now I’m going to go wash myself.
I get it now
And Pocky?
It’s a sad day for Becky when Amber’s gotten further with your girl than you have….I guess this means Mary has too. Hmmm.
Huh, wonder how much clothing damage Mary suffered.
More than I’m interested in.
Less than I’m interested in. There is a particular variety of story to be drawn from this.
Mary does appear in one of the DoA Slipshines…or so I’ve heard.
It’s a single panel, and she’s by herself, with a picture.
As I recall, the picture is that Bugs Bunny meme where he’s making the weird face and looking at the sky with his hands up, except instead of Bugs it’s Sonic the Hedgehog wearing a crown of thorns.
After looking up the specific meme I was thinking of to see what the original picture was….. Oops, it’s just Bugs doing some old-fashioned blackface. I’ve only ever seen derivatives, so I figured it was an in-between frame or something.
Mary is jilling it to a picture she drew of a repentent Ronald Reagan.
she appears to have just drawn it with a Sharpie which is seen laying next to the sheet of paper with its cap on the other end, thus hiding the “S” in the brand name
Well, remember, her type of Christian thinks nudity=evil. Spiritually speaking, severe and revealing clothing damage is without a doubt apparelless state to be in.
Not when she’s naked, she doesn’t.
Hey, wait a minute……
That pun is horrible. I salute you.
https://imgur.com/a/VKGvoLR
Someone requested Lucy as Nightgirl.
Fantastic!
Do AG, NG and .. NG? get their own vertices on the graph? I mean, since Danny was dating AG and not Amber… I guess so? Wait…. this would mean more ship-shines! OF COURSE they get their own vertices.
Ooh, Walky, you’ll like Lucy in kneepads.
Why specifically kneepads? I see comments about them weirdly often, is this a common fetish thing?
I was going by the kneepads in Yotomoe’s link, above.
The joke about kneepads is they suggest preparedness to perform oral sex.
Do they? You use your mouth for that, though. If your knees are next to your partner’s Bits, I’d assume you were doing oral wrong.
Because you may be kneeling on the floor to do so.
What, and get your pants dirty? Y’all are some kinda perverts. /s
So if the male (or really anybody) is ‘topping’ or just wanting to feel dominant, then they may request their partner engage in orally stimulating the top’s genitalia in a sexual manner while the partner maintains a submissive stance, typically on their knees while the recipient is standing or sitting. Ergo, the joke being that knee-pads imply (in that mindset) the preparedness of the wearer to assume said position of submission and service.
Falling to one’s knees has been a sign of submission throughout history, with conquerors demanding show of fealty through kneeling. Even in the act of knighting someone, the commoner falls to their knees before their ‘better’ and then after knighting, rises to their feet, showing how they have been elevated to a higher station.
Got sidelined, so this is late, but well, here you go.
It doesn’t have to dominance necessarily, though it can be. Sometimes it’s just convenient.
Sometimes someone just likes giving BJs, and likes to be prepared.
Assuming someone named Dick would know… where are said people, and how does one engage in dialogue over such a subject? Asking for a friend.
Dorothy would agree, if I’m remembering my Slipshines correctly.
You definitely remember correctly.
Cute!
Very cute. Now you’ve got me hoping for a Nightgirl and Nightguy superhero team.
HOT DAMN
Insanely cute
Daisy would be so happy.
Fighting crime with relentless optimism by asking people to maybe not do that thing they’re about to do.
I dig it.
I am delighted!
Missed opportunity to say: “some kind of predatory bird” instead of feral, but this still feels like a Furmanism to me.
TIL some Transformers Lore: Furmanism
I was about to make a pun about Dina being a hot Mesozoic all of a sudden…
Well, yesterday she was a Dinanychus. So it tracks, but if she’s still standing and Amber is on the floor…
Completely feral is apparently an amazingly good look on Dina.
Honestly I think it’s pretty attractive on most women. It speaks of passion.
Okay, I’ll be the one.
“Everybody walk the dinosaur!”
80s brain was just nagging me, dangit.
Thank you.
I wonder how much of the audience doesn’t know the reference.
Last place I heard that was an Ice Age movie.
Oh, so that’s how Willis heard of it. It was bugging me, because he’s too young to remember it.
VHS has existed for centuries.
I assume Willis is in his mid-thirties like me, based on references, so I’m going to say it’s more likely he knows of it from Super Mario Bros: The Movie.
If you didn’t do it I was going to.
Oh wow that’s hot Dina 🥵
As far as hotness goes, Dina is winning overall.
… actually, she’s eating overall.
God, I’m glad someone said it. Jesus Christ if Becky sould see Dina right now she’d either explode from the sexual frustration or jump her on the spot. There is no middle ground
BAD DINA. Funny Dina, but BAD NONETHELESS. Overalls are cute, don’t destroy them.
Also….I think whoever said Becky wants Dina to insist on sex in the classic ‘repressed, not allowed to say yes, if I don’t it’s not my ‘fault’ style was bang on. Poor kid.
Yes, yes, 1000 times YES. Overalls are too cute to destroy.
Except that half the fun of clothes is removing them, by any means necessary.
“Everyone Walk the Dinosaur”
Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYKupOsaJmk
(And I am surprised that nobody caught the reference yet.)
While Thrabalen beat you to the punch, you provided a url. So … win-win?
I think he replied while I was getting the reference. I remember that song on MTV and VH1 while I was in college. (Purdue, not IU)
I just assumed everyone got the reference already.
I was gonna say that 3rd panel Dina would make a great avatar but of course Willis has a drawing ready.
*checks Willis’ latest tweet* Damn, what is in their water?
Was (Not Was), or Chaka Khan’s I Feel For You – a moral lewd dilemma
Dina’s face in that image looks like one of those smug, eeevil evolutionists you’d see in a Chick tract.
…of course, considering how closely related they are to birds, “chick” would probably be a rather appropriate term for young dinosaurs.
What’s a Chick tract?
And are we talking about regular evil, or mermaid man’s eeevil?
Jack Chick is a guy who drew little cartoon pamphlets about how God hates [thing]. If you also hate [thing] you buy a bunch and pass them to people who are [thing].
Subjects have famously included an anti-DnD comic which demonstrated that Chick had no idea how DnD even worked (and even in the comic, DnD isn’t actually evil; the villain is using the game to get at vulnerable kids to recruit them into her cult, but she also could’ve done that with basketball, so). For the most part, though, they’re extremely hateful. Largely targeted at religious people who are not Jack Chick and/or queer people. Also women, though usually not explicitly as the subject.
Yeah. Now this guy actually deserves to rot in a retirement home and get immortalized in a grease trap.
Too late, he’s already dead.
What, no mention of the “pedophilia is totally ok if you tell Jesus you’re sorry afterwards” one?
please tell me that you made that up. I have a daily amount of faith in humanity, and this would deplete that entirely.
Unfortunately, that tract is very real, although Chick disowned it at some point prior to his death and they don’t publish it anymore.
the next, unshown, scene is where the cops roll up, having been informed by the doctor and the parents go off to jail while the daughter gets the counseling and safe place to live that she needs, right? right?
I’m not opposed to people using faith to turn their lives around. It does happen, though it’s never as quick and simple as he shows. Or to God forgiving even horrific sins if the person has truly repented – which he would know being God. None of that should change the real world consequences or protections we try to put in place.
Don’t forget the ones about how homosexuality is caused by being molested by other homosexuals … which apparently puts a demon inside you? Sexually transmitted possession?
If it was anyone else, I’d assume the little demons in those particular comics were just meant to represent the ‘evil’ being passed on … but no, I think Chick believed there were actual demons being passed around.
@thejeff: Earthly authority?! In a CHICK TRACT?!
Aaaaaand there goes my daily faith in humanity. I’m just glad I waited until now to check back. It means I made it through most of the day with it in tact.
I’m gonna be honest, if I had the sort of mind that could spawn THAT into existence, I feel like I should volunteer for a lobotomy, because imagine having to deal with a brain like that for the rest of your life.
They are however unintentionally hilarious for people outside of his sect. A few years ago a group of gamers made a Dark Dungeons movie based on that tract as a comedy. They played it completely straight and did it with his (estates?) permission.
I think it was actually Chick himself. He didn’t die until (shortly) afterward.
And he died never realizing it was making fun of him.
Walky’s definitely not the only character who’s gotten hotter recently.
blame global warming.
poor Becky, we really need to stop teasing her. ~<3
Only if Rebecca stops teasing Dorothy.
She explicitly did just that like a week ago. Even got her an apology pastry
Except she’s still calling her “Dotty”, so I’m not buying it yet.
She has never even once objected to that or asked Becky to stop??
Eh, she’s doing it to herself thanks to some fundie brainwashing.
It never really occurred to me that Becky was as deep into that stuff as Joyce, and they both broke out of it in different ways but kept a lot of the same thought processes.
Becky is jelly. Becky is always jelly.
And Dina is peanut butter.
Huh. Have we ever seen her eat that?
That would explain why her knees are all wobbly.
Jesus Dina…..now we need a clean up on aisle becky
Congratulations on the successful Kickstarter!
And wow, that punchline is perfect.
….so like a vast, predatory bird?
https://imgur.com/a/JzwzKCr (NSFW)
I mentioned yesterday I really find Jennifer hot so I figured I’d doodle a casual little sexy thing of her.
soft. warm. take nap.
oooh clearly she’s a feeling a bit chilly hence the scarf =P
As a fan of the “topless-with-accessories” look, thank you very much.
Walky was so hot that Amber has to get someone else to take of her clothes for her.
Thank you Sarah
Re: poll, shouldn’t it be Jennifer instead of Billie? Willis how could you do this to your own character.
This is just further convincing me that the “Jennifer” name change is somehow an act of denial on her part. She can make anything an act of denial.
I doubt the name change is permanent. Billie’s whole situation is clearly setting up for a larger storyline later on.
in any case this she went by Billie in book 10
Willis refers to her by her prefered name at the time of the events from book 10 (does it for the magnets as well), probably as a way to more easily distinguish the current version with the specific Billie from book 10. He does that to the other characters as well with “hostage Joyce” or (in the past) “battle ready Sal” and so on, which may or may not be preferable…
I too can relate to wanting be mauled by my girlfriend.
LIKE SOME PREDATORY BIRD
Look, if you’re into those sort of things, Becky, just ask Dina; I’m sure she’d be glad to help! That said, could you really have enough sets of clothes yet to indulge that fantasy?
Well, there’s always the thrift store….
Hrm. If they’re birds, we can’t really call them “dinoSAURS,” can we…?
You may find the taxonomy of dinosaurs interesting! They’re not actually a cohesive group! They’re polycladistic! There are lizard dinosaurs and bird dinosaurs! It’s interesting!
…Are you pulling an Amber? *suspicious eyes*
Dinosauria is a monophyletic group. There are no “lizard” dinosaurs. Lizards are squamates, completely different branch.
I guess you are referring to subgroups like saurischia and ornithischia, the name of which translates, confusingly, to “lizard-hipped” and “bird-hipped”, the same way “dinosaur” means “scary lizard”.
The short reason for this mess and why it doesn’t actually matter, is that names are just names. they shouldn’t be taken literally.
Amber, what did this solve? You’re now wearing less clothes, no one’s boner is diminished, and Becky is horny by proxy. Think about your life, Amber. Think about your choices. Then, stop thinking about your choices and bone Walky, immediately.
Huh. If GlaDOS ever found herself giving relationship advice…
As I love GLaDOS enormously, I take this as high praise.
She did avoid being around Walky when he is hot, which was the objective.
However, I’m sort of looking forward to who she’ll run into in dishabile and the consequences thereof!
She’s not away from him by more than like, three feet. She’s in visual range—she’s not even walking distance away, she’s several steps away. At most. If her objective was not to be around Walky while he’s in Irresistible Mode, she failed spectacularly. She’s just gonna get up, see him again, and have recriminations later. She’s already swimming in recriminations up to her goddamn neck. Whatever went down on Halloween, it isn’t worth this.
Meanwhile, Asma, realizing that her poking stick will not be sufficient, looks for her net.
While it’s not what happened. I choose to believe both Amber and Mary are dead now.
Dina will now lay her eggs and there will be no stopping her.
Lt Ripley then interjects, “Get back from her you B I T C H!” Not at Dina, but at Mary’s corpse. It’s not good enough to hold Dina’s eggs.
So, Willis is trying to make Dino murder hot, huh?
Dino murder is hot.
I shall remind you https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/02-look-straight-ahead/categorizes/
I just want to add that it’s a hopeful sign (for Lucy) that Walky was looking for her specifically.
I met you in a cave, you were painting buffalo
I said I’d be your slave, follow wherever you go
That night we split a rattlesnake and danced beneath the stars
You fell asleep, I stayed awake and watched the passing cars
And walked the dinosaur
I walked the dinosaur
Maybe ita a good thing that Dina and Becky have not become sexually active yet. Those teeth in Frame 3 could do a lot of damage.
Or those teeth could offer a delightful dance of nibbles and nips and gnashings of thine hips.
Dina don’t looks really satisfied. She wanted to do more, but was able to stop herself. For now…
Sarah with the “got ‘er”.
Okay, not gonna lie, if I was a student at that school, I would be trolling the hell out of Dina, 24/7, by shouting blatant falsehoods about dinosaurs. She would just make it so easy.
If I wanted to go full on cartoon, I would be sure to stand next to a wall so that when she launched herself at me I could step to the side and watch her smash in the wall, and hopefully, accordion off it.
Or leave a Dina-shaped hole in it. That would work too.
Is Sarah trying to understand how Becky ticks now? Joyce too tame for her?
Uhm. Is Dina having some sort of break?
She’s actually been pouncing people and been violent for quite a while now…
Some days, ya just gotta be rowdy.
I do wonder if she’s not overcompensating for the winter break, since school seems like a place she’s maybe become more outwardly expressive than she was at home. She started off very reserved and her parents seem to be really quiet and calm, so I imagine her back-home life is pretty “dull” when compared to school, and she’s maybe working off some pent-up social expressiveness.
Pon Farr. Google it if unfamiliar.
She WAS kidnapped. Maybe she’s touchier these days.
Didn’t she actually kidnap herself?
Fair enough. Okay, she saw Becky’s dad die. 😛
I’m sorry… that was a /bad/ experience?
It’s traumatic to watch a murder, even if the person is a shitbag so I assume so. Besides, it made Becky sad.
It /can/ be traumatic to watch a murder, but it really depends on the killer, the target, and the audience. And no, one does not need to be a psychopath to not be bothered by certain people dying, even if you don’t believe in the death penalty.
Sarah just casually calling out folk in passing. Damn.
Dina is so cute! I wish I had her around when I was in school.
Dina has some strong teeth if she can tear apart denim with them.
Wow!! Dina has a LOT of hair!
i never thought i would wonder: “could a dinosaurs bite rip apart denim overalls?”
paleontologists please reply
Their teeth were 47 meters long and razor-sharp. Of course they couldn’t tear denim. Only extremely mild torque can do that.
The touque is worn above denim. It is not an instrument of severing denim, and in fact is more likely to attract it.
Source: I am Canadian.
Dina imagines herself a dinosaur, but the reality is those teeth of hers are probably weakened from a diet of breakfast cereals. If she truly bit through denim she might have to see a dentist since I estimate a few of her teeth might be loose. Either that or Amber is still moonlighting as Amazi-Girl and now wears tear away clothes for emergency purposes. I know this is being played for laughs, but I’m finding this a little too cartoonish. Ruth doesn’t care if Dina assaults Mary and Amber deliberately got Dina involved to avoid talking to Walky, but the next person might not be so tolerant of this behavior and will report it to an authority figure who will do something about it.
Tear-aways… OVER AG’s jumpsuit?
Can we all agree that Dina in this strip is next level hot?
Whelp, Dina’s getting scarier