THIS is the scene I’d been hoping for since the whole storyline started. This is the scene I thought was put in jeopardy by the presence of toedad. This strip is the moment of IMMENSE catharsis that I have been hoping.
The problems aren’t solved and the spectre of toedad still looms large over them, but while I still can, I want to say:
I would’ve thought that in the last panel, Becky would look more…I dunno, HAPPY about having an awesome girlfriend. Instead she repeats the phrase with a great big frown. 😕
Now you two lovebirds just stop stressing for a moment and kiss again already! ;D
She not unhappy. That’s shock. Her world has just gone from a total mess to having someone who cares for her. It is a BIG thing her brain cannot process it all in one go.
I believe she is trying to break people of the habit of commenting on how she is always first when she is first, and how she wasn’t first when she isn’t. :p
omg yayyyyy I know. I particularly love how the cartoony/anime convention of the eye thru the hair looks in the last frame. SO GOOD!!! This is fabulous <3<3<3 my cold dead heart may have reawakened!!
Have you ever watched Doctor Who? this guy couldn’t arrive when he intended to if someone held a gun to his head. Especially not when he’s got the randomiser on.
I watched an episode that involved an awesome gay woman with a servant she was clearly banging, some sort of guy who was from a warrior culture that usually won its interstellar conquests so hard they went out of their way to be sporting, and diseases in victorian london, the Doctor showing up at some sort of paranormal research thing with the gal who was his companion, and a martian on a soviet ship. Oh, also something about four brothers, 3 of whom were evil, and they ran a space junking business. The Doctor’s timeliness didn’t come up much. I just assumed time control meant he could show up on time but then I suppose that wouldn’t be funny.
He gets it right about half the time. Factors to his being wrong include:
1) The Tardis is actually meant to be piloted by six people at once, and the Doctor does kind of a shit job of replacing all of them, especially since he’d jury rigged the console with things like hammers and bits of string.
2) The Tardis is ancient, and was an antique even when he first got it.
3) It actually has a mind of its own, and even when it doesn’t take him where he wants to go, it usually takes him where he needs to be.
4) He threw the manual into a supernova for disagreeing with him. He also scraped through Time Lord school with a 51% on the second try.
He isn’t time control, just the opposite actually he is, or was rather, a renegade. And yes Vastra and Jenny are awesome, one of the few good elements of the otherwise dire modern series.
Though I am a bit conflicted on the Sontaran comic relief, on the one hand his actually funny, on the other hand it’s sad what the new series have done to the Sontaran race, these guys managed to invade Gallifrey before the Daleks ever did.
Ehhh, it seemed just fine and dandy to me. But I’m not trying to judge it against the past or the future iterations. If I were the sort to watch things instead of play video games I’d probably watch it.
I think the Doctor mentioned at one point he disabled the Randomizer since he wasn’t actively trying to hide from the Black Guardian anymore after the ‘Key to Time’ season was over.
Romana said something akin to ‘how will we be able to tell the difference compared to before’ as she wasn’t impressed with the Doctor’s handling of the TARDIS as is.
Hey don’t get your hopes up too quickly! Dina could always reject the prospect of the girlfriend status. Yes, she’s connected and motivated, but we don’t know the ship has sailed until we see her reaction to the girlfriend tag!
This IS willis we’re talking about.
It was the ’90s, man. Nobody knew what they were doing. Plus, there was a dinosaur craze going on at the time, ever since Jurassic Park and The Land Before Time. The Dinosaurs TV show, We’re Back! A Dinosaur Story, goddamn Prehysteria! All three of those were a prominent part of my childhood. And then…then…there’s Adventures in DinoCity. Go to Google. Find the poster for that movie. DESPAIR.
Then again, that era also gave me the awesome Discovery Kids show Bonehead Detectives of the Paleoworld. And that…THAT…was a HUGE part of my formative years. If it weren’t for that show, I might not be going into evolutionary biology as a profession.
You forgot Cadillacs and Dinosaurs the animated series of 1993 which only lasted one season [damn studios] based on the Capcom game which was based on the 1990 RPG by GDW which was based on the 1986 comic series Xenozoic Tales
With your name, I just assumed you were an industrial conglomerate, and you made superglue. I mean, why else would you need a flammable chemicals warning?
Mild surprise, because while there are a lot of things it could have been a reference to, I mostly ignored Skyrim’s plot and went exploring and dungeon-crawling.
I’m significantly more surprised by the speed of your reply.
I doubt it. Things with Malaya are never simple. Besides, Carla and Malaya could still be a ship that’s sailing from the old universe. They Are in the same social circle in DOAverse afterall.
Though Carla and Marcy coming together Somehow would be sweet too, cause I could always go for more Carla screen time and less Malaya screen time. Cause she a bongo. Can I say bongo in these comments?
Well, we already have a Legion of Doom (Legion of DoAm) forming with Blaine (maybe Faz), Ross, Ryan, Mary, Raidah (maybe), and Mike (just for kicks). No reason we can’t have a Justice League analog. We already have Amazi-Girl, after all.
Seeing as how Dina is an acquaintance of Amazi-Girl that promise might be easy enough to keep. I just hope she does not get all legalistic since technically speaking Becky is living on campus illegally.
terrible lizbians, beckysaurus, frecklociraptor, radiometric dating, sample group 1, paleodorable…still working through the options. i think we’ll need a primary vote
Little bit of jumping the gun there to just flat-out assume she’s your girlfriend now, but then again heroes of legend are always pledging undying troths within minutes of meeting, so, y’know, whatever floats your boat, incredibly hot fictitious lesbian redhead girl
I’m only commenting to make a stack of Carla gravitars.
Eh I’ll actually comment. I didn’t expect to see Dina getting matched with anyone either but hey, that’s why the twists and turns of story telling are interesting! If everything went the way we were expecting then… Well everything would be boring and we would all explode. And we would have all expected the explosions so even they would be boring.
The Sarah knows where the Dino-Ninja (Her last name is Japanese, lets go with the terms from that culture) lives, and can get a report later. When no one is around.
…Somehow that place seems perfect for the loud fun person that Becky likes to be.
I still maintain she needs to get help from Leslie about the housing situation so it can be legal, and then if she works at Galazzo’s, she’ll be in a perfect area to still meet/be with friends.
Heh! Becky can rest easy, she has the power of the dinosaurs on her side. Dina is one focused and determined young woman protecting her first love. Beware evil doers!
imagine being willis and presenting happiness in bite-size form to many, but feeling the sea of unease whenever a particularly pleasant scene makes its way into your work. i’d just give up on sneakiness and add a doom clock
…Ya know this chapter being from Dina’s POV is kinda gimmick. So he could do a countdown as a gimmick.
Like what if one day we show up to the site and next the buffer watch there’s this big as clock counting down by the second to three week from then but with no context at all, and every time someone asks him about it he just responds with “hmmm” And then we just wait for it to reach zero.
It’s probably best I remind you, that the bad is already happening. There is a wild Toedad on the loose that needs to be corralled. Plus he left a poster with Becky on it downstairs where it could come into Ruth’s line of sight.
I turned on my PC this afternoon and discovered that all my settings have been switched to default, all my music, pictures, videos and games MISSING and even all my favourite websites links are gone… NOT HAPPY WINDOWS UPDATE!
Similar issues to this are why I dropped Windows for Linux. That said it’s also why I do a backup of all that once every month or two (it’s also useful if you manage to get hit with a virus) even on Linux.
I can’t speak for IE since I haven’t used it in near two decades, but Firefox and Chrome both make it fairly easy to backup your bookmarks to a file. The Registry Editor at least used to have the ability to back up the Windows Registry to a file. Even the Desktop is reasonably easy to backup.
Google Drive, Dropbox and similar services make it easy to store those files off site, so a hard drive crash or the like can’t wipe them out.
I honestly don’t see how an update could possible do that. I almost want to call it a hack or virus… that would be a really strange hack, but probably rather less odd than an update causing it. If it is a result of an update, it means many, many things went catastrophically wrong in some kind of cascade.
All I know is that Windows 8.1 was working when I hit the “shutdown and update” option this morning, when I came back from the city and switched my PC back on, all the settings were reverted to default settings(which is particularly troublesome as it shrunk the fonts uncomfortably small(I’m legally blind and had the settings to make all the fonts a lot bigger). My music, video, picture and docs were not where they are supposed to be either. I used Spyhunter and then Norton 360 to hopefully remove any nasties before switching my PC off and then on again expecting to have to spend the next few hours restoring files and settings but was surprised and relieved when all my files and setting were restored… so I have no idea what the heck happened this afternoon.
Well, when it comes to windows 10 … keyloggers, send mail content, personal information, file use, etc.
…10 years ago anyone would have called that a trojan.
I have been having a squee-gasm ever since Dina put on the hoodie, and now that my ship has been confirmed I am slowly loosing ability thing good, hurga durga durga.
Mulling through the Becky tag, I noticed two things:
One, Becky’s hair/face (That whole eye situation) has NOT been drawn like that until the most recent scene or two.
Two, Becky’s hair, at its longest part, extended down no further than her ear when she first got the haircut. Now it’s drawn down to her neck.
That could mean only one of two things.
One, a dramatic and well thought out parallel by Willis regarding Becky’s state of mind compared to the only other one with that hair style and oddly drawn eye dealio, the stoner girl (Who’s name I can’t be bothered to look up). Where is Becky’s mom during all of this, again..?
Or two, Willis’s style changed since Becky got a haircut and now he’s just drawing her differently, Willis forgot how he drew Becky before and slowly changed it, or Willis is rushing out strips to appease his ravenous fanbase with eternally daily comics and thus Becky got drawn weird.
I’m obviously going to go with the former, that mastermind Willis is drawing a parallel regarding Becky’s degenerating state of mind and Sarah’s inevitable sending her home to her parents. Yea.
Thank you for pointing out to me something that happened no more than a couple days ago. (Whoops)
Blame the fact that my summer class just ended so this past week and a half have been a blur of trying to make sure I had everything I needed in order.
Still, that only adds more parallel between the two!
So with regards to Becky’s eye you said she hadn’t been drawn with it over her hair before, then I thought of this.
This chapter is from Dina’s perspective Dina is known to see through things others can’t, Amber’s mask for example, so maybe that’s why we can see through her hair and it’ll go back to how it was before in the next chapter.
He might be drawing it that way (covering the right side of her face) so he can give her a new nick-name — Right-Eye Rebecca. (Left-Eye has already been taken)
Dinasaurus Becks is progressing rather quickly. Which, considering how many fake outs we had with Ruth and Billie fills me with terror. A sad Dina is a heartbreaking phenomena.
I think it’s because, in real life, hair isn’t a solid wall of mass, you can still see details through it, especially since most over-the-face bits of hair aren’t saggy pompadours or anything, just strands.
Nah, that’s just the excuse animators used to use to explain why visible eyes isn’t that big a deal. And as an excuse, it never made sense, because it’s still drawn as a solid mass. In actuality, it just never looked good, and that’s really what matters here.
Both of you are moving awful fast don’t you think? Dana you can hardly handle social interactions, let alone a relationship, Becky you are still not over Joyce and might make Dana feel like a rebound, maybe it’s not best to dive into “girlfriends” territory so soon, especially without floaties and a innertube.
I also think they’re moving really quickly. Like, they JUST admitted their crushes, and haven’t even kissed yet, and Becky’s already declaring the title of Girlfriend. But some people move that quickly, so whatcha gonna do!
While I understand Becky’s eagerness (Panel 4 Dina is so cool), I hope that Dina is also happy with mutual crushes = instant girlfriend. If Dina’s not into declaring a title yet, then I hope she says so kindly and immediately so that she gets to figure things out at her own pace. Like, maybe go on a date first? Learn each other’s last names? I’m just saying.
Speaking of last names did you know Dina’s last name means Monkey Mountain?…I’ve been waiting like half a year to comment that but never had a good chance.
This wasn’t a good chance but it was at least A chance T.T
According to my dictionary, “Saruyama” written as “past mountain” is a place name, while “Saruyama” written as “monkey mountain” is both a surname and a place name. (This dictionary, Jim Breen’s proper names, gives no other name results.) So while “monkey mountain” is the real-life surname, “past mountain” makes more sense in the dinosaur theme.
Main thing that makes me think Dina’s safe from more than a splash of rebound worry is that Dina and Joyce are just, so utterly different from one another, at least in how they relate to Becky. Joyce is an endless sea of reactions that Becky can incite through easy teasing and poking. Dina is steady and stable and unwavering
“Found”?? How does that work? They are where they are, unless they were on a network drive that got disconnected when the settings wiped out… guessing not the case though, for a home user…
Also, by update, do you mean the Win10 update by any chance? That would make it slightly more understandable than a typical update…
My files weren’t in my PC library where I normally expected them to be this afternoon so as a last ditch effort. I used the search feature and located them in C:Users/Radio Rentals for some reason.
They’re too cute (hot dang!) / It’s a fine beginning for Beckasaur
They’re too cute (hot dang!) / And we hope we won’t see Toedad no more
They’re too cute (hot dang!) / Dina won’t let Becky sleep outdoors
They’re too cute (hot dang!) / And the whole fandom ships it
Well, Dina originally smooched Becky to prove that she wasn’t Not into girls. I think at this point it’s more like she’s into Becky more than any other less specific classification. She doesn’t seem particularly concerned with labeling her interests in people. Not yet anyway.
I love the Becky’s feelings of surprise communicated in that very last panel. I think it is very true to the character.
This is the point where Becky has to face her ghosts, her feelings of inferiority and inadequacy and that nasty subconscious voice that keeps on telling her that she can’t have nice things. She has to persuade herself that she doesn’t need to ‘persuade’ Dina ‘not to make a mistake’. She doesn’t need to second-guess the decisions Dina is quite capable of making for herself.
I don’t know if it would have worked out at all.
Daisy is the desperate kind of Available and Becky is the annoying kind of Available.
They’re both Blatant about it but I think if either had tried it would have been really awkward and fumbly. Becky needed someone more level headed and Daisy probably needs the same.
I’ve said this elsewhere but it deserves to be said here: It says a lot about just how screwed up Becky is that she is this surprised by the news that, yes, she can have nice things.
I’ve always found it weird when people proclaim their status as SOs at the start of the attraction and Then move on to getting to know each other. Aside from my first real relationship, the process was always getting to know someone for a while first.
Like, when I see characters get all nervous about the introduction of the phrase “I love you” into their relationship dynamic, I find it silly, since that part usually comes Before the “Hey lets go steady” part.
Also it bugs me so much when I see other users with this particular Carla gravitar that I have happened upon. I ought to make a real account or whatever and get my own stinkin gravitar. That’ll show em!
I see what you’re saying but… well the phrase ‘playing at being lovers’ does jump to my mind. Many of the relationships in DoA are like Joyce and Ethan in a lot of ways – make-believe adult relationships to cover their understandable dislocation fears from their new environment. A lot of the time, they’re mostly driven by lust and the occasional common interest.
In the characters’ defence, they have to decide what they want in a long-term partner before they can seek one Most 18-year-olds don’t know the answer to that and have a long way to go before they can even properly frame the question. Right now, most of them seem to satisfied with ‘friends with benefits’ or ‘cute person gives me comfort’.
I’m not calling them shallow, I’m just saying that the main cast are all young enough not really to be able to go deeper in emotional terms.
See, I often forget that even though I’m in college, and thus ‘peer age’ with the characters in the comic, I’m still 8 years older than them.
Ben why must you make me feel so old.
Wrryyyyyyyyy
Which explains quite nicely how Becky can go from being completely and utterly in love with Joyce to being over her (or is she…) and being with Dina in such a short space of time
Nature abhors a vacuum. At some point of time whoever happens to be closest to the hole in your heart will be the focus of your attraction.
When you are young, your attention span is limited and you think it means the world. if your holes and the swirls of attraction keep growing and engulfing you as they do with some, you become an artist.
So I haven’t read this strip for like a week now and I return to find this the day after my birthday. Willis, THIS IS THE BEST GIFT EVER!
Excuse me while I go hyperventilate.
That is a confrontation that cannot be avoided; certainly for Amber’s sake and maybe for Sal’s too. I wonder just how deep that scar on Sal’s hand is, both literally and emotionally.
You know you’re looking at a sweet ass relationship when you wish you could be one of those involved and it doesn’t even matter who.
(You might think Becky has the worse end of the deal with the hopeless prospect of trying to find a free bridge in the likely near future, but consider: She gets to make out with Dina.)
So happy to see this strip!! We’ve got the shipping covered, now let’s see some handling! 😀
Also, I believe Dina is totally capable of taking care of Becky, based on her face in panel 4. Though Becky learning to take care of herself would be a good thing, too.
I see a coming adventure, with the two of them going it alone with a plan to finally defeat toedad. No outside help, just their own McGyverish enthusiasms. Just what two 18 year olds would do.
And that last half panel is cool. Nearly abstract and deconstructed. Becky’s face reduced to some C shapes and circles. DYW has such great narrative talent that it is easy to skip over his artistic skills.
I can understand the freaked out look on Becky’s face in the final panel. Positive developments absolutely can be scary. I know that when good things happen in my life, it doesn’t take me long to start wondering what the catch is, what will happen to screw everything up.
Even if Becky is generally less neurotic than I am, considering the way her life has been going lately, it stands to reason that she would have a hard time “trusting” anything good that happens to her.
It’s honestly not important to me whether or not this relationship ever becomes sexual. I just want to see the two of them bond, and be a support to one another.
So, at some point they have to face the fact that it doesn’t take _that_ long to get to Indianapolis and back.
The best case scenario is that he has no means to pay to get on a bus back to Bloomington, and has to call a friend from La Porte (let’s hope it’s not Joyce’s parents, that would make the situation much harder to manage). That’s four hours.
Plus the time he’s going to spend wandering around looking for the mall and, upon finding one, searching fruitlessly for Becky. He’s going to need a hotel room.
Let’s call it two days or so, assuming minimum levels of credulity.
so does Becky actually want sex? She may be a lesbian but that doesn’t change the fact that she grew up similarly to Joyce. She could have the same aversion to pre material hanky panky that Joyce does. (its just that she wants lesbian post material hanky panky)
Seeing as she got on Ethan’s case for not having sex with Joyce, and that conversation with Joyce at the sushi restaurant regarding noodling of the caboodle I’d say Becky doesn’t have the same hang ups regarding pre marital hanky panky that Joyce does.
I think Becky’s trying to analyze the parts of her upbringing she feels restricted by and disassociate from the bad shit. She’s still a religious person, she just doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with pre-marital hanky panky.
In the last panel, is Becky saying “I have a girlfriend!” because she now thinks of Dina as an objet d’amour; or is she thinking back to Kaitlin and realizing that “I (already) have a girlfriend”?
So I was originally on the “that was fast” wagon, but I think this is a really natural and positive progression for both of them.
Becky’s story arc has emphasized how much she relies on Joyce for support, but also how she still has it really bad for her, something she hasn’t had the chance to deal with amidst all the other shit piling. With Dina, Becky gets times away from Joyce that she desperately needs, and time with someone who can love her the same way she loved Joyce.
As for Dina, this is how she works. Dina doesn’t spend time hesitating over the details; she just goes for it because why shouldn’t she? She likes Becky, so why not? Besides that, Becky is the one cast member who engages Dina on her level, not looking at her as an opportunity to “fix” some social defect; she talks about what Dina is passionate about, said how much she wanted to flirt with her when her friends were saying how weird it would be. For Dina, someone who doesn’t put a whole lot of thought and worry into romance. Simply put: Dina likes Becky, ergo she wants to spend time with her and smooch her on the mouth and talk about dinosaurs.
Remember; relationships aren’t the endpoint of a character arc in DoA or in life. They’re the beginning of something new.
I never commented until I had read every previous strip I could, I really love this series.
I am really happy Dina has found someone to love (though I do kinda wonder if she might be an asexaul like I am, but if she’s not, that’s ok). It is cool that she has Asperger’s like me too. She and Marcie are my favourite characters.
Uh – ok, enough of this “Love-Fest” Lets get down to some good ‘olcollege practical jokes already! Like switching the labels from your roommates cat food to his tuna fish. Or freezing her underwear. How ’bout the old “bottle rocket through the hole you just burrowed through the wall to the next dorm room?” Hilarious Hijinks that’s what we need!
Holy fuck… Panel 4 gave me serious chills. It’s Dina, you know she isn’t just talking shit. Toedad is in a real jam. They’re gonna sock it to him good. He’d better put his best foot forward, or prepare to get nailed.
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THIS is the scene I’d been hoping for since the whole storyline started. This is the scene I thought was put in jeopardy by the presence of toedad. This strip is the moment of IMMENSE catharsis that I have been hoping.
The problems aren’t solved and the spectre of toedad still looms large over them, but while I still can, I want to say:
YAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSS
Hey, they take the little happinesses where they can 😀
I sense a lot of happiness incoming. In a slipshine
not anytime soon, if ever 🙂
Well, you could do unlicensed one.
I mean it’s far from being unprecedented.
I would’ve thought that in the last panel, Becky would look more…I dunno, HAPPY about having an awesome girlfriend. Instead she repeats the phrase with a great big frown. 😕
Now you two lovebirds just stop stressing for a moment and kiss again already! ;D
She not unhappy. That’s shock. Her world has just gone from a total mess to having someone who cares for her. It is a BIG thing her brain cannot process it all in one go.
hence: split panel!
That’s not a down-turned mouth, that’s the top of her mouth. The patch at the bottom of the panel isn’t her chin, it’s her teeth.
I just realised that, but thanks. xD I originally thought it was her chin, curse these crappy orange low-energy light bulbs!
Maybe, but I think they have a lot of territory to cover first. And you do remember which comic you’re reading?
Yes we’re reading “The Plot Is Not Primarily Driven By People Making Poor Decisions.
So, real life then?
Psh, Real Life rarely makes as much cohesive sense as DOA….probably because Life doesn’t exactly have plot
Hazzah!
cant think of a funny comment, too overfilled with dina joy
oh wait, what’s the ship name
Decky?
Bina?
Deckisaurus?
Beckysaurus Dex?
Dinasaurus Becks.
This is the one.
Dinasaurus Becks.
Doyathinkisaurus
I am also on the Dinasaurus Becks bandwagon.
There’s also Bena and Dicky, and I will admit the idea of a girl/girl pairing named Dicky does have some humor to it.
Willis dubbed the ship “Beckasaurus”. I believe it’s even been in the hovertext recently.
Dinky, on account of their mutual diminutive stature.
I rather liked Terrible Lizbians.
Willis has suggested Beckasaurus or Terrible Lizbians.
I’m sticking with Tribadceratops.
Your wordplay, it pleases me.
Where is Jen?
In the boot of Nightbridge’s car.
Have you seen the movie Highlander? same kind of thing.
That means ninja rick will win….
Damn it! We were doing so well
I believe she is trying to break people of the habit of commenting on how she is always first when she is first, and how she wasn’t first when she isn’t. :p
You guys keep making such a big deal over “I came home from work and fell asleep for two days”
YAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
’nuff said
omg yayyyyy I know. I particularly love how the cartoony/anime convention of the eye thru the hair looks in the last frame. SO GOOD!!! This is fabulous <3<3<3 my cold dead heart may have reawakened!!
Oh yes, oh yes oh so much. And both Dina and Becky are in a better place than they were this morning – because of each other.
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
wooooooooooooooh
WOOOOOOO
Weeeeeeeeeeeh
WEEEEEEE
that FAAAAAAAAACE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCN-a0NsNk
Is this where we post our reaction videos?
Here’s mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N-2h9LGHIY
hm
[Yes!](http://youtu.be/P3ALwKeSEYs)
… I need to get off reddit more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR9wdLy8DEg
And here is what Dina hears when she gets badass.
https://youtu.be/V595oWP5tSE
Hot dang.
I was going to say that.
Your gravitar is pretty freaking adorable, btw.
Thanks! The tiny bit of it that’s my own work is the badly done eyepatch. Mostly it was done by someone competent.
Hot dang, the camera is about to go up my nose!
Break a bottle of champagne over that sucker, because this ship is officially launched!
I figured timelords were usually on time. It launched a WHILE ago.
It may have launched a while ago, but now it has canon escorts.
Canon or cannon? Actually now that I think about it, either one works here.
Which is nice!
Have you ever watched Doctor Who? this guy couldn’t arrive when he intended to if someone held a gun to his head. Especially not when he’s got the randomiser on.
I watched an episode that involved an awesome gay woman with a servant she was clearly banging, some sort of guy who was from a warrior culture that usually won its interstellar conquests so hard they went out of their way to be sporting, and diseases in victorian london, the Doctor showing up at some sort of paranormal research thing with the gal who was his companion, and a martian on a soviet ship. Oh, also something about four brothers, 3 of whom were evil, and they ran a space junking business. The Doctor’s timeliness didn’t come up much. I just assumed time control meant he could show up on time but then I suppose that wouldn’t be funny.
He gets it right about half the time. Factors to his being wrong include:
1) The Tardis is actually meant to be piloted by six people at once, and the Doctor does kind of a shit job of replacing all of them, especially since he’d jury rigged the console with things like hammers and bits of string.
2) The Tardis is ancient, and was an antique even when he first got it.
3) It actually has a mind of its own, and even when it doesn’t take him where he wants to go, it usually takes him where he needs to be.
4) He threw the manual into a supernova for disagreeing with him. He also scraped through Time Lord school with a 51% on the second try.
He isn’t time control, just the opposite actually he is, or was rather, a renegade. And yes Vastra and Jenny are awesome, one of the few good elements of the otherwise dire modern series.
Though I am a bit conflicted on the Sontaran comic relief, on the one hand his actually funny, on the other hand it’s sad what the new series have done to the Sontaran race, these guys managed to invade Gallifrey before the Daleks ever did.
Wasn’t the Sontaran invasion only possible because the time lords temporarily dropped their defenses….
While the Daleks fought right through them.
Ehhh, it seemed just fine and dandy to me. But I’m not trying to judge it against the past or the future iterations. If I were the sort to watch things instead of play video games I’d probably watch it.
That sounds like an amazing episode and I want to see it. Anyone know which one it was?
Rutee is describing several episodes from the last season.
I think it is the first 4 or 5 episodes, but not 100% on that.
The commas were meant to denote separate eps, yes.
I think the Doctor mentioned at one point he disabled the Randomizer since he wasn’t actively trying to hide from the Black Guardian anymore after the ‘Key to Time’ season was over.
Romana said something akin to ‘how will we be able to tell the difference compared to before’ as she wasn’t impressed with the Doctor’s handling of the TARDIS as is.
A timelord is never late. They arrive exactly when needed.
We drank all the champagne preemptively, Doctor…but WOOOO BECKASAUR REIGNS
Hey don’t get your hopes up too quickly! Dina could always reject the prospect of the girlfriend status. Yes, she’s connected and motivated, but we don’t know the ship has sailed until we see her reaction to the girlfriend tag!
This IS willis we’re talking about.
Perfect setup for an action or buddy-cop movie. Like Theodore Rex, but not idiotic.
rebecca rex?
As long as it doesn’t star an animatronic T. rex voiced by George Newbern, alongside Whoopi Goldberg, then I’m good.
Regina
*back from Google*
…So that was a thing.
…
WHY THE HELL WAS THAT A THING?!
i…i actually think that blacksploitation may have been less offensive…
am i a bad person?
Speaking as a black person…no. That makes you a RATIONAL person.
Whoopi Goldberg would very much like to know the answer to that as well. She tried to get out of making it and the studio sued her.
Well, at least George Newbern became Superman afterwards.
there must have been a small section of the population that were mildly traumatized in their childhood by hearing superman’s voice come out of that
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Charley Murphy!!!!
https://youtu.be/18gElAzSL4E?t=113
It was the ’90s, man. Nobody knew what they were doing. Plus, there was a dinosaur craze going on at the time, ever since Jurassic Park and The Land Before Time. The Dinosaurs TV show, We’re Back! A Dinosaur Story, goddamn Prehysteria! All three of those were a prominent part of my childhood. And then…then…there’s Adventures in DinoCity. Go to Google. Find the poster for that movie. DESPAIR.
Then again, that era also gave me the awesome Discovery Kids show Bonehead Detectives of the Paleoworld. And that…THAT…was a HUGE part of my formative years. If it weren’t for that show, I might not be going into evolutionary biology as a profession.
Open the door
Get on the floor
Everybody walk the dinosaur
You’re welcome. That’ll be with you all day now.
…GODDAMN IT.
You forgot Cadillacs and Dinosaurs the animated series of 1993 which only lasted one season [damn studios] based on the Capcom game which was based on the 1990 RPG by GDW which was based on the 1986 comic series Xenozoic Tales
Forgot Super Mario Bros. : THE MOVIE!!! But I think everybody want to forget that one.
Your mention of “Xenozoic Tales” makes me realize just how much we lost when Denis Kitchen was forced to close down Kitchen Sink Press back in 1999.
OMG, I had completely forgotten about that one. I loved that cartoon, even more than Blackstarr. Off to Google.
I actually laughed out loud at that last panel. XD
That last panel really is the greatest. XD
My reaction the first time I got a girlfriend.
My reaction the first time I realized I was going to get laid.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *pops into a billion pieces of joy*
WE NEED 10 LITERS OF SUPERGLUE, STAT !
I can provide that.
WHY do I have that???
Why WOULDN’T you have that?
With your name, I just assumed you were an industrial conglomerate, and you made superglue. I mean, why else would you need a flammable chemicals warning?
According to the MSDS, superglue (cyanoacrylate adhesive) is not flammable.
And on the subject of superglue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfrfGeXlPMY
Ooops … forgot the HTML for the link —
go for it
Well, no, but you may need flammable chemicals to make it, right? (Must keep the funny alive…)
I’m so happy right now, and I know shit can go wrong so fast, but this is still a really happy moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy6W2fyvvxw
Yes!
You kids are both adorable. <3
Hot dang. I love this comic strip. Here, take my heart and all my vital organs now instead of crushing them later.
good shit
“You gotta ask ?”
Well you kinda implied you weren’t over Joyce, so… yeah.
OH YEAH that’s a thing. Oh well, it’s probably nothing importa–
~~~
WILLIS uses DRAMA TAG!
It’s super-effective!
I honestly assume that’s why she seemed a bit hesitant and not the whole “I’m gonna be under a bridge soon.” thing.
Oh and want it to be worse? Notice how when Dina asked if she liked her Becky didn’t say ‘Yes’
Well I guess it’s time to change my name to MeghanTheDreamCrusher.
That’d what I thought at first, but she does say “yeah” in the 2nd panel.
It doesn’t feel like agreement to me to be honest more like just makin noise to give herself a second to think/keep the conversation going.
Least that’s how I read.
Still I may have been a bit to quick to expect the doom and gloom. I’ll just wait for the gloom to show up next week.
I just realized what I’m terrified of. Dorothy is accidentally pull a Sarah and get Becky kicked out of the school
Accidentally going to*
Aww. Now I don’t feel like there’s a warrior of the XII Legion here anymore.
Not that I thought it was a reference, but it was still nifty.
What if I told you it was a , just not to that.
Mild surprise, because while there are a lot of things it could have been a reference to, I mostly ignored Skyrim’s plot and went exploring and dungeon-crawling.
I’m significantly more surprised by the speed of your reply.
You have no idea how hard it was for me to not reply to this immediately.
I suspect otherwise, but I’ll take your word for it.
I feel she couldn’t believe something was finally going her way
Not gonna lie that’s a bit more plausible than my doom scenario.
Still keepin the new name till I get bored of it though.
And by all means, keep that avatar too <3
Grumpy Evelyne will also stay till I get bored of her.
Although the new name makes her seem more appropriate so I think that bought her some extra time, lucky you 😛
Hot dang…
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang.
THE HOTTEST OF DANGS
Let’s celebrate! Pancakes for everyone!
Dino-shaped pancakes with strawberries!
Pancakes and waffles, while experimenting with crepes!
http://pool.cream.org/blog/la/crepe.jpg
dina is all badass with her hoodie shadow, then bam! realization hits becky!
…like a truck. awesome last half-panel. perfect transition to becky imagining what “rolling in it” means
Oh yeah, panel four Dina. That girl can really work that dinosaur hoodie.
the eyes, the horns…she can control them all fairly well. take care not to cross her!
She’s like Batman, but with dinosaurs.
Dino-Woman? Tricera-Chick? The Mesozoic Avenger? Somethin’ like that.
Huh, is “Clever Girl” getting filtered now?
Anyway, alternately: The Raptor!
no, no. she has already claimed “that dinosaur chick”. only that can be her hero name. so it is written, so shall it be!
…actually, i’m kinda warming to ‘clever girl’. don’t tell my earlier convictions
If we didn’t already know this entire chapter is Dinacentric this would be a perfect cue to segue back to Malaya and Marcie.
Hot dang, Marcie may (or may not) have a girlfriend.
Schrodinger’s girlfriend?
like hell marcie’d ever share with some schroerdinger guy! bet she’d have a thing or two to say about–oh, right
Heisenberg’s girlfriend. If Marcie figured out how fast she and Malaya were going she’d misplace her.
I doubt it. Things with Malaya are never simple. Besides, Carla and Malaya could still be a ship that’s sailing from the old universe. They Are in the same social circle in DOAverse afterall.
Though Carla and Marcy coming together Somehow would be sweet too, cause I could always go for more Carla screen time and less Malaya screen time. Cause she a bongo. Can I say bongo in these comments?
WHOOPS that answered my question.
In retrospect, Malaya would probably make a very poor bongo, poor acoustics and all that.
Malaya’s no more of a bongo than Sal, Marcy, or Carla.
Augh, help, the adorable is through the roof!
At this rate, Dina’s gonna end up in the Justice League!
nah teen titans
Well, we already have a Legion of Doom (Legion of DoAm) forming with Blaine (maybe Faz), Ross, Ryan, Mary, Raidah (maybe), and Mike (just for kicks). No reason we can’t have a Justice League analog. We already have Amazi-Girl, after all.
Blaine is Darkseid, he’s so evil that the legion of doAm would help stop him.
we’re gonna need some Legion of DoAm fanart pronto! i just NEED that in my life.
i cant even imagine the toedad costume XD
Wow I can not turn down an art request.
any way here you go 🙂 this time with color!
http://chickenforyou.tumblr.com/post/126698147292/the-legion-of-doam
~Final Fantasy Victory Theme~ intensifies!!!
Seeing as how Dina is an acquaintance of Amazi-Girl that promise might be easy enough to keep. I just hope she does not get all legalistic since technically speaking Becky is living on campus illegally.
SCREAMS
Do we have a ship name yet? Please tell me it’s something cool.
Bena?
…
Dicky?
A lesbian ship named Dicky MUST HAPPEN.
terrible lizbians, beckysaurus, frecklociraptor, radiometric dating, sample group 1, paleodorable…still working through the options. i think we’ll need a primary vote
I’m personally quite fond of Dinasaurus becks, myself.
im with Blue on this one
Sample group 1. 🙂
I believe Willis dubbed the ship “Beckasaurus”
Dicky of Becna
Little bit of jumping the gun there to just flat-out assume she’s your girlfriend now, but then again heroes of legend are always pledging undying troths within minutes of meeting, so, y’know, whatever floats your boat, incredibly hot fictitious lesbian redhead girl
*plays the Doo-Wop version of “Blue Moon” on the Muzak*
*pays hundreds of caps to see dino-girl smooching redhead at dive bar in the wasteland*
I didn’t want the idea of dina dating someone but this is acceptable i guess
Dina got a girlfriend before me checkmate life
I’m only commenting to make a stack of Carla gravitars.
Eh I’ll actually comment. I didn’t expect to see Dina getting matched with anyone either but hey, that’s why the twists and turns of story telling are interesting! If everything went the way we were expecting then… Well everything would be boring and we would all explode. And we would have all expected the explosions so even they would be boring.
I do enjoy the unexpected if something like Dina getting a girlfriend can happen who knows what’s next
Dina knows herself well. And she knows she can kick ass.
But what about Sarah? She’s still waiting for the report from her dino-spy.
Won’t somebody please think of the Sarah?!
the sarah is known to bide its time, while the d. sauruyama…uh…it–um…dina’ll get around to it “–__–
The Sarah knows where the Dino-Ninja (Her last name is Japanese, lets go with the terms from that culture) lives, and can get a report later. When no one is around.
I completely forgot about Sarah and her overly petty shenanigans xD
That should have been drawn into the frame:
“Achievement Unlocked: Bad-assed Honeybun…”
i have never seen a more fitting phrase for something that is both cute and badass
*Bleep Bloop*
You can do it! Maybe she’ll be able to pizza it up at Galazzo’s.
…Somehow that place seems perfect for the loud fun person that Becky likes to be.
I still maintain she needs to get help from Leslie about the housing situation so it can be legal, and then if she works at Galazzo’s, she’ll be in a perfect area to still meet/be with friends.
*CROSSES FINGERS*
That does seems like a good solution. I wonder if it would give Galasso’s daughter some air time, too.
is it me or does Dina sound even cooler here if you imagine her talking like Starfire from the Teen Titans cartoons?
The pattern works, but the voice has to change.
Walky would totally be beast boy. Vegetarian McNuggets though.
“Oh yes! Come Amazi-girling with us! It is most delightful.”
…I sense a potential Slipshine comic brewing. That’s or the voices in my head are wrong…again.
They need to get to second base first… which for Dina means Becky gets to see her without a hat.
And knowing Dina, she probably put the tricera-top on first, then slid the t-rex hat out from under it.
yes, their slipshine would be 36 pages of giddily giggling and snuggling
…and yet I would probably pay for it too.
ya, somehow you’d feel more dirty if you read that one illegally
Too lewd, man!
OH… Oh no……………. oh NO. THE CUTENESS. IT’S OVER 9000.
Heh! Becky can rest easy, she has the power of the dinosaurs on her side. Dina is one focused and determined young woman protecting her first love. Beware evil doers!
What is it with Asians pairing up with freckled lesbian redheads in this series?
(thinks back to Ultracar/Malaya in Shortpacked) Holy crap, come to think of it…
so, wait, is marcie boned then?
…or not, as the case would be
I think we’ve discovered one of Willis’ fetishes.
oh, hush. it’s like having ketchup on your instant ramen. no one plans on it, but college presents unique opportunities
…now I kinda have to try ketchup ramen.
drain the fluid, at least partially. no one wants swimming ketchup blobs
Ketchup is like really, incredibly bland, spaghetti sauce.
Ah, but there are several “spaghetti sauces : bolognaise, napolitaine , carbonara…
No!
this is adorable willis but I’ve been burned before
What the fuck. Happy day but, I could never have seen this coming. What the fuck.
I’m so happy! And I’m also so scared because this comic has taught me to expect something terrible to happen next…
imagine being willis and presenting happiness in bite-size form to many, but feeling the sea of unease whenever a particularly pleasant scene makes its way into your work. i’d just give up on sneakiness and add a doom clock
…Ya know this chapter being from Dina’s POV is kinda gimmick. So he could do a countdown as a gimmick.
Like what if one day we show up to the site and next the buffer watch there’s this big as clock counting down by the second to three week from then but with no context at all, and every time someone asks him about it he just responds with “hmmm” And then we just wait for it to reach zero.
Am I terrible for kinda wanting that to happen?
yes, but you’re in bad company :3
Is this the Dark Side? Who brought the cookies?
The Willis giveth, and the Willis almost immediately taketh away then stompeth all over your feels.
If he keep it up he’ll run out of feels to stomp on.
If Shortpacked has taught me anything, it’s that you never run out of feels to get crushed underfoot.
It’s probably best I remind you, that the bad is already happening. There is a wild Toedad on the loose that needs to be corralled. Plus he left a poster with Becky on it downstairs where it could come into Ruth’s line of sight.
I turned on my PC this afternoon and discovered that all my settings have been switched to default, all my music, pictures, videos and games MISSING and even all my favourite websites links are gone… NOT HAPPY WINDOWS UPDATE!
“install ubuntu”
Similar issues to this are why I dropped Windows for Linux. That said it’s also why I do a backup of all that once every month or two (it’s also useful if you manage to get hit with a virus) even on Linux.
I can’t speak for IE since I haven’t used it in near two decades, but Firefox and Chrome both make it fairly easy to backup your bookmarks to a file. The Registry Editor at least used to have the ability to back up the Windows Registry to a file. Even the Desktop is reasonably easy to backup.
Google Drive, Dropbox and similar services make it easy to store those files off site, so a hard drive crash or the like can’t wipe them out.
You should make backups. Who knew?
What? As an IT guy, that sounds truly bizarre.
I honestly don’t see how an update could possible do that. I almost want to call it a hack or virus… that would be a really strange hack, but probably rather less odd than an update causing it. If it is a result of an update, it means many, many things went catastrophically wrong in some kind of cascade.
All I know is that Windows 8.1 was working when I hit the “shutdown and update” option this morning, when I came back from the city and switched my PC back on, all the settings were reverted to default settings(which is particularly troublesome as it shrunk the fonts uncomfortably small(I’m legally blind and had the settings to make all the fonts a lot bigger). My music, video, picture and docs were not where they are supposed to be either. I used Spyhunter and then Norton 360 to hopefully remove any nasties before switching my PC off and then on again expecting to have to spend the next few hours restoring files and settings but was surprised and relieved when all my files and setting were restored… so I have no idea what the heck happened this afternoon.
Probably failed to load the profile, then when you logged out and back in, it succeeded the next time.
Well, when it comes to windows 10 … keyloggers, send mail content, personal information, file use, etc.
…10 years ago anyone would have called that a trojan.
They’re too hot. Hot dang. Call the…no wait, don’t call anyone.
we don’t need no water!
They can get each other wet enough without third party support.
Damn, I thought no one beat me to it.
For once, I will not damn you Willis. Instead, I thank you.
I have been having a squee-gasm ever since Dina put on the hoodie, and now that my ship has been confirmed I am slowly loosing ability thing good, hurga durga durga.
Panel 4 Dina confirmed for secret mob boss of Clark Wing.
Has Becky’s hair been drawn like the stoner girl ever since she got her hair cut? Or is that more recent..?
There’s somewhat of an offputting feeling about the way it’s drawn
Mulling through the Becky tag, I noticed two things:
One, Becky’s hair/face (That whole eye situation) has NOT been drawn like that until the most recent scene or two.
Two, Becky’s hair, at its longest part, extended down no further than her ear when she first got the haircut. Now it’s drawn down to her neck.
That could mean only one of two things.
One, a dramatic and well thought out parallel by Willis regarding Becky’s state of mind compared to the only other one with that hair style and oddly drawn eye dealio, the stoner girl (Who’s name I can’t be bothered to look up). Where is Becky’s mom during all of this, again..?
Or two, Willis’s style changed since Becky got a haircut and now he’s just drawing her differently, Willis forgot how he drew Becky before and slowly changed it, or Willis is rushing out strips to appease his ravenous fanbase with eternally daily comics and thus Becky got drawn weird.
I’m obviously going to go with the former, that mastermind Willis is drawing a parallel regarding Becky’s degenerating state of mind and Sarah’s inevitable sending her home to her parents. Yea.
It’s a very angular cut that looks different from every angle, and/or she might have just mussed it a different way today.
[Where is Becky’s mom during all of this, again..?]
While talking with Dina, Ross mentioned that “her mother passed last year”.
Dead; it was established a few strips that she died about a year back.
Thank you for pointing out to me something that happened no more than a couple days ago. (Whoops)
Blame the fact that my summer class just ended so this past week and a half have been a blur of trying to make sure I had everything I needed in order.
Still, that only adds more parallel between the two!
In regards to your question: dead.
So with regards to Becky’s eye you said she hadn’t been drawn with it over her hair before, then I thought of this.
This chapter is from Dina’s perspective Dina is known to see through things others can’t, Amber’s mask for example, so maybe that’s why we can see through her hair and it’ll go back to how it was before in the next chapter.
He might be drawing it that way (covering the right side of her face) so he can give her a new nick-name — Right-Eye Rebecca.
(Left-Eye has already been taken)
Dinasaurus Becks is progressing rather quickly. Which, considering how many fake outs we had with Ruth and Billie fills me with terror. A sad Dina is a heartbreaking phenomena.
Things tend to progress quicker when one is not abusing the other.
Which’ll make the inevitable crash that much worse.
Fair point. My counterargument is that Willis has a heart of coal, and our tears bring him joy while our joy burns him like the sun.
Willis has said that he finds the bitter tears to be tastier.
“Half the fun of writing a webcomic is trolling your readers” — common wisdom
Honestly one of the things that makes me want to write a webcomic.
Your idealism makes me nostalgic.
…yesssssssssssssssssssss
This is awesome.
But I hate the way Becky’s eye is coming through her hair. There are limits to that, for me at least. It just looks weird and alien here.
But this is still awesome.
Yeah, I find the common anime “can see eyebrows through hair” weird enough. Here we can see her whole face. Translucent hair! *brrr*
I think it’s because, in real life, hair isn’t a solid wall of mass, you can still see details through it, especially since most over-the-face bits of hair aren’t saggy pompadours or anything, just strands.
Nah, that’s just the excuse animators used to use to explain why visible eyes isn’t that big a deal. And as an excuse, it never made sense, because it’s still drawn as a solid mass. In actuality, it just never looked good, and that’s really what matters here.
“Hot dang!”
Becky couldn’t be more of a Southern stereotype if she tried.
she could be stubbornly asserting her heterosexuality. but then she wouldn’t be becky, now would she?
What if she tried talkin like Sal?
She can’t use real curse words, because that would make Jesus cry.
Guess how Noah’s flood happened ? 😊
Both of you are moving awful fast don’t you think? Dana you can hardly handle social interactions, let alone a relationship, Becky you are still not over Joyce and might make Dana feel like a rebound, maybe it’s not best to dive into “girlfriends” territory so soon, especially without floaties and a innertube.
i’ve seen that video. they are not ready for that
Dina owns floaties and an innertube though. We saw her use them when she was accidentally kidnapped, so it’s good 🙂
I also think they’re moving really quickly. Like, they JUST admitted their crushes, and haven’t even kissed yet, and Becky’s already declaring the title of Girlfriend. But some people move that quickly, so whatcha gonna do!
Except that one time when they kissed. 😛
I do agree though they seem to be moving kinda fast, and if this wasn’t a Willis comic that wouldn’t have me extremely worried.
oh! Indeed they did kiss, and it was grand. Bedtime for me.
While I understand Becky’s eagerness (Panel 4 Dina is so cool), I hope that Dina is also happy with mutual crushes = instant girlfriend. If Dina’s not into declaring a title yet, then I hope she says so kindly and immediately so that she gets to figure things out at her own pace. Like, maybe go on a date first? Learn each other’s last names? I’m just saying.
Speaking of last names did you know Dina’s last name means Monkey Mountain?…I’ve been waiting like half a year to comment that but never had a good chance.
This wasn’t a good chance but it was at least A chance T.T
Hmm, not certain ; there are possible homonyms so we’d have to see the kanji
According to my dictionary, “Saruyama” written as “past mountain” is a place name, while “Saruyama” written as “monkey mountain” is both a surname and a place name. (This dictionary, Jim Breen’s proper names, gives no other name results.) So while “monkey mountain” is the real-life surname, “past mountain” makes more sense in the dinosaur theme.
It can also refer to the ‘mountain’ monkeys live on in zoos. And in every example image I found, such as this one http://blogs.c.yimg.jp/res/blog-99-10/reimei_tear_5/folder/496544/09/27794209/img_0 the monkeys look bored to death. 🙁
Main thing that makes me think Dina’s safe from more than a splash of rebound worry is that Dina and Joyce are just, so utterly different from one another, at least in how they relate to Becky. Joyce is an endless sea of reactions that Becky can incite through easy teasing and poking. Dina is steady and stable and unwavering
They’re not already planning their wedding.
This is SLOW for teenagers.
I had that achievement unlocked for a solid week, then my account crashed.
World Leaders and Carpet Eaters…
is that a ship name or just a prediction?
A reference to Zelda, and the reoccurring monster, the “Like Like.”
I found my missing files but it’s going to take ages to get all my settings back to how I like it.
Dina sure is a smoooooth operator.
“Found”?? How does that work? They are where they are, unless they were on a network drive that got disconnected when the settings wiped out… guessing not the case though, for a home user…
Also, by update, do you mean the Win10 update by any chance? That would make it slightly more understandable than a typical update…
My files weren’t in my PC library where I normally expected them to be this afternoon so as a last ditch effort. I used the search feature and located them in C:Users/Radio Rentals for some reason.
“You gotta ask?”
“About most things.”
Aspie five, Dina. 🙂
Hot Dang Becky.
They’re too cute (hot dang!) / It’s a fine beginning for Beckasaur
They’re too cute (hot dang!) / And we hope we won’t see Toedad no more
They’re too cute (hot dang!) / Dina won’t let Becky sleep outdoors
They’re too cute (hot dang!) / And the whole fandom ships it
NOW KITH
You want them to be friends? Think that’s already happened. 😛
Over Four Hundred Cute
Dina is love; Dina is life.
Sigh. Just go ask Leslie for help. I’m sure there’s also a gay student’s association on campus. How hard can it be to think of these things?
Remember who these two are.
I’m a little confused though. I never got the impression that Dina was into girls.
She smooched Becky at the dorm party. It was out of the blue then, but that was a while ago.
Well, Dina originally smooched Becky to prove that she wasn’t Not into girls. I think at this point it’s more like she’s into Becky more than any other less specific classification. She doesn’t seem particularly concerned with labeling her interests in people. Not yet anyway.
+1 Ditto
Heck, it’s the first time she appears seriously interested in a mammal. And arguably even a post-Pleistocene one.
I don’t think outsmarting Becky’s dad will present much of a challenge. Perhaps Becky could just wear a false mustache.
The idea of Glasso loudly suggesting a mustache disguise for a woman brings me joy
This is the most adorable thing ever!!!!
I really hope I’m not cheapening the moment here, but I feel it just has to be said…
NOW… KIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSS!!!!
OK, so I just squealed like a little girl…. and neither am I little nor am I a girl.
This is made my week.
I should feel bad that I got more excited about this then learning of a classmates wedding…
Hot dang, I just realized my eyes don’t care about my hair!
YES YES YES!
first panel is some Hey Arnold! shit right there
I love the Becky’s feelings of surprise communicated in that very last panel. I think it is very true to the character.
This is the point where Becky has to face her ghosts, her feelings of inferiority and inadequacy and that nasty subconscious voice that keeps on telling her that she can’t have nice things. She has to persuade herself that she doesn’t need to ‘persuade’ Dina ‘not to make a mistake’. She doesn’t need to second-guess the decisions Dina is quite capable of making for herself.
Welp today’s a good day. First I found $27 lying on the ground when I went to get water and now this. I’m happy. For the moment anyways.
Nawwwh such cuties~ I’m excited to see how this ship sails!
Damn it!
R.I.P :Daisy/Becky.
I don’t know if it would have worked out at all.
Daisy is the desperate kind of Available and Becky is the annoying kind of Available.
They’re both Blatant about it but I think if either had tried it would have been really awkward and fumbly. Becky needed someone more level headed and Daisy probably needs the same.
mhm. Daisy and Becky both like the girlybits, but I honestly don’t see them having much chemistry together.
Especially since Becky is the “no sex until marriage” type, and Daisy is the “being desperate for sex is my defining trait in this continuity” type.
Becky is the waiting until marriage type? News to me.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/noodle/
Hot dang, indeed!
I’ve said this elsewhere but it deserves to be said here: It says a lot about just how screwed up Becky is that she is this surprised by the news that, yes, she can have nice things.
Yeah, that’s’ what gets to me more than anything
Hot dang
In one corner, Toedad mcAbusivePants Dickbag van der Butthole. In the other, Dina, who has a girlfriend now.
Place your bets, plaaaaace your beeeeeets
I’ve always found it weird when people proclaim their status as SOs at the start of the attraction and Then move on to getting to know each other. Aside from my first real relationship, the process was always getting to know someone for a while first.
Like, when I see characters get all nervous about the introduction of the phrase “I love you” into their relationship dynamic, I find it silly, since that part usually comes Before the “Hey lets go steady” part.
Also it bugs me so much when I see other users with this particular Carla gravitar that I have happened upon. I ought to make a real account or whatever and get my own stinkin gravitar. That’ll show em!
I see what you’re saying but… well the phrase ‘playing at being lovers’ does jump to my mind. Many of the relationships in DoA are like Joyce and Ethan in a lot of ways – make-believe adult relationships to cover their understandable dislocation fears from their new environment. A lot of the time, they’re mostly driven by lust and the occasional common interest.
In the characters’ defence, they have to decide what they want in a long-term partner before they can seek one Most 18-year-olds don’t know the answer to that and have a long way to go before they can even properly frame the question. Right now, most of them seem to satisfied with ‘friends with benefits’ or ‘cute person gives me comfort’.
I’m not calling them shallow, I’m just saying that the main cast are all young enough not really to be able to go deeper in emotional terms.
See, I often forget that even though I’m in college, and thus ‘peer age’ with the characters in the comic, I’m still 8 years older than them.
Ben why must you make me feel so old.
Wrryyyyyyyyy
Mudamudamudamudaaaa
Which explains quite nicely how Becky can go from being completely and utterly in love with Joyce to being over her (or is she…) and being with Dina in such a short space of time
FWIW, I think that Becky needs a lot of healing time before she will be able to go beyond ‘someone I hold to make me feel safe’.
It goes both way : Dina is pretty much pouncing on the first person that admitted thinking of flirting with her.
Nature abhors a vacuum. At some point of time whoever happens to be closest to the hole in your heart will be the focus of your attraction.
When you are young, your attention span is limited and you think it means the world. if your holes and the swirls of attraction keep growing and engulfing you as they do with some, you become an artist.
Thats what she said
If I have learned anything from you Mr Willis, it’s that shit can and will hit the fan.
And chances are, I still won’t be prepared.
Next achievement to unlock: saying “hot damn” instead of “hot dang”.
Becky and Joyce could join a support group for the Vulgarity Impaired.
Sydney (from Grrl Power) should be the one heading it. Oh, the things she could teach them. 😛
This is both adorable and badass at the same time.
So I haven’t read this strip for like a week now and I return to find this the day after my birthday. Willis, THIS IS THE BEST GIFT EVER!
Excuse me while I go hyperventilate.
We have paper bags for everyone.
I’ll just leave this here,
https://youtu.be/8Tc7MH5ZXbg
I’ll be up here in the FCS Beckasaurus 😀
The greatest chapter. The greatest webcomic.
I’m worried about where this is going. This is going to end up with Amber running into Sal again, isn’t it?
And she’ll figure that Dina borrowed her costume at the most inconvenient time.
That is a confrontation that cannot be avoided; certainly for Amber’s sake and maybe for Sal’s too. I wonder just how deep that scar on Sal’s hand is, both literally and emotionally.
She… Would most probably beat amber very badly, then get into a fight with Marcie and/or get expelled.
(not a fistfight, for Marcie)
I’d have to guess that it is an easy to notice scar. She never takes off those gloves.
FREAKING DINAS FREAKING DETERMINED LITTLE FACE GOSH
Interesting…
Though, I personally hope this remains an entirely romantic relationship.
Because I headcanon Dina as Ace.
Though there are Aces who are willing to have sex. Rare they may be.
Ah, whatever. Not my choice.
Shit just got real.
No, ship just got real.
On the one hand, I’m super jealous. On the other, it so F-ing cute!!!!!
DAMN, WILLIS, I SO WANT TO LIVE IN YOUR BRAIN!
Holy crap why would you want that, an artist headspace is a scary and dark place.
(replace “artist” by “person”)
Why are there so many transformers in here!
You know you’re looking at a sweet ass relationship when you wish you could be one of those involved and it doesn’t even matter who.
(You might think Becky has the worse end of the deal with the hopeless prospect of trying to find a free bridge in the likely near future, but consider: She gets to make out with Dina.)
Time for some kickass music to celebrate! And to herald some more asskicking.
The Ebb and the Flow
Awesome!
Also, at this rate, Dina will be the Gatekeeper of Secrets. Quiet and unassuming, but knows what’s going around on campus.
“And I do not make promises lightly, because I am aware of my limitations”.
Raar. Got me right in the whatevers.
<3
Dina is officially my favorite character now.
So happy to see this strip!! We’ve got the shipping covered, now let’s see some handling! 😀
Also, I believe Dina is totally capable of taking care of Becky, based on her face in panel 4. Though Becky learning to take care of herself would be a good thing, too.
Thanks, Willis! 24 hours of yay!!!
Naw.
Omg…..omg….the hair…..it’s. ..it’s. …eating her eyes…..
Pin it down and call The Donald! He knows how to deal hair-borne parasites the final blowdryer.
I see a coming adventure, with the two of them going it alone with a plan to finally defeat toedad. No outside help, just their own McGyverish enthusiasms. Just what two 18 year olds would do.
Hot dang, Dina looks scary when she has her mind set…
And that last half panel is cool. Nearly abstract and deconstructed. Becky’s face reduced to some C shapes and circles. DYW has such great narrative talent that it is easy to skip over his artistic skills.
She’s never made promises lightly, have there been some that she’s broken?
Hoping this all cumulates in Leslie adopting Becky.
Dina is so cute in panel 1! Now I’m jealous of Becky!
I’ve waited for this for so long!
And then: prison.
I can understand the freaked out look on Becky’s face in the final panel. Positive developments absolutely can be scary. I know that when good things happen in my life, it doesn’t take me long to start wondering what the catch is, what will happen to screw everything up.
Even if Becky is generally less neurotic than I am, considering the way her life has been going lately, it stands to reason that she would have a hard time “trusting” anything good that happens to her.
It’s honestly not important to me whether or not this relationship ever becomes sexual. I just want to see the two of them bond, and be a support to one another.
Only Dinah can make love and romance sound like a declaration of war.
So, at some point they have to face the fact that it doesn’t take _that_ long to get to Indianapolis and back.
The best case scenario is that he has no means to pay to get on a bus back to Bloomington, and has to call a friend from La Porte (let’s hope it’s not Joyce’s parents, that would make the situation much harder to manage). That’s four hours.
Er, four hours that way, so five hours including the hour or so it’s going to take for him to get to Indianapolis in the first place.
Plus the time he’s going to spend wandering around looking for the mall and, upon finding one, searching fruitlessly for Becky. He’s going to need a hotel room.
Let’s call it two days or so, assuming minimum levels of credulity.
so does Becky actually want sex? She may be a lesbian but that doesn’t change the fact that she grew up similarly to Joyce. She could have the same aversion to pre material hanky panky that Joyce does. (its just that she wants lesbian post material hanky panky)
Seeing as she got on Ethan’s case for not having sex with Joyce, and that conversation with Joyce at the sushi restaurant regarding noodling of the caboodle I’d say Becky doesn’t have the same hang ups regarding pre marital hanky panky that Joyce does.
Judging from this and this, she definitely wants lesbian pre-marital hanky-panky.
To paraphrase her in her first conversation with Ethan: “Dads are great and all, but boobs are better.”
I think Becky’s trying to analyze the parts of her upbringing she feels restricted by and disassociate from the bad shit. She’s still a religious person, she just doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with pre-marital hanky panky.
SQUEEEEEEEE! <3 😀
Beckysaurus.
In the last panel, is Becky saying “I have a girlfriend!” because she now thinks of Dina as an objet d’amour; or is she thinking back to Kaitlin and realizing that “I (already) have a girlfriend”?
Considering the “hot dang,” I’m pretty sure she’s referring to Dina. Based on this: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/fix/ I think anything between her and Kaitlin is over, at least for now. That aspect wasn’t her dad’s doing.
…Beckina ?
I suppose. Dicky seems kinda inappropriate.
Yes, Becky, now you’re rolling in it!
I feel like this is the perfect song for this strip and this couple:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stZND2iX_bw
It’s always the quiet ones.
It’s amazing to go all the way back to the very first strip and to see the evolution of the drawing style, comparing the two Beckys, then and today.
I’m actually crying right now. Thank you, sir.
So I was originally on the “that was fast” wagon, but I think this is a really natural and positive progression for both of them.
Becky’s story arc has emphasized how much she relies on Joyce for support, but also how she still has it really bad for her, something she hasn’t had the chance to deal with amidst all the other shit piling. With Dina, Becky gets times away from Joyce that she desperately needs, and time with someone who can love her the same way she loved Joyce.
As for Dina, this is how she works. Dina doesn’t spend time hesitating over the details; she just goes for it because why shouldn’t she? She likes Becky, so why not? Besides that, Becky is the one cast member who engages Dina on her level, not looking at her as an opportunity to “fix” some social defect; she talks about what Dina is passionate about, said how much she wanted to flirt with her when her friends were saying how weird it would be. For Dina, someone who doesn’t put a whole lot of thought and worry into romance. Simply put: Dina likes Becky, ergo she wants to spend time with her and smooch her on the mouth and talk about dinosaurs.
Remember; relationships aren’t the endpoint of a character arc in DoA or in life. They’re the beginning of something new.
Hello, readers. My name is Becky MacIntyre and I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.
And everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
I never commented until I had read every previous strip I could, I really love this series.
I am really happy Dina has found someone to love (though I do kinda wonder if she might be an asexaul like I am, but if she’s not, that’s ok). It is cool that she has Asperger’s like me too. She and Marcie are my favourite characters.
I think it’s wayyyy too soon to call this “love”
…for me or for Dina?
Dana, she legitimately just met Becky yesterday
WHAT THE HELL! Why is Dina so awesome? That is way too much awesome for one character. You need to stop this, Willis. MY FEELS CAN’T TAKE IT!
Uh – ok, enough of this “Love-Fest” Lets get down to some good ‘olcollege practical jokes already! Like switching the labels from your roommates cat food to his tuna fish. Or freezing her underwear. How ’bout the old “bottle rocket through the hole you just burrowed through the wall to the next dorm room?” Hilarious Hijinks that’s what we need!
Holy fuck… Panel 4 gave me serious chills. It’s Dina, you know she isn’t just talking shit. Toedad is in a real jam. They’re gonna sock it to him good. He’d better put his best foot forward, or prepare to get nailed.
dina is so healthy & well adjusted tbh :’)