So in 20 years, it’ll be November in their freshman year, but then they’re talking about Season 40 of the Simpsons, how awesome Half-Life 3 is, and shopping at Percival McGillicuddy’s Kilt Emporium.
Hah! 200 years? Keep dreaming. It’s taken 14 billion years to produce ONE good Duke Nukem, usually “good” sequels take even longer to produce than the originals.
Nah, it’ll be Half-Life 2: Episode 2: Part 2; Half-Life 3 will still be rumored but not officially announced, despite the whole thing *still* ending on a massive cliffhanger.
5) Dumbing of Age is not set in any particular year. I only say this because every time some pop culture reference shows up, someone is all “OH HEY HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE AREN’T WE STILL IN 2010???” Nope, sorry, we ain’t! The comic moves slow, but it operates on comic book time. This webcomic is not gradually going to become a period piece. Just assume the strip is always set in whatever year it is right now.
I wouldnt count on that.
It was given a name a year back (maybe two), but they have been trying to get some sort of ReReBootBoot made for, like 10 years.
Main….Rainmaker dont seem to have much luck actually getting the funds together regardless of how good/bad the concept is.
I don’t believe in any ReBoot where the Users are actual human beings and not incomprehensible Lovecraftian gods. Nothing Mainframe’s User ever did made the slightest lick of sense from a human perspective, and that was kind of weirdly awesome.
This is currently set in October 2015 or October 2016, depending which way the sliding timeline is supposed to err. Jurassic World came out in July 2015, so even if the timeline is ‘the most recent fall semester’, the movie’d been out for months.
And ‘Jaws’ had no connection to SPECTRE either; he was a minion-for-hire, working first for Karl Stromberg in “The Spy Who Loved Me” and then for Drax in “Moonraker”.
Becky has more layers than a geological strata, more depth than the Bayanzag find site and she is capable of change right before Dina’s eyes. She is not frozen in time like the fossils, but that only makes Dina love her even more.
The doctor is correct. There is a raptor between Is and The. It’s clearly shown when she was returning Danny’s stuff to him…and displaying the butt plug.
I did not know that- I think they’ve moved the pterosaurs since last time I checked!
Some rooting around on Wikipedia found me “Avemetatarsalia or Ornithodira – the clade of crown group archosaurs that are closer to birds than to crocodiles.” Members: Pterosauromorpha and Dinosauromorpha. So, one group of extinct flappy things and another group of which most surviving members are flappy things.
Meanwhile, Testudines continues to dash around the Tree of Life in a most untortoiselike manner.
Yeah, defining birds as all creatures more closely related to modern birds than to their closest extant relatives makes a lot of sense, since that allows you to call all creatures with some form of feathers birds.
….Huh, that might explain why she decided to be a Raptor in defense today. Because it was on her shirt? I know it’s a go-to for her, but I feel like that’s the sort of logic she’d use.
Yeah, I totally want one for my classroom. Currently I’ve got a home-made one where I feathered the crap out of one of those cheap wooden velicoraptor models that look all lizardy.
Oh man, Carla’s face in Panel 1. That’s one hyper worried mama bear right there. With a nice dose of kicking herself in the butt for being completely oblivious.
Actually, I think that her real concern is that Walky is so mad that he might be dangerous! Some fans who feel slighted can and do over-react, after all! We know that Walky isn’t a danger to Dorothy but Carla may not be so sure.
I have no idea what his plan is, but I’m pretty sure what he’s going to receive is an invitation for sex and an admonishment that he’s annoying but cute.
Unless Amber or Dorothy flips at him for room invasion and/or shoving/hurting/charging at Dina. The folks on the other side of the half-bath my freshman year had guests who’d wander into/through our room -we gave up and started locking the door on our side even when we were in there once a strange guy wandered in one night when we were both in bed. My roommate was already out, I was starting to drift off, and he woke us both up when he slammed the door open and walked in. Did not help that neither of us slept in pants at that time and we both had an 8 AM the next morning.
Walky’s not going to suffer consequences for this the same way that:
Sarah didn’t when she threatened Ms. Warner with a bat that she hammerspaced.
Sal didn’t when she grabbed a passerby and instead of them getting angry they basically started orgasming.
Dorothy didn’t when she smacked Walky so hard his head rocked back.
Mike didn’t when, well, everything Mike does.
Ruth didn’t when she slapped a dong onto Mary’s face or tossed Joyce’s gloves out the window.
It’s weird how serious some folks here are taking this stuff. It’s like, DoA isn’t 100% realistic; sometimes it has wacky non-sequitors. That’s why there’s a superhero on campus.
Yep, in the real world he could be out on his ass for barging through their room and assaulting a girl who told him he couldn’t come in. Of course this is the Walkyverse so normal rules don’t apply.
Silamy, my daughter had a similar experience her freshman year. It seems to be a hazard of two rooms sharing a bathroom. It was still better than having to shuffle down the hall to share with 39 other girls but they kept their door locked after that.
Of all the people to “out-dinosaur” Dina, it was /WALKY/?
True, he technically cheated, but seriously! Holy sh–wait why do i get the feeling dina has been positioned this way relative to amber for a very good reason
I think she’s worried about Billie and/or Ruth after what she overheard Mike say about depression not always being easy to spot and that worry is taking instant priority over this dumb little nerd fight.
But y’know, it’s not like she’s a good person who cares about others or anything. She’s a jerk, she swears.
A JERK I TELL YOU!!! But since she won the nerd fight anyway she can just go and… hang around where Ruth or Billie is. Not to check up on them or anything, she just wanted to go there anyway…
…Carla set up a rube goldberg machine that spelled out her name to revenge Mary. I don’t think this has gone too far for Carla, I think she’s just having an epiphany about other matters (Ruth) and it’s distracting her.
Yeah I am putting on Earnestness Hat here and say that barging into peoples’ rooms is not cool, nor is knocking them over, regardless of canonicity or lack thereof.
Meteorite. Not to be confused with a meteor which burns up on atmospheric entry or meteoroids which are small particles not classified as asteroids traveling in a solar orbit.
Did he knock her over, or just shock her into falling down and then jump over her? Because that second one is way more fun and, while probably equally dangerous, a lot easier to justify as the aggressor when only considering one’s own actions rather than the consequences (potential or actual) to all involved.
Yeah, that’s how you accidentally end up seeing Mary naked in the middle of the afternoon.
I admit, that one encounter is the only time I’ve liked Mary. Not just for pervy reasons, but because I also enjoy lounging around in the nude in the afternoon, and I sympathized with her.
Way to blow it by being an asshole in all other contexts, Mary.
Love to see Walky explain why he broke into a women’s dorm room and invaded their bathroom to break into the dorm room of a woman who ran in and locked her door to escape him.
“But she implied that an old canceled cartoon show was unimportant! She HAD to be faced down, with a stern expression and a pointing finger!!”
(The campus guards look at each other.)
“Well, he’s clearly not lying, because nobody’s dumb enough to make that up. So…” (Looks at Walky.) “Just don’t do that again. Unless she insults Korra, in which case you are formally authorized to proceed.”
I do like how Dina has appointed herself as Amber’s guardian even though they’re not exactly close friends. Is it because Dina feels bad about letting Asshole Dad in their room? Or because Dina is a nice person and she sees that Amber is hurting and wants to help her but doesn’t know how except to avoid unwanted interactions?
Probably some combination of both
Crikes I’m happy the almighty god of the dumbiverse (Willis) takes lesbian prayers. Apparently this season was all about killing all the lesbians on pretty much every band of TV access.
That’s a common trope. I know someone in Person of Interest bit the dust, but that was more due to their role in the series as oppose to gender/ orientation. I respect that.
Or even preceding that all of the interpersonal communication and socialization advice Amber gave her. That kind of mentoring, striking the balance between not condescending or mocking, but also not completely just assuming she should know that stuff without any help, is pretty rare.
Yeah, pre-Becky, Amber was the only real friend Dina had, and even that was kind of a shot in the dark.
She’s gone to raptor mode to defend Amber’s privacy before – I think when Danny was looking for her after the Blaine fight.
They are close friends, especially when you consider how few friends either of them has at all.
But all those other reasons, and likely also Dina feeling that she should protect a member of her ‘pack,’ are almost certainly contributing factors.
Well, they are pretty close. We just haven’t seen them much together in the last while since they both have big storylines going on right now, especially Amber.
Apart from being friends, Dina feels compelled to pay Amber back because she saved Becky’s life, which is why she’s not going to spy on Amber like Danny wanted her to.
(Walky bursts into Dorothy & Sierra’s room. Dorothy’s leaning against the door, breathing heavily. Sierra’s in her bunk, reading.)
Walky: AHA! Now I…
Dorothy: …
Walky: …
Sierra: What’s going on?
Dorothy & Walky, in unison: YOU NEED TO LEAVE.
(Cut to Sierra standing in the hall with Carla, Ethan and Mike staring suprisedly at her)
Sierra (shrugs nonchalantly): I needed to leave.
Pedantry Powers Activate : The term canonical derives from judging the authenticity or veracity of religious texts. It has been extended to refer to the accepted facts of many fictional or literary settings.
While it may be used in a scientific setting as a short hand for the current concensus I do not believe I have ever seen or heard it used thay way. Therefore I must judge Dina’s use of the term canon to be incorrect.
In any case, within the canon of the JP films, Indominus is indeed canonical.
Don’t forget that it was also very precise Full Sized Scientists who thought a specimen of Apatosaurus displayed with an incorrect skull was a completely separate species (Brontosaurus).
1) Brontosaurus excelsis was never considered to be the same species as Apatosaurus ajax – until they got reclassified as separate genera again, it was Apatosaurus excelsis (both genera currently have 2 species assigned to them, but ajax and excelsis (the type species of each) are the only ones I can remember off the top of my head). (Most dinosaurs are commonly referred to by genus alone. The only exception I can think of is Tyrannosaurus rex.)
2) The head mistake was a completely separate issue from the classification controversy – it had already been classified as Brontosaurus before being put on display and given a conjectural head, based on a rather distantly related sauropod (Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus are Diplodocid Diplodocoids, the head the mounted Brontosaurus was given was based on that of Camarasaurus, a Macronarian).
That dinosaur has a stupid fake-Latin name that wasn’t even necessary. ‘Indominus’ is not a real Latin word. No, it isn’t. It doesn’t matter how many sources for it you can find on the Net; they’re all copying from each other. It is a word that *has no Latin meaning*.
But what about this meaning that’s cited everywhere, I hear you ask. ‘Indomitus’. With a T. Not an N. That is the word that means “unconquered” in Latin. And it differs from the made-up word by ONE LETTER. They could have used a real word and been completely right by changing one whole letter, but nope. Too difficult.
There are real dinosaurs named Irritator (so named because the palaeontologists who described it were pissed off with the fossil poachers they’d recovered it from for modifying the skull), Achilobator (a Latinization of a combination of a Greek name with a Mongolian word), and Tarbosaurus bataar (a misspelling of the same Mongolian word, baatar). Modifying Dominus to make it more intimidating, or misspelling Indomitus, or conflating the two, either deliberately or not, is hardly the hugest linguistic sin that would ever have been committed in dino-naming.
Hey, I’m a classicist, not a dinosaur expert. I can only get annoyed by what I know about. Now I know about these other sins, I’ll get angry about those too.
It’s possible. I have to admit I heard it as ‘Indomitus’ early in the movie, just because it made sense for it to be that. But eventually someone pronounced it so distinctly that I had to realise it was an N. I was like “Whaaaaaat?” Good thing there weren’t more people in the cinema with me.
And yet, some good might come from it:
Perhaps Amber will talk to Dina now.
Perhaps the break-in will transform Ruth the depressed into Ruthless the Terrible. And then Billie can get a word in.
And then everyone will be happy for about two minutes before Joyce and Becky arrive and learn what Walky did …
Re: hottest guy poll. I voted for Joe & Jacob because I feel those two are the most traditionally hot (buff dudes, I mean) but I see Ethan is winning which makes sense (he is both traditionally hot and nice) and Mike is in third which, ok, I guess. He does have that Draco-in-leather-pants thing for a fandom.
On an unrelated tangent: is it wrong I’m kind of shipping EthanxMike?
Ruth had better get her act together and quickly! Things are rapidly heading in the direction of a riot!
Meanwhile, Dina has learned an important thing about Jurassic Park: No-one cares about scientific canon; it’s all about whether it is entertaining. Additionally, Amber has learned that her life is surreal whether or not she is wearing a mask!
He can be. He really can be. He also has his moments, where he’s genuinely concerned and is trying to do right by people.
But he’s also got his butthole moments where he’s ignoring what people are saying, playfully chasing after his girlfriend through the halls to argue about nerd stuff, and bowling over tiny dinosaur ladies. This is definitely one of his more buttholier moments to be sure.
Since Walky and Carla were arguing about comparing the merits of “Ultracar” vs “Dexter and Monkey Master” — and Walky and Dorothy are both “Dexter” fans — I would presume that he is referring to episode 62 of D&MM.
There’s also the fact that Ultra Car, the only other series mentioned was also noted to not have even lasted one full season, so it is very unlikely to have an episode 62.
Except for the exemplary “Ultra Extended” fan edit/dub, working entirely based on recycled original (if sometimes deleted) footage and with some pretty good matches to the original voice acting, characters, and spirit, which is up to 87 episodes and has spawned at least 3 fandom wars over whether it is the best thing since the original episodes or utter blasphemy.
The studio has yet to shut it down for copyright violations, so either the creators don’t care, haven’t noticed, like it, or at least think it will support dvd sales.
Walky’s oblivious and focused on Dorothy, and Dina may see men as irrelevant due to being in a relationship with Becky. In any case, I think that’s the last thing on Dina and Walky’s minds at the moment.
My sincere apologies if this violates either the rule against “first” type posts or if I’ve overlooked someone else, but am I the first poster to point out that Dina clearly has a paleoplushies (tm, I think) raptor, and that everyone else should go to that website and see if any are for sale immediately, because they’re adorable and pretty accurate?
I think that might be a Beasts of the Mesozoic Velociraptor, actually, judging by the colours. This strip would have been written around the time of that line’s Kickstarter.
Walky no. This is super inappropriate you don’t just barge into someone’s room especially when they make it completely clear they don’t want you there. Jesus Christ this child needs to be disciplined.
I pose to Dina that there are still bones of new species being discovered every so often, therefore we could find a dinosaur similar to the Indominous which may earn such a name making it canonical in the possible future. Walky could also just use the multiverse excuse.
No way in hell there’s something like Incontinentus out there. The only theropods without feathers are ceratosaurs, which are known for having even smaller arms than T. Rex.
Quite true! Her HULK mode is scary though. I mean people have (justifiably) gotten glass shards in their face when she hulks out.
Joyce is seriously a rage ball when uncorked. It’s a result of all that repression, but really that repression is what’s saving everyone’s windows from being broken.
Paying for the KO of a genuine, certified, bug-fuggin’ crazy, asshole of a bad guy with nothing more than a sprained wrist is, to my way of thinking, an acceptable trade-off.
That and unfortunately, shenanigans like this can be super common and thus frequently overlooked at college campuses (doesn’t make bowling over someone and breaking into another student’s room okay, just that most people are socialized to shrug at that and go about their day, especially if they’re doing it because of a game with their friend).
So, it’s probably likely he won’t even get talked to about it… though, I think we now know why Dina glares at Walky in that upcoming preview panel where Carla is yelling in the hall.
Maybe, though that’s still a little ways away and we’ve got a yelling Walky panel and a calmer Dina & Amber panel before then, as well as a Billie one.
I’m not sure how much of a big deal it really is or should be. To some extent it’s part of communal living.
It’s also hard to tell since it’s being played for laughs – even Dina’s objecting to his dinosaur name, not to being knocked down.
Pretty much this. Walky’s not a close friend to Amber or Dina, but they both know him and they both know Dorothy pretty well. This is Dorothy’s boyfriend being weird, not something serious. Annoying maybe, maybe even funny, but not serious.
In a slightly different context, it would be serious and could really be a problem. But it isn’t.
In practice, it’s actually really hard to get expelled from a college campus.
There’s a lot of reasons for that. One of them is that expelling a college student involves losing not only their tuition but also all the investment in a student’s education that a student brings in. Historically, this has meant that those who’ve been investigated by the school and found to have likely committed sexual assault against another student can still manage to not be expelled from their campus. Much less students who harass or bully other students (though they may be fined, warned, moved off campus, or dropped from a particular class depending on the offense).
Obviously, there’s limits. A serial cheater on exams will likely be expelled. Someone being arrested can be expelled. And sometimes a school actually will take their policies seriously and occasionally expel a rapist whose had multiple investigations or someone who has directly endangered the life of another student or opened the school up to lawsuits.
Even if the school were to investigate this, the most I can see them actually trying to do would be giving him a formal warning or maybe talking to the RA (sorry Ruth, but your tight ship seems to be more and more going down in flames) about banning him from the girl’s wing and enforcing that more clearly.
And even that would probably be rescinded by the dean or his mom making noise (if she heard about it).
Doesn’t necessarily make it right, but for better or worse there’s a lot of society that views college as the place to make mistakes (but not at all mistakes, see Roz likely being on much shorter notice with the Dean than say maybe a Ryan) and not have as massive consequences for it as you would have in the greater adult world.
Basically the only way Mary would be expelled is if her bigotry became viral, yeah. If it damages the image of the school, you get expelled. Otherwise school is lenient.
If Amber and/or Dina complain loudly, Walky might get a talking to by Dorothy.
If Amber and/or Dina complain to Ruth (and she were hypothetically functional), Walky could get banned from the girl’s wing, enforcible by having his femurs fed to his face.
If they instead complain to Walky’s RA, he’ll probably get a half-hearted talking-to.
If Amber and/or Dina made a formal complaint to downstairs management, Walky would could get an formal warning that could escalate to more severe punishment on repeated offenses, but only if they care enough to do the paperwork, which they might well not.
And if Amber’s really pissed off, Walky will have to answer to Amazi-Girl.
Like Cerb says, campuses that are very slow to expel sex offenders even when their victims ARE ALSO STUDENTS THERE aren’t going to kick someone out for misdemeanor B&E, especially if his family is close friends with the Dean.
Panel 1 : Walky is full nerd rage mode. Carla seems worried he takes it too seriously.
Last panels : Now he seriously looks like he’s gonna try to beat her up :/
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stupid OCs!
That Rex is the real Mary Sue.
A real Mary Saurus.
m. suerus
Is that a relative of Dina?
The real Mary Sue was that Mosesaurus
MoSuesaurus surely.
I believe you mean BCs.
Walky showing just how smart he is by defeating Dina with his knowledge of a movie that I don’t think should be out by the time this comic started.
The comic is set in the present, whenever that present is.
Comic time.
So in 20 years, it’ll be November in their freshman year, but then they’re talking about Season 40 of the Simpsons, how awesome Half-Life 3 is, and shopping at Percival McGillicuddy’s Kilt Emporium.
Half-Life 3 in 20 years? Ha, that’s cute.
only 20 years? at BEST they’ll have some leaked HL3 concept art.
More like 200 years. “After hundreds of years in development, hopefully it would have been worth the wait.”
Thanks, Cyber-Gabe.
Meanwhile, we have released the one millionth hat for Team Fortress 2!
“So when will HL3: Episode 2 come out?”
[gaben.exe is not responding.]
But will it be able to run on GNU Hurd?
Soo…. right next to a GOOD Duke Nukem sequel?
We’re talking about conceivable possibilities here.
Hah! 200 years? Keep dreaming. It’s taken 14 billion years to produce ONE good Duke Nukem, usually “good” sequels take even longer to produce than the originals.
Nah, it’ll be Half-Life 2: Episode 2: Part 2; Half-Life 3 will still be rumored but not officially announced, despite the whole thing *still* ending on a massive cliffhanger.
Gaming Nerds. 😉
It is set in the year 20XX.
Sliding timeline.
It was referenced earlier too, with Sal’s bike and Becky
For reference, from the FAQ:
5) Dumbing of Age is not set in any particular year. I only say this because every time some pop culture reference shows up, someone is all “OH HEY HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE AREN’T WE STILL IN 2010???” Nope, sorry, we ain’t! The comic moves slow, but it operates on comic book time. This webcomic is not gradually going to become a period piece. Just assume the strip is always set in whatever year it is right now.
Isn’t he just trading that for “how are they fans of this movie that they were too young to see”?
Good thing at least the cartoons are fictional. Except Transformers.
Luckily, Hollywood reboots everything about every decade, so it’s not a problem in practice.
Then why hasn’t Hollywood rebooted Reboot?
They have. It’s being recorded.
Reboot: The Guardian Code
Google it. Cry.
I wouldnt count on that.
It was given a name a year back (maybe two), but they have been trying to get some sort of ReReBootBoot made for, like 10 years.
Main….Rainmaker dont seem to have much luck actually getting the funds together regardless of how good/bad the concept is.
I don’t believe in any ReBoot where the Users are actual human beings and not incomprehensible Lovecraftian gods. Nothing Mainframe’s User ever did made the slightest lick of sense from a human perspective, and that was kind of weirdly awesome.
I’m sorry, this has nothing to do with the current conversation, but I see your avatar and I can’t help it.
You can’t stop an object at rest, baby!
Surf’s up, space ponies! I’M MAKING GRAVY WITHOUT THE LUMPS!!!!!
This is currently set in October 2015 or October 2016, depending which way the sliding timeline is supposed to err. Jurassic World came out in July 2015, so even if the timeline is ‘the most recent fall semester’, the movie’d been out for months.
Yet suddenly Ruth felt the urge for femurs.
Dina was out-Dina’d…
she’ll recover!
Is the characters’ ability to do that with their teeth canonical?
It’s certainly comical!
Well, it IS a comic…so, there’s that.
They are all descended from Jaws and that redhead in Moonraker.
Jaws partner in Moonraker had blonde hair, you got confused because she has the same haircut as the Wendys logo.
If Billie can turn half-Asian, Jaw’s offspring can become any race they want, SPECTER has advanced gene tech.
I remember Hugo Drax as being a stand-alone villain with no connection to SPECTRE (correct spelling).
And ‘Jaws’ had no connection to SPECTRE either; he was a minion-for-hire, working first for Karl Stromberg in “The Spy Who Loved Me” and then for Drax in “Moonraker”.
When Jaws asks SPECTRE for genetics tech, SPECTRE listens.
They’re probably Saturnyns. Where are Amy and Rory when you need them?
Or they are Futurekind. Where is Martha Jones when you need her.
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Oh Dina, there’s more to life than canon. Someday, you’ll see that.
She’s roommates with Amber, pretty sure she already knows that.
She already does! She’s got a Becky now.
It’s her most treasured paleontological find!
and she didn’t even have to reconstruct her from bones!
Becky has more layers than a geological strata, more depth than the Bayanzag find site and she is capable of change right before Dina’s eyes. She is not frozen in time like the fossils, but that only makes Dina love her even more.
Dooooooooofuses 🙂
That was beautifully said.
I feel like Dina would write Jurassic World fanfic wherein the dinosaurs all had amazing plumage.
Dino-boobies?
Chicken breasts are literally delicious
Their plumage don’t enter into it!
So they are just pining for fjords?
I knew someone would make the python references. Nicely done.
Yes, but there’s also more to life than shit movies with deformed ceratosaurs for antagonists.
jet’s velociraptors! attack dina!
I do wonder how she’d react to wokwok cuddles, especially if they had their tuxedos and/or helms on.
Do they come with little hors d’oeuvres?
Probably pretty positively. Of course, all creatures possess inferior cuteness when compared to Anurognathus, the majestic chibi-headed fluffball.
Poor Dina.
Okay, so the real question here is: What does Dina’s shirt say on it?
The only things I can think of are “Die Hard” and “Big Bird”, neither of which seems to be something Dina would wear on a shirt.
I think it’s “Bird is the word”
The doctor is correct. There is a raptor between Is and The. It’s clearly shown when she was returning Danny’s stuff to him…and displaying the butt plug.
“Bird
is (image of raptor) the
Word”
Dino Nerd?
yeah its dino nerd
“The Bird Is The Word” with a picture of a pterosaur on it. 😛 She’s been wearing it for a while.
not a pterosaur
Alas, I was caught before I could correct myself!
must be nice when this is the horrible error in the comments that must be corrected, instead of dbhgyuixcgd
Actually, it’s just a picture of a raptor, looking back. Since all dinos and birds are blood-buddies.
All birds ARE dinosaurs. Or, since bird is so badly defined, all modern birds are dinosaurs and all of Ornithodira (dinosaurs + pterosaurs) are birds.
I did not know that- I think they’ve moved the pterosaurs since last time I checked!
Some rooting around on Wikipedia found me “Avemetatarsalia or Ornithodira – the clade of crown group archosaurs that are closer to birds than to crocodiles.” Members: Pterosauromorpha and Dinosauromorpha. So, one group of extinct flappy things and another group of which most surviving members are flappy things.
Meanwhile, Testudines continues to dash around the Tree of Life in a most untortoiselike manner.
Yeah, defining birds as all creatures more closely related to modern birds than to their closest extant relatives makes a lot of sense, since that allows you to call all creatures with some form of feathers birds.
….Huh, that might explain why she decided to be a Raptor in defense today. Because it was on her shirt? I know it’s a go-to for her, but I feel like that’s the sort of logic she’d use.
Here we see the Walkysaurus Rex overpowering the Dinaraptor. Magnificent isn’t it?
IRT the sliding timeline. Is Joyce’s favorite movie still Twilight? Is anybody’s?
Someday she’ll talk about how she first saw Twilight on TCM, and owns the Criterion Hologram.
Well, I guess the Doctor would know.
His thought bubble totally said she downloaded it into her brain chip, but he didn’t want to worry you and he thought Hologram sounded cooler anyway.
walky whyyyyyy
She should come back with a T-rex and kill Walky
She also needs a Mosasaurus.
And an invincible JP raptor with JP2 soundtrack as it comes into action
But not the Whocaresasaurus from JP3
The one that kill T-Rex
Spinosaurus or, to answer your question the Sgtwadeywilsoncaresasaurus.
I love the little fluffyraptor sitting on Dina’s desk. :O
Yeah, I totally want one for my classroom. Currently I’ve got a home-made one where I feathered the crap out of one of those cheap wooden velicoraptor models that look all lizardy.
Ooh, good eyes!
Awwwwwww
I think it might be one of those Beasts of the Mesozoic poseables that Willis plugged a while back. (I think it was Willis, anyway.)
Looks more like the plush velociraptors from Palaeoplushies.
… I can’t help but feel he won’t really know what to do once he gets there.
But Carla will probably know.
Or gets stuck in the bathroom if Dorothy’s locked her door, although at least they don’t keep showercaddies in there.
He’ll contend with Sierra in a barefoot dance-off first.
He didn’t know what to do after he threw a monkey in her head either, but it all worked out.
Ohh-kaayy… So that happened.
I think panels 3 and 4 might be my new favorite moment in DoA
well thats not okay
this is a fucking star-studded strip right here
It can only get studlier if Joe and Jacob appear.
Oh man, Carla’s face in Panel 1. That’s one hyper worried mama bear right there. With a nice dose of kicking herself in the butt for being completely oblivious.
Yup. That was a rude awakening last strip.
“But… but she SAID she was fine.”
“She smiled and everything!”
Actually, I think that her real concern is that Walky is so mad that he might be dangerous! Some fans who feel slighted can and do over-react, after all! We know that Walky isn’t a danger to Dorothy but Carla may not be so sure.
With a smidgin of “is this what I look like when I go full nerd”?
Heh, that probably isn’t it, but now I desperately want it to be at least partly it, because that would be super awesome and a great character moment.
Probably realizing that leaving Ruth to her own devices is a bad idea, and that Billie might be justified in her worries about Ruth.
To quote Tina from Bob’s Burgers: “Noncannonical! Noncannonical!”
“I think she’s trying to say nautical.”
So I gotta wonder, what exactly is Walky going to do with Dorothy if/when he catches her? Slap fight? Raptor-style attack? Tickle torture?
I have no idea what his plan is, but I’m pretty sure what he’s going to receive is an invitation for sex and an admonishment that he’s annoying but cute.
Unless Amber or Dorothy flips at him for room invasion and/or shoving/hurting/charging at Dina. The folks on the other side of the half-bath my freshman year had guests who’d wander into/through our room -we gave up and started locking the door on our side even when we were in there once a strange guy wandered in one night when we were both in bed. My roommate was already out, I was starting to drift off, and he woke us both up when he slammed the door open and walked in. Did not help that neither of us slept in pants at that time and we both had an 8 AM the next morning.
Walky’s not going to suffer consequences for this the same way that:
Sarah didn’t when she threatened Ms. Warner with a bat that she hammerspaced.
Sal didn’t when she grabbed a passerby and instead of them getting angry they basically started orgasming.
Dorothy didn’t when she smacked Walky so hard his head rocked back.
Mike didn’t when, well, everything Mike does.
Ruth didn’t when she slapped a dong onto Mary’s face or tossed Joyce’s gloves out the window.
It’s weird how serious some folks here are taking this stuff. It’s like, DoA isn’t 100% realistic; sometimes it has wacky non-sequitors. That’s why there’s a superhero on campus.
Yep, in the real world he could be out on his ass for barging through their room and assaulting a girl who told him he couldn’t come in. Of course this is the Walkyverse so normal rules don’t apply.
Silamy, my daughter had a similar experience her freshman year. It seems to be a hazard of two rooms sharing a bathroom. It was still better than having to shuffle down the hall to share with 39 other girls but they kept their door locked after that.
Um, Dorothy clearly said ‘nyeah nyeah’, which clearly translates into ‘I DARE you to come after me’ in bro-speak. No jury on Earth would convict him.
A bro-ry of his bro peers.
Pretty sure it will involve tickling and maybe slipshine.
Whoa! Character overlode!
It was part raptor! What a load of bullsh*t!
…Holy CRAP!
Of all the people to “out-dinosaur” Dina, it was /WALKY/?
True, he technically cheated, but seriously! Holy sh–wait why do i get the feeling dina has been positioned this way relative to amber for a very good reason
all dinosaurs fear the i. rex
Except the T-Rex
Door-guard, or so that she’s got her back to Amber’s now strategically-covered-with-bedding computer?
Yes.
Or did you mean Dina’s hair, and by Willis? (I am VERY slow on the uptake sometimes.)
Ooooooh, well noted.
If you’re implying that Amber has nothing on below the waist, then I remind you that she’s writing fanfiction, so obviously yes.
It’s not like anyone else was going to do it; they’d find it silly.
So, you think Carla realizes this has gone a little too far? Do you think Walky’s Room invasion is going to end in sex? Or something worse?
I think she’s worried about Billie and/or Ruth after what she overheard Mike say about depression not always being easy to spot and that worry is taking instant priority over this dumb little nerd fight.
But y’know, it’s not like she’s a good person who cares about others or anything. She’s a jerk, she swears.
A JERK I TELL YOU!!! But since she won the nerd fight anyway she can just go and… hang around where Ruth or Billie is. Not to check up on them or anything, she just wanted to go there anyway…
It was on the way, GEEZ. Stop making a big deal about it!
THAT’S what’s happening! She’s a jerk! And she just realized that Ruth being fine means she has to go back and be jerky to her until she’s not fine!
…Carla set up a rube goldberg machine that spelled out her name to revenge Mary. I don’t think this has gone too far for Carla, I think she’s just having an epiphany about other matters (Ruth) and it’s distracting her.
Amber types fanfic while not wearing pants.
Of course, as a former fanfic writer myself, I’m not sure how else one would write them…
Former or ‘Former? Or maybe former ‘former fanfic writer? (Kidding)
Though now I have the mental image of fanfic writer rehab…
“Now, here’s a keyboard. Do you want to type anything? No? That’s goo- SHE’S INPUTTING A URL, GET THE ORDERLIES IN HERE WITH SQUIRT BOTTLES!”
More notably, that is Amber, and not Amazi-Girl.
Yeah that was kind of my thought process. “Ah cute dinosaur joke. Hey, that’s Amber. Wait … Yup, cheek blushes. Better check tag to be sure. Whew.”
Exactly what I was gonna post! All that great stuff, and then I noticed that on top of it. Made me happy!
I’d put a blanket or similar on the chair in that case.
I don’t even like that made-up dinosaur!
….yes I do. Damn it.
s-so amber looks fine, right?
also what wow my biggest college nightmare, someone running into my room because I forgot to lock my side of the bathroom door.
So Amber is writing fanfic in her undies? She’s sporting a distinct lack of pants anyway.
Well, she’s got to collect inspiration, right?
Maybe she has joined the short-shorts thing that is all the rage in Read Hall now.
I await your evidence that she’s wearing undies.
It’s part of her process.
It’s not like Bucky has pants in the fic she’s writing.
Bucky may not be, but is Viper?
Probably sleep shorts.
Oh right, I forgot they got a shared bathroom that connects the two dorms. So what’s Walky even gonna do? I don’t think he’s planned that far ahead.
Carla appears behind him: “Sigh.. Let me handle(insert demonic laugh here)”
does he ever plan that far ahead?
Every now and then, Walky does something so fucking dumb that it becomes brilliant and suddenly reminds us of how smart he is.
Just not in the areas that matter overly much.
Anyway, jerk move there, Walky.
Yeah I am putting on Earnestness Hat here and say that barging into peoples’ rooms is not cool, nor is knocking them over, regardless of canonicity or lack thereof.
Agreed. Walky is out of order.
Yeah, but what repair company do you call to correct issues with a malfunctioning Walky?
…. the one in the next room over.
That is either very bright or very dumb of Walky. Possibly both.
Percussive maintenance is indicated here.
You iceberg fails to make it out of drydock, so it technically is a glaciar :/
Two spelling mistakes and a conceptual mistake from a self-described pedant, responding to the wrong comment. Now I know you’re trolling.
… Or is the word “you” a grammar mistake and not simply a misspelled “your”?
Spelling mistake. I’m typing on my phone and have stupid fat thumbs.
Also, pedantry tax for my sins. Icebergs are calved off of glaciers. But since you were making a boat references I thought it was appropriate.
Tomorrow, proper terminology for rocks from space hitting Earth.
Meteorite. Not to be confused with a meteor which burns up on atmospheric entry or meteoroids which are small particles not classified as asteroids traveling in a solar orbit.
Did he knock her over, or just shock her into falling down and then jump over her? Because that second one is way more fun and, while probably equally dangerous, a lot easier to justify as the aggressor when only considering one’s own actions rather than the consequences (potential or actual) to all involved.
Par for the course with dense Walky. He’s so focused on what he wants that everyone else is just casualties, usually unintentionally.
Panels three and four just don’t make sense at all yet can’t look away
This strip is pretty much the best.
Dina has taken a hit! She was shaken but not stirred and rebounded quickly, however!
Poor Dina is just too smol to fully back up her raptor stance attacks.
she looked ferocious enough though
Sad but true. Even the mighty raptor must yield for non-canonical dinosaurs.
If only she had her limb enhancers.
Dina’s vey smol.
Goddamnit, Walky! You do not barge into and or through someone else’s place of residence without their permission.
Yeah, that’s how you accidentally end up seeing Mary naked in the middle of the afternoon.
I admit, that one encounter is the only time I’ve liked Mary. Not just for pervy reasons, but because I also enjoy lounging around in the nude in the afternoon, and I sympathized with her.
Way to blow it by being an asshole in all other contexts, Mary.
I’m pretty sure he does.
Love to see Walky explain why he broke into a women’s dorm room and invaded their bathroom to break into the dorm room of a woman who ran in and locked her door to escape him.
Oh heavens, another incident right there. *biting nails*
“But she implied that an old canceled cartoon show was unimportant! She HAD to be faced down, with a stern expression and a pointing finger!!”
(The campus guards look at each other.)
“Well, he’s clearly not lying, because nobody’s dumb enough to make that up. So…” (Looks at Walky.) “Just don’t do that again. Unless she insults Korra, in which case you are formally authorized to proceed.”
“Wait, what’s Korra?”
“BOOK HIM, DANNO!!!”
And if he says he disliked it, they’ll put on The Sound of Music instead of unstrapping him?
I guess he’s really lucky that Ruth is currently in depression mode to take his femurs.
Past couple of strips have been an elaborate “Someone is wrong on the internet!”
Amber’s probably like, “wtf just happened?”
More like DON’T LOOK AT THE SCREEN!!!!!
More like “He’s between me and the closet with my costume… I’ll have to wait for my opening…”
Or “I’m only wearing a t-shirt!”
I hope she recognises the irony of using ‘canon’ to refer to scientific literature, considering its origins.
So Amber’s back and she’s alive! That’s…something at least
So is “Nyeah Nyeah” the episode quote? Dorothy is terrible.
I think it might have been the line about “I have studying to do. And so do you.” from yesterday’s comic.
Good to see confirmation Amber’s awake, at least.
Get some sleep Amber.
mike looks so scandalized
Of course. Someone is angry and Mike is not the cause!
I do like how Dina has appointed herself as Amber’s guardian even though they’re not exactly close friends. Is it because Dina feels bad about letting Asshole Dad in their room? Or because Dina is a nice person and she sees that Amber is hurting and wants to help her but doesn’t know how except to avoid unwanted interactions?
Probably some combination of both
I think it’s her way of “paying back” Amber for how her Amazi-girl alter protected the person she cares about most when she could not.
Crikes I’m happy the almighty god of the dumbiverse (Willis) takes lesbian prayers. Apparently this season was all about killing all the lesbians on pretty much every band of TV access.
That’s a common trope. I know someone in Person of Interest bit the dust, but that was more due to their role in the series as oppose to gender/ orientation. I respect that.
Lesbians usually end up in expendable roles, what a shock.
Or even preceding that all of the interpersonal communication and socialization advice Amber gave her. That kind of mentoring, striking the balance between not condescending or mocking, but also not completely just assuming she should know that stuff without any help, is pretty rare.
Yeah, pre-Becky, Amber was the only real friend Dina had, and even that was kind of a shot in the dark.
She’s gone to raptor mode to defend Amber’s privacy before – I think when Danny was looking for her after the Blaine fight.
They are close friends, especially when you consider how few friends either of them has at all.
But all those other reasons, and likely also Dina feeling that she should protect a member of her ‘pack,’ are almost certainly contributing factors.
Well, they are pretty close. We just haven’t seen them much together in the last while since they both have big storylines going on right now, especially Amber.
Apart from being friends, Dina feels compelled to pay Amber back because she saved Becky’s life, which is why she’s not going to spy on Amber like Danny wanted her to.
Hurray, Amber is OK (or at least, she is not out in the night doing Bad Thing right now).
Walky is NOT taking nyeah for an answer. Good on you, little buddy. Take your stand.
I really start to enjoy the running gag that, badass as Dina is, her dinosaurs are not very super effective.
Yeah, yeah, she is. And I’m super curious to see what the Amber alter’s reaction to everything is.
(Walky bursts into Dorothy & Sierra’s room. Dorothy’s leaning against the door, breathing heavily. Sierra’s in her bunk, reading.)
Walky: AHA! Now I…
Dorothy: …
Walky: …
Sierra: What’s going on?
Dorothy & Walky, in unison: YOU NEED TO LEAVE.
(Cut to Sierra standing in the hall with Carla, Ethan and Mike staring suprisedly at her)
Sierra (shrugs nonchalantly): I needed to leave.
Walky: AHA! Now I…
Sierra: Yeah, yeah, I know the drill. *leaves*
Sierra: (outside) I should meet up with Agatha for some more religion talk.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/cashin/
I see walky is taking this well
Tickle fight! I’m calling it!
That’s my vote too.
yes
yes this would be good
Oh my gosh
Is that one of these on Dina’s desk-thing?
Pedantry Powers Activate : The term canonical derives from judging the authenticity or veracity of religious texts. It has been extended to refer to the accepted facts of many fictional or literary settings.
While it may be used in a scientific setting as a short hand for the current concensus I do not believe I have ever seen or heard it used thay way. Therefore I must judge Dina’s use of the term canon to be incorrect.
In any case, within the canon of the JP films, Indominus is indeed canonical.
Looks like today is my turn to unimaginatively link to The Devourer of Free Time.
Actually, it’s highly unlikely that Indominus Rex appears in any religious texts.
…..
POSSIBLY some of the newer Pastafarian propaganda.
I did find that a curious word choice from a very precise Tiny Scientist. I’m just taking it as Amber rubbing off on her.
Don’t forget that it was also very precise Full Sized Scientists who thought a specimen of Apatosaurus displayed with an incorrect skull was a completely separate species (Brontosaurus).
Yeah, but they now realize that there are two different species (and genera) again. Yip, the Brontosaurus is back!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontosaurus
1) Brontosaurus excelsis was never considered to be the same species as Apatosaurus ajax – until they got reclassified as separate genera again, it was Apatosaurus excelsis (both genera currently have 2 species assigned to them, but ajax and excelsis (the type species of each) are the only ones I can remember off the top of my head). (Most dinosaurs are commonly referred to by genus alone. The only exception I can think of is Tyrannosaurus rex.)
2) The head mistake was a completely separate issue from the classification controversy – it had already been classified as Brontosaurus before being put on display and given a conjectural head, based on a rather distantly related sauropod (Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus are Diplodocid Diplodocoids, the head the mounted Brontosaurus was given was based on that of Camarasaurus, a Macronarian).
…that has nothing to do with Dina’s word choice being weird? I mean, she knows JW, she could just say it’s fictional.
Against the RMS Pedantic I deploy the Iceberg of Indifference.
good lord this is scarily adorable
never running out of new interesting facial expressions huh
That dinosaur has a stupid fake-Latin name that wasn’t even necessary. ‘Indominus’ is not a real Latin word. No, it isn’t. It doesn’t matter how many sources for it you can find on the Net; they’re all copying from each other. It is a word that *has no Latin meaning*.
But what about this meaning that’s cited everywhere, I hear you ask. ‘Indomitus’. With a T. Not an N. That is the word that means “unconquered” in Latin. And it differs from the made-up word by ONE LETTER. They could have used a real word and been completely right by changing one whole letter, but nope. Too difficult.
IT WASN’T COOL ENOUGH
It didn’t respond well with the focus group
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just misspelled Indomitus.
Imagine how many more tickets they could have sold if they’d gotten the Latin right.
…. wait, something matters OTHER than ticket sales? MADNESS!
The name is what bothers you about I. rex?
There are real dinosaurs named Irritator (so named because the palaeontologists who described it were pissed off with the fossil poachers they’d recovered it from for modifying the skull), Achilobator (a Latinization of a combination of a Greek name with a Mongolian word), and Tarbosaurus bataar (a misspelling of the same Mongolian word, baatar). Modifying Dominus to make it more intimidating, or misspelling Indomitus, or conflating the two, either deliberately or not, is hardly the hugest linguistic sin that would ever have been committed in dino-naming.
Hey, I’m a classicist, not a dinosaur expert. I can only get annoyed by what I know about. Now I know about these other sins, I’ll get angry about those too.
Really, the problem with it is that it should have been named Floofus floofus.
And if you think that’s not scary, I’d like to point out that feathers hols blood much better than non-derived scales.
I’d tell anyone who thinks feathered things aren’t scary to get within ~3m of a swan or goose. They’ll change their mind right quick.
I suppose if Terry Pratchett were still alive you’d take him to task for his use of ‘canis Latinus’ (‘dog Latin’) in the Discworld novels too.
I did while he was still alive. 😛
And ‘canis Latinus’ actually means ‘Latin dog’, lol.
Was this a case of “we can’t use the real word because then anyone could make toys with that name”?
Just like how everyone can make toys called “transformer”.
Maybe they started with Indomitus however everyone kept mis-pronouncing it and thus they went with Indominus?
It’s possible. I have to admit I heard it as ‘Indomitus’ early in the movie, just because it made sense for it to be that. But eventually someone pronounced it so distinctly that I had to realise it was an N. I was like “Whaaaaaat?” Good thing there weren’t more people in the cinema with me.
Walky has hurt Dina! Get him, dinosaurs!
And yet, some good might come from it:
Perhaps Amber will talk to Dina now.
Perhaps the break-in will transform Ruth the depressed into Ruthless the Terrible. And then Billie can get a word in.
And then everyone will be happy for about two minutes before Joyce and Becky arrive and learn what Walky did …
What did you do to Dina, Walky?!?
Amazetown Funk gonna give to ya
You only count real dinosaurs. That is why you fail.
So what got her the fact he used a fake dinosuar, or the fact it is a dangerous fake dinosaur.
Walky’s teeth look more sharky than dinosaury…fake fan… :/
I’m really loving the convergence of storylines here. Really nice way to pull them together.
So that’s how Toedad bypassed her. He told her dinosaurs aren’t real
No, he was inspired by a being that never existed.
Come on, Dorothy, what more proof do you need? It’s time to dump this overgrown baby.
But the sex is too good! The moment he enters her room, crazy money sex!
What world do you live in where saurian juggernauts who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals aren’t attractive?
Re: hottest guy poll. I voted for Joe & Jacob because I feel those two are the most traditionally hot (buff dudes, I mean) but I see Ethan is winning which makes sense (he is both traditionally hot and nice) and Mike is in third which, ok, I guess. He does have that Draco-in-leather-pants thing for a fandom.
On an unrelated tangent: is it wrong I’m kind of shipping EthanxMike?
Re: the comic. Indominus Rex Attack is a win.
Ruth had better get her act together and quickly! Things are rapidly heading in the direction of a riot!
Meanwhile, Dina has learned an important thing about Jurassic Park: No-one cares about scientific canon; it’s all about whether it is entertaining. Additionally, Amber has learned that her life is surreal whether or not she is wearing a mask!
Or pants.
INDOMINOUS REX CARES NOT FOR YOUR PUNY CANON.
And you can see why they were dating in other universes…
And then Dina died.
RIP Dina.
No. She died to a non-canonical dinosaur. Her spirit shall be both restless and vengeful.
Walky cares not for your bluff !
(nor for a pantless Amber, it seems)
Noooo, Dina got out-Dina-ed!
I think this is my favourite strip ever so far.
Maybe they refer to the many students that take over 6 years to get a 4 year degree???
walky is kind of a butthole!!!!
He can be. He really can be. He also has his moments, where he’s genuinely concerned and is trying to do right by people.
But he’s also got his butthole moments where he’s ignoring what people are saying, playfully chasing after his girlfriend through the halls to argue about nerd stuff, and bowling over tiny dinosaur ladies. This is definitely one of his more buttholier moments to be sure.
heh, buttholier
Episode 62 of what?
Since Walky and Carla were
arguing aboutcomparing the merits of “Ultracar” vs “Dexter and Monkey Master” — and Walky and Dorothy are both “Dexter” fans — I would presume that he is referring to episode 62 of D&MM.There’s only one show where Walky would know the EXACT episode number that somebody said ‘nyeah nyeah’ in.
There’s also the fact that Ultra Car, the only other series mentioned was also noted to not have even lasted one full season, so it is very unlikely to have an episode 62.
Except for the exemplary “Ultra Extended” fan edit/dub, working entirely based on recycled original (if sometimes deleted) footage and with some pretty good matches to the original voice acting, characters, and spirit, which is up to 87 episodes and has spawned at least 3 fandom wars over whether it is the best thing since the original episodes or utter blasphemy.
The studio has yet to shut it down for copyright violations, so either the creators don’t care, haven’t noticed, like it, or at least think it will support dvd sales.
And suddenly it becomes clear what Carla was doing for that “summer job” before college…
Haha, that was awesome! Dina got beat at her own game(although Walky didn’t play by the rules :P)
Beware the Inominus! IT HAVE THUMBS!!!
Wait, Walky beat Dina at her own game? … Why do I suddenly get the feeling there might be a competitor for Dina’s affections?
Walky’s oblivious and focused on Dorothy, and Dina may see men as irrelevant due to being in a relationship with Becky. In any case, I think that’s the last thing on Dina and Walky’s minds at the moment.
This is one of your greatest strips.
My sincere apologies if this violates either the rule against “first” type posts or if I’ve overlooked someone else, but am I the first poster to point out that Dina clearly has a paleoplushies (tm, I think) raptor, and that everyone else should go to that website and see if any are for sale immediately, because they’re adorable and pretty accurate?
Oh, yep. Kamino Neko beat me to it. Point about buying them still stands, though.
Or just wait until Saurian is out and you can play as a floof Tyrannosaurus baby.
I think that might be a Beasts of the Mesozoic Velociraptor, actually, judging by the colours. This strip would have been written around the time of that line’s Kickstarter.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/paleoblog/
That raptor’s been around a while.
(it’s the plush)
I know Dina/ Walky is bound to not happen in this universe, which I’m happy with, however sometimes they are just high-larious together.
Walky no. This is super inappropriate you don’t just barge into someone’s room especially when they make it completely clear they don’t want you there. Jesus Christ this child needs to be disciplined.
Now I want to see Historical Jesus as the IU Disciplinarian.
I hope paleontologists discover another variant of Tyrannosaurus just so it can be given the name of “Indominus rex”.
I pose to Dina that there are still bones of new species being discovered every so often, therefore we could find a dinosaur similar to the Indominous which may earn such a name making it canonical in the possible future. Walky could also just use the multiverse excuse.
No way in hell there’s something like Incontinentus out there. The only theropods without feathers are ceratosaurs, which are known for having even smaller arms than T. Rex.
It occurs to me that Dina is just about the only character in this ‘verse that Walky could overpower. Except maybe Marcus.
Maybe Joyce. Wait, scratch that. The girl kicked a window frame in.
Hmmmmm, yeah, I think Joyce has the upper hand, even if I think Walky has a decent chance if she is not in HULK mode.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/godpertunity/
Quite true! Her HULK mode is scary though. I mean people have (justifiably) gotten glass shards in their face when she hulks out.
Joyce is seriously a rage ball when uncorked. It’s a result of all that repression, but really that repression is what’s saving everyone’s windows from being broken.
Joyce in HULK mode is invincible. She knocked out the big guy with the gun:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/strength-2/
She sprained her wrist in the process, so not THAT invincible I guess. Still pretty dang impressive!
Further solidifies my theory that Joyce is just a tornado of destruction, held back by her beliefs.
Paying for the KO of a genuine, certified, bug-fuggin’ crazy, asshole of a bad guy with nothing more than a sprained wrist is, to my way of thinking, an acceptable trade-off.
In Joyce’s words, I think it was a proportional response.
If I ran into someone who acted like Toedad and had the opportunity to punch, I totally would.
“Proportional Response”, what a wonderful phrase!
It means no worries for the rest of your days!
Note for future reference that canon violations will stun Dina for 1 round if she fails a DC 15 Will save.
It just occured to me he may stumble on Dorothy’s roomie changing or something.
It certainly looks like Amber isn’t wearing any pants.
Boy, that would be awkward
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/weeenus/
This is the single greatest strip in webcomics. Possibly in comics as a larger whole.
Forcing his way inside someones room?
Tackling Dina?
I think it’d be best if Walky calmed down before someone gets hurt. Probably him…
half-baths doors can’t be locked from the room side ?
I’m sure they can, but Walky is banking on the door being unlocked because Dorothy would not be expecting him to try to gain entry from that quadrant.
Hahahaha…first time Dina got to confront another Dino and it turned out to be a made up one.
Life is SO not fair
Biggest nerd wins. Dinasaurus is no match for Indominus Walkerton.
Well, that’s one way to expulsion from the University.
IIRC, his family’s friends with the dean. I’m sure this’ll get smoothed over.
That and unfortunately, shenanigans like this can be super common and thus frequently overlooked at college campuses (doesn’t make bowling over someone and breaking into another student’s room okay, just that most people are socialized to shrug at that and go about their day, especially if they’re doing it because of a game with their friend).
So, it’s probably likely he won’t even get talked to about it… though, I think we now know why Dina glares at Walky in that upcoming preview panel where Carla is yelling in the hall.
Maybe, though that’s still a little ways away and we’ve got a yelling Walky panel and a calmer Dina & Amber panel before then, as well as a Billie one.
I’m not sure how much of a big deal it really is or should be. To some extent it’s part of communal living.
It’s also hard to tell since it’s being played for laughs – even Dina’s objecting to his dinosaur name, not to being knocked down.
They all are familiar with one another at this point, I’m sure expulsion isn’t going to happen.
I mean if MARY hasn’t been expelled, then what hope is there for anyone else?
Pretty much this. Walky’s not a close friend to Amber or Dina, but they both know him and they both know Dorothy pretty well. This is Dorothy’s boyfriend being weird, not something serious. Annoying maybe, maybe even funny, but not serious.
In a slightly different context, it would be serious and could really be a problem. But it isn’t.
In practice, it’s actually really hard to get expelled from a college campus.
There’s a lot of reasons for that. One of them is that expelling a college student involves losing not only their tuition but also all the investment in a student’s education that a student brings in. Historically, this has meant that those who’ve been investigated by the school and found to have likely committed sexual assault against another student can still manage to not be expelled from their campus. Much less students who harass or bully other students (though they may be fined, warned, moved off campus, or dropped from a particular class depending on the offense).
Obviously, there’s limits. A serial cheater on exams will likely be expelled. Someone being arrested can be expelled. And sometimes a school actually will take their policies seriously and occasionally expel a rapist whose had multiple investigations or someone who has directly endangered the life of another student or opened the school up to lawsuits.
Even if the school were to investigate this, the most I can see them actually trying to do would be giving him a formal warning or maybe talking to the RA (sorry Ruth, but your tight ship seems to be more and more going down in flames) about banning him from the girl’s wing and enforcing that more clearly.
And even that would probably be rescinded by the dean or his mom making noise (if she heard about it).
Doesn’t necessarily make it right, but for better or worse there’s a lot of society that views college as the place to make mistakes (but not at all mistakes, see Roz likely being on much shorter notice with the Dean than say maybe a Ryan) and not have as massive consequences for it as you would have in the greater adult world.
Basically the only way Mary would be expelled is if her bigotry became viral, yeah. If it damages the image of the school, you get expelled. Otherwise school is lenient.
Realistically, here’s what’s going to happen.
If Amber and/or Dina complain loudly, Walky might get a talking to by Dorothy.
If Amber and/or Dina complain to Ruth (and she were hypothetically functional), Walky could get banned from the girl’s wing, enforcible by having his femurs fed to his face.
If they instead complain to Walky’s RA, he’ll probably get a half-hearted talking-to.
If Amber and/or Dina made a formal complaint to downstairs management, Walky would could get an formal warning that could escalate to more severe punishment on repeated offenses, but only if they care enough to do the paperwork, which they might well not.
And if Amber’s really pissed off, Walky will have to answer to Amazi-Girl.
Like Cerb says, campuses that are very slow to expel sex offenders even when their victims ARE ALSO STUDENTS THERE aren’t going to kick someone out for misdemeanor B&E, especially if his family is close friends with the Dean.
… and to be fair, “a talking to and maybe a formal warning” is probably the right response in this case.
Not sure Dorothy has much of a leg to stand on in regards to this though
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/looking-2/
Walky, that’s not fair.
Also, don’t just go waltzing into girls’ rooms like that.
He DID say “pardon me”….. etiquette has been satisfied.
…. he satisfied etiquette?
…..
WALKY DOPPLEGANGER! WALKY DOPPLEGANGER! Everyone don’t trust him! The real Walky has been kidnapped and replaced with a clone!
Now I want fanart of Asma giving Walky a Voight-Kampf test.
I imagine Dina’s last statement in a “blasting off agaaaiinn” voice
This was beautiful!
Wait, is that Amber’s monitor? That thing is huuuge! particularly if it is that close to her FAAAAAACE!
The blue bit? I think that is her bedding hanging off the side.
Some-hours-later musing :
Panel 1 : Walky is full nerd rage mode. Carla seems worried he takes it too seriously.
Last panels : Now he seriously looks like he’s gonna try to beat her up :/
Hell, even *mike* is surprised walky just started barging on that side.
Look Walky, when someone close their door on you, maybe don’t try to force your way in like a psychopath.
Its not like there isn’t precedent for this: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/looking-2/
Well that’s intense.
I love this strip’s unique angles!
Walky, you poor, poor fool. How could you be such a banjo?