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Walking with Dina
Posted on July 10, 2015 by David M Willis

328 thoughts on “Walking with Dina”

  1. Jen Aside

    ah, Dina is pondering the elusive Beckylosaurus, discovered in late 2015, the first of its kind living nearly 9.5 million minutes ago

    1. GoldStarz

      *does math*

      Yep, that’s a sound estimation for the minute she’s lived.

    2. Jen Aside

      also why did you people ask for this

      1. Disloyal Subject

        Do not question the lustwolves, art-slave!
        (Seriously, thanks. Nice work!)

      2. MeghanTheWorldEater

        The real question is why are you pretending you don’t like it?

        1. That Damn Rat

          There’s no pretending, why would you go with the stupid Halle Berry notCatwoman! costume.

      3. Doctor_Who

        We are all horribly corrupt degenerates.

        Also, still has more dignity than this.

        1. JessWitt

          I hairball on that cover.

        2. Disloyal Subject

          And I grab a mirror to check if the pose is doable.
          Turns out that yes, it is. A little hard on the spine if held for long, though.

        3. bodmans

          Might be hard for humans, Cats on the other hand…

        4. Ender

          But it’s some really impressive foreshortening.

        5. Kryss LaBryn

          But–but, he gave her practical shoes!! How can that cover possibly be sexist?!1

        6. Superdud

          Did… did her ribcage dislodge or does she have a broken neck?

      4. Seth

        I have to say, that outfit looks a lot better on Danny than I thought it would. Anyway, what do you expect from fans of the guy who drew this?

      5. Flipz

        Oh my god…this is beautiful. ^_^

      6. saki

        Cue Danny’s Halloween costume next month (in-universe time)?

        1. WolfLann

          Meaning like 20 years from now ?

      7. Bagge

        Escher boys!

      8. WolfLann

        Gah that is amazing!!! I wanted to do something similar but all I could do was a little squibble of his faaaaace.

      9. J42

        I thought I was the only one who wanted to draw this ?

    3. Aisling

      Can we get ZeFrank to narrate this arc please?

    4. Superdud

      Or it could be Becklespinax she’s thinking of.

      1. Hollister Dixon

        HUSH.

  2. Mr. Random

    Which one shall I walk like today?

    1. Doctor_Who

      First she has to open the door, get on the floor…

      1. Bicycle Bill

        Everybody walk the Dina-saur!

        1. Halloween Jack

          boom boom shaka-laka-laka boom
          boom boom shaka-laka boom boom

        2. Darwin

          I find your Was (not Was) invocations intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

        3. WolfLann

          You know, in the FAQ Mr. Willis says this:

          6) It’s pronounced “Dee-na.”

          In English Dee-na-saur! sounds weird but in French it sounds fine.

          Ive been pronouncing it Dee-na in my head when I seen her name and comments like this make me chuckle everytime.

    2. Timinane

      Egyptians, she should walk like an Egyptian.

      1. Deanatay

        Don’t be silly!

        There were NO dinosaurs in Egypt!

        Dinosaurs HATE pyramids. 😛

        1. Lucina

          Spinosaurus aegyptiacus begs to differ. 😛

        2. Tacos

          Aegyptosaurus and Paralatitan beg to differ.

  3. Disloyal Subject

    Oh boy
    Time to learn some species!

    1. Kelly

      Genera, but yes 🙂

      1. Disloyal Subject

        Learning one is a natural side-effect of the other. I work best from the bottom up.

        1. Kelly

          True!

        2. Kamino Neko

          That sounds perverse. >_>

      2. Disloyal Subject

        Not that I’m not so embarrassingly rusty that I failed to slot those names into the proper taxonomic rank…

        1. Disloyal Subject

          So embarrassed, in fact, that I forgot to end the italization after ‘not.’

    2. Gamaran Sepudomyn

      Volkheimeria, Lapparentosaurus (which has a strangely distorted letter L) and Cedarosaurus are all ones I’ve never heard of, which surprises me. Also, I love the little question mark next to Brontosaurus.

      1. Bronttis

        No question about it. We Brontosauri do exist

    3. Screwball

      While Daniel the Human remembered the name wrong, Utahraptor appears to be 1 of the largest of the “Raptor” type dinosaurs, with earlier feathered ancestors strongly suggesting it had feathers. Daniel the Human remembered it as Euroraptor :P.

      If you wish to see just how big it was, you can see in this picture, posing with a rather dapper gentleman. Because we all know there were plenty of dapper gentlemen around then, showing off their raptor collections…

  4. Rebecca

    I am ridiculously excited about this.

    1. notlegato

      this is already the best arc of all time.

      1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

        Yes. Yes it is.

        1. Screwball

          Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and um, screaming…

    2. Briny

      Right there with you! If “getting the popcorn” wasn’t sarcasm-only…

  5. Captain Batson

    This is going to be the best thing ever, isn’t it?

    1. Disloyal Subject

      I have high hopes.

      1. sithknightgalen

        Everyone should have such High Hopes

        1. AndieStardust

          High, apple pie in the– skyyy hopes?
          (at the risk of being a dork and no one knowing the song)

        2. Icalasari

          So any time you’re gettin’ low
          ‘Stead of lettin’ go, just remember that ant
          Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant

        3. Drakey

          And a miwwion kilowatt dam.

          Seriously, listen to the song. There’s at least one recording where Sinatra said “miwwion” instead of “million.”

        4. Pantheon the Mantheon

          *sudden heavy rock interruption* (10 points if you get this one)

        5. RequiemArc

          Goofie Movie yes? I cant believe just reading that comment of yours sparked that in my memory.

      2. Joe

        I’m afraid to have high hopes. The comment section is happy and we all know that can’t last.

    2. lejwocky

      Yes.

    3. Plasma Mongoose

      It needs more David Attenborough narration.

      1. Kelly

        perfect idea!

      2. Arianod

        Seconded!

      3. HMRC4EVR

        If he were still with us, William Conrad (narrator of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Wide Wide World of Animals) would work really well for this too.

        1. Opus the Poet

          You forgot star of “Cannon”.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          For some reason, your comment reminded me of this show from the 70s; Animals Animals Animals

      4. Screwball

        YES, yes, David Attenborough. That is what we need. We got Timelord here, let’s send them back to make sure this happens…

    4. Kernanator

      I really hope that this is just Dina walking in and out of various storylines.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        As do I.
        Drama? No, it’s DINA TIME.

      2. JessWitt

        And these storylines involve the minor characters at DoA.

      3. HMRC4EVR

        Like that one episode of Babylon 5.

        1. Kryss LaBryn

          That was a great episode.

    5. saki

      I very much expect it to be! 😀

    6. N0083rP00F

      Yes it will be the best thing ever, untill the next new best thing ever.

  6. Chris

    omg dina is so cute

    1. -Sentinel-

      Especially with the drool on her chin.

      1. Doctor_Who

        She senses prey. That cereal doesn’t stand a chance.

        1. Opus the Poet

          So Dina is a Cereal Killer?

        2. Hoodiecrow

          Corner. Now.

        3. DSL

          You should get Life for that.

        4. The Other Mike

          Or at least a few Kix in the (Grape) Nuts.

        5. Oddball

          Right in their lucky charms? ouch!

        6. Chinoy Industries, Ltd.

          Please tell me I’m not the only one who definitely remembers that that “cereal killer” line was said by one of the characters in QC some years ago… *hides*

        7. Majere

          That line was first said by somebody’s dad like 12 seconds after the invention of cereal.

        8. Disloyal Subject

          And yet I didn’t get it until Hoodiecrow denounced it. Not my night, it seems.

        9. Shadlyn

          But it was used best in the classic film “Hackers.”

        10. WolfLann

          Yay I thought i was the only one who remembered that.

        11. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          I don’t remember it from QC, but to my eternal shame I remember it from Friends.

        12. Osaru Sensei

          She and Kai Leng both.

  7. tim gueguen

    Will we ever see Dina hatless?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      She has to hide her feathers somehow.

      1. Doctor_Lantern

        And now I have Coheed and Cambria’s “Feathers” Stuck in my head… I know what I’m listening to at work today!

        “Right now, hide your feathers on the back porch, baby.
        He’s coming home for… you’ve… been… such… a liar.
        Hide your feathers, little back porch lady.

        You’re too old enough to cry… your… sorry eyes out over the world.”

        1. TheGrammarLegionary

          Between your Gravatar and this comment, I love everything that has transpired in the few inches above me.

    2. Dr. Smart

      why would we want to?

    3. Doctor_Who

      Last time we did, she blew up.

      In theory it was because of a bomb in the room, but I prefer to think that Dina herself is highly explosive, and the hat is like the pin in a grenade.

      1. MM

        It’s a naturally evolved defense.

        1. Palamdrone

          But a defense against what?

        2. Tacos

          Probably against Young Earth Creationists.

        3. Screwball

          British Ninjas…

      2. Pantheon the Mantheon

        Still too soon.

        1. you can't see me

          It will always be too soon.

    4. John

      Preview panels indicate yes; she switches it up for a hood.

      1. Porglezomp

        Why not just keep the hat on under the hood! Solution solved!

        1. Chinoy Industries, Ltd.

          Noooo! I don’t want ghetto Dina!

    5. Durandal_1707

      Did we ever see her in the original universe without her Sylvester McCoy hat?

      1. Someone

        Yeah, but it was the best she could do.

        1. you can't see me

          TOO SOON!

    6. GoogerGeiger

      Just like Double D?

      1. Disloyal Subject

        Oh no
        Think of the crossover potential

        Think of it and despair

      2. Opus the Poet

        Is this an “Ed, Edd, and Eddie” reference?

    7. Michael Steamweed

      She shall remove the hat only in great dramatic fashion and circumstances.

      I.e., an upcoming Slipshine.

      1. John

        Seeing the top of Dina’s head is like seeing a Victorian lady’s ankles.

    8. xKiv

      She takes her hat off for one thing, and one thing only.

  8. Twilightomens

    YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

    1. Twilightomens

      OH MY DINA

  9. Inlaa

    So, Becky is a kind of dinosaur.

    1. Boojum

      But she’s evolving. . .

      1. HMRC4EVR

        So….it’s an Evolution Revoluton?

        (Now I’m thinking about Beast Machines. Crap.)

        1. N0083rP00F

          And here I was reminded of Digimon.

        2. Animal

          Lancelot Link flashback?

  10. Doctor_Who

    I’m never that happy waking up. I need to try this.

    Then again, I’m so out of it in the morning that I’ll be more like “Dino…Yoshi…Barney…Dragonzord? What the fuck is a dragonzord anywZZzzz…”

    1. Disloyal Subject

      Yeah, you’d kind of need to program yourself with the names if you want to remember them. Detailed knowledge of what the name means helps a lot.

      1. WolfLann

        Like Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Captain Jack Harkness, Donna Noble, Amelia Pond and her husband Rory Pond, Melodie Pond / River Song, Clara Oswald.
        Dammit I probably forgot a few there.

        1. JaneDoe

          Well, you got most of the regular/frequently recurring ones from New Who, though Mickey Smith could arguably be in that list as well. It’s really your own prerogative whether you want to include all the one off companions like Lynda with a y, Astrid Perth, and the kids who Clara was nannying for, or those that appear in only a few episodes like Adam what’s-his-last-name or Madam Vastra, Jenny, Strax, and Harriot Jones (Former Prime Minister). Or the companion who was from the original series but reappeared briefly for one episode, aka Sarah Jane Smith. And then there’s the family members of the companions like Jackie Tyler and Wilfred Mott who frequently recur but would probably not be “official” companions. So really, whether you got them all just depends on where you draw the line 😉

        2. WolfLann

          At least a thought about almost all of those ones too even though I didn’t write them down. There were other visitors too like the family he rescued from Pompei and where he got his new face. And there was the whole Orient Express passengers and crew. And probably a few more I can’t think of right now.

  11. Plasma Mongoose

    So does this mean that this chapter will be a Dinumentary?

  12. Stephen R. Bierce

    *plays the theme song to Harry And His Bucket of Dinosaurs on the Muzak in the hall*

  13. Cattleprod

    In which I notice for the first time there was never internal monologue before this.

    1. Cephalo the Pod

      Ruth?

      1. MeghanTheWorldEater

        Yeah Ruth got it once.
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/moron/

        I think someone else may of had it before too but I forget when.

        1. LiaHansen

          hasn’t sarah also?

    2. AgentKeen

      Y’know it has to be good, ‘cus I’m pretty sure I remember Willis saying he’s not a fan of drawing thought bubbles, so it’s gotta be spectacular to warrant it.

  14. Someone

    Thinking about it, have we ever seen Dina without her hat? In this strip

    1. Opus the Poet

      Which strip was that again? Because your link went in the drink.

      1. JessWitt

        Easy, don’t cause a stink ’cause the link’s in the drink. Least it’s not real ink, I think.

      2. Disloyal Subject

        I think they meant DoA as a whole. This ‘verse, effectively.

        1. Someone

          Yeah we saw Dina’s head in the walkyverse.

        2. Captain Batson

          Yeah, when she went kaboom.

        3. you can't see me

          How many people are ignorant of this’s eternal too soon state?

  15. Katie

    Should i feel bed that i saw walking with dina and the song walk the dinosaur came into my head

    1. Palamdrone

      Yes. Walk by Pantera is what should be going through your mind.

      1. Wack'd

        I got “Bungle in the Jungle” for some reason.

        1. Twilightomens

          I don’t know any songs about dinosaurs 🙁

    2. Tenn

      If you don’t feel bed, it’s probably because you’ve been lying on top of your arms. Roll over and try to flail them around a bit to wake them up again.

  16. MeghanTheWorldEater

    Willis this was a really bad idea.

    I mean there’s no way the rest of the comic is going to be able to live up to this.

    Every chapter without Dina monologue will be inferior by comparison smh.

    1. Spazman

      The solution, of course, is that every day Willis releases a MST3K version of the strip with Ruthless, Dina, and Joe mocking the comic. Ruthless to berate everyone, Joe to comment on the women, and Dina being Dina.

      1. DarkVeghetta

        This… this must become a thing.

        1. GollyGamma

          No question. I WILL donate to Patreon for this if it has any shot at becoming a thing.

  17. SpruceGoose

    Open the door. Get on the floor. Everybody walk the Dinasaur.

  18. AgentKeen

    …So you’re saying Becky is dead? D:

    1. Someone

      Joyce: I see dead people

      1. podian

        Like Mike and Walky?

    2. Animal

      Why, because of the dinosaur thoughts? Dinosaurs aren’t extinct. There are more species of dinosaurs alive today than there are mammals.

      We call them birds.

      1. Animal

        Oh, wait. Alt-text.

        Never mind.

        (The bit about birds is still true, though.)

        1. Lucina

          Yeah, but all the species she’s thinking of are dead. They’re all sauropods, so they don’t even get living descendants like the theropods do.

        2. Animal

          Maybe she’s hungry. Can you imagine the size of that top sirloin?

        3. Willoughby Chase

          Maybe she wants to jump some bones?

        4. HMRC4EVR

          Becky’s first in line for that idea.

    3. Gamaran Sepudomyn

      Oh god how did I not notice the “Beck-” in the lower right corner there. Yes yes yes my ship.

  19. dailybrad

    Maggie sounds hilarious, going by the alt-text. That’d have never occurred to me.

    Also, that Dina drools in her sleep is very endearing.

  20. Cephalo the Pod

    But…Ruth totally had an internal monologue earlier in this book.

    1. Hoboturtle

      Yes, but she wasnt allowed to. She merely achieved a level of sentience that she rebelled against Willis.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        If she progresses farther along this path, there’ll be an outbreak of femur-beatings in our world.

  21. otusasio451

    …YES. Not only are you focusing on my favorite character, but in a special named after my favorite documentary series as a child. Thank you, Willis.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      If there were any children who preferred other documentaries, I’ll be surprised. It’s not exactly a competitive niche in terms of excitement, and Walking with Dinosaurs had, well, Dinosaurs. And other assorted prehistoric organisms.

      1. otusasio451

        Well, I always liked Microcosmos as a kid, too. Plus, the Crocodile Hunter series, that Really Wild Animals show from National Geographic, plus a TON of other documentaries, those marketed to kids and those not marketed to kids. Honestly, most of what I watched around that age (8-10 at the time WwD came out) was documentaries.

        But, yeah, the dinosaurs had a lot to do with it.

        1. Opus the Poet

          Documentaries: Reality TV for smart people.

        2. otusasio451

          Amen to that, brother. Amen to that.

          That said, I DO watch reality TV. I mean, The Amazing Race and MasterChef and other competition shows (not Survivor, The Bachelor shows, or Big Brother; screw those), but, some reality TV. Not the trashy stuff, though. At least, I don’t think it’s trashy.

    2. Lord Stoneheart

      We’ve known the title of this chapter for months and I didn’t notice that until you brought it up. Damn, that is really fitting.

  22. Dean

    D’awww, she’s a sleep-drooler!

  23. JessWitt

    An honest-to-goodness internal monologue?! Well fancy that!

  24. Vex Godglove

    It strikes me that that hat has to be getting kind of ripe now since she never takes it off.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      She has spares, and switches when we can’t see her.

      1. Deanatay

        Behind the door.

    2. Gamaran Sepudomyn

      We don’t see her all that often. There’s a reasonable chance that she washes it every two or three days.

      1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

        And before anyone says “You don’t need to wash a hat that often”, I don’t know anything about hat care. I don’t wear hats…ever, really, now that I think about it.

  25. caesaria82

    I see you in the corner there, ‘Beck….’, I SEE YOU. Don’t think I don’t see you!

    1. Jen Aside

      he’s a loser, baby, so why don’t we kill him

      1. MeghanTheWorldEater

        Fun Factz: There are zero other songs by Beck.

      2. caesaria82

        This is my favorite comment maybe ever.

        Also, Beck is a Scientologist, which is a random fact I know about him. He was born into it and everything. Idek.

        1. Tacos

          You can be born into Scientology? Man that must really suck.

  26. gkheyf

    facts:
    -dina’s happy morning thoughts are about dead things
    -her friends make her smile
    -she may be hiding razor sharp teeth and claw prosthetics behind the door

    conclusions:
    -she plans to make more happy memories

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      OH MY!

  27. Kelly

    YAY! SO COOL!

  28. Opus the Poet

    So this is Sunday morning of week 6?

  29. Stephen

    Wouldn’t put it past Willis that she’s thinking of this guy, and he’s just throwing us off: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/dinosaurs-other-extinct-creatures/dino-directory/becklespinax.html

    1. Lucina

      She appears to be thinking solely of sauropods, so that wouldn’t work. It would have to be a sauropod with a name beginning with “Beck”.

      1. 3oranges

        Becklespinax is not a sauropod, but it is not quite as different from them as Becky MacIntyre.

        1. claudewicked

          If you look at the shape of the bubble, it seems far too small to include Beckospinax

  30. Lucina

    THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

  31. THEBOONDOCKS

    Brontosaurus?

    1. Disloyal Subject

      I heard there was some new evidence coming to light that might legitimize it as having actually existed as something other than a hoax…
      I didn’t read it for myself because I was too busy frothing with rage.

      1. Kelly

        It was never a hoax, that is for sure.

        There were arguments about junior and senior synonyms (the usual Bone Wars type of mess), and a particularly famous mount was built with an incorrect skull (they didn’t have one at the time, and figured the one they picked would be close enough, but later they found the real deal and it was pretty different)

        1. Kamino Neko

          Specifically, the conjectural skull given to the Brontosaurus excelsis skeleton was based on Camarasaurus, which was discussed here a week or so back.

        2. Kelly

          Thank you! And I must have missed that one.

        3. Kryss LaBryn

          I saw that mount with the wrong skull in the British Museum when I was a kid!

          So cool. Damn, that thing was HUUUGE.

          I wonder if it’s still there?

      2. timemonkey

        Why would you froth with rage over something being real?

        1. HMRC4EVR

          Because if it happens Sludge is a real Dinobot again!

    2. Tacos

      They’re trying to bring it back. I’ve not been paying much attention but something about some fossils originally being named Brontosaurus turned out being different enough from Apatasaurus that Brontosaurus could potentially be valid.

    3. Kelly

      Yes, because the argument has been made to resurrect the taxon, but (AFAIK) there haven’t been any follow up papers for or against, so it isn’t necessarily 100% decided. Though I haven’t heard much dissent so far.

      1. Kamino Neko

        The media has already had their ‘Brontosaurus is real!’ headlines, so, sadly, only people actually reading the papers will actually know how the consensus shakes out. If it’s agreed that Brontosaurus is a valid genus, they’ve already done the story; if it’s decided that, no, it really is just a couple species of Apatasaurus, well, that’s just not sexy.

        1. AgentKeen

          Well, Brontosaurus does got back, so therefore it must be sexy. It’s science.

    4. Lone Wolf

      Here’s an article about it from earlier this year: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brontosaurus-is-back1/

      I was immensely pleased when I learned of this.

    5. Kelly

      references!: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/back-brontosaurus-dinosaur-just-might-deserve-its-own-genus-species-science-180954892/

      http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2015/04/08/bully-for-brontosaurus/

      http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/that-brontosaurus-thing/

      The actual paper, if you are hardcore: https://peerj.com/articles/857/

      Too many links, now Willis will have to approve this. Sorry for the trouble!

      1. Bagge

        I love you guys. Especially since I know you will be at it this entire storyline. 🙂

  32. JessWitt

    Awww, Dina’s bed palette is green and yellow.

    We won’t be short of aww’s and daww’s during this whole storyline. 🙂

    1. Bagge

      “Thats how it all starts, but then there is running and um screaming*”

      *) You wish, Becky, you are only at second base yet, and that’s experimentally.

  33. Pilgrim

    ALL MY YES.

  34. A Scientist

    I AM GOING TO LEARN SO MUCH ABOUT DINOSAURS!

    1. Deanatay

      (and perhaps lesbians)

  35. A Scientist

    Inner monologues are my favorite. Also my favorite, though, are stories which begin with the phrase “in which…” I don’t know why, but the author so describing what is about to happen, with that phrase specifically, makes me jolly.

    1. Wack'd

      I personally associate it with Winnie-the-Pooh.

  36. Pierre-Eric

    I… I only 3 of those…
    Teach me Dina Sempai!

  37. sps48

    No thoughts of cereal?

    1. A Scientist

      I wondered the same, since cereal seems like an appropriate thing to think about when one first awakens.

      I know I do. Right after I think, “Well, here I am” or similar.

    2. Tacos

      My thoughts first thing in the morning steer more towards, “Who the hell invented morning?”

      1. Bicycle Bill

        That’s why they always used to schedule executions at sunrise.  Who in the hell wants to be awake at 5:00 in the morning anyway?

      2. WolfLann

        Not the guy who invented the snooze button for sure

    3. Someone

      My first thoughts in the morning are bwaarg *falls back asleep*

  38. Kamino Neko

    I ♥ ‘Brontosaurus?’

  39. Tacos

    The level of adorability here should be illegal.

  40. Joey

    I know enough paleontology to get that question mark after “Brontosaurus.” 😉

  41. Bicycle Bill

    “Today, we’ll be talking about dinosaurs.
    It’s a DI-NO-SAURUS LINE!!“

  42. DEG1377

    This should be its own spin-off comic.

    Please Willis? Pretty please, with sugar on top? I-I’ll have your babies….

    1. Kelly

      Maggie has that covered 😛

    2. Ollie

      I would read a Dina spinoff comic. Hell I would double my patreon pledge for something like that. I AM INSATIABLE

    3. Bagge

      This is basically its own spin off chapter – let’s no be greedy here. 🙂

  43. Aislashu

    If you ship Dina and Becky, you put their names together and you get Dicky. And obviously I need sleep. x.x

  44. Marvelman

    Yah Dina!

  45. Palamdrone

    Woot stomach sleepers!

  46. Professor Fate

    Next strip:

    Becky awakens next to Dina and says “Whatcha thinkin’ about, Babe?”

    “Dinosaurs, what else?”

    “Aw, not about me?”

    “Sure, you’re my favorite dinosaur, Beckysaurus.”

    “C’mere you sexy paleontologist.”

    Giggles and fade out.

    1. caesaria82

      I like the way your brain works. Yes good. I need fanfic of this.

    2. Heavensrun

      “You were in there somewhere.”
      “With the dinosaurs? I wasn’t gettin’ eaten, was I?”
      “Sauropods are herbivores.”

  47. Idon'tcarenomore

    Dina, a strange and happy ray of sunshine in a gloom & doom dorm of less fortunate DoAer’s.

    Nice. I like. She is a cute little rascal.

  48. The Gardener

    I’m so excited

  49. newllend(henryvolt)

    So Dina never takes the hat off? Does she ever wash it?

    1. MeghanTheWorldEater

      Of course she does, it gets washed when she showers.

      1. Wack'd

        No it doesn’t! She puts a cap over it!

        1. MeghanTheWorldEater

          A shower cap for your cap? :O

  50. caesaria82

    Also, this title is automatically gonna make some people pronounce Dina’s name wrong again. It just will happen. People will think ‘dinosaur’ and think ‘dye-nah’. This will undo all the work Willis has done on making ‘dee-nah’ the law of the land. But seeing it written it out like that…. xD

    1. Deanatay

      Actually, the opposite will happen – Dina’s cuteness, and continual association with dinosaurs, will cause people to start pronouncing ‘dinosaur’ as ‘dee-na-sore’.

      (BTW, this is also what Dina thinks after a night of… vigorous activity… with Becky)

      1. WolfLann

        Thats ok in French we already pronounce it Dee-no-zor. We are way ahead.
        And I always was pronouncing her name Dee-na in my head since I started reading the comic just a little while ago.

        1. Darkoneko

          Saaame. English is weird.

        2. caesaria82

          Same in German, actually. Dee-no-zau-ria basically 😉

          Get with the program, English tbh.

  51. Tess

    I certainly hope that Becky, who seems to be a thought going off the side panel, is not dead!

    1. MeghanTheWorldEater

      Insert obligatory truck jokes here.

  52. NinjaNick

    Squee! A Dina storyline!

    1. saki

      Your avatar + your comment = perfection 😀

      1. TheGrammarLegionary

        Just because Dina Gravatar thread.

  53. podian

    So, are we, just for a single glorious moment, entering a drama-free zone?

    1. Bagge

      Sarah will desperately cling to Dina’s leg: “PLEASE, LET ME STAY WITH YOU”

  54. merbrat

    http://i.imgur.com/XfZQLm9.jpg
    (then, this happened)
    http://imgur.com/dZ4GILI

    1. Kryss LaBryn

      lol.

    2. Tenn

      And people cite things like that as examples of what’s bad with Wikipedia! 😉

  55. BenRG

    Well, now we know what is the content of the mystery that is Dina’s brain!

    1. Bagge

      She has been very… subtle in her interests so far.

  56. Random Opinion

    I love Dina. I love her thoughts, I love her naivete, all of it.

    1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

      She’s not all that naive. She’s picked up on certain ques far faster than other characters.

  57. Kamino Neko

    I just noticed the drool, and now I’m giggling.

  58. Bagge

    Re alt-text: Dina is very good at putting herself in a comforting cocoon and she’s very clear on what comforts her.

    I love how she wakes up all …sleeping… sleeping… sleeping .. DING dinosaurs! New Happy Day!

  59. RJ

    I AM ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY VIBRATING AND MADE A SOUND THAT WAS INVOLUNTARY THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN OFTEN

    1. Darkoneko

      kinky.

  60. Darwin

    I love how the hat, while completely unchanging (except for general shape and position on her head) seems to emote anyway, making it an essential part of Dina’s character.

  61. Majere

    This arc is already the best arc.

  62. Bagge

    No one has snagged awake!Dina as their gravatar yet? Strange

    1. saki

      Is there a way I can chose my avatar without having to go and make a gravatar? Because if there is, I will immediately take awake!Dina :3

      1. Bagge

        That’s the only way I know. Might be worth the effort though (I’m not giving up happy blue-panel Becky just yet though)

        1. saki

          Well then, Gravatar it is.

        2. saki

          Now I just have to figure out how this thing works. .-.

        3. Bagge

          Works great, apparently 🙂

        4. saki

          So it does. 🙂 My first comment post-gravatar-getting didn’t have the new picture yet, so I wasn’t sure if I’d maybe missed a step somewhere, but turns out it just needed time. 😀

        5. Kamino Neko

          Yeah, it usually takes a minute or two before a new gravatar takes.

  63. saki

    Dina’s bed hair is so adorable! ><

  64. Darkoneko

    Sleeping with her hat on ? 😮

  65. Bagge

    The way Becky sneaks into Dina’s thoughts kinda reminds me of Robin’s mental landscape over in shortpacked, here (spoiler… I suppose)

  66. Ivresse

    It seems like Dina is doing a variation of the Elements song by Tom Lehrer, only with dinosaurs:

    ‘There’s Brachiosaurus, Cedarosaurus, Europasaurus, Brontosaurus…’

  67. Arianod

    Of course! Brontosaurus for ever!! 😀

    1. thebatman22

      Brontosaurus doesn’t exist. They thought that when they discovered it, it was a new species, but was later found to just be a misidentified Brachiosaurus.

      1. Tacos

        As we have said a bit further up in the comments section, there might be sufficient skeletal evidence now for Brontosaurus to potentially be considered its own separate genus.

      2. Arianod

        Brontosaurus lives in our hearts ^^

  68. CianM1301

    Ooh, this’ll be interesting!

  69. Shadow12000

    Dat cute drool tho.

  70. JBento

    *Fanboy squee*

  71. timemonkey

    It’s all fun and dinosaurs, until she starts trying to socially interact.

  72. PBManning

    This is all going to end in tears, probably mine.

  73. HMRC4EVR

    If Dina has any sisters I can’t recall, but I love to see five of.them all in different hoodies of their favorite dinosaurs.

    I would have to call then Dinabots.

  74. erejnion

    THE BEST TIME OF THE YE… DECADE HAS COME. REJOICE, AUDIENCE, WE ARE IN FOR A TREAT!

  75. Les

    Okay, is it just me, or do her facial expressions and body positioning look like she was finding this dream arousing? I can’t imagine sleeping all night with your arm out flat like that, so it seems more likely she moved under her body while she was dreaming. In the 1st panel it looks like she’s straining, then she hits the wall, then she wakes up with a somewhat guilty looking expression and her hand reappears. Or am I just wishful thinking about a future Slipshine strip?

    1. Björn

      Whatever, I’m just glad the last panel didn’t read “A Dumbing Of Age pornographique”.

    2. saki

      I very often sleep with my arms either completely along my body – or with the arms folded to use as buffer between my belly and the mattress so my chest is more comfortable – so I didn’t read this like that at all. The panel where she moves her hand up and has wide opened eyes just looks to me like realising it’s morning, and positioning her arm so she can push herself up. Which isn’t to say I don’t like the way you think. 🙂

    3. David M Willis

      what in the fuck

      1. timemonkey

        I don’t really see how this is a ‘what the fuck’ question.

        1. Pinja

          Because jumping from this image straight to sex is skeevy.

        2. Spencer

          Eh, this comment section is obsessed with boning. Pretty much every page has at least one Slipshine request regardless of the circumstances.

        3. Tacos

          Now I’m kinda scared to think what people might say if there was a strip with only inanimate objects in it.

        4. John

          This is the only strip I recall that has no characters in it (and I’m not really sure how to search for no tags), and jumping from that strip to boning isn’t really a huge leap.

        5. Spencer

          Amber’s whiteboard x Joyce’s whiteboard is my OTP.

        6. saki

          And when it’s not Slpishine-type-boning, we’re talking dinosaur bones. Really this site’s comment section’s flag should be that Dig It T-shirt Dina (and I think Joe at some point?) was wearing way back.

  76. TJ Pittsburgh

    Welp, today appears to be sauropod day . . .

  77. Spencer

    Oh my God the Becky thought bubble.

  78. Shire

    Walking With Dina, eh?

    I nominate Kenneth Branagh as the voice of her internal monologue.

  79. Asper

    This might get interesting.

  80. Marethyu

    Dammit Dina, how are you so damn cute even when you just woke up? >.<

  81. Jen

    OMG. OMG. OMG!!! This is amazing!!

  82. ocbrad1

    I’m confused. Is this the next Slipshine? Seems a little less “pornlord-y” than I would’ve expected…

  83. Rebecca

    Also, does Dina have some special interest in sauropods, because that’s what all of those are (except the possible “Becky” bubble in the corner…)

    1. Kamino Neko

      Today’s Sauropod Saturday. Tomorrow’s Stegosaur Sunday, then Marginocephalia Monday, Pterosaur Ptuesday (wherein she details just why it’s known they’re not dinosaurs), Wildcard Wednesday (can be anything), Theropod Thursday, and finally Fantasy Friday (where she does nothing but think about riding and playing with dinosaurs).

  84. Toes14

    Eww, Dina drool.

  85. Boomer Gonzales

    OK, real talk…I heard all of Dina’s inner monolouge like the “Manta Ray Song” from “Finding Nemo”.

    ^_^;;

  86. Alexx

    I’m already excited.

  87. Darkoneko

    Walk like an egyptian~

  88. Charles RB

    HELL YEAH DINA

  89. Liz

    Dina continues to be my favorite.

  90. Edupoet81

    Happy morning thoughts? Smiling within seconds of awakening? Waking up NOT feeling like crap mentally and physically? What is this strange new world in which I find myself?

    Not all of Dina’s thoughts are about things that are dead, if I’m right about that last thought bubble in the lower-right hand corner of that last panel. Exactly what is Dina thinking about Becky? It seems that we are not to find out. Not yet, anyway.

    In any case, I’m excited about this arc. What is the world like in Dina-vision? We will soon see!

  91. Darkoneko

    Doing a special:prefixindex/Beck on dinopedia gave me the Becklespinax

    1. Darkoneko

      (I actually tried the english Wikipédia first, but there were wayyy too many unrelated results and I was lazy.)

      1. Darkoneko

        speaking of which, the Wikipedia article on it is more complete so there :
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becklespinax

  92. Fugacity

    … on a totally different track ….
    I was just reviewing the cast page and it struck me as odd that the majority of the female characters were bespectacled (7 with glasses vs 5 w/o) while only one out of 6 male characters has glasses (Jacob). Does the author/artist have a thing for girls with glasses or is it just pure happenstance?

    … just pondering

    1. timemonkey

      Yes, yes he does.

    2. Darth Cariss

      He totally does.

  93. Pinja

    I’m the same way only it’s about fictional characters fucking

    “America/Kate””Korra/Asami””Steph/Cass”

  94. Sir Robin

    If this became the focal point of every strip from now on, that wouldn’t bother me

    1. Sir Robin

      Dina of Age, I’d read that

  95. Inarx

    Is…
    Is this a Slipshine ad..?

  96. rachel

    I! AM! SO EXCITED!! ahhhhhhhh this will be so great.

  97. Cephalo the Pod

    …did I miss something? Am I the only one not seeing a new comic for July 11?

    1. Cephalo the Pod

      Never mind; the homepage isn’t updated, but there is indeed a Next Comic.

  98. Thomas

    Of course Dina is aware that “Brontosaurus” is an obsolete scientifical name (being no longer in use) for the species of dinosaur nowadays known as Apatosaurus. It’s only in popular fiction that the name persists.

  99. Kenjia

    Just realized the word “Becky” is cut off in the last panel. “Beck-” Sneaky foreshadowing for the win!

    1. Kenjia

      Whoops, folks already pointed that out. My bad.

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