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Aaaaaaa
Posted on September 27, 2020 by David M Willis

187 thoughts on “Aaaaaaa”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    WOW OK did not expect THIS reveal

    Robo-Vac-Os: Oops All Bunnies!!

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      I hope by all bunnies they mean it is all bunny marshmallows and no actual cereal.

      1. abacuswizard

        Or all actual bunnies and no cereal or marshmallows.

        1. BRYAN SCOTT LANGLEY

          This would literly kill me via and allergy to rabbits….so….not this! Please!!!!

        2. He Who Abides

          That’s a shame, since rabbit is delicious.

        3. Ana Chronistic

          Y’all know they’re DUST bunnies right

        4. Needfuldoer

          Nah, that’s preposterous. They’d be stale by the time they hit the store shelf.

        5. Commander Clash

          Rabbit meat is rather tasty. I find it to taste rather like ham with a slightly higher saltiness.

        6. Ryek Hvek

          make beer from rabbits, and you don’t need to add hops

        7. Captain Oblivious

          Yeast, I barley got that.

        8. Dellaran

          Excuse me, waiter, there’s a hare in my beer.

        9. Disloyal Subject

          I could see Joyce buying that, given her familiarity with VeggieTales.

    2. abacuswizard

      I am always here for Robo-Vac shout-outs.

      1. clif

        Everybunny is hare for Robo-Vac.

    3. Nick Piers

      Spoiler: They’re not made from real bunnies.

      1. Michael Steamweed

        WHAT??

        (Damn you, Willis.)

        1. clif

          Say it isn’t so.

    4. Delthor

      Bunnies! Yes, this is good. I cannot imagine many “Oops” situations as enjoyable as all bunnies.

  2. Chris

    Yes, this is the change in tone we needed.

    1. Jess

      I know, right? I’m feeling very restored right now.

      I guess Dina missed her girlfriend!!

      1. LuminousLead

        Either the paint on that door is really bad or Becky has some super tough nails.

  3. Lux

    Thank you Dina

  4. Kyrik Michalowski

    This is beautiful, please tell me that is Dina holding onto Becky. Also I wish I had cereal that exciting, all I have is cocoa puffs. Admittedly, what is better than chocolate for breakfast?

    1. brionl

      How about store brand raisin bran crunch? It’s crunchy! Exciting!!

    2. Bicycle Bill

      The reference to the multiple varieties of cereal means we are about to be reintroduced to Riley.

      1. TomHCinMI

        Riley is too young to go to college.
        If time passed in-world I’d guess she’d be about eighteen now;
        but it doesn’t so she’s still twelve.

      2. Sombrero

        Dina was the only one in the Hall as fond of cereal as Riley, so Dina it is.

      3. Schpoonman

        Roz is still present and Robin may still be present (maybe it’s because of the IRL situation, but Robin bowing out of the race made her skyrocket up my list and I want more of her before she stays up there), Riley could conceivably return.

    3. Jamie

      Dina is tagged.

    4. Matthew Evan Davis

      Also this is a reference to the first time you see a raptor in Jurassic park, right down to the grabbing the edge and upwards slam. Look at about 1:50 on in this clip:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbqnkTYXgI

      1. Bicycle Bill

        I must be one of the handful of people in the Western Hemisphere who haven’t watched “Jurassic Park”, so I didn’t get the reference until you posted the link.

        The strip is almost a shot-for-shot duplicate, right down to the lines: “Shoot her. SHOOT HER!” = “Feed her. FEED HER!”

        1. Needfuldoer

          Watch it, the special effects still hold up.

          (Just ignore the pseudoscience and floating T. Rex goof, and go along for the ride.)

        2. RowenMorland

          Yeah, I think a lot of people heard the exact tone of voice he used too when they read that panel. I know I did.

        3. Ana Chronistic

          I haven’t either other than the beginning since we had a throwaway week in the high school Biology class I TA’d

          Sadly, “FEED HER” only makes me think of a different movie with that line, which I also haven’t seen but someone recited in detail including why it was super gross and I will not spell out bc even w/o seeing the movie it gave me quite a bit of trauma

        4. Captain Oblivious

          Marebito?

    5. plasticwrap

      Easy: Reese’s puffs.

    6. Disloyal Subject

      I’ll tell you what’s better: half a cup of rice crispies poured over a third of a cup of cornflakes.
      Preferably offbrand; they sweeten it less than Kellogg’s.

    7. Daniel M Ball

      better? Cocoa-puffs WITH chocolate milk.

      1. Ed Rhodes

        Cocoa Pebbles… also with chocolate milk!

  5. Lenora

    Becky!!!

  6. not someone else

    Dina got tall??

    Okay, this is legit adorable.

    1. Nick Piers

      She spared no expense.

      1. clif

        She’s standing on the sink.

  7. Kyrik Michalowski

    One final question, who is tall enough to hold Becky at the top of the door like that?

    1. Autogatos

      Velociraptors can jump extremely high.

      1. Varangian

        Cheetah speed. Fifty, sixty miles an hour if she removes the hat. And she’s an astonishing jumper.

        1. krveale

          beautiful

    2. Mra

      Dina has suddenly grown two feet

      1. Delicious Taffy

        She’s a centaur now?

        1. TomHCinMI

          Beat me to it!
          😀

        2. clif

          Congrats on your impending Centaurhood.

        3. Needfuldoer

          Except she’s half carnivorous dinosaur instead of half horse.

        4. davidbreslin101

          …or instead of half human?

        5. Corned Beef

          Thank you for giving me a new monster to throw against my players: The Dinotaur, half horse, half raptor, all ornery

        6. Needfuldoer

          Or maybe half-carnivorous, and only eats meat every other meal.

    3. showler

      Dina has a close relationship with doors. Her powers when she is hidden by one are incalculable.

    4. Wraithy2773

      The Rule of Funny, mostly :D.

    5. Amara Rezby

      Dina, when she’s horny.

      1. Schpoonman

        She’s a variant of the hulk?

        1. NelC

          Her secret is, she’s always horny?

    6. FacelessDeviant

      Dina as obviously been constructing an advanced pulley system to increase power, with the drawback that the last pully wheel is fastened to the ceiling.

    7. Owlmirror

      Dina has mad upper body strength due to lifting and carrying around many heavy paleontology textbooks and dinosaur encyclopedias with color pages.

    8. Chris

      Isn’t it obvious? She’s at the top of the doorway because she ain’t never been under the top, and she ain’t startin’ now.

  8. Varangian

    Dina all making movie-accurate Jurassic Park raptor sounds

  9. Schpoonman

    Oh my god, this is amazing.

    1. clif

      I know, right? Yesterday Becky was killed by a door and today she is being devoured by a dinosaur. Has Willis no mercy?

  10. butts

    clever girl

    1. Varangian

      They should all be destroyed

  11. The Coolest Child

    the mood whiplash hit me harder then mike’s untimely entrance into witness protection

    1. DinaWho

      Did you call it that or is that a new filter?

      Testing: death

      1. Kyrik Michalowski

        I can’t imagine Willis would have a filter on “death”, though that would be amusing.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          What would they replace it with? [Splatoon 2 Let’s Plays]?

      2. Reltzik

        Except that only proves that the original comment didn’t contain the word “death”. It doesn’t rule out the possibility that some OTHER word might have been there and hit by a filter. We need to try more tests.

        Testing: Thanks to current politics, we are seeing the demise of satire.

        Testing: After getting through security, please proceed to your departure gate.

        Testing: I think I’ll go back to erectile disfunction pill my hair.

        Testing: There’s a lot of concern about sending children back to class this sauerkraut monkey.

        Testing: Between the heat and humidity, I don’t want to go jogging. I think I’ll just lie here all jellyfish enematose.

        Testing: I need to stop overcooking my breakfast. That was like biting into a cement pancake.

        Testing: The moon is covered in pimple craters.

        1. Amazi-Stool

          Testing: Mike’s death.

    2. clif

      In fairness, Mike’s concussion and new pair of glasses was pretty disconcerting.

    3. Paradoxius

      Mike’s untimely lemonade

  12. ReFlex76

    Horny Becky, now a blatant Jurassic Park reference . . . yup, that’s Dina.

  13. Raen

    I had been thinking this might be a fakeout, and Becky might’ve moved on, but the fact that Dina’s in the tags has me thinking this is exactly what it looks like.

    (I wonder if I still have that Dina hat I bought in 2010?)

  14. Sirksome

    I know Dina has max steath but did she max strength stat over the time skip too?!

    1. Opus the Poet

      Seems highly probable

    2. Disloyal Subject

      Nah, circumstance modifier.
      There’s an alternate class feature for Druids to trade wildshaping for Barbarian Rage.

      1. Mephron

        Why so that when she’s a high enough level druid to wildshape into various kinds of saurids?

        1. Disloyal Subject

          She’s already three atrociraptors.

  15. Nick Piers

    Willis, I shall never tire of Jurassic Park riffs. If you ever stop, I shall consider this comic ENDING of Age, am I right, you guys?

    1. Reltzik

      Complete with meteoric fall.

  16. BBCC

    God I love the velociraptor girl.

    1. Geneseepaws

      That was a song by the Cowsills?
      I knew, (I knew, I knew, I knew, I knew, I knew)
      She could make me happy, (happy, happy, happy)
      You should hear her roar
      Cereal on the floor!

  17. Mada

    I notice in the later panels that Becky suddenly doesn’t look as bothered.

    Is she being…”devoured”?

    1. Bryy

      Oh, Dina’s getting fed all right.

      1. Andy

        Gotta feed her cereal so she won’t munch on the rug

        …I’ll see myself out.

    2. Delicious Taffy

      It’s okay you can say “vored”

      1. a/snow/mous/e

        Don’t think that was where that was going, but sure; always up for some vore.

        1. a/snow/mous/e

          i suppose they are trying her to quell her appetite with micro rabbits stuffed into a cereal box…

        2. Captain Oblivious

          It makes sense. Dina must be voracious following the time-skip.

    3. Rose by Any Other Name

      I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who got lesbian subtext out of all this.

      1. BarerMender

        I don’t think that’s sub. That’s straight up text. Dina means to eat her girl.

      2. Zee

        What subtext? This is just lesbian text

    4. Reltzik

      I know this is a joke, but… no. Dina is good on consent stuff.

      1. Geneseepaws

        Thank you.
        Also; Bonus points for stating something observably and objectively, verifiably true. (Tired of the lies)

  18. Stephen Bierce

    *plays Green Jelly’s “Cereal Killer” on the hacked Muzak*

    1. Stephen Bierce

      It’s full of vitamins and METAL!

      1. Geneseepaws

        Yay! Micronutrients are important

  19. Bicycle Bill

    I just want to know how Dina, who is all of five-foot-nuthin, is able to drag Becky up to the top of the door.

    1. Proxiehunter

      She’s standing on the sink.

    2. Sirksome

      I mean I guess the real answer is that this is just a bit of comedic absurdity that bends the rules of reality a bit, like that time Amber caught Sal in a pokeball. But I’m choosing to believe Dina got super jacked over the time skip! I’m keeping that hope alive!

      1. Schpoonman

        That one was actually immediately revealed to be a daydream. Of course, this might be Dina’s daydream.

    3. Nick Piers

      Through sheer power of Jurassic Park reenactment.

    4. Keulen

      I was wondering that too. Perhaps she can do things that shouldn’t be possible only when it’s a reference to Jurassic Park.

      1. Reltzik

        Or teleporting behind doors.

    5. OBBWG

      Adrenaline.

    6. Owlmirror

      Dina has mad upper body strength due to lifting and carrying around many heavy paleontology textbooks and dinosaur encyclopedias with color pages.

      And, and . . . and she’s standing on a stack of those books in the half-bath right now, and added a foot and a half to her height.

  20. Bryy

    oh my god horny dinah

    ohhhhhhhhhhhh my god

    1. Proxiehunter

      If she’s wearing her triceratops hat she has three of them.

      1. TomHCinMI

        Well-made point!

  21. Pocky

    Clev-er I mean Horny girl. . .

  22. PB

    HI DINA

  23. jeffepp

    You got XKCD in my…

  24. Ghastly

    I love how this implies Dina has doubled in size and strength during the timeskip

  25. Opus the Poet

    I love how this implies Dina is horny on Main, and this has caused a Poke-style evolution increases in strength and possibly height.

    1. Needfuldoer

      She’s evolved into D. Nah, an eight-foot-tall, carnivorous paleontologist in training.

  26. Tim

    Was there an update on Gravitars?

  27. Tim

    Nope.

  28. Beau Kirin Maysey

    Calling it: Biggest Season 2 plot twist is that Dina now announces herself EVERY time she shows up

  29. showler

    Willis really had to ramp it up after Becky’s reunion with Dina following the trip home with Joyce. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/04-it-all-returns/quiet-2/

    1. saltchocolate

      I love that strip so much!!

  30. nobodybasically

    Mike actually recovered completely from his coma. He died in an unrelated incident when he got too close to a hungry Dina.

  31. Warcodered

    Clever Girl.

  32. abysswatcher1993

    Dina being horny? More likely than what you think.

    1. Autogatos

      Did you know yours is the 69th comment? Seriously it was 69 when I checked just now and yours is the most recent.

      1. clif

        Replies are also counted and can come in at any position. But maybe.

    2. Reltzik

      Horny? You mean she’s wearing her tricera-top?

  33. clif

    I choose to believe that in the last panel Dorothy is actually trying to pry Becky’s arm off the door.

    For reasons.

  34. NinjaNick

    Dina’s got quite a dino-appetite.

  35. cartoogle

    Loins. It’s what’s for dinner.

  36. electriccombines

    Willis how do you feel having made the FUNNIEST fucking strip in Dumbing of Age thus far????

    1. Council

      It is certainly one of the few strips I’d describe as “fucking”, so it is in a favorable playing field^^

  37. Reltzik

    It’s too late for cereal! Dina’s about to feed on Becky’s tender loins!

    (Probably not, but.)

    1. Needfuldoer

      First the tender loins, then the tenderloins.

      Ruth already called dibs on the femurs.

  38. zelgato

    So. That security deposit is gone I guess.

  39. GUIGUI

    what?

    …

    WHAT?

  40. Bagge

    Yes, Becky. Dina has missed you too.

  41. Lingo

    This is wonderful.

  42. kat

    this feels very Shortpacked! in tone. I wonder if reality is gonna be a little looser from now on here

    1. Needfuldoer

      Joyce lowkey has the ability to teleport; I’d say we’ve been there for a while now.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/helping/

  43. coma

    From now on, this is my favourite comic from the whole bunch of excellent other possible favourite comics

  44. BenRG

    One of the downsides to having a girlfriend with a dinosaur obsession and identity issues that makes her occasionally behave like a movie Velociraptor.

  45. DarkoNeko

    hahahaha what the hell is happening, also did Dina get a growth spurt ?

  46. Eldritchy

    Did Dina evolve from a dinosaur into a dragon and is now kidnapping a princess?

  47. Anna

    Goodness, never knew Dina had that serious problems with low blood sugar.

  48. Agemegos

    Yup. Yup. As I was saying — the reason that I prefer the relationship threads to the adventure threads in this comic is that they’re so realistic.

  49. Rabid Rabbit

    Dorothy and Dina scripted this, didn’t they?

    1. Regalli

      Look at Becky’s line here. Look how she’s flailing. That is some exaggerated ridiculousness right there.

      If anyone’s NOT in on this, it’s Joyce.

  50. 0kami

    CUE THE “COPIOUS NOTE-TAKING” .

  51. Lone Duck

    Oof, first day in the room, getting finger scratches on the door? If I know my college dorm policies (and I do), they’ll wanna cover that up. No one has time to pay for room damages.

  52. Vabolo

    I just finished rereading the archive from 2012-ish onwards, and I think this makes my top 10 DoA strips that I’d love to see animated?

  53. PiotrW

    … wait, Dina mutated into a sex-crazed dinosaur during the timeskip?

    1. Makkabee

      You’re surprised?

    2. Geneseepaws

      One word: inevitable

    3. Eldritchy

      Nono she is a dragon now and she just captured a princess.

  54. AbelUndercity

    Ohai, Dina.

  55. Alan in DC

    I do volunteer sound design for theaters and student films in my area. I heard every bit of these sounds in my head just now – and a few more as subtext (moist squishy noises) – and they are just hilarious.

    If the classic 1950s Godzilla “Gronk” is in the mix, all the better.

  56. Rabisch

    SHE GOT HER!!!! THE TERROR! THE HORROR! AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! I love this! Dina seems so happy to see Becky ♡♡♡. She just can’t calm herself.

  57. Acebender

    Damn Dina Dina got strong in these few months

    1. clif

      Nothing is as strong as the power of true love.

      And hunger.

      1. Zaxares

        I thought kids nowadays call it “thirst”? 😉

  58. Seregiel

    fav hijinks comic ever. <3

  59. Jeffrey Scronce

    She’s gonna be in velocirapture

    1. Seregiel

      Velocipastor is wonderfully terrible. 🙂

  60. OftenSane

    Well that was a delightful reframing of a scene that freaked me the hell out when I was 12

  61. ValdVin

    Love the shoutout, but I had to be told about one of them.

    Today I realized I know more about Robo-Vac than I do Jurassic Park. I had ought to see that movie someday.

    In real life Dina would not deign to be my friend.

  62. JessWitt

    Hilarious yet terrifying. Hilariously terrifying.

    1. Kali

      Hillarifying

  63. hof1991

    Definitely a new showrunner this season. Totally changed the tone.

  64. Rose

    I continue not to regret my pick for “who would win in a fight”

  65. raultsi

    Dina’s dangerous when her blood sugar is low, eh?

  66. Raptorofwar

    Another Jurassic Park reference! RIP Jophery.

  67. Wakeangel2001

    so is Dina hungry or horny? OH! can I coin the term “horngry?”

    1. Deanatay

      I believe the modern fandom term is “thirst”.

  68. jonathan young

    OMG Becky’s eyes in panel 4 this is my favorite all time DoA 😀

  69. Kyrik Michalowski

    Coma

  70. Regalli

    This is so adorable.

  71. Sarpiedon

    No…seriously…WTF is happening here?

  72. David Doty

    Since people seem to be posting their decadent cereal preferences: a mix of Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch and Cocoa Pebbles with chocolate milk.

    But LOW FAT chocolate milk so it’s healthy.

  73. bcb

    Oh snap it didn’t occur to me until this page that Becky and Dina are now next door neighbors.

  74. ASKBlueDragon

    Actually, that’s Amber helping her roommate. Dina is about to come in via the open hallway door.

    Clever Girl.

  75. Rartorata

    Hey, I watched JP for the first time last night!

  76. Roborat

    This is my new favourite page, not only of this comic, but of any of the many comics I read.

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