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Rapport
Posted on December 6, 2013 by David M Willis

200 thoughts on “Rapport”

  1. Jen Aside

    God, that’s me =( [with a clever girl shirt, no less]

  2. Herohatch

    Dina continues to provide her own intrigue, regardless of age.

  3. Tunaro

    So either Riley’s super mature or Dina’s really childish. Either way they are both super awesometastical which is totally a word I did not just make up

    1. Doctor_Who

      Dina’s been mistaken for young before, by Sarah’s “friends”. I guess she just looks young. She’s pretty small.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Years ago, I used to work with a 22yo who looked about 10yo due to her height and babyfaced features, so its very possible for someone like Dina to be like this.

        1. Doctor_Who

          True story. I was in a Taco Bell two weeks ago and some teenagers asked me if I go to the same high school as them. I turned 29 a month ago.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          I had the opposite problem since I turned 13 decades ago.

        3. LockeZ

          I read this as “since I turned that same age, 13 decades ago”

          I guess that’s better than reading it as “since I became a zombie, 13 decades ago”

        4. WaytoomanyUIDs

          Heh, I also read it as “since I turned, 13 decades ago”

          Have I been watching too much “Being Human”?

        5. rachel

          NO YOU HAVE NOT

          so goooooood

        6. madd

          Sympathize. I was hanging out with my aunt and her friends once and a guy was flirting with me hard, which made me greatly uncomfortable, and then he asked me what year I was in, to which I answered that I had just started freshman year and then he asked me which college I went to …

          Thankfully, when I said high school, he backed off at top speed.

        7. Marisa Mockery

          My older sister matured super early, and when she was 13 she demanded a bikini for summer in exchange for good grades. She got the grades and the bikini, but she looked like a 16 year old in it, so Mom taught her yo say whenever a guy approached “hi, my name’s Sandra and I’m 13 years old!”

          They always backed off after that.

        8. Leorale

          Smart mom!

        9. Philippe G.

          29?
          I’m starting to think you may not be the actual Doctor.

        10. Kirby

          Hey, the Doctor was 29 once. His first incarnation lived to be an old man. Just the ones after that were very bad at staying alive that long.

        11. LockeZ

          Time travel, right? When he turned 29, it was in the middle of a time travel expedition to November 2013. He’s experienced lifetimes since then, but it was, technically, a month ago.

        12. ninja_jesus

          29 is like a baby’s age in the passage of time for Time Lords.

        13. MichaelHaneline

          You mean 290, right?
          Or is that just how long its been since your last regeneration?

        14. Kirby

          He’s not that good at staying alive.

        15. Marika Oniki

          Not true! I’m not sure how long Tennant’s Doctor lasted, but Smith’s has had about 300 years, if you take his stated ages at face value.

        16. Blue

          Maybe not recently, but he was nearing 450 when his first incarnation died of old age, and it’s implied in the 50th that another incarnation died of old age as well. (Means Eleven has certainly aged well for 300 years. Also if his reported ages are accurate, every other incarnation has been spectacularly bad at survival.)

        17. fogel

          You could be one of those cops who go undercover at a HS…

        18. Doctor_Who

          Please. I was horrible at fitting in even when I WASN’T over a decade out of date.

          How do you do, fellow kids?

        19. asmcint

          I once saw a 20+ year old woman who looked closer to 7. It was honestly kinda surreal looking at someone who looked so mature and yet childlike. The shit you see at Wal-Mart, I swear.

      2. Kirby

        I have friends who love Lolita style. One’s nearly 30 with very adult… attributes, but she can make herself look 10 if she wants to. Which is most of the time.

        So I get weird looks when we’re in public together. >.>

      3. Leorale

        When I was 26, I walked into a high school to teach a class, and a kindly adult asked me, “Ohh, is it your first day? Do you need help finding homeroom?” True story.

        1. Leorale

          Ooh, Dina avatar! We’re both gonna get carded ’til our hair turns grey.

        2. Foxhack

          I STILL GET CARDED AND I HAVE GRAY HAIR.

          People think I’m goth or whatever the kids are these days.

    2. Thor

      This is how shipping starts. Don’t make us have to get the rolled-up newspaper!

    3. Plasma Mongoose

      The answer maybe is both…?

    4. Red Robot

      Well, I get the impression that Riley is so mature and centered that she could be the eldest sister in some parallel universe (if you believe in such things).

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Nothing says maturity like constant cravings for Cocoa Puffs.

        1. Keroshino

          You don’t understand!
          The withdrawal one gets from Cocoa Puffs is crazy!!!

          …and now I need my fix.
          The Puffs man, THE PUFFS!!!

      2. showler

        Not the Walkyverse, though. She’s still the youngest there.

      3. Roborat

        Yea, she might even have a kid of her own.

        1. Deathjavu

          You mean, like this one? http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1981

          (I assume that was the joke)

        2. John

          She’d probably name it after the Cocoa Puffs mascot or something.

    5. GoldStarz

      This is simultaneously the most adorable and heartbreaking thing ever!

      1. GoldStarz

        Except for that one time. And that other one time. And a few more of those times, but they don’t count.

        1. ocbrad1

          +1

    6. Ourorboros

      Asians can look very young, especially when you take young looking features with smaller frames.
      Even as a guy of average height I’ve always looked younger than I am. Not a bad thing as time goes on.

      In college I had a friend who know twins in the college he transferred to who looked like they were in their teen (Caucasian). Cute, but they looked like a set-up for a news program.

      So it happens, but ask for ID and look around for a news van.

  4. Lucas

    And Dina is my favorite character again

    1. Mr. Bulbmin

      She stopped being so?
      BLASPHEMY.

      1. desolation0

        She beat out his previous favorite, Dina.

  5. seodra

    I have become one of those people that waits up tiplmidnight and refreshes until the comic appears. Da hell happened to my life?

    1. Norj

      Willis stole it and your dignity, mine as well come to think.

      1. TheBenenator

        So . . . “Damn you, Wiliis!”?

      2. Badeyes

        Somewhere Willis has a large warehouse of stolen dignity.
        He’s not using any of it himself so what is his dastardly plan with that much dignity?

    2. HMRC4EVR

      It vanished when Willis started mixing in 100 percent more awesome and feels into each strip.

      I never had a life to begin with, so I’m not missing anything, but I can see why for some folks it’s a confusing situation.

      1. Waverocker

        Dude, that’s not the way to think about it! There’s a whole world out there to experience! To enjoy! To take over!

        1. Bill

          There is life outside your apartment.
          I know it’s hard to conceive.
          But there’s life outside your apartment,
          And you’re only gonna see it if you leave.

          There is cool shit to do, but it can’t come to you,
          And who knows, dude, you might even score!

          There is life outside your apartment.
          But you gotta open the door!

    3. LiaHansen

      Sometimes, late at night, I think my real life is really just filler while I wait around for the webcomics to refresh at midnight. Which reminds me, I have to check out questionable content!

      …oh god I hate myself.

      1. carl320

        “Oh god I hate myself”… isn’t that a webcomic to check out?

        *googles it*

        1. Raoullefere

          If Jacques ever makes a spin-off starring Marigold, he should seriously consider that as a title for it.

        2. John

          I thought his spin-off starring Marigold was called “Questionable Content”.

        3. Badeyes

          Yeah, when did Marten become an extra anyway?

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          There hasn’t been one clear protagonist in QC for ages now.

        5. David Willis

          so it’s an ensemble cast

        6. John

          To be fair, I’d rather read about Marigold than Marten.

          Though I liked this ship better when it was insane dork-hate-flirting.

        7. Raoullefere

          Blame Momo; it would’ve gone on forever if not for her. But, ooooh nooo…

    4. chris73

      Thanks to time zones it appears at 6:00 p.m for me

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        3:31pm for me.

        1. cookie1995

          5:00 am for me

        2. Ghostforge

          10:00 pm here

        3. Keroshino

          10:01 for me!

        4. Keroshino

          Which sucks because I am usually still at work when the comics update!

          …so then I have to be sneaky and pull out my iPhone when no one is around! 😀

    5. brionl

      See, that’s why you should live on the West Coast. It’s only 9PM for us. 😛

      1. Wonder Wig

        Sweet sweet 9pm. Actually 9:02 on my computer’s clock for some reason.

        1. Kelly

          Got your NTP turned on?

      2. Tacdud2

        Its 11:01 for me

      3. Alyssa

        1pm for me.

      4. Vash

        West coast all the way baby

    6. AI

      move to central time. it shows up at 11 here.

    7. Waverocker

      Yyyyep I’ve been one of ‘those people’ for a month or two now. I can’t say it doesn’t bare fruit!

    8. Doctor_Who

      I’m always up past midnight anyway. Yaaaaay jobs with flex time! What would us night owls do without you?

      1. Kelly

        I would think flex time would rarely be an issue for you of all people!

        1. Doctor_Who

          If I were the boss, I would SO change the name of our policy to “Wibbly Wobbly Time”.

    9. Yotomoe

      I remember when that happened to me. But lately I’ve been doin’ it less cuz…if I miss it at midnight then the comments get flooded and I get annoyed.

    10. The_Specter

      It appears at 9:00 for me ;-D

  6. KingMabel

    Can we PLEASE see them eating cereal together? PLEEEEAAAREEWDSEDEDWEEEREWSSSS?

    1. KingMabel

      Sorry the image of Riley and Dina eating cereal gave me a non-sexual spasm…

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        You worry me sometimes kingMabel.

        1. Bill

          I’m still trying to figure out what that last word was.

        2. Yotomoe

          Not as much as Queen Dipper, but you worry me all the same.

      2. AI

        moe-gasm

    2. Tenn

      But if Riley’s cereal-sexual, that would be EEEEWWW!

    3. Vree

      oh god I second this.
      do it Willis…please.

      also other Riley & Dina doing cute childlish things together.
      cute-gasm > norm-gasm

  7. LiaHansen

    “I like to think I have a sort of timeless charm.”

    1. Yotomoe

      a “Lucky” Charm if you will. *gobbles cereal*

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Riley is destined to become a cereal-killer.

  8. Keroshino

    Thanks Amber…way to Dan things up! 🙁

    1. Yotomoe

      It’s contagious!!!

    2. Ourorboros

      Actually, it’s far better they know now.
      Dina’s dignity would be far more tarnished and she would be very crushed if she found out later.

    3. Jack Finch

      Pop quiz. Who’s really more socially inept, Amber or Dina?

  9. Charlie

    Dina and Riley BFFs forever.

    1. Keroshino

      One can only hope!

  10. Waverocker

    Oh Dina

  11. Rabbling Rouser

    with shortpacked we get a double dose of Riley today

  12. Waverocker

    This is why everyone loves her

  13. Kafloo

    Dina’s not 12!?!?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Dina’s middle-aged, she just suffers from Dick Clark Syndrome. 😛

  14. Sam

    Oh gosh this is incredibly adorable.

  15. Aakriti

    Poor Dina!

  16. Tacdud2

    And Amber just killed the fun the two were going to have.

    1. Yotomoe

      They were gonna go on adventures. CEREAL ADVENTURES.

    2. Keroshino

      She’s a such a party pooper!

  17. lividjellyfish

    One does not simply deceive Dina

    1. |Agent

      But one does deceive Dina simply.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        BOOM BOOM!

        1. Yotomoe

          Was that the best you could do?

        2. Boom

          Don’t diss the fox.

  18. GoogerGeiger

    Dat unibrow, Riley.

    1. Doctor_Who

      I think it’s just her bangs in between them. They’ve been separate in other strips.

    2. Yotomoe

      Butter Toast.

      1. Beige

        Gravy!

  19. Sammie1053

    Oh god, if we get any more of Dina and Riley’s adorableness I think I’m going to have facial scars from smiling too hard.
    Also, wow, Dina’s vocabulary seems to be better than that of most college GRADUATES.

    1. Boom

      So that’s how he got those scars…

      1. timemonkey

        Why so happy?

    2. Mr. Bulbmin

      She expresses a vocabulary above most people’s comprehension, period.

      Remember, we live in a world run by the greedy and overrun with the stupid.

    3. Bill

      Who got that way by pandering to the lowest common denominator.

  20. Wonder Wig

    Riley’s believe it or not. (Apparently not because she wasn’t tagged, thus it is not Riley, but an imposter!)

    1. Rereally

      I’m surprised he hasn’t fixed it yet.

  21. Pyr05

    We all know Dina’s a super-genius, so she is totally twelve.

    1. Keroshino

      She is basically Chiyo-chan!

      …dammit! Now I want to see Dina in a blue penguin costume.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        If Dina = Chiyo-chan, then who is Osaka?

        1. Leorale

          Osaka’s person hasn’t transferred in yet.

  22. Bob Ross

    Seriously, why is Dina so damn cute?

    1. NoHeart

      Because Dina. Because Awesome!

  23. Spriteless

    Man, Dina is so much cuter than my IRL aspie friend. It is because of the dinosaurs, isn’t it? People love people who love dinosaurs in a way they just don’t love people who love gory japanese porn.

    1. Boom

      I see no answer to that which would not tarnish my dignity.

    2. timemonkey

      To my knowledge Dina has no confirmed condition. People keep assuming she does but it’s never been stated in the comic and I’ve only ever seen willis say she’s never been diagnosed with anything.

      1. Regalli

        She’s not diagnosed, no, but she really sets off that ping! of “Oh yeah, I really really relate to this” in a lot of people who are on the spectrum (me included).

        1. Random832

          Kind of like Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, only without also being a huge jerk.

        2. Bill

          But Sheldon is not crazy.  His mother had him tested.

      2. Ourorboros

        It’s a common enough way to handle it, like Abed on Community.
        She seems to have an awareness of it though, knows but not feels the significance of expressions, and isn’t over stimulated from being outside of her comfort zone while in a chaotic environment.

        Yes that was a terrible run on sentence. Sure, I could have broken it up into several sentences as I have in the past. But without editing features, it stays that way.

        1. Cragalanch

          Cragalanch is wondering why you didn’t proofread

  24. Opus the Poet

    Poor Dina thinks she still has some dignity left. Silly girl.

    1. Ourorboros

      If you kept all your dignity in college, you certainly did something wrong.

      1. rachel

        a) terrific gravatar my friend

        b) hopefully it’s not all gone within the first month of college :/

  25. neon5162

    The Hat is not amused. lol

    1. begbert2

      Come to think of it, Dina’s choice of headwear does not exactly scream ‘maturity’, which may have been a factor when Riley guessed her age.

      That is assuming the headwear gave Dina a choice, of course.

    2. Bill

      Speaking of hats, I wonder when (or if) Joyce will be wearing her ‘alien’ hat again.

  26. Emoroffle

    Yes, yes she is. On the inside.

  27. beugie101

    Twelve looks so strange spelled as a word. It’s like one of those words that doesn’t look like a word when you read it over a few times, and now my brain can’t process it as a word…

  28. Aeyt

    that was cute and sad all at once

  29. Lhocke

    It may be the complete lack of sleep but in this strip Dina’s voice suddenly sounded a lot like Starfire from Teen Titans in my head.

    1. sentrythedefiant

      YOU’RE THE ONE MAKING WILLIS TAKE SHOTS AAH YOU MONSTER

    2. espanolbot

      I always read her with Niki Yang’s voice. 🙂

      1. Sir Robin

        I always read Dina as Fluttershy

        1. Beanzoboy

          Just like with Fluttershy, Dina is best pony. 😀

  30. Red Robot

    Is anyone else relieved about seeing Amber spoiling Dina’s fun as opposed to, say, running into Danny and Sal? At least its the lesser of two evils.

    1. Jack Finch

      No. Willis doesn’t choose the lesser evil, he just saves it up for later.

      1. Keroshino

        And it then becomes bigger than it was originally!

  31. Epic25

    Rapport
    Rapptor
    Raptor

  32. ATN

    Treachery is afoot!

  33. joeyo

    I’m Not Rappaport

  34. Jack Finch

    Baby steps Dina

  35. Scolopendra

    …Has Dina been taking speech lessons from Vaarsuvius?

    1. Doctor_Who

      Hot DAMN is that a mashup I would love to see.

      Jacob = Roy
      Mike = Belkar
      Dina = Vaarsuvius
      Walky = Elan
      Billie = Haley
      Ethan = Durkon

      1. Pebblerocker

        oh wow

        In the spirit of geekery I feel I should quibble over your choices, but I’m too busy being amazed at the possibilities.

        Also, Galasso = Tarquin.

        1. Scolopendra

          These are all good, except I would argue that Joe = Belkar (in a less stabby way), and Mike = Xykon. Ruth was Miko before The Event, now I’m not sure who she is. Also not sure where to find our Redcloak corollary.

        2. Scolopendra

          No wait, I’m an idiot, *Mary* is Miko. No two ways about it.

  36. tahrey

    pahahahaha 😀

  37. XMinusOne

    Why would anyone assume that an 11 year old would be on campus as a student? I did go to college with a 15 year old girl brainiac, but she lived at home and her parents brought her every day. She acted like she was 30.

    1. David Willis

      Where is anyone assuming an 11 year old is a student? Dina doesn’t consider Riley’s age until it’s pointed out, and Riley is keenly aware it’s Freshman Family Weekend.

      1. Ourorboros

        And the “mean girls” were just being that while at the mall.

    2. tahrey

      (…as is Amber) ? 😉

  38. Far

    Darn, Riley almost made Dina’s ‘short list,’
    now she’s just on the ‘Dina’s short’ list.

    1. Keroshino

      Pretty much the same as the ‘Edward Elric’s short’ list

  39. Volkai

    Aaaand this sort of thing is why I don’t guess people’s ages at less than a decade range.

  40. OmegaDez

    That comic where Dina is super cute.

    1. Mr K

      You mean every comic.

      1. John

        Nah.

        She isn’t in most of them.

        1. Kernanator

          Actually, she is, she’s just hiding behind a door.

        2. Ourorboros

          Or swept up and hidden by the crowd.

  41. maycroft

    Dina: “well, I’m gonna have my dignity tranished anyway. So what the hell”

  42. Arkadi

    Amber’s face is best face.

    1. tom

      FFAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEE

      1. I don't know what to put here.

        I’ve seen that joke so many times that it doesn’t PHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE me anymore.

  43. tom

    The truth comes out! Those inquiring about riley’s “legality” really are creepy! (unless they were also 12 — I was all like a/s/l? when I was 12)

    1. rachel

      YUP.

      but yeah having being a pervy 12 year old, wow, good god that makes me super super nervous for my own kids in the future. “NO DATING AND NO COMPUTERS TIL YOU’RE THIRTY” but Something tells me that won’t work.

      1. Badeyes

        You wont last nearly that long lol. They’ll defeat you by 17 if not before.

        1. rachel

          AND THEN EVERYONE WILL GET HERPES AND DIE.

          don’t worry, no kiddoz yet, but fuuuuuck it will be so nuttyyyyy

      2. Jack Finch

        The final touches on physical neural development don’t happen until the early to mid 20’s. On the other hand sexual development finishes several years before this. I don’t think this is a coincidence, evolution-wise.

        1. tahrey

          Those final changes are probably “OK time to stop screwin’ and start lookin’ after the kids instead”, given the historical record of life expectancy plus age of marriage and first childbirth…

          It’s probably safe to say instinct and the genetic side of evolution hasn’t kept up with our massive leaps in nutrition, medicine and education (and family structure/timelines) that have come since, biasing the various stages of development to somewhat later in life. Re-doing the survey in a few hundred years’ time, assuming we don’t suffer a(nother) catastrophic collapse of civilisation, may present a figure more along the lines of early 30s. I’m not sure mine is quite finished yet, even. I’m certainly not who I was five years ago.

    2. tahrey

      Man, this is a closed world to me. I was all like “what’s this ‘internet’ thing” and “jeez why are we getting a clunky-ass PC not a Falcon?” when I was 12 🙂

      Mind you, that’s not to say we probably weren’t even more perverted at that age, and indeed 10-11, when there was opportunity. There just wasn’t much of the latter… (and, as with internet use, it was only in the odd moments where supervision was lacking)

  44. Hotsauce

    I’ve discovered that I read pretty much everything Dina says in Teen Titans Go Starfire’s voice.

    1. ADHadh

      I’d make it a bit more nasal. Starfire’s was really cheerful and emotional, which Dina isn’t.

      1. Bob Ross

        yeah no kidding, it’d be more like raven or a vulcan 😛

        1. tahrey

          I’ve barely even seen any TT, but I think it might be most accurate to pitch it between the two. Raven’s just a bit TOO flat and low pitched, too cynically Daria-like. Needs to be a bit higher pitched, a little more confused and inquisitive, and indeed more neutral. Plus, she does at least *try*.

      2. Hotsauce

        You think this is under my control?

  45. butts mcgee

    when i first read this in the a.m., my first reaction was “RAPPORT? MORE LIKE RAPTORP, AM I RIGHT DINA?”

    it was pretty funny at 7 am.

  46. Angel

    people have always underestimated my age, sometimes by as much as ten years, but my favorite part of this is hiw Dina is basically a good guy version of Faz.

    1. Mr K

      She isn’t perving after Amber. Or is she?

  47. man in black

    great page

  48. guy

    Great page. Now drink.

  49. Crazy Pete

    Im an opposite here.Im 14 but because of my hair(facial,on my hands,legs,pretty much everywhere),people think im a short 16-18year old

    1. Teddybear

      Used to happen to me a lot in high school. people thought I was a senior

  50. Ben

    Is it bad that I heard DBZ abridged’s dende voice for dina’s in teh last panel >_<

  51. Jen

    The fact that Dina realizes that any answer to that would “tarnish her dignity” means she’s really growing in terms of social skills and interactions, I think. 🙂

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