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Stampede
Posted on November 29, 2011 by David M Willis

140 thoughts on “Stampede”

  1. Uniqueantique

    Rumble?

    1. TaZZerath

      No, I think it was a Frenzy.

      1. Aizat

        Repeat after me: Rumble is blue and Frenzy is red. Or what is it the other way around?

        1. Twentydragon

          (monotonously) Rumble is blue, and Frenzy is red. Or was it the other way around?

        2. Osaru Sensei

          FIRRIB! \o/

        3. Kallio

          Rumble is blue,
          Frenzy is red,
          It cost me a nickel
          To get your mom in bed.

      2. Vabolo

        http://gifs.gifbin.com/1233928590_citizen%20kane%20clapping.gif

      3. Andrusi

        Enemy!

    2. A. Colunga

      Scar, help me!!!

      1. Aizat

        Long live the king!

        1. Kernanator

          Damn it, you guys beat me to it.

        2. Icalasari

          Is… Is she wearing a dildo on her head in that avatar?

          And just in case it changes:

          http://i.imgur.com/9RZpy.png This is the one I’m talking about, future readers of this comment

        3. begbert2

          Yes, and that is indeed from an official strip. She’s advertising for planned parenthood, I believe.

        4. das-g

          Or planned non-parenthood, or whatever. As long as it’s planned.

      2. Raidar

        Mufasa!

        Mufasa Mufasa Mufasa!

        Scar: I’m surrounded by idiots.

  2. Freeholder

    And the beach party gets another member. 😀

    1. Freeholder

      Also cant help but love the look on Sals face. Its almost as though she is against rumbling.

  3. David Herbert

    She’s caught up in the beach party!

    1. Valdrax

      Beach party? No, no. This is the group to go buy pajama pants.

      Beach party comes later.

      1. tahrey

        Pajama jeans beach party? Woohoo! Good times.

  4. Michael

    I sense shenangans

    1. fellixe

      Shenanigans again?

      1. Zuche

        No, just shenanagains.

        1. Wandering Meme

          Good shenanigans, or eeeevil shenanigans?

    2. Lordphulish

      No, just derring-do

  5. Mkvenner

    Does Dina get to the waffles!

    1. ryan

      only if the DoA katamari rolls them up.

  6. Plasma Mongoose

    SQUISH!

    1. Aizat

      Beat me to it.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        RED AVAS POST FASTER! 😛

        1. Aizat

          Are you three times faster than a normal commenter? If you are, you’re A CHAR.

        2. Wandering Meme

          And if you breathe fire after someone shouts “I CHOOSE YOU!” You are a Charazard.

        3. Mirenheart

          Orkz paintz dem red so deyz go fasta?

          Waaaagh!

        4. Wandering Meme

          I thought it was “SMOOSH!”

        5. Wandering Meme

          No wait! It was “GLOMP!”

          Like at Comic-con!

        6. Plasma Mongoose

          Glomp is a tackle-hug not a crushed underfoot sound.

        7. Wandering Meme

          Oh. So more “snap, crackle pop”, only not in the fun, breakfasty way?

        8. Plasma Mongoose

          Pretty much!

    2. Wandering Meme

      Sensory overload! SENSORY OVERLOAD!!!

  7. Wackd

    I get the distinct impression Dina’s not going to be back at two to wake up Amber.

    1. Joe H

      That’s the easy bet.
      What are the odds she actually makes friends with the group? I’m going for 6:1.
      20:1 says the group never notices her and she gets left at the beach without a soul being aware.
      50:1 says she’s the one that actually helps Joyce with the nearly raped incident.
      And for the gambling men/perverts out there 100:1 says she instigates an orgy which everyone happily agrees to and partakes in.

      1. tahrey

        What odds can I get on “Willis foregoes the obvious Looney Tunes type option and the crowd actually passes by *random person in corridor* (Dina) WITHOUT carrying them along”?

      2. ryan

        i think you have the odds for those first two flipped.

  8. Daeva

    Add in a little musical accompaniment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrthv6pUAbU

    1. Lordphulish

      I was thinking more benny hill

  9. TaZZerath

    Dina, you know what to do….. JUMANJI!!!!!

  10. Michael

    Also, I’m throwing this out there, at the beach we’ll get hints at Dina falling for Walky, and it will lead nowhere.

    1. iSaidCandleja-

      Well I wouldn’t say nowhere.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/mine/

      1. Wackd

        I completely forgot about that.

        …

        OH MY GOD, JASON REALLY DID LOSE WALKY’S NOTES!

  11. Joraiem

    Dina encounters a wild MAIN CAST!

    1. Jabberwocky

      FIGHT ITEM
      POKEMON RUN

      1. tmoney

        obviously RUN. barely even a question

        1. Aizat

          Cowards run. A warrior stand and fight.

        2. alex

          *squish*

      2. Ancestral Hamster

        DINA: “Velociraptor! I choose you!”

        1. a99steaksauce

          Main Cast use Extinction.
          Extinction is super effective!

        2. NakedDumblydore

          Blasphemy. Someone who loves dinos as much as Dina would know that Utahraptor > Velociraptor every day of the week.

        3. Jetstream

          But Deinonychus is the coolest lookin’

      3. Plasma Mongoose

        MASTER BALLS
        Use them!

        1. Tucker

          DINA used MEEKNESS
          DINA’s evade went UP

          Wild MAIN CAST used INCLUSION
          INCLUSION failed.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          MAIN CAST USES STOMP
          DINA SUFFERS DOUBLE DAMAGE

        3. Jabberwocky

          Stomp is Normal-type; it isn’t super-effective against anything.

        4. Jabberwocky

          Trying to decide how sad it is that I’ve committed the type matchups to memory.

        5. Tucker

          As I no longer have the type matchups committed to memory, I decided to stay with stat-effect.

        6. Joraiem

          Obviously it was a critical hit!

        7. Plasma Mongoose

          Stomp gains double damage if the target used Minimise.

        8. Wandering Meme

          Dina uses “casual indifference”
          It’s Stupid-effective!
          Dina regains most of the feeling back in her lower appendages!

  12. Vabolo

    Aw, she’s adorawkward!

    1. Doctor_Who

      Adorkable.

      1. Wandering Meme

        She’s tragidorable!

  13. The Sound Defense

    It’s a little-known fact that Dina was the original creator of the Stone Mask, based on her own powers of invisibility through boringness.

    1. NakedDumblydore

      Oh, goodness, Shiro/Dina is now my OTP. Thank you.

  14. Rognik

    Could be worse. At least she’s not trampled and just swarmed.

  15. MacaroniPterodactyl

    Yay more Dina! She’s my favorite.

  16. NinjaNick

    Quick, hide!

    Too late…

  17. Aizat

    3rd panel: Cue the William Tell Overture.

    1. fellixe

      …cause here come the Bad News Bears!

    2. tahrey

      Nah, this one’s definitely either the Devil’s Gallop or the Benny Hill theme

      1. Zuche

        Nah, Yakkity Sax only applies when the target manages to stay ahead of the crowd. You could animate this one to be timed to the opening bars of Thus Sprach Zarathusa, however.

  18. Xi

    “DIna, when did you get to the beach with us?” “I… I don’t know… where did I get these massive floatation devices… I’m supposed to bring Amber back some ham…”

  19. iSaidCandleja-

    Just when you thought it was safe to leave your dorm room…
    *jaws theme*

  20. AlienCowThatMoos

    Suddenly it all makes sense… Willis, you started by sketching that Beach picture last year and then challenged yourself to get those characters there in story didn’t you?

  21. Someone

    FENTON!!

    …forgive me.

  22. NCP19

    “…and that dear children, is how Dina wound up as part of the Fellowship of the Beach Goers.”

    1. a99steaksauce

      She bacame the sixth wheel.

    2. Osaru Sensei

      ‘Run, fools.’

    3. Wandering Meme

      Bearer of the one monster hat to rule them all.

  23. Fauxlosopher

    NINJA MOMENTUM

  24. Kernanator

    “Amber! Sister, help me!”
    “Long live the paleontologist.”

    1. Gordon

      Is that a Lion King reference?

      1. Kernanator

        Yes.

        “Help!”
        “Somebody!”
        “Anybody.”
        “Help.”

  25. Ter

    Wait. IS SAL STILL PANTSLESS?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      That’s why she’s frowning.

    2. Tristan J

      Finally, someone with priorities.

      1. Just for kix

        Who needs the damn pants on a beach anyway?

  26. dmb

    My odds say Dina gets rumbled past, or over, due to her powers of social invisibility.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      In hundreds of years time, paleontologists will discover Dina’s remains…

      1. Zuche

        That would be as a dream come true for her.

  27. Lalala.

    I saw an ad for DoA with them already at the ‘beach’! How cuuuute. I like Dinah more, now that we’re getting to see her in this comic!

  28. Steven

    Social interaction oh noooo.

  29. Aydr

    That little bit of Billie’s face is creeping me out.

    1. merkury

      Bricks were shat and what has been seen cannot be unseen…

    2. Zuche

      It’s all Chesire Cat at its most horrifying. (For a good example of that, see National Lampoon’s “The Assassination of Garfield”, done in the style of Jim Davis.)

  30. tahrey

    I wonder where they’re going, though…?

    I know little of Indiana other than having just looked at a map … starting out from northeast Bloomington you have the reservoir within practical walking distance, a couple of nearby national park lakes a short drive or bus ride away, “Indiana Beach” resort a couple hours fast drive away, or Lake Michigan (more like 3-4 hours).

    Or… JETPACKS.

    I’m with the “everyone piles into one not quite large enough car and goes to the national park” option. As far as I’m concerned, you haven’t actually been to college if you haven’t done something similar at some point. But maybe I’m biased from how my group got 8 (9?) people plus a load of beach gear into the euro equivalent of a Saturn station wagon and went to a nearby not-officially-recognised-but-good-as-national-park type beach in the last few weeks of our freshman year…

    A good time was had that day. Regardless of what may have happened the night before, everything was A-OK for just a few hours.

  31. TheSpoonyOne

    Beach episode!

  32. Asuka L.S.

    Anybody else hear Robin Williams shout one of his “Jumanji” quotes?

    “Run! It’s a STAMPEDE!”

    1. a99steaksauce

      I certainly do now.

  33. nothri

    I continue to wonder what time of year it is. Even here in Texas (hi “y’all”) things are too cold outside to go swimming. Is it springtime in this universe?

    1. Jacob

      Not if you’re from out of state. I remember when I moved to Arizona, everyone thought my family was nuts for going swimming on Christmas Eve, but us Northerners thought it was pretty warm.

      Of course, next year we were freezing our butts off at the end of November.

    2. begbert2

      It’s about a week into the start of the fall semester. I don’t know about the climate in that state, but around here (Idaho, not exactly equatorial) you at least wouldn’t get rained on or anything.

    3. Zuche

      I’d rather Texas in November than a Newfoundland beach in August. The only good thing I can say about the Labrador Current is that it encourages you to keep moving.

  34. HiEv

    Should Joyce’s right hand still be bandaged?

    It was bandaged in “Decision” and “Disperse”, it may have vanished on “Beach”, but it’s hard to tell, but since this is the same day (right?) it should probably still be there, shouldn’t it?

    1. HiEv

      Woot! I got a stealth edit! Bandage is there now. 🙂

  35. Lord Synick XXIII

    AND THEN THEY ALL F*CKED

    1. Jacob

      You forgot the UP at the end there.

      1. begbert2

        No he didn’t. Though Walky’s going to be busy, and that handily explains Sal’s evident lack of enthusiasm. (Presuming of course that this isn’t everybody’s moment to hop on the Willis ‘everyone is so gay’ bandwagon.)

        1. Wackd

          I can see it now. Book 3: Dumbing of Age is Totally Gay.

  36. hasteroth

    she’s invisible

    1. begbert2

      No, there’s a tiny spot of green visible behind Joyce, under her elbow. Which incidentally proves that she’s neither been flattened to the ground nor swept up in the center of the crowd (in which case she’d occlude the view of Billie; instead Billie is in front of her). There is a chance that she’s flattened herself against the wall to avoid them, though.

      1. begbert2

        And, er, an entire arm waving for help. Was I completely blind before? Yikes.

        Guess she’s not avoiding them.

  37. JackNapier

    Come on, guys! Let’s all get pajama jeans!

    1. Greg

      That is now going to be my personal canon for Dumbing of Age, and anything non-Pajama Jeans-related that follows will just be an unfortunate interruption to their original Saturday afternoon plans.

  38. Wix

    You do know this means that she’s going ot be carried along with the group. Which means she gets to be part o-*SQUEEE* She gets to be part of the main story!

    1. begbert2

      Dina has always been the main story. Everything else has been merely an interesting distraction.

  39. Alexx

    And thus ends another Dina in another universe. No heroism for this one…just trampled.

    1. Zuche

      It was the best she could do.

      1. Alexx

        HA! I laughed, and then that made me a little sad afterward.

  40. Bill M.

    Zerg rush?

    1. Freeholder

      Maybe, but I’m pretty sure Sal is a late game super unit. ;p

    2. Lordphulish

      Need more pylons

  41. ziggy78eog

    Dina, look out! It is a stampede of rambunctious Freshman! Oh no, my warning came too late!

  42. Kasamari

    Dina, you have been assimilated (*_*)

  43. saturnwonder

    RUN DINA!!!

    1. tahrey

      You forgot to do BLOAD*,8,”DINA” first

  44. Gargamel

    Dina, really needs stand up for her principles and wear the Boner t-shirt.

  45. lb

    I think this was a scene in Jurassic Park, too

  46. Lordphulish

    Rumble rumble rumble, mutiny mutiny mutiny.

  47. Noel Schornhorst

    So, Dina, I hear joo wanna rumble wit’ da big boys…

  48. Bill_Wa

    Change of topic. I cannot believ3e it took me this long to see what I am seeing. Why did I not recognize Joyce from It’s Walky.

  49. Opus the Poet

    I can’t believe nobody made a compare/contrast between this strip and the early Funky Winkerbean newspaper strips.

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