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Assimilation
Posted on May 30, 2014 by David M Willis

285 thoughts on “Assimilation”

  1. Jen Aside

    D= DOUBLE CUTE REBELLION

    1. SUGauthor

      OVERLOAD! OVERLOAD! TOO MUCH CUTENESS!!

      1. Aizat

        Fool! I’m immune to cuteness thanks to my close proximity to kittens.

        1. Shadow12000

          But this isn’t even their final form!!

        2. RevenantBacon

          well played. It seems that I’m going to have to go super saiyan.

        3. Yarrr

          That won’t save you.

          Nothing can save you

        4. Gigafreak

          Next stage: Dina borrows the sunglasses perched on Joyce’s head, to perch them on her own. So her diosaur hat can be coolly detached as well.

        5. Dan

          In my headcanon, Dina’s hat can change expressions to match her mood, and its pupils are cooly off to the side.

        6. Justin

          is it weird i find Dina …oddly sexy in that last panel?

        7. Rachel Roth

          Justin, let me just warn you here, DINA DOES NOT HAVE A SEXY INDICATOR! If you pursue her, you must do it on her level, and accept that there is a chance she will never be able to understand a level above friend.

      2. Disloyal Subject

        CUTEPOCALYPSE

        1. Lord Circe

          This just in: Nyan Cat just saw this strip and died of cuteness overdose.

        2. TachyonCode

          D:!

          Nyan Cat is DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD?!

        3. LittleMountain

          HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

      3. Batman

        IT’S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!

      4. Mass Confusion

        Now I have “Cute Overload” by Parry Gripp stuck in my head. Thanks for that

    2. Doctor_Who

      I want Sal to walk by in the next strip, see these two geeks acting like that, and immediately assume it has become mainstream, and she now has to act different to keep being a rebel.

      Next day she shows up in a hoodie dress.

      1. Robert

        Oh god if Sal becomes a hipster I swear to god I will rip my toenails out one by one.

        1. Doctor_Who

          Nah, hipsters are all about fake rebelling in strictly defined ways. It’s just another way of being a fashion victim.

          Sal is about actual rebellion, since she’s genuinely sick of society’s shit. But it’s hard to be a rebel when even The Churchmouse and Yuki Nagato find your behavior socially acceptable.

        2. Jen Aside

          Tomorrow: Sal wears Jason’s clothes

          [YES THE BOWTIE TOO]

        3. John

          Not just clothes like his, or clothes that belong to him, but the actual clothes right off his back. She just walks up, strips him, and walks off with his clothes.

        4. saltchocolate

          If she does the bow tie will instantly become cool, just like Joyce’s shirt.

        5. The Doctor

          Bow ties are already cool. You’re welcome.

        6. Doctor_Who

          Bowties already are cool.

        7. Kaoy

          Wait till you see what she can do with a fez.

        8. timemonkey

          Nothing can make a bowtie cool.

        9. Jen Aside

          I had imagined after a quick shag, but okay!

        10. John

          It’s funnier if she walks into his office and is all, “Get nekkid. Now.” And when he complies, in obvious anticipation of what’s about to happen, she just takes his clothes and leaves.

        11. Jen Aside

          Haha, I want her to take his boxers, too.

          –or, wait, he’s all tighty-whiteys, isn’t he

          those can go on his head

        12. Jen Aside

          so anyway

        13. kurodansei

          I like you

        14. DarkVeghetta

          Glorious.

        15. Historyman68

          And his skin.

        16. John

          The Churchmouse is Sal’s twin brother.

        17. Kelly

          >Yuki Nagato

          I didn’t realize Dina was that powerful!

        18. timemonkey

          Dina is exploding with secret power.

      2. Rabid Rabbit

        Nope. She’d just revert to her high school uniform.

      3. Deanatay

        Quite the opposite would happen, actually. Sal will walk by, not even noticing them, in some completely different, yet somehow still cool, outfit, and both Joyce and Dina will realize that their attempts to be cool have utterly failed, and they must change again to be more like Sal. This will continue through several iterations, may even become a running background gag.

        1. Robert

          Dina and Joyce are going to be the next blues brothers. I can see it.

        2. Stoodmuffin

          More “Soul Sisters.” But, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi better watch out!

        3. John

          I could see Joyce ordering dry white toast, and Dina ordering four fried chickens. They’re no cereal, but every so often you’ve gotta eat some smaller dinosaurs to establish your place in the food chain.

        4. Roborat

          I was thinking Jay and Silent Bob.

    3. SAL

      DINA DOES IT BETTER!!

  2. LeslieBean4Shizzle

    Badass Dina! 🙂
    Best Dina comic yet.

    1. Opus the Poet

      +1 ^
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      1. Opus the Poet

        Well that turned out crap. The [ was supposed to line up with the ^ to form an arrow upwards to support the statement “Best Dina comic yet.”

        1. tinfoil theory

          Try this: ↑

        2. Kelly

          Unicode FTW!

        3. Bill

          Or the Windows character map.

        4. Kelly

          Erm, it is Unicode regardless of how you generated it 🙂

    2. Legasher

      Nope. Still this one:

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/return/

  3. Plasma Mongoose

    Holy crap, the Sal-virus is spreading.

    1. Aizat

      Don’t you mean the S-Virus?

      1. Yotomoe

        Resident Ev-Sal.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          +1 ^_^

      2. Sammie1053

        Not the T-Virus.
        The Squee Virus.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

      3. Plasma Mongoose

        One of the signs of this virus is that it causes excessive sal-ivation.

        1. Spoon

          Just don’t rub sal-t in the wound

        2. nekobawt

          never put sal-t in your eyes, it leads to killing danny…well ok, maybe that would justify putting sal-t in your eyes.

      4. Doctor_Who

        Salmonella.

        1. Aizat

          You mean like Salmonella Fitzgerald?

        2. Shadow12000

          GODDAMMIT WHY DO I STILL REMEMBER THAT CARTOON!?

        3. Aizat

          I can’t ever forget that cartoon. That and the cure for swine flu.

        4. Citizen of Zozo

          BAM look at that bacon sizzle!

        5. CianM1301

          “Look at that bacon sizzle!”

        6. Who Izzy

          Isn’t that the show that became KND?

        7. DarkVeghetta

          Yup, it is.

        8. DarkVeghetta

          Well, not so much concept-wise as style-wise.

        9. Gigafreak

          Now now, don’t be silly.

          Salmonella’s a bacterium, not a virus.

      5. Chris

        Greetings and Salutations!

    2. Gilthwixt

      I really want to see how Patient Zero feels about all of this

      1. Jen Aside

        “I didn’t expect you to make it this far, not without infection.”

  4. David Herbert

    You should animate the last panel so they’re bopping their heads in time together.

    1. BigDrahma

      They’re like the polar opposite of Jay and Silent Bob

      1. JustCheetoDust

        By Clerks 2 Silent Bob was carrying the Bible around, so not exactly polar opposites.

        1. Big Drahma

          True, they had met God, and not just after a giant doobie.

        2. Annie

          They met God and Her name is Alanis.

    2. Wonder Wig

      And set it in sync with the Danny Phantom theme song!
      (for some reason that’s what I hear)

      1. Tom Speelman

        Joyce’s parents would, of course, forbid Danny Phantom on the grounds it normalizes the occult.

        1. Kaoy

          That sounds far too plausible to be read as funny.

    3. Jen Aside

      …….SHIT I GOT SOME IDEAS

      [too lazy to do them]

      Awrite, so, headbopping to “What is Love? (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)”

      1. Annie

        I was starting to feel old when I got that song stuck in my head. I started to fear that no one remembered that.

        1. DarkVeghetta

          On the Internet – we ALL remember.

  5. BigDrahma

    Please so much more of these two!

  6. Aizat

    I am quite amaze on how Dina is quick to analyze the situation and then quickly adapts to the new situation.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Her adaptability makes her perfectly suited for her environment, and is the reason that, like the shark and crocodile, the modern Dina is almost identical to her counterpart of millions of years ago.

      1. Historyman68

        You mean It’s Walky! Dina?

    2. Opus the Poet

      Dina has troubles reading facial expressions, not social situations. Those she understands from her dinosaur simulations.

    3. Shadow12000

      So what you’re saying is, she’s a……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….clever girl

      1. Shadow12000

        Omg, it pushed the “clever” into oblivion XD

        1. Cybersnark

          Much like the internet.

        2. anonymous

          Next time put a space after the ellipses.

    4. Annie

      I’m always amazed by how self-aware she is, yet somehow incredibly lacking in self-awareness.

  7. JustCheetoDust

    Well, that’s just fantastic.

    I’ll bet it’s annoying for Dina to have to keep the bendy part of that straw hidden.

    1. Yotomoe

      It depends on how far down it is. It might be easy to hide it between her teeth.

  8. Doctor_Who

    At least Dina acknowledges the futility of trying to be as cool as Sal.

    Girl’s got a good head on her shoulders. And a better head on her head.

    1. Yotomoe

      There can only be one Sal. If two beings of that magnitude of coolness were ever in such close proximity the earth would swing off its axis and hurl right into the sun.

      1. Aizat

        If there’s more than one Sal, we can always go the Highlander route. Have everyone of them decapitate each other until there is only one.

        1. tinfoil theory

          What if, by some freak occurence, none of the immortals survive?

        2. Aizat

          Well, cover it up and say it’s a massacre.

  9. Kernanator

    First of all, I like how Dina specifies that Joyce’s attempt is futile, then joins her anyway.

    Second of all, that last panel destroyed me with cuteness.

    1. saltchocolate

      +1 on both counts.

      However, I think the hovertext has it wrong. No way would Sal be caught with a boombox in the 21st century! That is not a part of the current cool package. : D

      1. Annie

        But is it part of the hipster package yet? I keep seeing things like throw pillows and pencil bags with pictures of cassette tapes on them, so I figure boom boxes can’t be far behind if they’re not here already.

  10. Yotomoe

    Sometimes animals use mimicry as a defense mechanism or to create a symbiotic bond with another species.

    1. Sammie1053

      We now know the same held true for the creatures of the late Cretaceous.

    2. newllend

      helpful new information, but I think you’ve been watching to much animal planet.

      1. Yotomoe

        The Wild Yotomoe, when provoked will retaliate with a powerful defense mechanism. It will imply that the predator is unattractive and insinuate that they are insuficient in their love making as a means to discourage them from further contact.

        1. Opus the Poet

          And respond that the female progenitor of the attacker lacks symmetry and wears military surplus footwear.

        2. ShaggyDonahugh

          For some horrific reason, I read this in a Faz voice.

        3. Tom Speelman

          Horrific reason? Or the BEST reason? Either way, this is the Faz’s natural way.

        4. Jen Aside

          What is a Faz voice, incidentally?

          I imagine it as the voice of this annoying guy from my high school, all “post-puberty but doesn’t sound like it” voice.

        5. Sammie1053

          As a means of further demoralizing the predator, the wild Yotomoe will often imply that it frequently copulates with the predator’s mother.

        6. darkgloomie

          in exchange for a trivial amount of goods, such as 5 grams of metal.

        7. newllend

          The predator will then take a phew moments to process recent accusation, then will preceed to move past recent confrontation with wounded ego and pride being reminded of the food chain.

        8. Spoon

          And then the predator needs to comfort eat. Unfortunately the Yotomoe is often used for this purpose.

  11. Mr. Random

    Sals. Sals everywhere.

    1. Aizat

      Suddenly, Sal. Thousands of them.

      1. AgentKeen

        Better or worse than the invasion of the Hoodie Dress?

        1. Aizat

          Way better…if you’re in that sort of thing.

        2. JustCheetoDust

          Better for us, worse for Amber.

        3. JessWitt

          Sals in Hoodie dresses!

        4. AgentKeen

          She changes the floppy sleeves to fingerless floppy sleeves.

        5. Rabid Rabbit

          Well, better than the invasion of the strap-ons.

      2. Gigafreak

        When everyone is Sal, noone will be.

  12. Teppy

    That last panel is everything I never knew I always wanted.

    1. carl320

      I didn’t realize how much I needed this in my life until right now 😀

    2. Betty Anne

      This ^

      +1

    3. Eebiot

      Yup 😀

  13. Sammie1053

    Thank you, Willis, for making the last thing i see before going to bed tonight SO ADORABLE!

  14. PsychoKineticEX

    These two are the fucking best.

  15. TheLurkerAbove

    OMG SO ADORABLE SQUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  16. GoogerGeiger

    DINA STAHP

  17. newllend

    Told ya she was a fast learner.

    1. Aizat

      She’s a theoretician.

    2. ShaggyDonahugh

      Clever girl.

      1. Aizat

        Clever, egotistical girl

        1. Imperator

          Amuro! We need to push crashing Axis into the Earth for Summer Slam!

  18. matt

    and so spreads the sal

  19. Whittier

    Joyce has had the taste of eraser in her mouth an uncomfortably long time.

  20. DailyBrad

    Joyce and Dina may disagree on many things, but they do share a love of erasers in their mouth.

    1. Yotomoe

      Dina’s sucking on a straw.

  21. BL

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  22. LiaHansen

    Shit when did these guys get so cool I can no longer relate to these characters

    1. Vim-Hogar

      Don’t worry, just do what they’re doing, and you can pretend you fit in, too!

  23. Aizat

    WE ARE SAL! YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!

    1. Yotomoe

      We Accept you. We accept you. One of us.

  24. Wonder Wig

    So was that the mind-controlling hat or Dina speaking?

    1. Aizat

      The wall.

  25. Boomwolf

    this is a weird mixture of sad and adorable

  26. Tacdud2

    Best strip ever. Dina still number 1.

  27. wolfie96

    I feel like the Gorillaz song Clint Eastwood would be perfect right now omg

    1. Disloyal Subject

      Yes, please!

  28. Plasma Mongoose

    And the next morning when Amber wakes up, she finds herself surrounded by Sals.

    1. pendrake

      It would be like the Neo vs. Agent Smith-horde fight, but with Amazi-Girl and Sals

      1. KingMabel

        That sounds like it can go from “Matrix” to “Matrix Reloaded” very quickly

        1. Aizat

          Well, at least it’s a tad better than my local comic mockbuster of the Matrix…the Mamaktrix.

      2. Jen Aside

        Better than Amazi-Girl and a shitload of Blaines =(

    2. newllend

      She can’t fight everybody.

  29. AgentKeen

    OK, now we just need Riley to come and join them, leaning against the wall the same way, with the same face, but still munching on cereal out of a box.

    Then we have achieved maximum cute.

    1. begbert2

      I definitely think we need a lineup of progressively shorter girls all in this pose, diminishing off to an artificially close vanishing point. Yep, that’s what we need.

    2. Jen Aside

      It would have to be Pocky!

      Or… I don’t know if those cereal “bars” would work.

      1. AgentKeen

        There are those weird cereal ‘straw’ things, that are supposed to flavor milk as you drink it. Maybe one of those.

        1. Jen Aside

          Those aren’t really cereal, and they’re terrible =p I mean, it adds like a *hint* of chocolate or whatever flavour, yet costs more for a few straws than just a regular bottle of chocolate syrup would!

  30. Yotomoe

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMZGTHTcv7o

  31. arank11

    “They see me roarin’
    They lovin’
    Patrolling trying to catch me being Dina”

  32. PatBaer

    MAKE THAT LAST PANEL A PRINT.

    1. Opus the Poet

      +1 Or a wallpaper.

    2. Kelso

      It absolutely needs to be a print and/or poster. Day one sale. Minute one sale even.

  33. Mass Confusion

    It appears my heart has stopped beating from the sheer adorableness of the last panel nice knowing you all

  34. JohnLennon

    I can imagine Mike walking by, then silently joining them before Sal walks by and joins them, too. Would be the most epic hallway in college history.

  35. Pyr05

    Ahahaha! I foresee everyone joining in until Ruth arrives.

    1. Pyr05

      Close! Ruth arrived much earlier.

  36. Omnithea

    Planking, Tebowing, Twerking, Sal-ing. I don’t get kids these days.

  37. Salmo

    Is Dina drinking poo?

    1. Annie

      I’m pretty sure it says “POP.”

  38. Regalli

    … Does her shirt feature a cassowary? It looks like her shirt features a cassowary.

    I like her shirt, and fear the cassowary (if such it is) because cassowaries are in fact dinosaurs and also FUCKING TERRIFYING.

    1. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

      Cassowaries are dinosaurs in the same sense that all birds are dinosaurs, yes. They are TERRIFYING, though – they even have powerful claws on their feet like Deinonychus.

      1. Resin

        I have always felt that cassowaries are the most ancient dinosaur-like birds of all. Her shirt makes me immensely happy!!

        1. Kelly

          Well, Palaeognathae are the most basal of living birds! Some argue that that clade diverged during the Cretaceous.

          However, within Palaeognathae Tinamiformes (Tinamous) may be more basal than Struthioniformes (Ratites).

  39. JessWitt

    Da Best! Nuff said.

  40. newllend

    Can we get a pin up of Sal, Joyce, and Dina all lined up making the same pose?

  41. Khaner

    Why Dina drinking out of a cup that says “Poo?”

    1. Aizat

      No, it says Poo-Urns.

    2. Opus the Poet

      POP! The cup says POP! exactly as I spelled it. See, I changed back to my “explainer” Gravatar.

      1. Aizat

        Pop Pop?

  42. The Sound Defense

    How is that cup staying aloft?

    1. Aizat

      Friction that is present in Dina’s hand over coming the force of gravity?

      1. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

        nope, obviously Dina is holding it aloft with the power of her MENTAL MIND POWERS! FOR SHE IS MARIK! I MEAN DINA!

  43. Shanunu

    Is that a bird on Dina’s shirt.

    1. Nunc Pro Tunc

      As stated above probably a Cassowary at a glance.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA58sS3x2Oo

    2. Darwin

      Nope! It’s a dinosaur! Says so, right on the shirt. 😉 In all seriousness, it’s based on the current theory that modern birds are surviving descendants of the dinos. Which makes sense, given that birds and bipedal dinos share several bone structures, particularly in the hips and legs.

      1. Kelly

        Yes, the dinosaur clade Saurischia “lizard hipped” are the origin of birds per many many line of fossil evidence, while the clade Ornithischia “bird hipped” all died out. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? 😉

        * I know that is indeed how it works (and why), I just find the names funny.

      2. Gigafreak

        America becomes slightly more awesome when you realize its mascot is a flying dinosaur. Of the Raptor family, in fact.

        1. Kelly

          Sadly, there is no “raptor” family (speaking of birds), the closest is order Falconiformes, but even in the most broad definition that excludes owls (order Strigiformes)(and Falconiformes and Strigiformes are definitely not closely related).

          It is also not clear if accipitrids (hawks, eagles, others) truly belong in the same order as Falconidae, or if they are even sister taxons. Some have also argued that new world vultures are unrelated to any definition of Falconiformes. It remains very uncertain.

          For the dinosaurs called “raptors” (relatives, but not ancestors, of all birds), there is a single family – Dromaeosauridae. (Clade Maniraptora sounds promising, but includes a lot of things not colloquially called “raptors”, including oddballs like Therizinosaurs and all living birds)

  44. Darwin

    I predict a whole line of socially awkward girls leaning against the wall, forming their own little clique of Rebels against Rebellion or something. Though I’m surprised Dina didn’t liken it to some form of mimicry used by certain animals to avoid predators (such as the phasmid known as the “Walking Stick”). That just seems like something she’d do.

  45. K. Ivan Ruppert

    Who says Dina doesn’t understand social interaction?

  46. Idon'tcarenomore

    That is just the total end of cuteness.
    Floating cup and all.

  47. Jürgen Hubert

    Someone should point out to Joyce that she is engaging in cargo cult behavior – acquiring the trappings of Cool in the hopes of becoming it.

    1. Khaner

      Cult? That’s a thing where people play DUngeons and Dragons and kill themselves, right?
      JOYCE GET OUT OF THERE NOW!

  48. caesaria82

    Too cool 4 skool.

  49. Emoroffle

    Squee! They’re sooo cute!

  50. That Damn Rat

    Hmm, I wouldn’t have expected this many comments, I would have thought pretty much the whole fanbase would be paralytic with squees.

  51. Eolirin

    Please please please, can we have a full size image of panel 4?

  52. Raptorman

    Conformity to non-conformity….don’t you just love it?

  53. newllend

    Can you imagine just geting
    up one day and then go out and you see everyone acting and dressing just like you.

  54. Perpetually

    probably the only one in the world thinking this, but…

    I’m getting a little tired of Sal. *runs away*

    1. chris73

      No you’re not…I’d like more Danny

  55. MrSirk

    Sometimes wishes do come true.

  56. Kiggy

    HAAAHAHAHAHAHAH!

    Bless you Willis. You’re on a roll this week! 😀

  57. cmd1095

    Dina, you are the cutest

  58. Makkabee

    See, if the Borg had sent those two, the Federation would have welcomed assimilation.

  59. Bluestreak7

    Please make prints of this strip so I may buy one. It ranks as one of my favorites ever.

    1. etybolik

      A print large enough to cover my ceiling would suffice.

  60. Peruhain

    If only Joyce were as observant as Dina, she wouldn’t be . . . . well . . . . so oblivious. Dina seems like she’s lost, but she’s like this hyperobjective observer who sees to the heart of the matter, always, and is never deceived by all the world’s socially convenient fictions.

  61. John

    Anyone got a wallpaper of panel 4 yet? Lol

  62. Charlie

    I gotta say, I think this might be my favourite comic so far in this series.

  63. Kerry

    This is totally unrelated to anything, but does Dina have a Japanese name? For that matter, does she actually speak it?

    1. Jen Aside

      “Di” isn’t really a Japanese phonetic [the closest is “chi”], so if anything she would have an English-naturalized name, like how “Julie” has been reappropriated as “Juri”…

      Saruyama could definitely be, though–if written as 申山, it means “monkey mountain” [wait what]

      1. Gigafreak

        I was going to suggest that maybe she has a separate Japanese name other than Dina (I have a separate Chinese name that I basically never use, for example), but then I remembered that her parents are tagged with plausible actual Japanese names, so they probably just gave her a Western name.

        1. Jen Aside

          Nah, why bother with this generation. Maybe if they were fifteen years older, they might have done the dual-name thing.

          [knows a Korean dude like that and jokingly calls him “hand-person” as that’s what his name would mean if read as Japanese]

        2. Jen Aside

          Unrelated to the unrelated thing: Carla is Dutch?? [going by “Rutten”]

        3. gwalla

          That’s common among Chinese, but Japanese people don’t really do that (the only semi-exception is performers with Westernized stage names).

          Dina’s parents clearly gave her a Western first name. There’s really no explanation for “Sarazu”, though. I don’t think there’s a way to make that a surname in Japanese.

  64. Ben

    Dina, I frikking love you….

  65. NinjaNick

    I knew the straw suggestion would show up somewhere. Well played, Dina.

  66. Lu_86

    Wish I could tell Joyce: Assimilation is futile, you will be resisted.

    Oh I c wut I did thar…

  67. 6Qubed

    A boombox can change the world…

    1. Cybersnark

      Especially if it’s Blaster.

    2. tyren22

      This was a cautionary tale: A boombox is not a toy.

  68. DT

    Dammit Willis, I can’t handle this much adorable in one strip!

  69. Acher4

    So cuuuuuute!

  70. Jeanne628

    This is my new favorite strip. It is THE BEST. It’s like my three favorite characters in one strip, except Sal isn’t really there (it is only her fan club) and Amber is also not in it. Also Dorothy. Also Sarah. Actually really everyone is my favorite character but this is still my favorite strip. I’m trying to give a compliment, I don’t know if it’s working.

  71. etybolik

    *cuteness intensifies*

  72. Pebblerocker

    Oh Dina 😀

    I love that she knows it’s futile. No matter how hard you try to act like the others, they can always tell you’re not one of them.

  73. licoricepencil

    ugh it’s so cute and i’m on no sleep thanks to international travel i cannot handle this strip

  74. Ikaru

    OMG Dina is adorable.

  75. Tomas

    Girl gang.

  76. CianM1301

    My guess is some killjoy will probably appear and tell them they look stupid. Most likely Mary.

  77. desai

    This is my favourite game!

  78. NinjaNick

    I wonder who else will join in next. 😀

    1. PedanticJerkass

      In a perfect world, it would be Howard. In the polar opposite of a perfect world, it would be Faz.

  79. Andiemus

    With an attitude like that you’ll never assimilate.

  80. Doc Harleen

    Oh my gosh, this is insanely cute.

  81. Potatamoto

    Homework’s wack! / And so are rules! / Tuckin’ in your shirt’s for fools!

  82. Bagge

    DINA IS BEST REBEL!!!

    Soon they will have rap-beef about evolution. Aint gonna be pretty. Yo.

  83. Alaric

    Is it just me, or is Dina better at looking cool than Joyce is?

    1. DSL

      It’s because she _is_ cooler. Joyce is malleable in her craving for acceptance (seeking to exchange one set of imposed behavioral expectations for another) while Dina is, was and (one hopes) always shall be herself.

  84. Aakriti

    I think I’m developing a crush on Joyce!

  85. Chris

    So cute! Really enjoying Joyce’s “Salvation”.

  86. shoeboxjeddy

    Willis you’ve drawn your best comic. I hope you’re resigned to being downhill from this moment on.

  87. Jen

    Willis, it would probably be too much of a pain to do this, but if if you made life-size cardboard cutouts of them and put them in a photobooth at a convention, I don’t think I’m the only one who would pay a (small) fee to get my photo taken with them! 😀

    1. Potatamoto

      I too would do this!

  88. LancerLandshark

    I want a Badass Joyce and Dina wallpaper now.

  89. Vince

    HA! theres your next book title and cover right there!

  90. Aeron

    Joyce starts yelling FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCKFUCK! for hours and Dina remains completely silent.

    1. Bagge

      Fudge, fudge, fudgedi-fudge

  91. Dragorrod

    I would pay for a poster of that last frame

  92. PedanticJerkass

    Okay, that’s it. Dumbing of Age is done. It will never get any cuter than that last panel there.

    1. PedanticJerkass

      Actually, no, I take that back. It would be cuter if Riley were there also striking the Sal pose, but then you run the risk of ending the universe in some sort of cuteness singularity, so I can understand why that can never, ever happen.

  93. LordHaw

    All this cuteness gave me the smile I needed this morning!

  94. Alexx

    Yes, not only do they need to add a boombox, but then someone needs to make an animated gif of them bobbing their heads to the music.

  95. nothri

    I’m not sure if this will make Joyce and Dina cooler or cause Sal to become lamer.

    1. Rutee

      Blasphemy!

  96. Yatsude Hatte

    I swear if this thing is ever voiced you need Hynden Walch performing Dina as essentially Starfire.

  97. Bagge

    The rest of the comic will be one character after another joining them striking the Sal-pose in escalating coolness/cuteness. The comic will end in a few months (it takes that long to include them all) with Sal herself joining the crew.

    1. Bagge

      …Please, please, could we have a wallpaper with the entire cast being cool like this?

  98. JunkFX

    This is utterly the most adorable thing I have seen this month!!!

  99. Random832

    How is her drink not spilling?

    1. Bagge

      Because of SCIENCE!

  100. The Steve

    This is my favorite DoA panel to date!

  101. Thomas

    Dina is a great character.

  102. Angelo Silva

    That’s adorable.

  103. Kintrex

    Welp, Willis might as well just stop now. He’s never gonna make a strip better than this.

    (Of course he’s going to prove me WRONG)

  104. Kugai

    Dawwww

    She has an apprentice now.

  105. Maycroft

    *pulp fiction music is playing right now*

  106. Marc in MN

    I love how she specified that it was a FUTILE attempt at assimilation.

    Dina is very subtle in her burns. 😉

    1. Thomas

      Dina just states the truth as she perceives it. And boy is she perceptive! 🙂

  107. ninja_jesus

    Joyce and Dina: Bad bongoes.

  108. Jack Finch

    I love how well Dina understands what she really doesn’t understand.

  109. tahrey

    NEW GRAVATARS INCOMING O_O

    *checks comment threads* … wait… no new gravs? REALLY? I am disappoint.

    (I would, but I have no idea how to get into my gravatar settings any more)

  110. DarkoNeko

    I think Dina wins there.

  111. Kilo

    I would imagine it’s a game Dina has played several times before.

  112. MortartarSaws

    So which one is Jay and which one is Silent Bob?

    1. de Combys

      Haha!!

  113. de Combys

    Thinking back, I think the last panel is one of the best ones Willis ever drew. (Is that verb tense okay?)

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