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Quiet
Posted on August 4, 2016 by David M Willis

339 thoughts on “Quiet”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    eeeeeee BEST BIRTHDAY COMIC! =3

    (a stark contrast from last year)

    1. butts

      Oh, jeez, yeah. Your birthday present last year was Toedad. That’s rough.

      1. Wheelpath

        Willis definitely made up for it this time, maybe go above and beyond with a slipshine? =3

        1. butts

          Oh man, Dina/Becky would be the Slipshine to end all Slipshines. Human civilization would have to pack it in, because it’d all be downhill from there.

        2. Wheelpath

          Oh crap, you’re right all other pornstuffs and sexy things would become obsolete. I’m not sure I’m ready for that yet.

        3. Anorak

          Willis, pls bring about the end of mankind

        4. Orion Fury

          Eh, we had a good run.

        5. Originalslugboy

          Did we, though?

        6. inqntrol

          Wars,destroyed civilazations,slavery,dictatorship,famine. “Yep,definitely a good run!”

        7. Clif

          The dinosaurs had a much better and longer run.

          Speaking of which, … Happy Birthday and RARRR!

        8. Anorak

          Inqntrol, that seems like what mike would say if he was god

        9. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          @Clif: the dinosaurs are having a much better and longer run.

        10. Deathstalker

          …And to think people thought it would be the presidential nominees.

        11. Ellegos

          Please play in case of world’s end: https://youtu.be/UC_gXD5OE88?t=2m34s

        12. Orion Fury

          At least it’s not this: Local 58 – Contingency

      2. RuckBogers

        I got “sympathy via heavy physical contact.”
        Let’s see if he can top it!

    2. inqntrol

      Oh right, you got a walking toe last year. Also, Happy birthday!

    3. Jay Eff

      Aw, man– I almost wish it was my birthday, now!

      1. Ana Chronistic

        you got four more months!

    4. Tacos

      So I guess this makes up for getting an anthropomorphic toe last then, yeah?

    5. Riku

      For the lazy and forgetful
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/evilutionist/

      1. Chandra

        Wow, was that really last year?

        Golly, I have not been paying attention to how long I’ve been following this comic. Feels like it was just yesterday when I binge-read from start to the most recent panel.

        1. Uncertainty Moth

          Same (of course it doesn’t help that I rebinged just a couple weeks ago)

        2. Deathstalker

          Heh, try reading two of Willis’ comics in real time instead of comic time. 😉

          It’s pretty awesome. The only comic that is comparable in length is Schlock Mercenary. (Willis finished a pair of stories.)

        3. void

          Two words: sluggy freelance. It has a monsterously huge archive.

          http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/weekly/970825

          If you click that prepare to be there all day.

        4. buckybone

          It took me a week the last time I did that…and that was about 5 years ago now.

        5. Geneseepaws

          Also Kevin-and-Kellie and Freefall have ginormous archives.

        6. EvilMidnightLurker

          Although Freefall has been running for a comparable length of time, it’s only three days a week.

      2. Ana Chronistic

        dangit I linked that, how did it not link in my post

    6. Dara

      this is a very happy comic and makes me happy ^_^

    7. Nakams

      Hey it’s my birthday too! 🙂

    8. Orion Fury

      Eessh, that was a bit of a *doom* moment, wasn’t it?

    9. Aaron

      This is the last year for a while (perhaps ever) that you’ll share your birthday with the sitting US President. Make it a good one.

      1. Ana Chronistic

        had the Queen Mum’s for a good long while tho

    10. TheAnonymousGuy

      next time on slipshine.

      1. Uncertainty Moth

        Originally I misread this as a reply to Aaron’s comment above, and now I’m thinking about Ana Chrobama as a ship. (help)

    11. Norah

      Happy Birthday!

    12. NinjaNick

      Happy birthday!

    13. Bagge

      Happy birthday!!!

    14. Joey245

      Happy birthday! My birthday comic this year was Billie brainstorming unsuccessfully, so yours is unequivocally better already. 😀

      1. Daibhid C

        Mine was Ruth leading in prayer with “Dear Lord, kill Mary”. Which was nice, but not as fun as this.

        Happy birthday, Anna!

    15. Felix

      Well, congrats on surviving yet another year! My birthday was yesterday on the third. 🙂

    16. Cerberus

      Happy Birthday! Have a happy Becky!

    17. Falling Star

      Happy happy birthday, from all of us to you!
      We wish it was our birthday, so we could party too!

    18. Nezumi

      My birthday’s the 31st. Here’s hoping I get cute gay girls being cute and gay. Or at least bi girls being cute and bi.

    19. J

      …A little too best?

      1. J

        *sniff* I really, really, really miss the old ninja turtles…

    20. TheGrammarLegionary

      Congratulations on once again winding up in roughly the same place you were born, relative to the sun.

    21. Cyan1deDr3ams

      Happy Birthday, almost birthday twin!

  2. Darkoneko

    Clever girl.

    1. AngelBadman

      Yep, that is some first level dominance behaviour,mright there.

    2. TheAnonymousGuy

      anyone else notice the grin

      1. Darkoneko

        Law of large numbers says yes.

    3. me

      Darn, I was hoping to get it first.

      1. me

        This is supposed to be under the next one. Cause I’m an idiot.

  3. Mr. Mendo

    Clever girl! 😉

  4. AgentKeen

    Oh my.

  5. Mr. Random

    THEY’ll BE PICKED OFF ONE BY ONE!

    1. Falcon

      If it follows the trend, I’d really rather not see what happens when Hank gets picked off.

      1. Riku

        Whatever happens is an improvement

        #NeverJoyce’sMom

    2. Fart Captor

      If “they” refers to articles of Becky’s clothing, I think it’s going to be more of a “torn to pieces all at once” situation.

  6. butts

    I… I think Dina’s teeth are sharpened.

    1. inqntrol

      How else can she take down her prey?

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        Dewclaws!

        1. Deanatay

          Those are called ‘thumbs’.

      2. John

        Hamstring them with the hooked claw on her foot?

        1. butts

          Dina-onychus antirrhopus

      3. Reltzik

        Two weapons: Fear, surprise, and ruthlessness.

        1. butts

          The whole Clark wing’s about to come down with a nasty case of Ruthlessness.

        2. carms

          FEELS

        3. Rei

          Captain America: I got that reference

        4. butts

          My, my. How… unexpected.

        5. Orion Fury

          Well I didn’t, off to find out what it is.

          I don’t know why I expected anything else.

        6. butts

          NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPaaah screw it, that joke’s played out

        7. Orion Fury

          S`why I went the way I did.

        8. butts

          Well, so did I. Wanted to have my cake and eat it, too.

        9. Orion Fury

          As one always should.

        10. Bard1cKnowledge

          and an almost fanatical devotion to willis

    2. Tawdry Quirks

      I want to know how Dina got her hands on a Ferengi tooth sharpener.

    3. akincisor

      Of course, she wants to be Saurornithoides Mongoliensis.

      (I resisted the urge to google the spelling. How did I do?)

      1. Kamino Neko

        Well, as a specific name, ‘mongoliensis’ is properly not capitalized, but the actual letters used are correct.

  7. Maveric1984

    I mean, Raph was always my favorite turtle, I don’t think you can have TOO much Raph.

    1. brionl

      Are you insane?! Donnie all the way, man.

      1. Vex Godglove

        Seriously, Donnie was always the best. Raph was just a jerk and a hothead. Donnie was brilliant, methodical, thoughtful, and compassionate.

        1. timemonkey

          And he wore the best colour and had the best weapon!

        2. Reltzik

          So awesome that it had better reach and did double damage in that NES game so I always played as him until I died to that impossible jump in that one sewer.

          …. no one? No one played that? …. nevermind.

        3. sun tzu

          I did.
          …In hindsight, I think I know why I enjoyed my Game Boy so much more than my NES.

        4. Fart Captor

          I did, but I stuck to my principles and played as Mike because he was my favorite.

        5. Betty Anne

          I did, and also always played as Donnie for the same reasons. XD

        6. Emperor Norton II

          I played it. In fact, I played it so much, I became a master of the swimming level.

          That’s right, I could play through the swimming level without dying!

          Still never got past level 4, though. And only got to level 4 three or four times.

          On hindsight, I wonder if playing this game so much is one of the reasons my brain is so warped.

        7. JustCheetoDust

          My takeaway from playing that game so much was endless disgust with the difficulty level of later games.

        8. Chrisashtear

          Annoying revelation? You just walk over that hole.

        9. Reltzik

          Nope. Different hole. It was near the end of level 3 with an overhead platform that kept you from getting any real altitude on the jump.

        10. vlademir1

          That was why I switched to the most useless one I had left before I took any noncombat risks in that game.

          It’s worth noting that was my first NES game that wasn’t SMB/Duckhunt or SMB2, so I had plenty of time getting good enough to steamroll through to the Technodrome, which is a near inhuman feat to beat without cheating so far as I’m concerned. Then I started playing Blaster Master and Ninja Gaiden…

        11. Darkoneko

          Played the Atari version, finished it.

          1 boomerang on both floors and shredder is simple-ish to kill.

        12. Woobie

          Color?
          No, you’ve gotta tell them apart by their weapons! Like Eastman & Laird intended!

        13. Orion Fury

          Hipster. Though I wonder how much they twitch from the Michael Bay versions.

        14. vlademir1

          Honestly the color coding was the best thing to come from the TV show. Raphael’s characterization was absolutely destroyed, Michaelangelo and Donatello were flanderized to all hell and Leonardo was made, for all intents and purposes, ineffectual and then there’s the villain characters who made it through to the show…

        15. Greenygal

          I was so grateful when the IDW comic switched to individual colors after their first story-arc. The difficulty in telling the characters apart is easily the worst thing about the original comics.

        16. Maveric1984

          But Raph was voiced by Rob Paulson!

          I suppose in the current version on Nickelodeon, Paulson voices Donnie instead…

    2. Sporky

      Oh, it’s short for Rafael from Ninja Turtles? I was kind of at a loss.

      Unless it’s not that I guess. I don’t actually know or care what the Ninja Turtles are like.

      1. Sporky

        As you can tell. Because I spelled the name wrong. Whoops.

      2. Orion Fury

        Yeah, and I’ve seen that series of movies multiple time and I missed the joke. It saddened me.

        1. begbert2

          I got the joke instantly and was greatly pleased that somebody remembered those movies – the GOOD live action turtle movies. Aah, the good old days…

    3. Darkoneko

      Soup is my favourite turtle

      1. Historyman68

        Mock!

      2. Betty Anne

        Put the spoon away, Shredder. You haven’t even managed to quit being Krang’s buttmonkey yet. :p

      3. butts

        How do you know my pet turtle’s name? o_O

      4. DSL

        Bert. He’s ever alert.

    4. Bicycle Bill

      My favorite turtle was Tooter.

      1. hof1991

        OMG, you must be as old as me.

        1. Bicycle Bill

          62 this coming November.

  8. Some1

    My guess is that Mary murdered everyone (besides Dina) before fleeing to Cuba.

    1. Reltzik

      Mary is too confused by the idea that she might be guilty of something to flee anywhere, much less a godless communism like Cuba.

      1. Orion Fury

        I’ve heard they have nice beaches, and someone has to spread the Word of God ™.

    2. hof1991

      All those Catholics there need converting to Christianity.

  9. Corseus

    rarr xd means i love you in dinosaur

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      rarr is a very versatile word in dinosaur, as it turns out.

      1. Darkoneko

        like “putain” in french 😀

        1. Saki

          Yes.

        2. Sensei Le Roof

          “Qu’est que vous dite, vous cassette?”

    2. Cerberus

      I like how easily you can imagine the soft and smiley the rarr here is and how different that is to Dina’s usual rarrs.

      1. Deanatay

        I imagine her rawr here to be like a kitten’s playful rawr, rather than the RAWR of the raptor.

        1. JustCheetoDust

          I was thinking something like the one Tom Hardy used in RocknRolla.

  10. Adj

    Hee hee hee hee hee indeed. 🙂

  11. Umbrella Paint

    The rare Dinasaurus Cutelyodon attacks not with sharp fangs or claws, but with LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP

    1. Laser Jesus

      The death count continues to this day…

      1. butts

        You have the second best name.

      2. Fart Captor

        So many bodies, smothered to death with affection…

        1. butts

          Okay, clearly I was wrong. You have the second-best name.

        2. Emperor Norton II

          But(t) who has the best name?

        3. butts

          but(t)(s) who has the best name?

          (ftfy)

        4. Emperor Norton II

          You still did not answer the question, though.

          Is it Slartibast Button, BIA?

        5. Emperor Norton II

          I am assuming that BIA means Butt In Action, by the way.

        6. butts

          No. It is I. but(t)(s). Who has the best name. And that name. Is butts. Clearly a superior name to Slartibeast Button, BIA. Due to the fact. That it has such a comparatively high ratio. Of words that are butts. To words that are not butts. This fact. Is what makes the name which I possess. (Namely, butts.) The best name.

        7. Emperor Norton II

          But(t) while the percentage is lower, you cannot deny that Slartibast Button, Butt In Action simply has more Butt in it.

        8. butts

          More butt, perhaps. But not more butts.

        9. Orion Fury

          Only going by percentages. SBBIA as twice as many, yet your’s is plural, so it’s possible that you are referring to more than two. Yet SB’s has one and a referred, so then that one could then be more. However your’s could be all of them, which would infer more than SB’s. But taking into consideration…

        10. Emperor Norton II

          I am glad we get these serious discussions going on in this comment field, you know.

        11. Orion Fury

          Truly a thread for that ages. Or at least butts.

        12. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          I thought it was “By Imperial Appointment”, but what do I know?

          Should I change it to Slartibutt Buttons, BIA?

        13. Fart Captor

          Well, you get partial credit then. If you hadn’t taken my first choice, I wouldn’t have had to get creative.

          Also I love it whenever you and “tacos” have adjacent comments

        14. butts

          I entered it on a lark, and was shocked that it wasn’t already taken.

          (I’m quite sad that both butt-taco.org and ibuyextradomainscuzihavenopenis.com don’t work right anymore. You can still access them, but both domain names lead to an index instead of the intended page.)

        15. Orion Fury

          I never much cared for the butt taco joke. Was probably in the minority when it came to that, though.

    2. Some1

      Questing of Age

      And now for Umbrella Paint’s DOA battle!

      Dina vs. Ethan!

      Ethan walked into the warehouse. It was dark and a bit damp. Boxes lined the walls, and wooden beams hang from the ceiling. He looked up and spied a dark shadow moving across the ceiling.

      Ethan: You ready to fight Dina!?

      Dina jumped down from the rafters, landing on her feet in a squat.

      Ethan looks around, memorizing the scenery.

      Dina: Ready when you are.

      Ethan: Right then…

      Ethan pulls out the Windblades and rushes at Dina. Dina dodges and kicks. Ethan rolls with the kick and jumps back.

      Ethan: So, what’s been happening lately?

      Dina: Joyce wants to form a team.

      Dina leaps up into the rafters and turns invisible.

      Ethan leaps up as well, searching for signs of Dina.

      Ethan: A team? For what?

      Dina: To follow that card she got.

      Ethan: Well…

      Ethan notices one of the beams bend slightly

      Ethan: She…

      Ethan leaps up and sends a flying kick at Dina.

      Ethan: Can count on me!

      Dina barely manages to dodge, as Ethan sails past her and is forced to grab onto another beam by one hand.

      Ethan: Shit…

      Dina comes out of her invisibility and leaps over to Ethan.

      Dina: Can’t wait to tell Becky I won!

      Ethan: Sorry Dina…

      Ethan lifts his other hand up quickly and grabs Dina’s ankle.

      Ethan: You’ll have to tell her next time!

      Ethan yanks Dina off of the rafter and lets her drop over the edge.

      Ethan: Phew.

      Ethan pulls himself up and stands on the rafter, peering over the edge, hoping that Dina isn’t too badly hurt.

      To his astonishment, Dina isn’t there. He looks behind him, to see Dina standing right in front of him.

      Ethan: How!?

      Dina: I have very sharp fingernails. I like to keep them raptor like!

      Ethan: Only you could make something so creepy, so adorable!

      Dina: Thank you!

      Dina starts slashing at Ethan with her (claws) fingernails, while Ethan blocks with his windblades. They move back and forth across the beam, somewhat like they’re fencing.

      Ethan: You’ve improved since the tournament!

      Dina: Thanks; we’ve all been training.

      Ethan leaps across to another beam, and Dina follows him.

      Ethan: Hmmm, this is a fairly weak beam. There’s a huge crack in the middle of it!

      Dina: What are you thinking?
      Ethan: This!

      Ethan throws a Windblade into the crack. The board begins to collapse as Ethan leaps up and grabs a rope hanging beside his head.

      Ethan: Sorry Dina!

      Dina drops to the floor and rolls.

      Ethan: You okay!?

      Dina: I’m fine, but I would count that as a win for you.

      Ethan: You did great too.

      Dina: Thanks, oh by the way. Joyce is holding a meeting in the dorm common room this Friday.

      Dina walks out and Ethan sits in the dark.

      Ethan (thinking): Danny’s resurrection… is it really possible? I sure hope so!

      1. Falling Star

        WHEN DID DANNY DIE?!!!!
        NOOOOOO HE MUST COME BACK!!!!!

      2. Umbrella Paint

        I am not dissapoint. Dis iz gewd

    3. Roborat

      It’s super effective!

      What? nobody else was making the joke.

  12. Slartibeast Button, BIA

    Clueless old guy: raph?

    1. Darastrix

      It’s a line from a Ninja Turtles movie. They did the quiet/too quiet line, then when they found Raphael, and said “It’s Raph!” I think it was Michelangelo who followed up with “A little TOO Raph.”

    2. QF

      From TMNT2: Secret of the Ooze. There’s a sequence where the other three Turtles sneak into a Foot hideout to rescue Raphael which goes like this:

      “That was easy.”
      “A little too easy.”
      …
      “It’s quiet.”
      “A little too quiet.”
      …
      “It’s Raph!”
      “A little too Raph.”

      1. butts

        “It’s Becky!” “A little too Becky.”

        …Is basically how you would summarize this.

      2. SgtWadeyWilson

        Ah, the second movie was my least favorite. (Of the original movies, not of all TMNT movies ever.) That’s why I missed the reference.

        1. Orion Fury

          I normally hear that about the third one.

        2. SgtWadeyWilson

          I hate the Ninja Rap. The third one is bad, but it didn’t torture viewers.

        3. KraazIvaan

          That surprises me a bit. I’d always considered the original three to have been released in descending order of quality, with the third easily being the weakest of them.

          And besides, the second one had Vanilla Ice. His presence alone should rescue it from ‘worst movie’ status. 🙂

        4. KraazIvaan

          (Of course, the first comment I ever leave on this site, and I see afterward that the previous two commenters made both the points I was going for. Bah.)

  13. John

    Dina is best horror movie monster.

    1. inqntrol

      She’ll murder everyone with her cuteness.

      1. Orion Fury

        Smother them with her adorkableness.

        1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          She’s like an Anurognathus.

  14. Tacos

    Ok that’s too adorable and thus it’s hurting the black pit people tell me is where my heart is located.

    1. Reltzik

      That’s called phantom emotions syndrome. To fix it, I recommend watching a marathon of Star Treks 5 and 10, the Star Wars prequels, and close it out with rewatching Batman and Robin 5 times in a row.

      1. butts

        Oh, come on, all of those incite plenty of emotions.

        …Hate is an emotion, right?

        1. Emperor Norton II

          After watching that marathon, you either simply become immune to all feelings, or hate stops being an emotion, and instead becomes a state of being.

          Either way, you will never feel positive emotions again in your life.

        2. butts

          These… positive emotions. I’m not familiar with them. Where do they lie on the axis from hate to rage?

        3. Orion Fury

          Probably to the left from Albuquerque.

        4. Emperor Norton II

          Let me guess, you watched Highlander II one too many times, right?

          Just kidding! It is the best movie in the series, one can never watch it too many times!

        5. butts

          Actually, I managed to avoid that particular train wreck. Reltzik was spot-on, though.

        6. Emperor Norton II

          You definitely need to at least watch the literal train wrecking scene that happens in Highlander II. It is just too awesome for words.

      2. Rukduk

        No!!! No!!!! No one deserves to watch both Episode 1 and Star Trek 5 in the same marathon!!! No one!!! Also, I forgot, but is Star Trek the one where there’s a clone of Picard? Cause the one with the Picard clone and Wrath of Khan got me the most emotional any Star Trek movie has.

        1. butts

          Yeah, Star Trek 10’s the one with the emo Picard clone. Don’t know why everyone always rags on it— sure, it’s not great, but it’s a hell of a lot better than 1, 5, or 9.

        2. Rukduk

          I actually really like Star Trek 10. Although emo Picard clone needed a little work, I liked B4 and Data’s heoric sacrifice was heart wrenching.

        3. Reltzik

          No way was it better than 1 and 9. Neither of those were GREAT, true. 1 had major pacing issues and was trying to imitate Kubrik’s 2001, its story was simplistic, and the uniforms needed to leave less to the imagination, but it didn’t have any horrific, fundamental flaws.

          9 needed a bigger budget, less action, more sophisticated exploration of the issues, morals, and premise, and better costumes, sets, and sfx, but it was actually the closest to the TNG series in mood, themes, and characterization. It’s a toss-up for me whether I prefer it over 8. (8’s a better movie viewed on its own, but makes no attempt to be consistent with the established characters and history of the series, to the point where it’s jarring viewed in the larger context.)

          10? 10 was almost nothing but awful. Everyone was out of character. The actors were clearly done with the characters. No one remembered what the setting was about or what Star Trek was about. The entire plot was terrorism we don’t care about, scavenger hunt with pointless toy merchandising, coup that ends up not mattering, something about life-saving blood transfusion that everyone who should care about it does the exact opposite of the smart thing to make it happen and then forgets about, massive ship battle that’s the whole point of the movie and has maybe one minute of awesome and twenty minutes that should have been cut, a bunch of main characters with plot-padding just to give them something to do, and a completely pointless sacrifice that would have taken a positronic brain one tenth of a second to find ten ways to avoid. The best thing about it was some nice themes about mirrors and opposite numbers that should have and could have been explored better, but weren’t… and yes, they failed to develop those themes and they were still the best thing about it. The entire thing was a wreck. Way worse than 5… which had set the previous bar for awful.

          1 and 9 had major issues but they weren’t fundamentally flawed to the core the way 10 was.

        4. Reltzik

          *needed to leave more to the imagination

      3. Orion Fury

        5 times? Must they be in a row?

        1. Reltzik

          YES.

          Watch all 10 movies in a row. No sleep allowed. When you catch yourself dozing off in hour 17 (going into your 3rd viewing of Batman and Robin), set up a set of medium-voltage wires to shock you every 10 minutes just to be sure you stay awake.

        2. Orion Fury

          The shocks may actually help you forget about what you’ve seen. Sounds like a plan.

        3. Rukduk

          Wait, Batman and Robin? I think the combination of Jar Jar Binks, Star Trek 5 and Bat-nipples is against the Geneva Convention.

        4. Reltzik

          And I would never inflict it upon a prisoner of war.

          Just my friends. >=]

  15. Reltzik

    “On the way here, I felt a great disturbance, as if a dozen dormies suddenly cried out in Drama, and then were suddenly absent.”

  16. Fart Captor

    WE HAD A DINA.

    IT GOT LOOSE

    SHE HAS BECKY

    1. Achallenger

      wow wow, you’re gonna have to back up and explain this from the beginning

    2. butts

      You got a twit! Congrats.

    3. Orion Fury

      I feel like I’ve heard this from a different source.

    4. Beachfox

      Hey now, I’m a scientist and that was still too fast for me.

  17. Emoroffle

    The wild Dina has pinned her prey, she will eat out tonight.

    1. PapayaPunkPixie

      Ayyyyy

    2. Jess

      NICE ONE

    3. Syndicaidramon

      This is genious. You deserve a thousand cookies.

    4. Tom Speelman

      FANTASTICO

      1. Umbrella Paint

        SEXO LOCO

        1. butts

          YOUR MOM FOR A NICKEL

        2. Dana

          With her FAAAACE

        3. thejeff

          Stop the Faces!

    5. March

      *applauds* Well done.

    6. Orion Fury

      At least someone in the wing gets to tonight.

  18. pjeseb

    So that’s what happened to all the guys who went into the long grass

    1. Darkoneko

      They got ticks ?

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        Then we must flea!

    2. JessWitt

      They encounter wild Pokemon?

      1. SgtWadeyWilson

        That’s tall grass. Completely different.

    3. inqntrol

      They found rupees?

  19. Stephen R. Bierce

    Been a while since we had a FWUMP! around here, huh?

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      No Flashbacking!

    2. JustCheetoDust

      I think it’s been over four years a few weeks.

  20. Solenoid

    Too cute. The cuteness will devour us all.

  21. JessWitt

    Now I’m picturing the Rachels in Rachel Green hairdos.

  22. Saki

    Hank is about to discover what his daughter’s college life is like and I don’t know if I should be very worried or just laugh about it.

    1. Cerberus

      On the plus side, he’s at least seeing Becky even more humanized and seeing how happy she is with her girlfriend, which will probably make it easier to be even more supportive of her and Joyce’s decision to support her*.

      *Not saying he’s unsupportive, only that this will help silence any doubts he’s feeling about the moral rightness of “supporting sin” and “following Joyce’s lead”.

      1. Fart Captor

        I think that in the worst-case scenario, we’ll get to see Hank do his version of Joyce’s freak-out face

        1. No Name

          He’s got the eyes for it.

  23. miados

    I thought a raptor would hunt the weakest one first. why attack the strong becky first?

    1. inqntrol

      For the thrill of the hunt?

    2. Reltzik

      The raptor knows that Becky will put up the least fight.

      1. Leorale

        Dina isn’t really trying to devour her, she’s trying to form a herd. <3

        1. Anorak

          awww….that is an adorable image. dina mom teaching her herd all about dinosaurs

        2. miados

          and each member of the her wearing a different dino hat. I pick triceratops

  24. Opus the Poet

    Something’s got Becky, and IT KILLED KENNY, you bastards.

  25. Pyrpyr

    THE CUTE OH MY LORD I AM DYING

  26. Cup

    Did you just mention Turtles 2

  27. Teddae

    Hit by the Dina-raur

  28. Jacques Cornelius Parrot III

    Are Becky and Dina adorable in this strip? “Is, like, Schwarzenegger hard to spell?” “Yeah.”

  29. Archivist

    DoA experiments with the horror genre for exactly three panels.

    1. Fart Captor

      There might be another coming up. I’m not sure Hank is quite ready for this.

  30. Professor Fate

    “Oh no, the Tickleosaurus has Becky, she’ll either die laughing or orgasm; maybe both.”

    1. DragonStryk72

      Does it HAVE to be either/or?

      1. Orion Fury

        It should never be mutually exclusive. Well maybe the die part.

  31. two-star

    That’s what Beckysaurus gets for being a noncanonical dinosaur.

    1. Orion Fury

      If that’s what happens then sign me up to be one.

  32. Rukduk

    So…it seems Becky and Dina have already decided to start doing role-playing. That was quicker than expected, I was pretty sure it was going to take at least two more weeks.

  33. Raven Stromdans

    That’s freakin’ adorable.

  34. Ann Ominous

    “Agatha and The Rachels” is a horrible band name.

  35. DragonStryk72

    Aw, come on! No, “Clever girl”? I am so disappointed in you, Becky!

    1. Orion Fury

      I don’t think she’s see the movies. And that joke was kinda done about a year ago.

      1. Apostate

        It’d be a nice counterpoint to it though, it said in a positive context instead of a horrifically negative one.

        1. Orion Fury

          Eh, I was speaking in reference to Dina questioning if Ross understood the reference he was making. But positive would be nice.

  36. Bea

    awwwwww

  37. Palamdrone

    I’m kinda jealous. Every time I’ve greeted someone by tackling them, they did not appreciated it.

    1. Orion Fury

      Their fault, clearly.

      1. Palamdrone

        They are fault.

        1. Orion Fury

          There is a fault.

        2. inqntrol

          Depends on the type of friends that you have.

        3. Orion Fury

          I can’t tell if you missed the joke, or just took it in a different direction and now I don’t get it.

    2. Cerberus

      The key is to do it on carpet or a bed and make sure they are not carrying multiple breakable objects in cartoon hijinks fashion.

  38. LimeSheep

    i get from the comments that this is supposed to be cute, and becky seems happy, but tackling your romantic partner to the ground without warning seems a little… off, to me

    1. Palamdrone

      http://quotecloset.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/calvinhobbes-tackle-300×390.gif

      1. Chandra

        So glad I’m not the only one who got that vibe from today’s strip.

    2. Liliet

      Most likely, Dina’s tackle didn’t actually have the force in it to push Becky to the ground, she just fell on her own to follow through with the game

    3. Bicycle Bill

      Don’t forget Dino and Fred Flintstone.

      1. DSL

        Dagwood and Mr. Beasley the mailman.

  39. y3k

    In the absence of a black guy or comic relief, lesbian dies first.

    The elder mentor figure better watch the fuck out, because his minutes are numbered.

    1. Orion Fury

      Arguable, Becky is the comic relief. Or at least tries to be when under stress.

    2. Deanatay

      Ruth’s just been taken away, so maybe the trope’s been subverted.

      Then again, there’s always Sarah…

  40. HeySo

    My brain just exploded from cuteness overload :X

  41. Keulan

    I’m surprised, I was expecting them to get back while all the stuff with Ruth was still going on. Instead we get adorable Dina. I’m ok with this.

  42. Phil Dog

    Can the rest of the comic just be about those two? They just make an amazing couple and it’s nice to see how unlike everyone else these two actually have a chance at happiness together.

    1. butts

      we can do a spinoff show just about the two of them, and we can call it “dina loves becky,” and then thirty years later one of them can be the main attraction at the republican national convention

    2. Fart Captor

      NO IT CAN’T BE WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO SEPARATE JOYCE AND BECKY LIKE THAT YOU MONSTER

      1. Anorak

        fine…it can be a comic about dina, becky, and joyce.

        1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Joyce is the wacky neighbor?

    3. Cerberus

      It’s kind of glorious how healthy these two are as a couple, especially when a lot of the other couples have glaring problems. And I think a lot of it stems from a lot of their challenges to overcome coming from outside the relationship rather than in (though I can’t wait for Becky to open up more with Dina as right now she’s carrying a lot of the weight of all those external things).

  43. Orion Fury

    I’m so confused by the angles. The way Becky was taken down seems to indicate from the front, to which the Browns would have seen her. The ‘facing’ position relative to how she fell put her on the opposite side of the hallway (short direction, not long). As well as the angle of Joyce’s word balloon in the last panel also seems to be coming from the wrong side.

    Do Raptors have the ability to create localized dutch angle effects?

    1. Bicycle Bill

      Don’t over-analyze things.  Just go with it and learn to love the feels.

      1. Orion Fury

        It’s just a comment.

    2. Idontcarenomore

      Apparently.

    3. Anorak

      Dina’s love has reality altering effects

    4. Neeks

      Looks like Dina tackled her from the side, which would give her the opportunity to make sure Becky didn’t land on her faaaaaaaace. Joyce and Hank kept moving down the hallway, which makes the orientation of Joyce’s word bubble in relation to the orientation of the panel logical. To me, at least.

      1. Orion Fury

        But, why wouldn’t Joyce turn around? Isn’t it just one long hallway? Do Becky Giggles create a stealth field?

        1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Joyce hears horror movie background music. Turning around is never a good idea in horror movies.

        2. Firedaws

          Or horror games. Creeps me the fudge out.

    5. Cerberus

      Dina’s just that good at not being seen.

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        Rule 1: Don’t stand up.

        1. StClair

          Rule 2: Don’t choose an obvious bit of cover.

    6. Fart Captor

      I think that the angle we’re seeing them from is just flipping around for panels 3 and 4 to focus on Joyce’s face while she’s talking, then flipping back. Panels 2 and 5 are looking in the same direction

    7. StClair

      It’s the tall grass. Anything could be hiding in there.

    8. Orion Fury

      I think this was the longest thread I’ve ever started. It makes me happy.

  44. Her.

    awwww!! i love becky and dina’s relationship i really hope it lasts forever

  45. zoelogical

    OH GOSH THAT’S REALLY CUTE

  46. Kavonde

    I, too, always want people to finish that “too quiet” line with a Secret of the Ooze reference.

  47. Idontcarenomore

    I don’t see how it can last. Remember, this is DoA. So enjoy the adorableness while we got it.
    Remember, Dina knows that she is a rebound from Becky’s failed attempt to bed Joyce. I don’t think Joyce is ever going to change her mind beyond friendship with Becky.
    But Dina doesn’t know that.
    I think this is Dina’s first foray into a personal relationship too. So much could go wrong. I hope it does not.
    They really are freakin’ cute together.

  48. 0kami

    Omigosh, I just saw that Becky’s giggles almost exactly mirror Dina’s giggling right after their first (honest) kiss! And you can see Dina grinning happily under her hat.

    Seriously, though, this level of adorkable-ness is off the charts.

    1. Orion Fury

      Off the charts? We need better measuring tools then! Or bigger pieces of paper. Still, angry!

      1. Reltzik

        Eh, it’s easy enough. Take our current scale and add one category at the end: “Beyond instrumentation.” It now has a number that can be charted.

        …. and we can now say that the adorkable-ness is up to 11.

        1. Orion Fury

          So we’re not just expanding the range but using the same numerical scale, thus calling this 10?

        2. Bicycle Bill

          The Tour de France uses a numeric scale for grading the difficulty of climbs; 4 is the least difficult; 3, 2, and 1 are progressively more difficult (based on length and steepness); and the most difficult are called ‘HC’ for hors catégorie (beyond categorization).

          So this level of adorkableness (I love that word, btw) is officially ‘HC’.

    2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      I told them to use a logarithmic scale!

      1. Cerberus

        We did.

        1. Reltzik

          Just compose your present function into the tangent function.

          Absolute Adorkableness Measure = Tangent (New Score * 9 / 10)

          Nice 0-100 metric, with 100 being approached asymptotically but never reached. As a bonus, the units in question are degrees, so we can talk about 97 degrees of adorkableness.

  49. Romanticide

    Ah the starfox memories 😀

  50. Killian

    Joyce: Dad, meet Becky’s dinosaur girlfriend.

    1. Rukduk

      Hank already knows about Dina, he saw Becky kissing her goodbye for the weekend. He was a little freaked out (looked uncomfortable) because he’s still in only the first few weeks of going from Evangelical Christian Bigot to Nice Understamding guy, and admitted that he still needed to work on that because he got a little freaked. However, the goodbye happened off panel (we only saw Joyce and Hank’s reactions to it) so it makes sense that this could be forgotten about.

  51. BenRG

    So, Hank has come too? It should be interesting to see his perspective of the current multiple train-crash that is the floor!

    Probably almost everyone’s wandered off to see what happens to Ruth. The exceptions are Mary (stormed off to sulk at church), Ethan and Danny (both gone to their rooms to worry about Amber), Amber (taking out her frustration on fictional characters) and Mike (plotting).

    Oh, and Dina! Let’s not forget Dina! 😉

    1. Neeks

      Yeah, today’s strip is a good example of what happens when you forget about Dina.

    2. Fart Captor

      Hank’s continued presence gives me hope that he wants to make sure there’s at least a plan to get Becky situated properly.

      He could just be walking them in, but I really want to think that he’s ready to take his Cool Dad game to the next level

  52. Fairyth

    Adorable

  53. newllend(henryvolt)

    Good thing they came after all the tragedy went down.

  54. NinjaNick

    That was a cute sneak attack by Dina. 😀

  55. Bagge

    Come on, Becky. Give her a “clever girl”. You know you want to.

    Yeah, Frank, better do a lot of smile and nodding…

    1. Bagge

      Hank… whatever. Joycedad.

    2. Cerberus

      She’s too in her subby happy place to form words. Which just makes this all the more amazing.

  56. Zaxares

    Dawwww… <3 Wish I had someone to pounce me like that when I get home each day.

    1. Darkoneko

      get a dog/Cat/panther

  57. BenRG

    I’m really looking forward to Hank’s reaction to Dina and Becky’s interactions; it will say a lot about his real perspective on Becky and her alignment.

  58. brasca1

    As cute as this is I fear the shoe is about ready to drop unless Billie intends to hide Becky in Ruth’s room.

  59. OsoPescado

    Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyygooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.

    This is my absolute favorite strip of the entire series. Hands down.

  60. theheroesofcrash

    The hover text makes me so happy… It’s admittedly one of my favorite quotes from my second-favorite movie of all time.

    (Yes, I know that Secret of the Ooze wasn’t a “good” movie, but it was fun, and I’m as much a Ninja Turtles fan as Walkyverse Amber, darn it!)

  61. QWERTY

    <3

  62. Paul

    Open the door, get on the floor, Becky’s gonna do a dinosaur!

    Actually it looks like the dinosaur is gonna do Becky, but that doesn’t scan.

  63. Marvelman

    Okay, this is cute.

  64. LBD "Nytetrayn"

    I quote that bit (or at least paraphrase it) whenever someone says something that allows it.

  65. George Wiman

    Super adorable, I have just died of squee. Could swear I heard two powerful magnets slamming together. Then one of them was giggling.

  66. Hiraku

    This has been a very very long weekend for everyone involved

  67. Stairmasternem

    Just noticed it. Becky looks like she rotated 180 degrees after Becky pinned her. I cannot help but think of this as a God of War style takedown, where the Minotaur rotates on its back juusstttt so the camera angle is proper.

  68. cmd1095

    This was absolutely adorable

  69. Cerberus

    Comic Reactions:

    *Happy squee noises*
    *Happy squee noises intensify*
    *Happy squee noises start to crack the Earth asunder*
    SQUEEEE- uh… maybe I should reign it in a bit.

    I love how Joyce exits the elevator saying hi to the hallway, expecting some measure of life and to see people happy or at least happy-ish to see her. And the thing about that is that is shows not only how supportive and caring this little dorm hall has been for her, but also how desperately she missed it being with her folks. This is her safety zone, this is where she feels safe and protected. To the point where when she was getting endless flashbacks going outside alone, she nonetheless could always stand to be alone in her dorm. And so it’s glorious to see her come home.

    I love Hank anxiously glancing around at the quiet as well. It’s a nice soft touch that humanizes him and his character really nicely and provides a nice contrast to Becky’s cool practiced nonchalantness.

    And that last panel- SQUEEEE- no, the rumbling is too loud, must control my happy. But seriously, these two are just too cute and there is too much to love here.

    I mean, this is exactly what Becky has needed from a trip where she’s had to face some of her worst memories, constantly receive and downplay abuse and microaggressions, and was not allowed really a space to breathe and process just how hard it was being back in the town and community that so thoroughly rejected her. Not to mention the community that has done nothing to reach out or support her even though she’s without family and homeless, because in their eyes, it’d be like sympathizing with a man who murdered his parents because he’s an orphan.

    So, she needed this. And maybe it’s me being hyper-aware of anxiety symptoms because of my work, but I can’t help noticing the contrast between the stiff hunched shoulders still full of stress in the first two panels compared to the blissful surrender in that last panel. This is all her stress melting away in the best possible way.

    Also, I just love their dynamic. That giggly happy sub reaction of Becky’s. Too happy to form words. Echoing that moment when she and Dina kissed and Dina retreated into her hat to happily giggle and just so in bliss to be reunited with the woman she loves. The happy dino dom in Dina doing her power stance over her, but in a way that would allow her to easily escape if she wanted to. The happy satisfied rarr and the knowledge that Dina was probably happily bouncing in Sarah’s chair for the second she heard Becky’s name spoken out loud and likely dashed off at that moment.

    I like that it’s a bit non-normative and role-play-y, but that Becky is so game and so happy and sees nothing off about it. It’s her cute smart wonderful dino girlfriend tackling her in the hall and she couldn’t be happier.

    They’ve been through the worst of times, but it’s also not gonna be easy being and dating a homeless queer woman with a lot of emotional baggage left to unpack from the circumstances that caused it. But I have a lot of faith in these cuties and I want to imagine them as the sort of college couple that’s still together 10 years later, planning their marriage, because “eh, it’s time” or at least the type of exes who still include each other in each other’s lives and have brunch with their respective significant others.

  70. Deanatay

    HEE HEE HEE HEE
    *ahem*
    Darkness, that was girly…
    HEE HEE HEE HEE
    *AHEM*
    Dammit, stop making me laugh like that!

    1. Deanatay

      Paraphrasing, slightly.

  71. Lan

    The unseen sixth panel contains copius amounts of snuggling between this raptor and her prey.

    1. Orion Fury

      Snuggles are how you get the meat tender.

  72. Falling Star

    Becky’s fiiiiiiiiine.

  73. Dexeron

    Raar! Yay!

  74. Sensei Le Roof

    Dina uses Tackle.
    It’s super effective!

    Becky is paralyzed (by laughter)!
    She can’t attack!

  75. Hilzabub

    I just finished reading the comic from the beginning. My understanding of the characters is much better now.

    And what a great spot to end the marathon!

    1. leafirebender

      woah. Congrats. How long did it take you?

  76. Margaret

    God these two are too cute!

    1. Margaret

      Honestly, the fact they gave me Mike’s avatar really makes this comment

  77. AeroQC

    Clever Girl.

  78. Lulu

    FORRRPLAY?

  79. smylietron

    Screw it, I’ll just ask here since the comments are still nice and busy. Is there a way to get email notifications when you get a response to your comment, or is subscribing to the comments RSS the only way you ever know when new comments appear?

    1. Bicycle Bill

      1) Post
      2) Come back to the site later
      3) Hit “CTRL + F” and enter your handle
      4) Scroll through and see if anyone has followed up

      1. smylietron

        That’s what I do now. Seems woefully inefficient! I wish Willis would install Disqus or something. 🙁

  80. Willoughby Chase

    Someone’s gotta walk the dinosaur!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgiDcJi534Y

    1. Bicycle Bill

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83nFiPoSuzU

      Your link was being blocked for copyright reasons, Willoughby, so I FIFY.

  81. Q man

    it’s quiet up town

  82. Morrison

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/sticks/

    Can we have a big version of the second to last panel of this comic?

  83. RuckBogers

    That is adorable.

  84. Alexx

    I’m just so glad I’m not the only one who still thinks “A little too Raph.”

  85. Shaunock

    Clever girl

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