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Breakfast of champions
Posted on January 9, 2015 by David M Willis

276 thoughts on “Breakfast of champions”

  1. Jen Aside

    NOT MELLO YELLO??

    friggin’ Pepsi sellouts

    1. Kris

      Don’t get me started always drinking Sierra Mist instead of Sprite. Dipwads all of them!

      1. Dreadhawk177

        Don’t forget Beerios®!

        1. TheGrumpyBear

          That…sounds absolutely vile.

    2. Varius

      Mello Yello: the poor man’s Mountain Dew Throwback.

      1. Cholma

        Throwback is the only TRUE Mt Dew! 😀

        1. lejwocky

          No, moonshine is

        2. MackDad

          Actually, I’m starting to think this is the one true Dew. (available in many grocery stores lately)

        3. Halloween Jack

          Sun Drop or GTFO.

      2. LiaHansen

        Good for when they have those giant crazy coke machines with a million flavors tho

      3. The Master

        Ack! You take that back! Mello Yello was here first! I think. >.>

        1. AustKyzor

          Nnnnnnnnope! Dew was created in the 40s, Mello Yello was introduced in the late 70s

        2. Bill

          Mello Yello is actually the Coca Cola Company’s third try (at least!) at competing with the Mountain Dew juggernaut.  You youngsters should ask your parents if they remember either the short-lived “White Lightning” of the ’70s or “Rondo” from the 1980s.

        3. Hoop

          But Mello Yello had the advantage of commercials with Dusty Rhodes AND Ernest P. Worrell in ’em, knowhutimean?

    3. HMRC4EVR

      Mountain Dew is for those who can’t handle Sundrop.

      1. CptNerd

        Sundrop is for those who can’t handle Jolt. The original formula.

        1. Kennerly

          Jolt is for those who can’t handle cocaine, the original original formula.

        2. Jen

          And since the original Coca-Cola had cocaine in it, we have come full circle with our soda.

      2. C.

        Are any campuses under contract with Dr Pepper Snapple?

        1. LazerWulf

          Dr Pepper is unique in that it gets Coke and Pepsi to distribute for them. My campus was a Coca-Cola campus, but we had Dr Pepper, not Mr Pibb. Even fast food joints are not immune. No matter if it’s a McDonald’s or Taco Bell, you can ALWAYS find Dr Pepper. (It’s even in those new-fangled Coca-Cola Freestyle machines, though only with the Cherry and Cherry-Vanilla flavors. Dagnabbit, if I can get Grape Coke, I should be able to get Grape Dr Pepper!)

        2. whatintheliteralfuck

          mix the two. better yet, make grape cherry dr. root beer.

        3. Deanatay

          As long as the root beer isn’t Barq’s – nasty biteses..

        4. StClair

          I like many root beers, including Barq’s, which is actually my drink of choice. When I want something more mellow and “creamy”, A&W.

        5. Charlie Spencer

          Let me introduce you to Stewart’s or I.B.C. But not Virgil’s.

        6. Charlie Spencer

          Oh, and cream soda? Crush makes the definitive cream soda, but I don’t think it’s available outside Canuckland. It’s like drinking carbonated vanilla extract.

        7. Kryss LaBryn

          Crush’s cream soda is the best cream soda. A&W has a pretty decent cream soda too, though; maybe that one is available State-side?

        8. Bill

          Best root beer in America — bar none — is the “1919” draft root beer available in the upper Midwest from the New Ulm Brewing Co. of New Ulm, MN.  If you’re lucky you might find 5-quart ‘growler’ kegs in stores, but otherwise the only way to get it is in on tap from quarter- or half-barrel kegs.

          How good is it?  It’s worth the trip to Minnesota, that’s how good it is.

        9. No Name

          @ Kryss LaBrynne:
          Yes, yes it is.
          At the very least, the Navy bases have it.

        10. JaneDoe

          Personally I’m quite fond of Thomas Kemper for both root beer and cream soda. Bonus, they also make a black cherry soda that is amazing, and the three are frequently packaged in a twelve bottle variety pack. The only downside is that this package includes a fourth, far inferior soda which I can’t think of what it is. I want to say orange cream.

        11. gwalla

          Barq’s is root beer flavored soda. Henry Weinhard’s is REAL root beer.

    4. John

      I dunno about Indiana, but you can’t get Mello Yello hereabouts. It’s really annoying, because I don’t like cola, and it means that Coke-product restaurants have nothing else but Sprite. Which is palatable, but basically pointless.

      (My preferred soda is Sunkist, but you can’t get that in restaurants ever, because it’s a Dr. Pepper product.)

      1. thebombzen

        Don’t they have Crush? (My personal favorite soda. Long live orange soda)

        1. John

          Sometimes. Maybe 50/50. Crush is better than Sprite, but still distinctly inferior to Sunkist. As far as I’ve been able to determine, Sunkist is the only caffeinated orange soda, and I need the caffeine to keep my neurons firing properly.

        2. Halloween Jack

          Same here. I used to envy the Scots for Irn Bru, until I realized that Sunkist was basically the same thing.

        3. Kryss LaBryn

          And, see, for the longest time I could only drink Sprite, as it was the only fast-food-available soft drink that didn’t have caffeine; was on some medication that reacted badly with the stuff.

        4. leftwingfox

          That took some getting used to in the US. In Canada, only dark-colored sodas that used caffeine as a “natural flavor” were allowed to have caffeine. Fruit sodas like Crush, 7-UP and Mountain Dew.

        5. Sailor_Arashi

          Crush is for those who can’t handle Nehi.

      2. Deanatay

        I avoid Sunkist for the same reason I avoid Barq’s – they’re caffeinated. Crush and Mug are preferable.

        1. EEWWW

          If you drink Mug, you are basically drinking Pepsi. Not saying it’s bad, just why call it ‘root beer’? And then my college roomie introduced us to IBC. He also introduced the RA to IBC who thought he was bringing in beer. After the RA stopped looking at his IBC bottles, he started bringing in beer…

      3. No Name

        Al this time, I thought Dr. Pepper was owned by one of the Cola’s (either Coca- or Pepsi-, I was never sure which). I never knew it was a Cola in it own right.

        1. gwalla

          It’s not a cola.

    5. OmegaDez

      Oh man, I remember when they sold that stuff.
      Are you saying it still exists in the US?

      I hate my life.

    6. PedanticJerkass

      Mountain Dew > Mello Yello.

      (Though that’s not saying all that much.)

  2. Camachri

    In panel 2, do you think Dina saw us?

    1. SUGauthor

      Doesn’t she always?

    2. Shade

      Dina transcends the fourth wall. She’s always been aware of us.

      1. Jen Aside

        so proven by ANOTHER Willis comic today…

    3. Dean

      She can always see us. Always.

      1. butting

        She’s behind your door RIGHT NOW.

        Watching.

        1. Rachel Roth

          I’m gonna go steal her hat! ^.^

      2. 3oranges

        Except when you keep still, of course.

    4. Mal

      Good Question. What about you, Camachri- Doyouthinkshesaurus?

      (Excellent Jurrasic throwback, I must say.)

    5. LiaHansen

      She saw us, and then had the mountain dew idea and decided it was more interesting

    6. Portmanteaust

      I missed the pun the first 5 times I read that comment…

      1. Deanatay

        The question isn’t whether Dina saw us (obviously, Dinasaurus), but whether or not WE saw Dinasaurus see us. Seeing Dinasaurus is a sore spot amongst Dina-seers. Some say Dinasaurus shan’t be seen unless Dina saw us seeing her. In short, we shan’t see Dina so Dina shall be seen.

  3. Nono

    Dina has joined the Walky side.

    1. Do Over

      But without Walky’s alternate self’s metabolism they’re both going to be putting on the freshman fifty in short order.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        Some people have the metabolism to pack away everything within reach and gain nothing, save perhaps some residue on one’s innards’ lining. They’re scrawny enough that I’d readily believe that they’re among our ranks.
        Off to have another chocolate cake…

        1. John

          My cousin’s like that. Scrawny runner’s build, and I’ve seen her eat an entire large pizza by herself, and then start cadging slices off other people because she was still hungry. I don’t know where she puts it. I mean, forget the calorie content… I don’t see how she physically has room for it inside her belly.

          Her husband calls her the World Eater.

        2. ClaudeWicked

          Im the same way. I can drink a liter of.soda and 6 slices of pizza, get up later for a midnight omelette and still be a beanpole.

    2. whatintheliteralfuck

      it’s not the walky side until she gets 50 mcnuggets at once and drinks it with a gallon of mt. dew
      and even that’s just getting started.

  4. Kris

    Breakfast of champions!

    1. eromer

      Breakfast, lunch, and dinner of champions…..and snack….

    2. whatintheliteralfuck

      sorry, but the breakfast of champions also requires bacon.

      1. Charlie Spencer

        And the occasional short curly hair.

    3. airyu

      It’s this the first strip that doesn’t have party of the dialogue as the title (sans stirps without dialogue)

      1. No Name

        NO, it isn’t. There’s an even earlier one.
        Coincidentally, it also stars Dina.

  5. Atomix26

    Dina’s back.

    1. tyersome

      I only see her front …

      1. Doctor_Who

        She looks the same from both sides. It freaks Amber out.

  6. Yotomoe

    I guess Dina doesn’t wanna live to be 30.

    1. Barf Ninjason

      But she does want to poop constantly until that point

    2. LeslieBean4Shizzle

      Oh pish. I’m sure half of us ate/drank like that in college. I know I did.

      1. Doctor_Who

        Throw in some pizza and ramen, and you’ve got my entire diet for 4 years.

        1. Jen Aside

          When I got bored, I bought a tube of like 3 lbs of hamburger for $5 and just dumped it in a pot and stirred until it was brown, then drained the grease and ate it directly from the pot…

          miraculously, I only got the Freshman 10

        2. Disloyal Subject

          I add loads of cheese and rice, plus an assortment of seasonongs; they probably balance out.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          Tubed hamburger? Only in America… ◴_◶

        4. Disloyal Subject

          We have our perks. I’ve only seen it that way in bulk; butcher shop stuff is too good for simple gorging anyway.

        5. whatintheliteralfuck

          “only in america”
          and germany
          and scandinavia
          and various parts of the UK

    3. Deanatay

      Trust me, it’s overrated.

  7. advancecasette

    damn you, willis

  8. Mo

    My stomach misses college, but my heart and liver do not.

  9. Solenoid

    Dew or dew not. There is no milk.

  10. Kernanator

    I can’t believe I’m saying this…

    But I don’t identify with Dina in this strip.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I know what you mean, I’m more of a cooked breakfast guy myself.

      1. Allen Tor

        Wow. All this time I thought you were a woman.

        1. whatintheliteralfuck

          You forgot rule number 16 of the internet.
          The are NO girls on the internet.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Rule 101: The gender of an avatar is no indicator of the gender of the commenter using it.

    2. Kabo

      Breakfast is just a way to make the coffee taste better.

  11. AgentKeen

    Breakfast of Champions.

  12. otusasio451

    Dina-Os! Part of a Balanaced Breakfast!

    1. Rachel Roth

      Yeah, I still read Dina as dinasaur, so…

      Dinos. ^.^

      1. otusasio451

        So do I, and I was gonna do Dinos, but I feared it might not make as much sense.

  13. AtomsOrSystems

    Yeah, I remember this exact day in college. It was like angels were singing.

    …that was probably just all of the sugar, though.

  14. Opus the Poet

    It begins!

  15. Spencer

    Dina is last year’s model.

    All hail our new lesbian overlord.

    1. HMRC4EVR

      They will hunt you.
      They will find you.
      They will make you pay.

    2. timemonkey

      Becky’s got nothing on Dina.

      1. Jen Aside

        Mammals are weird.

      2. Halloween Jack

        Just wait until Dina discovers her sexuality. Then Becky will have plenty on Dina… and vice versa.

        1. Rutee

          I can’t see Dina with anyone not on board with current paleontology. Like, I doubt they’d have to be an expert, but they can’t be uninterested or reject it.

    3. otusasio451

      Y’hear that?

      That’s the raptors coming. ‘Cuz you insulted their pack leader.

      Run.

  16. Varius

    Throwback or nothing!

  17. dr-calamity

    Apologies for overused meme but…
    Do you want cavities? Because thats how you get cavities!

  18. Sean

    winners don’t do the dew

  19. lovethang

    And just like that, Dinah swoops in to steal “best character” from Becky.

  20. Em

    She’s only been eating cereal? That’s it? How is she not suffering from malnutrition?

    1. timemonkey

      Maybe she eats healthy cereal? Not all cereal is pure sugar

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        If she has Weet-Bix with fruit, she would be doing OK. (✿´ ꒳ ` )

    2. Disloyal Subject

      I’ve done it in the past. Cereal gets pricey, but milk contains most of what you really need (granted, I have access to raw milk, so I have an advantage there) and healthy cereals exist. The sugar-bombs most cereals seem to be are utterly disgusting to me.

      1. Charlie Spencer

        “Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. Mom won’t let me have the ones with marshmallows.”

        1. Thomas64

          If that’s not a Calvin & Hobbes quote, it should be.

  21. Coverfire

    I drank a bowl full of cereal with mountain dew for milk once when i was a kid… never again.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      What kind of cereal?

      1. Coverfire

        Frosted flakes. i couldn’t finish the bowl, i tried as much as i could to but it was to much.

    2. Roborat

      How long before you stopped vibrating?

    3. Bill

      You notice, though, that she is drinking the Dew on this side, rather than over the cereal.

  22. Plasma Mongoose

    You do realise that you will need to roll a d20 against tooth decay from now on right, Dina?

    1. nothri

      I’d be seriously pissed if I had to roll a Fortitude Save for my teeth….

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        As well as the d100 VS Diabetes.

        1. suzi

          Sugar does not cause diabetes. Type 2, kinda but if every person who ate super sugary got diabetes almost the entire US would have it. Type 1 is a genetic mutation, and mountain dew is effective in treating low blood sugars, which are arguably more dangerous than the sugar within the mountain dew.

      2. Deanatay

        Actually, it’s a Will save, to prevent your teeth from leaping from your mouth in disgust.

    2. Barf Ninjason

      First she had to make all those WILL saves vs. Joyce being a moron, and now this

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        I hope she has some lucky dice. ⚈ ̫ ⚈

        1. Disloyal Subject

          She probably has a full set of knucklebones.

  23. LiaHansen

    I have always wanted to try this. I once mixed ovaltine into a glass of mtn dew. that was an experience

  24. ozaline

    American Mountain Dew!!!

    As opposed to the normal non-caffeinated stuff we have here.

    1. LiaHansen

      non-caffeinated mountain dew? What’s even the point?

      1. John

        Yeah, seriously. It’s not like you drink the stuff for the taste.

        I’ve seen diet decaf Dew. Why???

    2. Varius

      ew! Where?

      1. Dan

        We *used* to have non-caffeinated Mountain Dew in Australia. Not anymore ;_;

    3. Kamino Neko

      That ban is over…Dew is caffeinated here, now. (The regular stuff…they no longer sell the silly Mt Dew Energy Drink.)

    4. Tenn

      …There’s Mountain Dew with caffeine?

      Still not interested.

      1. gwalla

        It’s the only reason anybody drinks it. Otherwise you may as well just drink some 7-Up that’s been left in the sun too long, same taste.

        1. Kamino Neko

          This heresy will stand no longer. Mt Dew is the best of the non-cola soft drinks.

      2. Bill

        Now they’ve got “KickStart”.  Mountain Dew with even MORE caffeine
        — and some fruit juice to make you think it’s good for you.

  25. Foxhack

    Dina, what is wrong with you? Mountain Dew is disgusting!

    1. Varius

      Try Throwback.

    2. timemonkey

      Seconded

      1. Kelly

        All gross. Most pop is gross. Root beer and the occasional cane sugar Coke are the main exceptions

        1. Disloyal Subject

          You. I like you.
          (Orange soda for the win. Only its flavor can overcome the hideousness of carbonation.)

        2. Tenn

          I tried root beer once. It tasted like some weird kind of tooth paste. It wasn’t horrible, but it went against my natural instincts to swallow it.

        3. Em

          What kind of toothpaste are you using? Let me have some!

        4. timemonkey

          The weird thing about root bear is it can taste wildly different depending on which kind you get.

        5. StClair

          Yup. Some kinds are heavier on the anise (licorice) or the wintergreen (mint), others on the vanilla… it’s a blended flavor, like “cola” actually.

    3. StClair

      College.
      In college, I drank it in 32 and even 40 oz quantities. Now, it’s just awful.

  26. Boomwolf

    If that ain’t a nutritious breakfast I don’t know what is.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      Chocolate cake?

      1. Disloyal Subject

        er…
        Chocolate Cake?

  27. NerdHerder

    Dina tonight! Dina here! Dina there! DINA FOR EVERYONE!

  28. Daashi

    Next step; Mountain Dew in the bowl.

    1. Rachel Roth

      OH GOD NO!

      DINA WOULD NEVER!

      I’ve already determined she’s an aspie, and let me tell you – that Dew is staying RIGHT IN THAT CUP. BLECH! Aspies NEVER EVER EVER IN A THOUSAND YEARS NEVER KIND OF EVER SCREW WITH THE TASTES WE KNOW!

      We don’t care how it looks to outsiders, if there’s no milk in the bowl now, there aint gonna be milk in the bowl.

      1. Kelly

        Agree 100%

      2. StClair

        a friend of mine:
        “Look, I’m not going to lie to you about this any more than I’d eat unsorted candy.”

        (and half of you just nod)

        1. Disloyal Subject

          I’m still sore about my Christmas Mint M&Ms getting eaten before I could tally them and determine the red:green:white ratio.

  29. astronomifier

    is that a Barney the dinosaur shirt

    1. RJ

      It appears to be Barney with feathers. And I want it.

      1. Caffieanted

        Aw man I forgot about the feathers. I was starting to think it was a Barney with a mohawk.

      2. Syngraphea

        So do I. O.O

    2. Blue

      no, it’s a Barney the dinosaur with feathers shirt

      (i hadn’t noticed what she was wearing, but when i looked it seemed you were indeed correct)

    3. Plasma Mongoose

      ♫I love you,♫
      ♫You love me♫
      ♫We all got cav-i-ties♫

      1. Disloyal Subject

        It needs one more syllable. Why do I know that it needs one more syllable?!

        1. neeks

          Earworms never die, they just hibernate in your subconscious till the least opportune moment. You can try to replace them, but you can never truly be free, for the original one still lurks and still makes the occasional appearance, in addition to the one you tried to replace it with. And it only ever gets worse.

          Yeah my brain is a never-ending cycle of all the songs I’ve had stuck in my head ever, set on random.

        2. No Name

          There are various parodies of the theme song out there, most have to do with killing Barney.

        3. JaneDoe

          Yes there are, and my favorite still remains:

          I hate you,
          You hate me,
          We’re a mixed-up family,
          With a shot gun bang and Barney on the floor,
          No more purple dinosaur

    4. leadsynth

      That shirt rules. Dina rules. This comic friggin’ rules.

  30. Catullus

    This is the REAL personal discovery in Book 5

  31. Jason

    This feels like a light little stand-alone strip, kind of a breather….

    I wonder when Willis realized Dina would appear in two comics today….

    1. David M Willis

      About ten minutes ago.

      1. Rachel Roth

        Wait, so is this one a new one you put in the middle, or was this planned months in advance?

        1. David M Willis

          I don’t pay attention to what Dumbing of Ages run with what Shortpacked!s, as I draw them months apart, so I didn’t realize the synergy until I went to go tweet Dumbing of Age’s update after having tweeted Shortpacked!’s.

        2. Kelly

          That is funny 😀

        3. Rachel Roth

          I don’t know the shortpacked correlation, cause I’m still on a stupid ARCHIVE BINGE! YOUR DAMAGING MY HOMEWORK TIME DUDE!

        4. Rachel Roth

          Okay, now that I’ve caught up, I know what’s going on. Also, DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA!!!!!!!!!!!!

  32. Khaner

    Dina is now a dudebro.

  33. timemonkey

    Yay, a break from Becky and it’s Dina!

  34. Stephen Bierce

    I have a cousin who used to have Mountain Dew with every meal and snack. He lost the use of a couple limbs, but that wasn’t why he gave the habit up.

    1. Spencer

      What reason could be more dire than losing use of limbs?!

      1. Jess

        Losing one’s Mountain Dew apparently.

    2. neeks

      I know of a guy who used to work at taco bell in high school and would fill a large cup with mountain dew SYRUP, and drink it like that. Habitually. His closest friends liked to joke that his sperm count must be negative because of that habit.

    3. Halloween Jack

      Actually, I started taking my ‘beetus seriously when I realized that my toes were chronically numb.

  35. Makkabee

    Is that a punk Barney t-shirt she’s wearing?

  36. nothri

    Imma file this under “terrible life choices”.

  37. Shay Guy

    Ah, a rare strip title that doesn’t come from dialogue or sound effects verbatim.

  38. Rachel Roth

    Pretty much, yes. We aspies (I’ve determined her to be one of us! ^.^) do enjoy slight, yet controlled deviations from the norm, but are comforted by routine. This is pretty much how we handle it.

    On a different note, DAMN YOU WILLS! THIS IS NOT A TIME FOR AN ARCHIVE BINGE!

  39. Portmanteaust

    My Dina needs for this week have been fulfilled – you may continue with the story, Mr Willis. Alternatively, more strips of Dina would also be acceptable.

  40. Tom

    Mountain Dew + grape nuts + classic see-through textured plastic glass + backlight = dining hall lava lamp

    DOOOOOO IIIIIIIT

  41. Romanticide

    I am seriously wondering how Dinah survives…

  42. astraea

    While her classmates deal with romantic ordeals, moral issues, and childhood traumas, Dina’s biggest revelation is Mountain Dew with cereal. Love it XD

    1. Bagge

      At least one girl has her priorities straight. Riley aproves.

  43. Arkadl

    Tried that freshman year with Reese puffs and Mountain Dew. Seperate good , together nope nope nooooooppppppe.

    1. LiaHansen

      What is it about mountain dew that compels people to make bad decisions?

      1. George

        I once tried sparkling cidar with chocolate. I deeply regretted this decision.

        1. StClair

          I had hard cider on an empty stomach. Which is only about one beer, but I’m a non-drinker (if not a literal lightweight), and it made me feel pretty oogy for a while. Didn’t help that I knocked it back like it was the “soft” kind and didn’t realize until afterward.

          Also: many people seem to love chocolate oranges, but for me, the combination brings out the bitterness of both. I love them separately, but.

  44. JessWitt

    I’m partial to root beer if I ever come across it.

    1. JessWitt

      And my brother drinks Coca Cola like it’s water. My mom believes it is because she drank it constantly to offset her stomach problems while she was pregnant with him.

  45. XMinusOne

    Next time try mixing Lucky Charms, Frankenberry and Cocoa Puffs with Jolt Cola, Dina. When they peel you off the ceiling you’ll feel like a Pterodactyl during the mating season.

  46. Jay Eff

    Next year, Dina switches it up again!

    AMBER: “What’s that?”
    DINA: “Cereal and Mountain Dew Code Red.”

    1. Jen Aside

      no way, it’ll be Cranberry Sprite

  47. Belze

    Dina coming back to remind everyone that the answer for every poll, is and always will be Dina.

    1. leadsynth

      I hope she makes a comeback in the poll!

  48. t00lishness

    Tomorrow on DoA: Dina rediscovers the lost 12-pack of Surge she’s kept since the 90’s, opens one and drinks, then time-travels to grab Amazi-Girl’s hand just before she punches someone else, saying “Don’t, the bunnies don’t like it.” before disappearing again.

  49. The Wizard

    Lemonade, now that’s the drink of magic users, Champions, and Spawn!

    1. Disloyal Subject

      Spawn, or spawn?

      1. Disloyal Subject

        *ahem* Spawn, or spawn?

        Just isn’t my night…

      2. The Wizard

        The first one is the correct answer, but both is also acceptable.

  50. David L.

    Doesn’t she know that’s what killed the dinosaurs?!

    1. Deanatay

      If it’s good enough for the dinosaurs, it’s good enough for the Dina-saur.

    2. EEWWW

      Actually, dachshunds killed the dinosaurs. And a pair of dachshunds who jumped off an Oregon Trail wagon train were responsible for the majority of the North American great plains bison being slaughtered. It’s true because you just read it on the internet.

    3. Tenn

      But I was told homosexuality and satanism killed the dinosaurs…

  51. Speedball

    This was me when I was in the Army. They serve you EVERYTHING now.

  52. Ancestral Hamster

    Dina is courting Type 2 diabetes. Also, I thought she was a “Dinasaur”, and that dinasaurs were carnivorous.

    As for my college diet, it was something like 90% meat as anyone can grill a burger or steak, but you actually have to know what you’re doing to make veggies taste good.

    1. WingedBeast

      “Dinosaur” is a class in the animal kingdom. Saying dinosaurs were carnivorous is like saying mammals are carnivorous.

      1. Ancestral Hamster

        No, not dinosaur, Dinasaur. It’s why she hides behind doors: the better to ambush prey.

        @Disloyal Subject: Agreed with the raw carrots (part of the non-meat 10% of my college diet), but bananas are only eaten under duress. Dried honeyed banana chips, OTOH …

        1. John

          Dinasaurs are apparently cerealvores.

        2. Bagge

          If think there is more than one Dinasaur. We have seen the meek, door-dwelling specimen and the “red in tooth and claw”-type that is the Raptor. I’m not sure which of them is a cerealvore.

    2. Disloyal Subject

      For sit-down meals, I’m much the same. On the go, though? Raw carrots & bananas require zero cooking, and are pretty goddamn tasty.

  53. Sock

    I had a rough day.
    I miss the simple times.

    This brought a smile to my face, thank you.

  54. Kitschensyngk

    Baby steps.

  55. Lordess of Madness

    WOO! Dina’s back! And Amber! Some funny stuff after all the serious stuff! Which I also find funny!

  56. Blob Marley

    Just when I think Dina can’t get any more attractive…

  57. andromereida

    please sell tshirts i would love to buy one

  58. newllend

    Now mix them !

  59. Ry

    Ewwwwwwwww

  60. Kate

    Ah, Dina. I know this feeling well. /autistic brofist

  61. yarner

    Is that a feathered Barney shirt?

  62. Anonymous Commenter

    That’s it. Dina is now my waifu
    Done
    Totally done

  63. Flipz

    All right, Willis, you win. I can die happy now. 😛

  64. zmm

    Yay! Favorite

  65. 6Qubed

    The determination and will to succeed in this and all endeavors that emanates from the eyes on Dina’s hat speak to me on a spiritual level.

    1. whatintheliteralfuck

      goes great with the fact your gravatar is dina then.

  66. Steve

    Mountain Dew with every meal? Yuk! She should do Monster with every meal like I do!

  67. Jimmy

    Sugar coma imminent!

  68. Thomas

    I don’t understand Mountain Dew. With a name like that, you’d expect it to be mineral springwater or something. Instead, it’s stuff of a sickly fluorescent colour, which apparently doesn’t deter people from drinking it.

    1. No Name

      It’s not just fluorescent, it’s piss yellow. That’s why they put it in green bottles.

    2. Kamino Neko

      Pre-soft drink, ‘mountain dew’ referred to moonshine, so even before it came to mean ‘a highly caffeinated citrus drink’, it wouldn’t have suggested spring water to most people.

    3. Tenn

      I know, right? I expected it to be like, actual dew drops collected from sweet-scented flowers, and a freshness like the icy air of a mountaintop. Instead, it tasted kind of like Sprite, except more artificial.

  69. Ender

    Yeah, now $*@&’s gonna get real.

  70. Kaunisenkeli

    Woo! Way to be a rebel, Dina! XD

    1. Bagge

      Dina is best rebel. Joyce – take notice.

  71. Bagge

    The first known dinosaur was the Nyasasaurus found in Tanzania in layers dating back to soon after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. It was the size of a median sized dog.

    1. StClair

      It eventually evolved into the Nyanasaurus, which flew across the sky leaving a rainbow wake.

  72. Graham

    Who knew such a perfect woman should have such hireable taste in pop? Canada Dry forever.

  73. Graham

    Who knew such a perfect woman whould have such horrible taste in pop? Canada Dry forever.

  74. Cain

    It’s the first time I’ve seen Mountain Dew on the internet without air horns, screaming, and an honor guard of Snoop Dogg gifs.

  75. kenny

    wow. that is exactly how i spent my mornings in collage

    1. Bagge

      Appropriate gravatar is appropriate.

    2. Dara

      Me too. I even called it BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, particularly because it was almost always froot loops. My painting professor (hi, art school) assigned us “self-portrait through food” and I painted giant froot loops 150cm wide. FROOT LOOPS ARE LIFE

  76. octochan

    I actively recoiled from this concept! Well done!

  77. Sigurther

    I bet she’d be fun in the sack.

  78. Halloween Jack

    That reminds me of Henry Rollins’ explanation for why Ritalin and similar drugs (which belong to the same general class as amphetamines) are used to treat ADHD: he says that when he was put on that sort of medication as a kid for his ADHD, it amped up his nervous system so much that it semi-paralyzed him.

    1. StClair

      I know that this is totally (probably) not how they really work, but I keep imagining Ritalin et al as causing an integer overflow – pushing the variable past 255 so it rolls over.

      1. No Name

        Oh, that’s totally not how Ritalin works. Humans are at *least* 64 bit.

  79. The Dayman

    I only drink the blood of my enemies. Although I sometimes do enjoy a nice sarsaparilla.

  80. BeckyHop

    “The best part of waking up / Is Mountain Dew in your cup”

  81. Opus the Poet

    I have seen that shirt before, but I’m thinking it was in another DoA strip because I’m not finding a vendor for it in Google.

  82. Kk

    Dina, no! Don’t go over to the Dew side!

  83. Roborat

    The Mountain Dew is to refuel the hat.

  84. bunivasal

    Is it bad that Niki Yang has become my default Dina voice?

    1. Sir Robin

      For me, it’s Fluttershy

      1. Bagge

        My Dina is closer to Maud.

  85. Kugai

    Well, a change is as good as a rest.

  86. venomlash

    Well, I’ve been out of college for a year and a half now and congratulations, you made me miss the dining hall!

    Time to go to grad school, get an unlimited meal plan if they offer it, and show the undergrads how to sling grub. Man I’m hungry…

  87. Kim

    Yay! Dina!

    1. Bill

      We need more Dina!
      Hell, we know more about FAZ than we know about her……

  88. SmilingCat

    So… am I the only one who, after reading the day’s shortpacked hoped the impossible hope that this strip would have been Dina trying on a new (old) outfit and finding herself getting pulled through a mysterious hole in reality?

    Upon her return, Amber asks where she had been, and Dina responds “I don’t know”. It is never spoken of again.

    1. David M Willis

      They are different Dinas.

      1. SmilingCat

        that only makes it more amusingly surreal.

  89. Kris

    So I’m sure someone’s mentioned but I have to wonder if Dina’s excited about Jurassic World. I mean it has a super dino in it but the science is probably garabage so it might be a toss up for her.

    1. Bill

      Dina would have nothing to do with Jurassic World because most of the dinosaurs are actually from the Cretaceous period.

  90. Mary

    She could be Emily’s (QC) sister. For the record I love both of them.

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  92. Aaron Bourque

    Mountain Dew? Good lord, what’s wrong with that girl?

  93. Botany Dave

    I think Dina’s my favorite character. 😀

  94. ATriple

    The first thing that came to my mind when seeing this:

    Montage parodies (Google it). “Oh baby, a triple!”

  95. BrokenEye, True False Prophet

    I see no flaws in this plan

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