Actually, if we’re going to ignore that slapstick comedy justifies itself, than the real problem is that the phone handset weighs significantly less than it’s base, so what should have happened here is the handset reaching the end of its cord’s elasticity and springing back.
…Unless Dina just threw it *that* hard… with her super strength. 😛
Again, tho, why is Joe even volunteering to do all her work for her? Sure, he might’ve been asked this time, but the first just seems like cock-blocking
It’s possible that he got saddled with some tech duties after Linda saw how good he was at them (and it would probably have come up during his evaluation as an abductee).
I mean, it’s worth noting that Dina is the only abductee that isn’t a member of a squad; either that means her tech skills were THAT good, or she flunked almost any other category.
Since flirting with Fans’ Jackie he realised that he doesn’t need to keep holding back his passion for technology and science. After a life of denying these natural instincts, he may be reveling in them.
It’s like salt in the wound that Joe of all people–who already has over Dina that he’s able to get along with people and make friends–is the one replacing her as a scientist when after dumping Walky science is the only thing she has. She has so much pride in her work and thought it was what gave her purpose except then here comes fucking Joe and oh look, he can also be more useful to Doc than Dina without apparently trying.
SEMME is a professional organisation. As her supervisor rather than her ‘friend’ in any way, I suppose that Doc felt no obligation to be tactful in any way.
Every professional organisation I’ve ever worked for has had a rule that Employees Are Treated With Respect. The less professional they are, the less they honour it. This fits perfectly with the impression I’ve had of SEMME since the start; they are not a professional organisation.
I still contend that Professor Doc is one of the villains. SEMMF is kinda villainous as it is, basically abducting people for the rest of their lives and lying to the general public about matters that affect their own safety, and forcing teenagers to deal with dangerous situations essentially unpaid, without giving them decent training or equipment, and the main overseer on most of this is Professor Doc, who is callous, cruel, and treats them all like tools. He has more room in his heart for those 79 cent burritos than for any of these people.
…I mean, at least in Evangelion, there’s definitely an apocalypse going on, and the equipment- albeit super creepy- is pretty high-budget. SEMME seems like it has about as much budget as a gas station or something.
And all you could do with them was talk to people! It’s amazing
Eventually they figured out how to let computers talk to each other with them using these things. Then the phone company shattered and we could plug modems right into the phone network. Then phones with no cord came out and you could carry them all over the house. Then we figured out how to let computers talk to people over the phone. Then your wireless phone phone was in your pocket and didn’t need a base station at your house anymore. Soon after that, computers got good enough at listening to listen to people directly. Then your pocket phone became a computer, and you could use it to write rambling words for other people to read underneath a comic strip that someone else drew over a decade ago.
I remember when phones had buttons, and not just buttons, but buttons that were big enough to press with your actual hands, instead of a janky touchscreen that reacts to the wrong things, and also the phone was sized so that the microphone was by your mouth and the speaker was by your ear. And none of it was so flimsy that dropping it or bending the cord a little would break it.
That might be it, actually – it’s A+ slapstick, but Dina gets so much worse than she *ever* deserved that I feel guilty for laughing whenever I see that last panel.
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Hey, I thought she didn’t have super strength!
She has comedy strength. It’s like Roger Rabbit: “Only when it was funny.”
Hence being able to suspend people from the ceiling with ropes.
She has the strength to do the best she can.
Super strength?
To throw a plastic phone?
Actually, if we’re going to ignore that slapstick comedy justifies itself, than the real problem is that the phone handset weighs significantly less than it’s base, so what should have happened here is the handset reaching the end of its cord’s elasticity and springing back.
…Unless Dina just threw it *that* hard… with her super strength. 😛
I know he just said for her to just take the day off but let’s be honest you’re essentially she’s been fired.
Again, tho, why is Joe even volunteering to do all her work for her? Sure, he might’ve been asked this time, but the first just seems like cock-blocking
It’s possible that he got saddled with some tech duties after Linda saw how good he was at them (and it would probably have come up during his evaluation as an abductee).
I mean, it’s worth noting that Dina is the only abductee that isn’t a member of a squad; either that means her tech skills were THAT good, or she flunked almost any other category.
Since flirting with Fans’ Jackie he realised that he doesn’t need to keep holding back his passion for technology and science. After a life of denying these natural instincts, he may be reveling in them.
It’s like salt in the wound that Joe of all people–who already has over Dina that he’s able to get along with people and make friends–is the one replacing her as a scientist when after dumping Walky science is the only thing she has. She has so much pride in her work and thought it was what gave her purpose except then here comes fucking Joe and oh look, he can also be more useful to Doc than Dina without apparently trying.
Should’ve thrown it the other direction.
Then the receiver would’ve been the part that hit her.
Well, that was just rude.
Yeah, the fact that Doc said that she’d just get in the way was really mean.
SEMME is a professional organisation. As her supervisor rather than her ‘friend’ in any way, I suppose that Doc felt no obligation to be tactful in any way.
Every professional organisation I’ve ever worked for has had a rule that Employees Are Treated With Respect. The less professional they are, the less they honour it. This fits perfectly with the impression I’ve had of SEMME since the start; they are not a professional organisation.
I’d say they’re SEMME-professional.
I still contend that Professor Doc is one of the villains. SEMMF is kinda villainous as it is, basically abducting people for the rest of their lives and lying to the general public about matters that affect their own safety, and forcing teenagers to deal with dangerous situations essentially unpaid, without giving them decent training or equipment, and the main overseer on most of this is Professor Doc, who is callous, cruel, and treats them all like tools. He has more room in his heart for those 79 cent burritos than for any of these people.
…I mean, at least in Evangelion, there’s definitely an apocalypse going on, and the equipment- albeit super creepy- is pretty high-budget. SEMME seems like it has about as much budget as a gas station or something.
Remember when phones had cords?
And all you could do with them was talk to people! It’s amazing
Eventually they figured out how to let computers talk to each other with them using these things. Then the phone company shattered and we could plug modems right into the phone network. Then phones with no cord came out and you could carry them all over the house. Then we figured out how to let computers talk to people over the phone. Then your wireless phone phone was in your pocket and didn’t need a base station at your house anymore. Soon after that, computers got good enough at listening to listen to people directly. Then your pocket phone became a computer, and you could use it to write rambling words for other people to read underneath a comic strip that someone else drew over a decade ago.
The future!
I remember when phones had buttons, and not just buttons, but buttons that were big enough to press with your actual hands, instead of a janky touchscreen that reacts to the wrong things, and also the phone was sized so that the microphone was by your mouth and the speaker was by your ear. And none of it was so flimsy that dropping it or bending the cord a little would break it.
Remember when phones came in two parts?
Can also be used as nunchuks.
Wow. I don’t know whether I’m more impressed with Dina’s abductee super-strength, or the tensile strength of the phone jack connector.
I vote the tensile strength of the phone jack connector
I mean it takes a special kind of insensitivity to say to someone ‘you’ll probably just get in the way’.
…well, someone had to purchase those Slinky-cord phones…
Hotels still use them for the rooms.
That’s got to hurt.
Somebody get this girl a Nintendo.
Dina was such a chew toy in It’s Walky that her eventual terrible fate was kind of a mercy in a weird way.
You mean clinging happily to a motorcycle driven by Becky as they fight the sogs together…?
This is one of my favorite IW! strips, because I’m terrible. 😛
To be fair, even without enjoying it as any sort of schadenfreude since it’s undeserved for Dina, it is a pretty great slapstick comedy idea.
That might be it, actually – it’s A+ slapstick, but Dina gets so much worse than she *ever* deserved that I feel guilty for laughing whenever I see that last panel.
Christ, that seems unnecessarily cruel.