Walkerton, you’re trembling!
on April 7, 2016 at 12:01 amIt’s quite a scam that Dina gets her own apartment, while squads hafta fit five people into theirs. I bet Dina has all these superpowers she hides, pretending to only be good at science, so she gets to work in the lab and live in her own place.
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maybe she threatened to eat her roommates
threatening would’ve been…the passive way…
That the threat worked is how we know Becky wasn’t in SEMME.
Maybe she skipped the threatening and just ate them.
Using her alien superpower to turn into Saurornithoides mongoliensis.
Dina has superpowers she hides?
And she does science?
How could I not have seen this before?
Dina is
Spider-CarSpider-Man.Don’t you mean Spider-Woman?
Who flies and has laser hands, like a spider.
On one hand walky is sticking with Dina out of gratitude for everything that she’s done for him this far and is now trying to get their relationship to work. On the other hand when really consider this is he actually just staying with Dina because he thinks it work out as well with Joyce as it did with Dina so this is him just running away again ? It’s hard to see if this is a good moment or not, despite everything else that’s going to happen.
Welp I guess things aren’t gonna fall apart right now after all. Although, I might be speaking too soon…
I remember back when I first read this storyline I empathized with Walky’s inner conflict, like the opportunity to be with his true love Joyce could potentially outweigh his obligation to Dina, but how could he know the right answer? Nowadays, it seems so much more obvious. Dina, of course, is the right answer. Why would you even consider dumping Dina for Joyce? Not sure if that shift is due to a maturing outlook on relationships as I get older, or just a more refined perspective on these particular characters, especially seeing the “true love” idea dashed to pieces by their Dumbiverse counterparts.
Well, considering that becky/Dina are in a relationship in both universes, there may be some exceptions to that ‘true love dashed’ thing.
Wait, Becky and Dina had a relationship in this universe?
I know that I’ve forgotten most of what happened in this strip the first time around, but you’d think I’d remember that.
Post-Shortpacked! they do.
If he’s staying out of a feeling of obligation, that is absolutely not healthy. But I read it as more of a thing about appreciating what he already has and recognizing that it’s not necessarily best to give up something good for something that feels passionate but could be a disaster that leaves you wishing you’d appreciated what you had. On the other hand, though, there is such a thing as settling.
Well, one is a psycho who shot someone in the face just cause she didn’t like them, and the other stuffs Nachitos in his face every time he opens his mouth to express an interest in anything she’s not interested in.
… yeahhhhhh, I wouldn’t choose either of them really.
Keep in mind that Walky himself isn’t exactly emotional stable either. Dudes doing a lot of repressing.
Walky: I have very high standards.
Dina: [Stuffs Nachitos in Walky’s face]
Walky: Oh no! You’re meeting all my standards!
The first time I read IW!, this moment here was probably the most regard I ever held for Walkerton as a character.
So far, my opinion is unchanged.
I, however had the opposite reaction. He knows he really wants to eb with Joyce, he knows his thing with Dina isn’t genuine but he’s sticking with her because he feels bad for how he’s treated her.
Breaking up with Dina to then immediately go and date Joyce instead is still a remarkably shitty thing to do.
It’d be shitty either way, but one would only be shitty in the immediate while what he does makes it shitty long term because nothing has changed.
maybe Dina gets housing accommodations? or maybe SEMME thinks living together like a sitcom builds team camaraderie.
I could totally see that.
But maybe Dina is also better at some manner of bureaucracy/paperwork trickery that gets her a better deal? I can see a dynamic sorta like:
Big Boss: Professor Doc, I need you to draft a housing agreement for our agents.
Professor Doc: (Why do I have to write the paperwork?) Whatever, I’ll try to make the clauses default to shared apartments so we can save on budget. And it will, um, Build Team Spirit, or something.
A wild Paperwork appears! Command?
Walky: Ugh! *Runs away*
Sal: What th’? There’s more important things ta fight! *drop-kicks paperwork*
Jason: Hmm yes, very droll, I’ll fill this out the way I’m supposed to. It’ll be good for morale if the leader shares his residence with the team, after all.
Joyce: Uh… okay I guess maybe? I guess I write something like this here? My giant calculator doesn’t do legalese.
Mike: If I filled this part out this way, I’d get my own apartment, but I think it’d piss everyone off more if I was their roommate, so…
Dina: Oh, if I fill this part out this way I get my own apartment, that sounds preferable!
Who would Dina being sharing an apartment with? Professor Doc? He presumably lives in a Victorian mansion on a hill which is constantly getting hit by lightning. Joe? He isn’t part of SEMME yet, and that would go poorly. Alex? He would spend all of his spare time in his bedroom, glued to his computer, and never actually be seen in any strips.
So yeah, that might actually be what’s happening.
This is only going to end in pain.
Everything ends in pain.
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Wow, what is my deal today? I’m actually in a pretty good mood.