I’m a failure as a human being.
on December 30, 2017 at 12:01 amAnd here’s the crux of it. Dina is awakening to the idea that she’s not good at people. Well, hey, she’s a science person, she at least has that over the people people, right?
Nope, even the people people are good at cartoonsscience. I’mShe’s a completely unnecessary person.
*deep breath*
Oh, hey, Fans! crossover begins tomorrow. On New Year’s Eve! That’ll be a thing!
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WOOP WOOP!! I’m excite! This crossover is the reason I read Fans! and I ended up loving the characters and story… which only makes me enjoy the arc more now that I’m actually familiar with the other comic.
If I recall correctly it’s Rikk Oberf, Rumiko (Rumy) Tanaka, and Shanna Cochran? And the other characters probably also have them but I don’t remember them at all.
Will Erixon, Alisin Worthington, Tim… well, that’s fine, don’t remember Tim being in it anyway
Tim’s above the mortal trappings of last names. Tim is just… Tim.
Alternately, it’s Mitts, if you’re a giant pedantic buzzkill.
Union Jackie is in that arc, I seem to recall.
That crossover got me into Faans also.
This crossover is the reason I read the Walkyverse, actually. 😀 I’d seen the occasional Shortpacked, but never got into it until I did a deep archive binge of Fans and hit this part.
Oh, that’s interesting! How was it from the other side of the mirror?
It’s been quite a few years now, but… Mostly confusing, at first, in the “who the heck even are these people and should I care about their soap opera suddenly intruding on the soap opera I’m already reading” kind of way. But it was interesting enough to draw me to Shortpacked eventually, and quickly decide that I needed to do another deep archive binge. (I think I started reading Shortpacked right around the time the Honey Bun went on a rampage, so you can see why.)
I have to say, this one-day-at-a-time republishing is really great for making otherwise overwhelming archives accessible again. I kinda have to wonder why more webcomic authors don’t do this.
I’m not good with people either, but I’m fairly decent at acting like I’m good with people for short periods of time.
Yes, Dina, you are.
You do make quite an excellent dinosaur, though.
Originally posted:
April 19, 2003
Also,
Everyone in the world is superflous.
We’re all unique but every trait we have is not.
Caring about the void of infinite space doesn’t matter since it’ll never impact your, or anyone else’s lives for eternity.
Eat Arby’s.
Comment/avatar synergy FTW.
You are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to exist.
And, whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back.
–National Lampoon, ““
“Deteriorata,” darn it.
Professor Doc is a villain, right? Because yet again we see this guy is a huge jerk.
Having originally started reading It’s Walky fairly late in its run, I always wondered what set Dina off on her series of self-destructive relationships. Now I think I know. It’s sad and tragic but it’s an unfortunate fact that some people never learn to socialise properly and, inevitably, it leads them to isolation and poor decisions.
And hey, the last Faans strip was five years ago to this exact date!
Regarding today’s strip, YIKES.
I remember drafting scenes for Dina a few weeks before the crossover began and having you revise them to (slightly, subtly) make her a less valued and respected member of the team. I didn’t understand quite why you were doing that until I saw this strip and then it was “Oh. OH. Oh, Jeez.”
To me, this is classic Dina’s most raw and real moment, more so even than what came later. There are no plot mechanics for her to interact with here that would interfere with that feeling of isolation. She IS the plot. And while she’s had other outbursts, her flat affect can make her come off a bit emotionless or muted much of the time, which makes this climax a lot more effective.
Damn.
In retrospect, who does someone’s work for them just because? I mean, *I* sure don’t want to do my colleagues’ work, and I’m not even someone preoccupied with not seeming like a sciencey nerd!
(Alternately, Professor Doc is just trying to put her down for no good reason… jerk)
Joe’s working for Professor Doc’s division and I’m not sure if there’s any defined boundary between his work and Dina’s. There should be, but it also seems weird that Dina can take time off at random to go work on her social skills, so maybe this is two wrongs making a right.
Maybe Joe finished her work because it was his idea for her to go out and try to learn to socialize during her work hours?
The universe is expanding. Ergo, there’s room for everyone!
A lot of us unpeople people hold onto arts, academia etc. as our ‘redeeming’ feature. (Or ability to punch people, if you’re AG.) It took me years to learn nobody needs to ‘redeem’ themselves, the need to ‘contribute’ to society is bull, and then much, much later, that there’s no such thing as unpeople people, only differently-people people. Then you just have to find YOUR people and suddenly you’re good.
Dina did in DoA at least.
this hurts me in a very personal way
…yeah, this is a little hard to read.