Don’t forget, bonus Sketch Day update tomorrow. 😀
I was gonna have Amanda make the Charlie Brown AAUUGH face, but remembered I already did that. I think the facepalm is funnier, anyway. XD
Don’t forget, bonus Sketch Day update tomorrow. 😀
We’re rapidly approaching Sir Bearington levels of obliviousness…
Never underestimate the human ability to overlook the obvious.
Indeed. I remember when I was getting something off the top shelf of the pantry. Was having trouble reaching it, so I needed something taller to stand on. So I went to the closet, moved the stepping stool out of the way, and grabbed a large, heavy box for the purpose.
Still haven’t been allowed to forget that one.
I see what’s going on. Amanda’s going to have to take over setting up Selkie’s gill flush because Miss Flower just doesn’t get it, and there will be some grudging reconciliation over that.
Goddammit, the both of you! Amanda, don’t be a jerk! Jessie, time to use the power called Common Sense!
…*Slaps face* Actually, speaking of common sense, why doesn’t the nurse, at the VERY least, know about how Selkie takes her medicine and stay hydrated and all that? You’d think that’s something that Todd and/or the orphanage would have let the school know about.
Heck, where IS the nurse?
Budget cuts. The school will next see the nurse on March 11th, 12th and 13th for grade five inoculations. Otherwise she might drop by the school with some pamphlets about lice, but she will probably just e-mail them. She serve the entire school district and her position is about to be cut entirely on June 5th.
That sounds about right… But she handles all the schools in the district. Not fun.
In Jessie’s defense, I believe Todd misled her when she was working at Woolmart.
Adults tend to assume that anything they’ve not heard of is not real unless proven wrong, and, often, not even then, unless it’s convenient for them to accept it as real. Even the blatantly obvious can be ignored outright if the adult believes it shouldn’t/can’t be true.
First of all, I’ve finally worked up the courage to post here, so let me say THIS COMIC IS AWESOME!
Second, I believe that “Aaaugh!” would have been a far better choice. That’s what I would do, anyways.
Greetings:) And I agree, in part because it is hard to beat her expression in Panel 2.
Happy first post! Glad to have ya. 😀
Jessie is an outspoken person – blurts whatever she thinks out and then sticks by it. Except of course, during one period a long time ago when she needed to get adult attention and wasn’t able to speak up. Otherwise her quick tongue has probably offended a lot of people.
i really like this… at least where this small part is seaming its going.
Dave, i have made it a personal goal to one day shake your hand, so someday years down the road when this comic is winding down, remind me if i hadnt done so yet, ill still be around ^_^
When I can afford the travel expenses to start doing conventions like all the cool kids do, I’d love for that to someday happen, Kotih. 😀
Hee hee! Same:)
We shall rename her to Cleopatra….
*dodges rotten tomatoes*
What!? Admit it, you groaned and grinned. Personally, at this point I would have been trying to cuss up a blue streak, but be too stunned to udder a coherant sylable. (wow, my spellin sucks this morning)
Amanda looks a lot like Todd in this comic. Maybe it’s her facial expressions but it really looks like they are related.
all> I, sadly, get none of these references:(
Dave> Um, again, why are they all still wearing gloves?
I figure they’ve just run in from outdoors and haven’t taken them off yet. Should probably get around to that. XD
I love today’s comic. Just throwing that out there.
And the reverse situation:
“Selkie, stop being mean.”
“No, Amanda really is a Jerk-face! It’s a medical condition!”
“Not playing games here, Selkie.”
“So why does she have a mini-vacuum in her bag? It’s to fix her Jerk-face-ness!”
“Selkie, go report to the principal’s office.”
Doesn’t quite fit. Amanda says Selkie is a fish, and points out fish-tank-water conditioning fluid in her bag. Those two things go together. A jerk-face and a vacuum? No obvious connection that I can see. Selkie claiming Amanda is bigfoot and pointing out an electric razor in her bag as proof would be more in line with the situation.
No, the joke is that Selkie actually calls Amanda a Jerk-face, and when Amanda says “She’s a fish” Miss Flower thinks Amanda is being insulting rather than literal so I decided in a parallel universe that “Jerk-face” is a literal medical condition and somehow a mini-vac is a treatment for it (draining mucus or something?) and now you made me explain the joke.
Now is the time for Amanda to act out, if only to stop Jessie from accidentally poisoning Selkie. I’m pretty certain that the “medicine” has to be mixed with water to be effective and shouldn’t be administered directly to her.
At this rate Jessie’s career is going to be over before it gets started.
Put it to ya this way… I like Jessie as a character but I dunno if I’d let her babysit my kids, and certainly not teach them LOL. She’s kinda… flighty.
Well to be fair, this is a case of the universe’s Like Reality Unless Noted trope resulting in an instance of Dramatic Irony. In other words, Jessie has not been notified of how Selkie is “not normal” and therefore makes a realistic assumption that is ironically incorrect because Selkie is part of the world that is unlike reality and now I’ve explained the comic’s joke argh.
Uhm. I don’t now. Is it a good thing for everybody to be clued in as to how strange Selkie really is? I mean, now everybody takes it for a medical issue. Being an entirely different species is something else again. This could be bad. Very bad.
Agreed, in a way. Jessie could be just kooky enough to accept it all… or not and have it blow up everywhere which looks like it tends to happen to her. I feel bad for her, but I still wouldn’t let her watch my kids.
That should read ‘I don’t know’, not ‘I don’t now.’
So, I got a spam comment in the moderation queue which was 29 paragraphs of French. I normally just delete spam without a thought, but it’s some weird anomaly of spam and I don’t want to waste it. So I posted it on the Facebook page (to avoid a 29 paragraph brick in the comments thread) out of morbid interest.
https://www.facebook.com/Selkiecomic/posts/349238695199477
Huh. Interesting. Political spam makes its entrance… again.
That is one beautiful piece of bizarreness right there, that’s for sure.
Well, I have no facebook… but, yes, it’s interesting. The short paragraphs are an interviewer and the long ones, his…um, royal subject.
…Oh dear… I’m sorry…
(*runs away*)
Are you seriously going to tell me that the teachers at that school aren’t aware of the fact of exactly what she might be? That seems unreasonable at best.
Schools need to take care of their kids, and should know every aspect of them, especially if they are a special needs kids. In all honesty if I was her Father and I could see what I’ve been seeing, I would have pulled her out of this school. The incompetence is simply outstanding.
Agreed. However, there has been quite a lot of suspension of disbelief required to enjoy the comic. The whole situation with the orphanage (parents picking and choosing orphans) comes to mind, as well as the circumstances surrounding Amanda’s being surrendered. It’s ludicrous that no one notices that Selkie is quite obviously not a human child with a medical condition. She has gills, for goodness’ sake.
To be honest, the idea of an evolved or different humanoid species isn’t really that unbelievable. Besides Selkie and her race, the story has a tendency to keep roots in reality.
I mean, the government has been keeping close tabs on Selkie, you would think that if they were that worried about her and her well being, then they would also keep close tabs on her at home and in school and keep those who are interacting with her on a daily basis well informed.
I mean the orphanage where she lived for so long was as informed as they could be. They apparently speak with the agent involved in Selkie’s case. Todd had to have been told about the fish water conditioner, because I find it hard to believe he would jump to that conclusion on his own.
Hell, even Todd, who is supposed to be a reasonable, rational adult and care giver to Selkie should have talked to the school to make sure they understood the needs of his adopted child.
As far as people not noticing Selkie isn’t a human child, I think more along the lines of maybe, people assume that she isn’t human, but they don’t want to appear rude or jump to conclusions.
So no, I feel like it’s really common sense the school is aware of her special situation and her needs.
Thinking about it also, the fish water conditioner really isn’t necessary. I kept a 50 gallon tank for two years until moving made me put it in storage. The fish were quite happy and all I did was dump tap water into the tank.
But I do see where the author is going with it.
A certain teacher is in for a bit of a shock.
The older you get, the more you realize someone younger than you noticed something YOU overlooked.
Take unsafe toys, for example…