Piece of bonus commentary: I had to post the outlines of this strip first and the colored version afterwards, but I also made a small dialogue change in the process. Instead of “Save it, Mina” in panel 4, Todd now says “Stuff it, Mina”. I felt like Mina’s expression in panel 5 suggested a bit more shock than “Save it” would generate, and “Stuff it” feels… angrier, to me.
"That escalated quickly" would make an appropriate title for this whole arc, honestly.
Ah, poor Mina.
I’ll say!
Ouch! Poor Mina…. (Hope Todd can get over this being “all Mina’s fault”… and soon.)
And here I thought they were going to have something. Though I do think Todd is lashing out at the wrong person as Selkie did pretty much lie to Mina. Granted, she’s a child and Mina is the responsible adult in this situation, but kids get away with a lot in school. I know I did.
Selkie didn’t lie; Todd told her to use her judgement. That’s permission. It’s enhancing the truth a little, but certainly not a lie.
The anger on Todd’s part is understandable, not very productive, but certainly understandable. I’ve think I’ve an inkling how this will all go.
I’m more than a bit surprised, it’s never seemed to be in Todd’s character to be unreasonable and finger-pointy like that. Upset, yes, but 1) she can hardly spend all day every day following Selkie around to make sure she’s safe, and 2) he himself gave Selkie permission to decide whether or not to go out at recess. Right at the moment he sounds like a pouting 14-year-old girl.
I disagree. Todd is acting *very* realistically for a parent who gives a crap. We can easily go from being a teacher’s best pal to worst enemy if our little ones get hurt—and Selkie was *almost killed* and then humiliated/punished for defending herself. My husband is the same way. He’s a very level-headed, funny and sweet guy, but if someone is nasty to our daughter (even another kid) the teddy bear in him turns to Mr. Grizzly right away. Never ever saw it in him like that until we had a kid.
Does he go Mr. Grizzly against someone who had nothing to do with the situation and couldn’t reasonably have been expected to effect or prevent it? Or against the person/people actually responsible for the situation?
It’s not his being angry that I’m talking about, it’s his attitude towards the teacher, it reminds me so very much of my little sister. “MOOOOM you said I could have a new outfit, but the plumbing broke and now we don’t have the money, YOU’RE A LIAR AND IT’S NOT FAIR!!!”
I agree with Dotcom. Bear in mind that Todd didn’t actually give her permission to go out at recess he said “Use your best judgement”. https://selkiecomic.com/selkie297/ As a Mom I’ll tell you that’s parent speak for “Don’t be stupid and remember what just happened”. Also as a parent I agree if a teacher came to me and PROMISED that something wouldn’t happen HELL YES I would hold that teacher accountable when the shit hit the fan. When my son was having a similar problem in preschool the principal and the teachers made a committment to protect him by ensuring that when the children were on the playground one adult always had eyes on him so they were ready to step in before the other child could instigate anything. Knowing that Selkie has “health issues” in cold weather and doesn’t usually go out for recess then should have raised some definite flags. Mina should have made a point of asking Jessie to keep an eye on Selkie in case her “health issues” caused a problem.
So you expect the words ‘I promise’ to magically endow a person with the ability to control reality or predict the future? Your son was being targeted by a particular child, as you tell it. Selkie hadn’t ever had any problems with Truck before (that we know of), and she and Heather (the previous perpetrator) are now getting along, why would anyone expect problems?
Perhaps Mina should have asked Jessie to keep a special eye on Selkie, but as playground supervisors, they are responsible for the safety and welfare of ALL the kids on the playground, all of whom are running around like maniacs. The only ways to constantly ‘keep an eye’ on any of them is to either follow them around or restrict their movements to one area. What happens if one of the other kids got into trouble and wasn’t immediately noticed because the teachers were busy watching over the one who happens to be the center of our story? They could easily be accused of favoritism or negligence. Further, Mina and Jessie aren’t even aware of the full extent of Selkie’s ‘health issues’; Todd is, so the responsibility of making sure they don’t become a problem (by not letting her go out to recess since he can’t tell them the full truth) lies with him.
And ‘Use your best judgement’ to a kid means ‘do what you want’. Heck, that’s what it means to most adults.
Mina did have Jessie watching her, she even told Todd that. However, it’s likely that Jessie wasn’t expecting to have to go out in the snow that day and, as such, lost sight of Selkie while pulling on her winter gear. After all, for all they knew Selkie was just going to run around and hang out, they had no idea there was a snowball fight about to happen.
Todd lost his cool with Selkie once, but it was a slip. I think he’s just angry and scared for his daughter and he needs someone to lash out at to make himself feel better and unfortunately Mina is there. I’m sure they’ll make up sooner or later.
Just a reminder, Mina did ask Jessie to keep an eye on Selkie. Jessie mentions it to Paul here.
Again, I reiterate that I would never leave either of my two kids with Jessie.
Also, what is up with her smiling in the panel where Todd tells her to stuff it??! That is just mean! Am I misinterpreting here?
I think she’s smiling at what Mina said in the last panel, and didn’t have a chance to react to what Todd said before the next panel started. ‘Twas rather sudden, after all.
She is smiling because of the panel preceding it.
Mina seems to be fairly reasonable and competent. She might just give Todd a while to calm down and talk with him. He’s lashing out, yes, but given time to think he will probably regret his quick attack on somebody who is not to blame.
Todd is, however, falling into a common trap. That trap is thinking that anyone can provide safety for you or those you care for. That line of thought is problematic, because it simply sets one up for disappointment. If he actually considers what he was expecting, he may find himself shocked at just how daunting of a task it would be.
Give him a little time, he’s still getting used to having Selkie around to care for, and given how things have gone he’s a little jumpy/frustrated. I’m hoping he will turn around and apologize once he’s had a chance to let the steam off.
I really hope he gets over his mad soon. I really hope Mina likes the flowers and chocolate he’ll be sending. I really hope I’m right on that one.
In general, I just seem to be really hopeful. 🙁 Kind of.
Todd, you are getting angry at the wrong person…
I wonder how many people here who are saying Todd is acting out of line have kids of their own? (Just wondering—not judging).
Yeah, I think Todd’s blowing up at Mina (and hopefully they *will* make up), but I don’t think he’s being completely unreasonable considering the situation especially when you see it only from his side. I’ve seen very nice people turn nasty when their little ones get hurt by others. There’s also Todd’s past to consider. Child abuse survivors can be *very* protective of their children and they can fly off the handle from-time-to-time (even really nice settled ones can) when triggered—and it’s possible seeing Selkie beat up has triggered Todd. But given his kid nearly died, it is more than human for him to be PO’d at Mina and even yell at her. Nothing he said wasn’t true—and it’s not like he called her names or cussed her out. Hopefully they will reconcil as Selkie loves her teacher and there’s too much good chemistry between Todd and Mina to be tossed away when they obviously want the same thing.
Two kids, been in this situation.
Todd is out of line. ‘Nuff said.
That said, *I’ve* been that angry myself. And apologized later, which Todd will *have* to do to make up for it. Mina is a mom herself, and certainly Jessie has the mothering instincts– and Todd should realize that there are limits to what the two of them can do with little Adolf there running the show.
Yes, THIS! People should consider THIS! I don’t have kids, but I don’t think Todd was wrong to be angry at all. We could all debate on the issue of how he chose to express that anger, but who hasn’t blown up when something they care about is threatened? MULTIPLE TIMES? I know I go NUTS when people hurt the people I care about.
Have you ever worked as a teacher, doctor, vet, or in any other capacity where you’re looking after/responsible for someone/something people care deeply about? Not judging, just asking.
I spent 2 years working as a vet tech; not the same as someone’s child, I very much appreciate that, but there are similarities and, frankly, Todd’s behaviour sucks. And I’ve seen it a lot, and been on the receiving end of it.
People get upset when a family member is in danger, in pain, or threatened. That’s understandable.
That upset will also manifest in different ways – some go cold, some get angry, some sob uncontrollably, I had one poor gentleman go outside and actually scream at the sky – people are different, they handle bad news and stress in different ways. Also understandable.
What is not understandable, and not acceptable is when they decide to aim that upset at people they have arbitrarily dubbed ‘responsible’ for it. I’ve been screamed at, shouted at, insulted, threatened, had things thrown at me, had one customer try to tip our meds cabinet over onto me, told I’m going to be sued, that I deserve to die, all for things I could do jack shit about. And that’s exactly what Todd is doing here.
He is absolutely within his rights to be upset. He is absolutely within his rights to be upset at the school administrator, who is treating Selkie in the same way as the one who was bullying her, at the bully for being such a douche in the first place, at the universe for making it an apparently ummutable law that kids en mass will pick on anyone different, and he’s within his rights to be upset in whichever way he choses – angry, sad, quiet, loud, whatever.
Not cool? Taking it out on Mina, who couldn’t actually have prevented this happening short of barring Selkie from going outside (against what Selkie told her about Todd’s permission), or physically following Selkie around herself, which isn’t logistically possible for a teacher, and frankly would have looked all sorts of weird. She checked Selkie was ok to go outside, made sure she was bundled up, *and* asked her TA to go outside just to keep an eye on things. Seriously; exactly what else was the woman supposed to do? Produce a magic bubble?
Todd’s also making the same mistake so many of my owners used to – assuming that the person they’re slinging their feelings at isn’t also upset. Mina is quite obviously also shaken and unhappy – but Todd doesn’t care. I used to get really very upset over various cases…but the owners didn’t think about the fact that I also didn’t want their pet to die when they were told there was nothing more we could do; they used to lay into us anyway.
Toss is an adult, and perfectly capable of controlling his own actions. And in this case, to be honest, they suck, and he owes Mina an apology.
Once he realizes she’s been stabbed in the back by all this, he’ll feel better…of course he’ll feel real better when he finds Selkie a private school…
Part of the problem is the fact that there are differences between Selkie and the others that are being kept secret– this causes problems because they can’t be up front about Selkie’s “issues”.
Ever been told “John isn’t going to run laps, he is going to do xxx instead because we don’t want to aggravate his asthma?” Well, here’s a kid that has respiratory problems and cold problems, which could be explained in JUST THAT WAY, (without mentioning she’s a different species) which would make it easier to keep her out of harm’s way.
Instead, the whole thing is being swept under the rug and when Selkie naturally tries to be like other kids it can cause problems.
As somebody who went to a private school for grades 8-11, I can say that it is not a better option. Private schools are generally K-8, which means that the same facilities meant for kindergarteners are used for eighth graders. A lot of my 8th grade homework felt like 5th grade busy work, and I brought my own lunch every day as their meals were tailored to somebody a 3rd of my height. Aside from that, bullying and outcast-ing was worse. Smaller classes meant less of a variety of kids. It became easier to stand out and places that dress the same usually expect everyone to act the same. Not a fun year. Freshmen to Junior years had better facilities, but more of the same social problems.
Another aspect ruining the private school plan is on how the school may view Selkie. They may see her previous incidents as a reason to let her attend long enough for the check to clear and then expel her the moment she breaks a rule, self-defense or not.
Thank you.
I went to public school while my cousin went to private and she hated it there and would always beg her mother to to save the money and allow her to go to public school.
I really do not see how the issue of bullying stops just by changing schools. School is a school despite it being public or private, the teachers and lessons may be different but kids are kids no matter where they are, they can be kind or cruel and can bully however they like for the slightest difference or a mere whim.
Sadly teachers can only do but so much to the point they can be useless.
Speaking also as someone who was removed from public school over bullying—one of the bullies was a teacher—I felt a vast improvement in my situation, something I appreciated more in retrospect rather than at the time.
Actually, I don’t think Todd is acting out of line at all. His kid has been assaulted twice at school, the second time put her life in danger. And she got punished for it. When is it ok for him to be angry? After they’ve killed her? No. Mina did promise to keep Selkie safe. If she meant it more than a platitude she would have acted on it earlier. After all, the whole point of Selkie being attacked is that other kids find her different. Neither of those things changed just because Mina promised. Bottom line, Mina made a promise she could not keep. And Todd has called her on it. That’s fair enough. What he does now is what a responsible and caring father would do.
emo todd is too emo x.x
todds right to be mad but not THAT mad, and not at mina, man u can practically hear that heart shattering!
this should prove to be… most interesting….
perhaps its just from what i went through at her age, but i just dont see todd’s reaction as normal. my parents loved me to death, but they didnt try to bring the school down if i came home with bumps or bruises (understatement).
On the other hand, I was bullied for most of a year. My parents did the talk to the teacher/principal/school board thing. They were told it happens all the time and maybe next year would be better. That’s when they pulled us out of school and homeschooled us. It was amazing. No bullying, we could pack up and go with dad when he went on business trips – if we did our schoolwork on the way there, we could spend the day at a zoo or museum. We tested on the state achievement tests near the top of the curve. (For me it was amazing – my sister was her class bully and wasn’t nearly as appreciative of being put where someone would keep an eye on her and give consequences for hitting and name calling as I was for being rescued.)
Yes, yes, YES, on being homeschooled! I was fortunate to be homeschooled almost my entire life. There was one year when the baby kept getting sick, so Mom put us in school for the rest of the year. Worst three months of my life. I was pretty happy to be able to come back home.
I was bullied too as a kid: fat, nerd, glasses… you get the idea. Then one of my classmates’ dad started a rugby team for kids.
I was never bullied again after the first tackle.
Agreed – doing some form of athletics seems to be a good way to get the bullying to stop, or at least deal with it better since, if you made the team to begin with, your confidence gets boosted.
I’m seriously suurprised that no one has brought up what I suspect. My guess is that Todd was starting to like Mina, and he’s pretty upset about being betrayed again. Does that make it okay that he’s losing his temper? No. But sometimes in situations like this, you just get irrationally angry, and you can’t really control it when it first breaks out. Still doesn’t make it right, but perhaps more understandable.
Good call. He was opening up, and it hurts more because of that.
Agreed! And likely compounding this, see Danny in Canada’s comment re: trust issues /cough/Andy/cough/.
Yeah, Todd is angry at Mina. This seems less fair to us because we know more details of exactly what happened, particularly Truck’s attitude towards other students and teachers (“Make me.” When the teachers can see everything and are closing in fast.). But I think when Todd encounters the trunchbulls himself, he’ll start getting angry at the right people.
I think when he meets up with the Ogres as well that will do nothing but seal his direction of taking over the PTA and making more of an impact. After all, what better way to change things than from the inside.
As for his actions, I have a niece. If she was put in this situation and I had the information that he had, I’d be ready to rip the face off anyone who might have had some duty to controlling the situation. That principle would despise the very thought of me.
And Dave, don’t sweat it. Sure the site says updates on Monday, Wendsday, and Friday, but you wanna know what my bookmark says? Updates Monday and Thursday. The fact that it’s even just a black and white outline is a treat for me.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I REALLY APPRECIATE when Dave puts up half finished pages. Some other comics I read skip uploads pretty regularly, and it’s frustrating because I want to know what happens next in the story.
However, I know that when I come here, the pages are almost ALWAYS up, even if they’re not colored. I still get to see what happens next in the story, like I want, and then I get to come back later and see all the beautiful colors (and I really love the way Dave colors). Its like a special double upload, almost! I always feel bad when I see the artist apologizing for these unfinished pages, beause I always want to say thank you so much for giving me my Selkie Fix on time!
I seriously love this comic, it’s such an inspiration to me, so much fun to read, especially because it touches on some very serious issues! Its like “opinion candy”, it gets my mind all riled up and defensive over poor Selkie!
And I just have to wonder now… Private School? Home School? I think Todd has every right to be mad! That’s his baby!!! This might be weird, but does anyone else find his powerful paternal instincts really sexy? Guh, I love when he goes all “Papa Bear” over Selkie <3
Thanks so much. 😀 I tend to apologize for it because I hate uploading a half-baked product, but I hate the idea of missing updates more. I’ve been a reader of too many webcomics where I enjoy reading them, they start out well enough, then updates start slipping, and next thing you know it’s Hiatus.
(I have no hiatus intentions, fyi. In the worst case scenario where I am utterly starved for time I’d be willing to just post pencil updates.)
dont worry Dave, even if you try ill just have to come visit ya and drag you back XP
Glad the Todd and Mina ship went down; for now at least.
I also find it very funny that if Todd or Selkie have actions fueled by emotions, it’s totally reasonable, but if someone like Andy or Amanda do it, they’re scum. Double standards yo.
Not sure about the ship but clap clap clap for pointing that out.
To me this page reads as Todd being out of character with his lashing out at Mina – being angry about how peeps let Selkie be treated, yes, but taking it all out on Mina? Holding her responsible for what happened in recess she wasn’t even supervising? Open hostility at her? All of those read as out of character to me. Maybe it’s just me.
Someone else mentioned that the reason for his extra hostility at Mina is because he was starting to like her, even to the point of possibly asking her out. Todd feels very protective over Selkie because she reminds him of the things that he went through as a child.
It might not be rational, but getting extra angry at the people you like because they let you down on something very important, is far from out of character for anyone. You always expect more from them because you like them, and when they fail to live up to your expectations… well it hurts.
Todd lashing out at Mina may not be rational or fair, but it makes perfect sense.
Making sense to me still doesn’t mean it wasn’t out of character for him. Heck, Todd’s a much better person than me. 😛
I feel like a terrible person for this, but… kinda glad Todd is mad at Mina. I’ve mentioned this before, but having your parent/significant other of parent being a teacher is a severely unpleasant experience. It takes every other reason kids have to not like you and amplifies them with the added reason of ‘That kid can get ANYTHING they WANT just because they’re the teacher’s kid!’ no matter how untrue that statement may be (if I could get anything I wanted, DO YOU HONESTLY THINK YOU WOULD STILL BE PASSING??? Oh wait… you were failing before I ever got here, you wouldn’t even be able to tell….) Yeah, Todd deserves some happiness and Selkie could use a mom, but the best scenario would have that person NOT be a teacher.
Honestly, if for some twisted reason I became a teacher and had kids, I would do ANYTHING I had to to keep my kids from being taught at the same school I worked at. I would send them to a private school, I would transfer to a different job, I would send them away to another city to live with relatives, HELL I would quit my job and spend their entire highschool life on welfare if I had to. Teasing for being poor is NOTHING compared to what you get for being a teacher’s kid.
Wait so just because she’s a teacher they shouldn’t go out because kids’ with their own misunderstanding will bully Selkie even more than she’s being picked on now?
Or rather your own personal experience?
So despite if they were good for one another, made each other happy, made Selkie happy, could build a very good and strong family together they should not go out because of her profession that her money and puts food on the table because there’s a chance kids who doesn’t understand that having a teacher as a parent doesn’t mean anything other than your parent has a job in the education system.
I am STILL trying to recover from what I went through back then. It’s been over 10 years now, most of that time being spent in and out of therapy, about half that time being medicated, and I’m currently on disability because of all my ‘issues’ that did not exist before going to that school make it damn near impossible to hold down a job. I was 1 of only 6 kids in the entire school that did not belong to the dominant race, and almost every single kid there had been raised to believe my race was evil scum that caused all of their problems. I was singled out from the very first day, never made a single friend, and attempted suicide twice. I was spit on, tripped in the hallways, forced to listen to the kids pretending to vomit every time they passed me, followed home and beaten in the middle of the street, and nearly drowned while the lifeguard just sat there and watched.
So yes, honestly, I do think it would be better for Selkie if Todd and Mina didn’t get together, or wait until Selkie or Mina are at different schools before they do. If you’re already a target for bullies, having a teacher in your immediate family just makes everything worse. The kids who would bully you anyway bully you even more, and the kids who might have been friends stay away from you because you’re ‘that teacher’s kid nobody likes’ and anything they say to you might get back to your parent and get them in trouble. I hated my dad for YEARS afterwards, and I’m just barely able to have a relationship with him now. I STILL blame my parents for making me go through all of that and doing nothing to help me. Those 2 years pretty much ruined my life.
your experience is not the same as every teacher’s kid. had one in my grade as we were going up, both of her parents were teachers at our local h.s. she went on to become a teacher herself. it probably helped that her teacher mother was also funny, nice and a well loved (never had her dad for any classes so i remember almost nothing about him bad or good). i expect she must have gotten some teasing (we didn’t run in the same circles, i was loner and she was cute and popular) but it obviously didn’t hold her back or bias her against teaching as a career. i’m going to guess your dad probably wasn’t well liked and you caught fallout from that? so your experience may well be at the extreme negative end of the spectrum and may not be something to blanket judge every teacher who is or wants to be a parent by.
So let me get this straight, Todd is too much of a pussy to stand up for him and his foster child, so he takes it out on a woman he was just about to ask out?
You know, being a reasonable person, there’s a lot of problems here and not just the ones I pointed out.
For starters, Todd is unable to currently comprehend the idea that Selkie is most always going to be a target and it’s important for her to learn how to defend herself. The teachers can’t always be held responsible for the actions of students, especially when it was partially the fault of the victim.
Secondly apparently Todd gave Selkie the go ahead to go outside if she was comfortable doing so? With a special needs children, who is deadly allergic to cold, who is allergic to all vegetation and has gills, he shows very little common sense, not enough to understand kids are going to do things that are often not for their own well being.
I thought Todd was better then this, but it appears he has a lot of growing up to do and now it actually makes me feel much less apprehensive about his Ex and that entire mess right there.
Apparently he is a sniveling pussy who can’t fight his own fights and then points the finger when things go wrong.
From what we’ve been shown of his past, he was also either physically abused at his birth-home, or else physically bullied at school. Or possibly both.
His past doesn’t really excuse anything. I grew up in a really shitty household.
My Mother always hopped between two guys, my real Dad and my half sister’s Dad. Eventually she dropped my Dad for her Dad.
Fast forward through countless drunken nights, family abuse, her Dad bankrupting our family, beating me and my Mother and finally one day he dies from cancer. Awesome.
Only for her to pick up another abusive asshole who clearly hates her children and openly treats them like shit. I almost killed him and had to go to a therapist and almost went to a correctional facility.
As an adult now, I try to treat people as well as I can, because I sure as hell didn’t like how I was treated as a child. If I can recognize Todd’s shitty behavior, he should be able to.
We are none of us perfect sir. Todd made a mistake, the proof of his character is how he deals with that mistake later.
My childhood reads fairly similarly. It took me years and lots of effort to control my temper outbursts.
Dealing with the aftermath is the hardest part, if you regret it. People will see the effort, and in time the emotions shift. Or if its not delt with, they see that too.
The thing that bothers me is not that Todd is angry – obviously he is – but that he is horribly rude to Mina. There is absolutely no reason why you can’t be both angry and civil.
I also don’t like that he took his anger out on Mina, instead of using it to address the principal. I mean, all he said to the principal was “You’re punishing the VICTIM? Are you out of your tiny little HOBBIT MIND?” That was amusing, but that was the bulk of his argument. It was actually all of the teachers who advocated for Selkie, arguing with their BOSS. It was only when the principal threatened to fire them all that they stopped arguing. But Todd was quiet through that whole exchange. He took his fury out on someone who didn’t have the power to affect the outcome, he was rude, and he was pretty stupid. Mina did the best she could; he was out of line in telling her to shut up, throwing her good intentions in her face, and sabotaging her friendship.
I like Todd very much, and I like Selkie very much, but Mina deserves – and had better demand – to be treated more respectfully than that. I’m sorry, I don’t care how angry he was; his rudeness here isn’t excusable.
Props to Dave for writing such complicated characters.
This is exactly how I feel about Todd’s behaviour in this comic.
Todd has trust issues. Doesn’t excuse his jerkishness, mind you.
I don’t know….I mean, it was foolish of Mina to *promise* that there would be no other incidents concerning Selkie. Even if only a few know the full details of Selkie’s “condition”, it should be obvious by her appearance and the general public’s reaction to it that she will always always always be at risk for being singled out for bullying and other cruelty. Selkie can’t ever be truly supervised 24/7, 365 in order to prevent others from bothering her and it will only get harder as she ages and becomes more and more independent from her father, as children tend to do.
On the other hand, Todd’s behavior here *seriously* pisses me off, possibly more than it should. I’m not a parent so I’ll freely admit that I may very well feel differently once I have children of my own, but it really upsets me to see parents getting upset at people who have little to no control over situations and outcomes that concern their children. For example, I work in a hospital laboratory and also do phlebotomy. I’ve had plenty of encounters with parents (and some grandparents) who become very hateful with me when I show up to draw their child’s blood for testing. Academically, I can understand feeling stressed if your child is sick and/or hurting, but you’re not doing anyone any good by getting upset or pissy. Your child is likely scared or upset enough as it is, so they need you to be the parent and be calm and reassure them. Also, don’t shoot the messenger – lab technicians and phlebotomists have little to no control over what sort of testing is ordered on a patient; the doctor does. So I know you may not like needles or like the idea of your child getting a needle in their arm or a poke in their finger, but it’s not my fault. I’m just trying to do my job, so please don’t take your anger out on me. And if you really don’t want it done, you have the right to refuse treatment; it won’t offend me one iota if you tell me that you’d rather not have your child’s blood drawn.
Sorry for the soapbox; as much as I know Todd is trying to look out for Selkie and that he’ll likely regret (to some degree) the way in which he spoke to Mina after he’s had some time to calm down and think things over, I still really feel for her right now.
Well said:
pointe4Jesus~… Todd was starting to like Mina, and he’s pretty upset…
Sai~… He took his fury out on someone who didn’t have the power to
affect the outcome…
Props to Dave for writing such complicated characters.
Not quite the type of shi*storm that I had anticipated from Todd; I imagine him to be far less impulsive, far more considered, and staunchly committed to those decisions when made. (He has walked the minefields of being an orphan, and he chose a creative career that requires the exercise of forethought and planning).
I’m curious what the under story is here.
Props to Dave for writing (and drawing) such complicated characters.
And here we see papa-bear Todd in his natural habitat.
I’m sure he’ll (maybe) calm down and become more rational through reevaluation of the events, but for now- RAAAAARRRRGGGGH!
I see Selkie’s suspension being revoked, and Selkie being unhappy because of it. 🙂
I REALLY hope he doesn’t equate genuine assault with the harmless prank from before.
Screw you too, Todd! As much as I like him, he’s being a total scumball. He’s the one who said it was okay for Selkie to go outside. He better apologize, or I will never forgive him. He’s just as bad as the principal, at this point.