I was almost going to do a Christmas Filler instead of the next strip in line, partially because I feel really “tempting fate”-y about doing this particular subject on Christmas Day, but I instead chose to keep with my tradition of updating through the usual holidays when able. So, here we go.
Everyone have a safe and happy day today.
Truck looks constipated.
I think you made the perfect choice
I agree. There’s a dumb joke about a pet monkey in a bar swallowing a cue ball from the pool table. Truck looks like the monkey, two days after swallowing.
This is a better lesson than a fairy tale for her. As much as it stings, when she learns about what can happen when you say the wrong thing at the wrong time and break the wrong promise over a relatively minor promise in the great scheme of things she won’t do it again. A good lesson, if admittedly a very painful one.
In Selkie’s defence, she was practically delirious with hypothermia at the time.
One of the most important steps toward maturity is when you first accept the consequences for your actions. That Selkie did so on her own is truly admirable.
That expression is kind of overblown for such a revelation. It’s not like she admitted to scalping little old ladies.
I wasn’t even sure she was reacting to what was being said and it wasn’t some bizarre flash-in instead.
But I don’t think it’s in what happened so much as it is “Adult Fear”. Selkie is talking about being bullied and out in the cold and becoming so weak and sick needing to go to the ER. I mean, what is Pohl hasn’t been there? Would anyone have been able to treat her? The way she’s clutching her child tells me (a mother of 3 babies myself) she’s listening to this tale, and as much as she feels for Kenzie, praying with all her heart that she NEVER has to go through anything like that happening to her children
Sorry, Selkie. Kenzie is a Freudian Slip-
Of the 3 children, 2 are boys; Kenzie is my daughter’s name
*dons pipe and mustache* It’s PSYCHOANALYSIS TIME.
I think that that Freudian slip might show overattachment to this fine webcomic – if you’re replacing the main character’s name with your daughter’s.
Overattachment to this webcomic is of course a good thing, so I wouldn’t worry too much.
It could… It could also have something to do with my daughter was crawling on the floor saying mamamadadadededamamama while I was typing about a child being hurt 😛
Goes to show how well written this comic is.
The look of horror on her face seems just a little too extreme if you ask me. It’s like she just saw two girls, one cup. I mean seriously.
It doesn’t look overdone to me it looks like when i kid gets that they’ve done wrong this sort of stuff is a big deal to them.
Wait now i see it nevermind it does look a little weird i got confused a sec I thought we were talking about Selkie not Sai Fen
I’m not seeing that as a look of horror (although I may be wrong). Sai Fen just told Selkie a fairy tale of her people – one that Sai Fen liked enough to dedicate a sculpture to it. She probably thought it was a cool way to introduce Selkie to her heritage. Instead, Selkie is hurt. Not what Sai Fen intended, I think. That looks like “Oh, no, I didn’t mean for you to take it like THIS!” to me.
Yeah, I’m with you on this one.
I also think we might get a clearer view of what she thinks once Dave gets home from work and cleans the page up.
No, no, no.
Selkie didn’t break a promise and then get hurt. She got hurt, and THEN broke a promise. That’s absolutely not relevant to the fairy tale.
Selkie broke a promise (to Todd), got hurt, then broke another promise (to Heather). I’m with Spliced, above. I think Sai Fen is putting together the pieces of what Selkie isn’t saying, and is shocked to learn how much danger she was in, particularly the fact that there’s a bully. Also, back in panel 2, that there’s a girl Selkie hates.
I think Pohl may have softened his account to his wife just a bit. Plus there’s a lot about Selkie’s life at school that he doesn’t know.
I think you worry too much about what people think ^_^ it’s your comic, do what you want.
people who tell cautionary fairy tales and nursery rhymes of this sort (person commits minor, usually arbitrarily defined misdeed and gets hugely disproportionate punishment) to a child must have forgotten just how literally children tend to take things. it is awfully easy to traumatizea child this way. example: child sucks thumb, is terrified that someone is going to come and cut them off with scissors because of hearing the wrong nursery rhyme. in selkie’s case the impact may be even worse because of the coincidental reinforcement of the ‘lesson’ courtesy of truck. selkie may very well now believe that heather will do something awful and permanent to her. no blame to sai fen. she was just answering a question and talking about her art, (as what artist wouldn’t?), but some serious damage control may be needed.
I see your point, but I believe you are incorrect.
If my mother told me a story about an evil stepmother ordering the murder of the girl, and when that didn’t work, poisoning her herself, or another evil stepmother turning the girl into the family slave, or the evil mother left her two children in the woods to starve to death, or the father’s idiotic boasting caused the girl to be threatened with death several times, and then she has to give her baby up to an evil dwarf, and these stories traumatized me, I don’t believe I would tell these stories to MY children.
Yet these stories are hundreds of years old, meaning they have been told by parents to children generation after generation after generation.
This, to me, says that fairy tales do NOT traumatize children. Even ones where people get mutilated or eaten by beasts.
Wisdom is a gift that keeps on giving.
This is likely out of the blue and has nothing to do with the story, but….
Did that statue always have nipples?
shes can be a Drama queen.
But a this point she’s an overlord.
I know the drama has a purpose but still.