So I am a bit embarrassed to admit that I’ve dropped the ball and slacked off a little on Selkie background stuff. I got a little teensy bit “called out” on Friday for a lack of Selkie-themed merch in my Society6 store. I had something in the pipe in May (a larger version of the bookmark artwork I drew for ACEN) and… well here we are almost July and it hasn’t been shirtified yet. Woops. 😡
I’ve set up a workflow to get kraken on finishing that, but I’ve also started a couple other things I thought I’d share with you all while I am here. Based on popular feedback I am also sketching out a t-shirt based on the “Selkie Selfie” panel from Friday. It’s only in a very (very VERY) rough stage right now, but it should look cute when it’s done.
I know some of you like seeing the “in progress” artwork, so thought I’d share a small teaser. This is what Selkie drawings look like before I ink/color/polish/etc. This is NOT how the t-shirt design will look.
I also started a drawing sometime last week that isn’t directly Selkie related but I’ve put it in my to-do list to also finish up and get in print for those that may like cute stuff. This is the linework, colors and etc. are not done yet.
And while I hate to end this on a worrisome note, I like to try and inform people if I know ahead of time that there may be comic interruptions. I got a new job and am transitioning over the next two weeks away from my overnight cashiering gig. It means working on my off days at the new place while I serve two-weeks notice. I think I can keep Selkie going on normal speed during the next two weeks, this is just a warning notice in case I mess up. Again. XD
AW SNAP SON
And in an unexpected turn of events, Selkie is in the awkward position of (kind of) defending Truck. Principal Hobbit’s reaction, however, was dismally predictable. 🙁
THERE we go.
A lot of people have said that Tommy doesn’t think he is doing wrong. I’ve been wanting to say that he obviously does, but believes he can get away with it.
My sympathies regarding workload and arrangements. Things are crazy for my lately.
Selkie’s last comment amuses me. As a kid (and often now) I get fussy over stated facts. 😛
Well I theorized that he might not have believed he was doing wrong. That theory stood for a while because we didn’t hear him admit to anything directly. The library scene offered pretty contrary evidence, so I wanted to wait and see, but the final nail in the coffin (to me) was the bit just a few strips back where he changed his expression in his father’s presence and timed it to “get back” at Selkie. That proved he was much more of a manipulator, very much knowing exactly what he was doing in terms of “reading” other people, and thus much more guilty than I was giving him credit for.
He may still be motivated to not care about his actions in the heat of the moment by a warped sense of authority, thanks to his parents, but he definitely is able to acknowledge after the fact that his tantrums are bad behavior. The problem comes when he decides that the fact he’s gotten away with everything so far means that he can do whatever he wants, instead of realizing that he really, really should stop being so gosh darn mean with little or no provocation.
Also, the “she’s lying” line in reaction to a recording is telling about how habitually he lies about what he does. If he knows he needs to lie about his actions to get away with his actions, that proves he knows that they’re wrong. Or at least that his father would disapprove of the truth.
On a semi-related note, I know someone in real life who is actually extremely intelligent, educated, and competent at his day job. And he used that same line (“she’s lying”) when I confronted him about something we both knew was true. Perhaps most damning, I hadn’t even specifically brought “her” up in the conversation before he made the accusation! Not to mention that what I was going to say, before he made the accusation, was that I had witnessed something that proved the truth of what happened. But he was so used to accusing the other person of lying as a defense mechanism about the truth of the situation that he didn’t even come up with a plausible lie in that instance.
So even smart (but evil, and not the fun way) people are prone to exactly this kind of behavior.
Well we’re yet to get the “My dad will get you in trouble” part.
Agreed. I also theorized that he might not have believed he was doing wrong but if that were the case his line in the last panel would have been dismissive not denial. It would have been “So what? They’re nobodies.” not “It’s not me. She’s lying.”
I could see that Trunchypoo was worried that his son could do something wrong in the past, I never thought of him as just believing his son did these things and not caring. I am glad you were able to show this side of him before, but subtly, and now we get to see the truth. I love this page!
PS don’t worry about the backgrounds, it works in this scene and you must be exhausted, this whole storyline looks like a lot of work (home, the schoolyard, the classrooms, the library and the office, oh my!) so I kinda like the “plain” backgrounds 😀 it actually makes you focus on the characters and their interactions more.
Woops, I meant background as in “behind the scenes”.
THIS PAGES LIFTS MY HEART AND MAKES ME HAPPY, OMG!!!
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Agreed. Now to get the rest of it – Tommy blowing up at a teacher’s aide – out in the open, and then it will have been worth for me to having to have stayed away from Selkie for several weeks earlier in the storyline, because of the injustices heaped on her brought my blood to boil.
And once again Professor Trunchbull reveals an underlying sexism in his standards for his son’s behaviour: not that it is wrong to hit people, but that it is wrong to hit girls. I mean, I’m sure he considers physical violence to be barbaric and primitive and all that, which is probably part of the reason he’s uncomfortable with the idea of sentient obligate carnivores, but – just like when we first met him – his main reaction seems to be, “Son, you had better not have hit a girl.”
Sadly it’s all too common, to the point where if you even defend yourself against a woman you’re considered a monster. Even though women are just as dangerous as men, and even more so in the right circumstances. This is of course not how the world works, but how people want it to work.
Had that happen in junior high. Girl hit me and I did not know how to respond. She hit me. I should hit her back. But she’s a GIRL!
So I just kinda stood there with a dumb look on my face.
That always burns me up, especially because I have known women who have taken advantage of it – including to injure my brother when he was younger. If I’d been present, I’d have been mightily tempted to say “So he won’t hit you back because you’re a girl and my dad insists on it, even though you’re basically punching and kicking him because it’s funny. Guess what? I’m under no such restriction.”
I didn’t grow up with that restriction either. My mom never taught me never to hit a girl. She told me to never hit people if I can help it period. But if I have to defend myself, a woman can do as much damage as a man so the second a woman hits me, hit her back. And this is a woman nicknamed Amazon due to her being a few inches taller than 6 feet.
I watched her try to throw a guy out of a moving vehicle while she was driving because he ticked her off by insulting me and threatening to send me to boarding school because he didn’t like me. She also worked as a bouncer in a bar and can change the oil in a car faster than most Nascar pit crews. Yeah, I have a rather different view of women than most guys do. Thus, no restrictions in the treatment of women positive or negative.
I love how your mother the Amazon raised a “Manly” man! Although if that were her last name, I can imagine that there would have been a lot of teasing for the both of you. :/
My mom is a great woman who did her best with what she had back in the 80s and 90s. She made sure this behemoth was rowdy and confident with himself and didn’t take flack off anyone. Let’s just say Ashton Hobbit and Professor Trunchbull are lucky she’s not dealing with them. Todd is a nice guy in comparison and in general, she’d have made examples of them.
Glad you pointed that out, I missed it on my first reading.
He probably wouldn’t want him going around beating up anyone, I think it’s more that beating up girls is worse than beating up other boys, because one should be a chivalrous gentleman and so on.
You know, all that outdated stuff.
I don’t know if we can take too much on the sexism here, as when he first made his hitting girls statement when hitting/harming a girl was the exact reason he & the Mrs. were called in. I’m gathering the call wasn’t “he hurt a student” but “he hurt a young girl”, hence the specifying of girl there. With the current mention of it, it is a cell phone video from a few stories up, of a boy with (as Selkie put it) “girly hairs”, so it’s probably just because he sees Truck hitting a girl, which is precisely what he was told wasn’t the case before (so the whole lie aspect bring the annoyance/disappointment level up too)
Given he’s married to a very (I’m guessing, from what we’ve seen & been told as of yet) strong willed woman, I doubt he’s anywhere as sexist as his statements could be inferred. I think it’s less “girls/women are weak” and more the fact that they’re little kids (especially when compared to Truck) and the girl thing is more for emphasis, or even just pertinent to the individual situations.
But, then again, I could be imagining the best, and it could turn out Trunchypoo is a big old sexist (though I hope not)
Given the comments made by the good professor in Selkie 338 – 341, I’d say he’s a sexist. And, it appears, his wife (who didn’t contradict him, at least in public) is the same.
To clarify: I’m not saying Trunchbull is a sexist monster. I’m just saying that he is a product of a culture wherein it is more frowned upon for a boy to hit a girl than it is for a boy to hit another boy, and in our media, girls using physical violence at all is usually seen as ‘funny’. (Admit it, despite the serious situation, you grinned when Selkie kicked Truck in the nuts.)
What I was trying to point out and poke a bit of fun at was that an elitist who prides himself on intellectuallism, academic acheivement, and rationality, is still emotionally influenced by surrounding culture in ways said elitist doesn’t even seem to be aware of, despite making a living studying such influences.
It’s part of that old notion of chivalry, which actually implies you should only fight an equal. Truck could pick a fight with a freaking high schooler and maybe come out ahead. Not going to lie, I kinda took chivalry for granted – in the South every boy knows he’ll get a stern talking to from Pop if he doesn’t “hold the door for a lady”. I moved to California and I’ve had lots of doors close on my face lately because people just don’t do that here and I have tiny T-rex arms.
And there’s the wake-up call for Truck and the Professor. In other news YES SELKIE SELFIE T-SHIRT!
The principal shouldn’t be mad, the cell phone use is clearly last resort, and this is already out of hand.
Clearly someone has never tried to deal with a completely worthless school administrator.
The hobbit is more upset that his power is being threatened than Selkie having the cell phone. People are cracking down on bullies and the people that enable it. This video shows that he has been enabling it and his reputation is at risk. And he doesn’t want to get attacked by the Trunchbulls, so he’s trying to protect Truck.
Now that we see the Professor isn’t all bad once he’s forced to face facts, I hope he still DOES get the principal in trouble, just now for a different reason. He may use an “unsuitable for the job” part (which is how I suspect the others were fired) now that he realizes what a worthless elementary school principal it is that defends bullies and persecutes their victims.
Well, he can’t do it the way he did the last time. No standing. It’s not his son that was bullied, after all.
Todd, however, could start putting heads on pikes at this point.
Heads on pikes, makes them worthless. The point of pikes is their point, if you put a head on it they are pointless, … Not pointless, I mean not useful as pikes, because the points are blunted.
Defends bullies, persecutes their victims… and at this point, Trunchbull has seen first hand how Principal Hobbit interacts with the children. Trunchbull may not like Selkie, but he was the one who called out Principal Hobbit when he started calling her names. That may be because he was aware that Todd was standing there, even if the Princiapl wasn’t. People like him are pretty good at making sure they portray themselves in the best possible light. There’s still a twisted perception of “justice” to his actions.
These are the rules. They must not be broken, or even bent slightly, because paperwork.
Hahaha, she’s actually defending him a bit with that last comment.
This is gold 🙂
Not so much defending him as correcting him so he won´t play the “caught you lying” get-out-of-jail-free-card later on.
I knew Selkie would be in trouble for recording. But with the evidence against Truck at least his parents will (hopefully) help stop the bully issue.
I saw the principal’s reaction coming a mile away.
This comic is especially dear to my heart, as I am a boy with extremely girly hair.
Guys tend to have much better looking hair than gals, since they are less likely to fry it!
Im waiting for the recording to reach teh part where Truck threatens the teaching assistant and declares that he can do anytihng he wants and get away with it because his father enables him to.
Im sure the Professor will love hearing that.
what’s kinda sad though is that Trunchbull more or less idolized his son, and now the deity is proven false and the lead is visible beneath the coating of gold
On the other hand it’s necessary to lose the rose-colored glasses to see the truth well enough to be an effective parent and start straightening his kid out NOW when it’s still possible and stop punishing the innocents who disagreed with him. In that way, it’s only happy because it means that others will no longer be attacked and Truck may grow up to be something other than a manipulative, lying thug. Too bad the damage is already done for all the others Trunchbull attacked and made lose their jobs. Someone who’s that blind to his kid needs this wake-up cal.
Before I could defend some of the principal’s need to enforce the rules, as stupid as they seem they had their purpose. But this thing with the cell phone, really man. I could say that he isn’t seeing what’s on it and its relevance but still. Cells phones were only considered a distraction and a possible cheating tool at the schools I’ve been to but students were allowed to keep them as long as they stayed in their bags and on silent. If they were caught with them out then they were confiscated.
Parents have made a big deal that they wanted their kids to be safe, with all of the school stabbings and things like Selkie’s situation they practically demand that they have a cellphone on them at all times (But generally I don’t see why they give them the latest most expensive smart phone).
I can see where he tried to protect everyone even though the act is seen as wrong and cowardly. But this is just a bit pigheaded as he jumped to the rules first without seeing the reason for why it was broken.
I think he does see, he just doesn’t want to ‘get the horns’ of Professor Trunchbull.
But it’s the evidence that they lacked the first time around that made him enforce the zero tolerance rules. It’s just one rule that he could and should look over for the moment to present the evidence that will allow for the proper and much needed actions to take place.
I like how, when you’re really REALLY pissed, you don’t want to use their name. If you call ’em by name it humanizes them too much, and you lose your mad.
Homer, lying next to the skateboard at the foot of the stairs. “Bring my the boy”. Not “Bart”. Not “Son”. “The boy”. Bill Cosby talking about his wife. “I’m going to kill THE BOY”.
And here we have, not “Tommy, what is this?”, but “BOY, what am I looking at?”
Eh, not always. In my house at least, we feared the use of full name. If your first AND middle name were used, fear the wrath. Whereas my brother’s nickname is Boy and is used very often.
Oh, Trunchypoo, you’re still teaching the wrong lesson. Just hang in there until you see the “mess with a Trunchbull” part, and maybe you’ll finally figure out where you made your mistake.
Well, the jacket’s coming off. I don’t know how the Trunchbulls work, but when I was growing up, it was a precursor to the belt coming off.
I see your point, but I think it is more “it’s a winter coat, and they are indoors, so it is hot” jacket removal. If he was taking off his suit-coat, to give his shoulders more room to move, then yeah, that’s butt-whuppin’ time.
Although, and as much as I think he deserves it, if Trunchypoo looked like he was gonna apply a little “parental britches’ warming” to Truck, both Todd and the principal would stop it.
Can’t hit the children, you know. It sends the wrong message.
The one other possibility – unlikely, but possible – is that Trunchbull will double down now, and simply attempt to steal the phone and/or delete the evidence.
In which case I would expect Selkie to smile and say two simple words….”The Cloud”
Something else, now that I’ve had time to process today’s strip. Truck is about to get the butt whoopin’ of his short little life… especially once his father has watched the whole video. That may put a healthy fear on him against bullying the other kids, which is good. At the same time as all the other kids have figured out how he played them, along with all his former bullying victims… he may be afraid to fight back against legitimate bullying against him. I really hope this doesn’t turn into a case of the other kids feeling justified in attacking him as payback for what he’s done to them.
Kids being kids, that probably will happen. In light of the snowball fight, the slappings, the recent confrontation, and now the recorded evidence of Truck’s behaviour, the teachers may be more vigilant in watching these particular students’ interactions, but they can’t be watching everyone all the time. It seemed ridiculously easy when I was in elementary school for bullies to get around the teachers to torment me (and presumably other kids I didn’t witness) behind the teachers’ backs.
I’m pretty sure the best way to teach a child not to hit people is not to hit the child. That just teaches that you shouldn’t hit someone unless you are bigger and in a position of authority, in which case, hit away.
Just sayin’. While I think spanking/hitting a child is pretty much not a good parenting technique ever, it seems an exceptionally poor way to try to convey the message “don’t hit people”.
I like that the secretary is there too and fully enjoying this.
I like that the secretary is there too and fully enjoying this.
I just noticed something else, although I’m not sure it’s intentional.
When the principal says “Hand it over now!” it looks like Selkie IS handing it over… to Truck’s father. At first I thought he was taking it from her, but the more I look at it, the more it looks like she’s giving it to him.
I don´t think she is actively handing it over to him. In panel 2 and 4 she is still holding it so he can see what´s going on. Panel 5 looks more like letting him take it.
H’oookay, I guess I’ll come out and say this one.
Please think a long time before you decide to put complex Selkie panels on merch. Selkie is a wonderful story — honestly, every time I go “bleh, this might be poor storytelling,” you seem to evade it all and do something awesome — but ask yourself if your art is something you really want on T-shirts for the entire world to see.
You have nontrivial issues with basics like shading, facial proportion, and foreshortening. It doesn’t seem like a “stylistic” thing, it seems like an experience or a skill thing. While you’ve definitely improved since page one (line cleanliness, coloring, consistency, among others), I’m not so sure this is T-shirt quality material. It seems like you’d want to put your best foot forward, and if I were in your place, I’m not sure I’d consider myself ready for shirts and merchandise. I’ll admit I was even confused when the print books were being offered, because wouldn’t you want to see where your style settles before releasing actual print works, and possibly redo the earlier strips?
If you feel you want to do this still, go for it. If people are poking you wanting it, fair enough. But in the end, Selkie’s art will probably improve so dramatically over time that, do you want to release T-shirts that will look fairly obsoleted over the next year or so?
(I have refrained from posting art criticisms before not because I think you’ll take it badly, but because fans on the internet probably will. I expect to get a ridiculous amount of flack for this comment, but I guess I sat down and said “what would I do if I were thinking of selling t-shirts of my comic,” and this was the result. Take it with a mountain of salt, and go for it if you decide that nope, you don’t agree with me at all. Best of luck, whatever you decide to do!)
And on other notes, I’m glad Truck is now in the biggest of pickles.
Honestly, I think about that a lot too, and when it comes to “shouldn’t I wait until I can do this better?”, the answer I keep coming back to is that if I wait and put it off until I can do the artwork better, I will NEVER put out merch or books at ALL. There will always been improvements to be made, always be ways to make things better. I will always look back at old art and shudder, but I don’t think holding myself back and stressing out on if it’s good enough to go forward with every time the opportunity comes up will get me anywhere.
And as for redrawing the old art for print collections, it’s not off the table entirely, but I just philosophically feel that time I spend re-drawing old artwork is time that could be devoted to continuing forward with new strips and new artwork. I’d rather look ahead.
The evolution of his art is part of the awesomeness of this strip. I really want a tshirt of the half done Selkie selfie sketch, because it is how it begins. Love it.
This, Dave, is why you are among my… idols isn’t quite the right word, but the artists I look up to and hope to join the ranks of someday. Right up there with Stan Sakai, creator of Usagi Yojimbo, because even though your art isn’t anything to compare with his elegant use of brush and astounding attention to detail, you are creating an interesting story with appealing characters and doing it all on your own, no matter how unpolished, and not letting all the negative thoughts make you stop. I wish I could do that so easily.
And although your art is objectively not great, it’s endearingly flawed… sort of like how I enjoy retro games (like NES- and SNES-era) even though their art is limited and much less polished than the more modern stuff. In fact, sometimes the modern stuff is a turn-off.
A thought occurs: How long has this comic been going on?
Why not do a “Selkie Evolution” t-shirt? Pick a good representative picture from each month (or year, if it’s been going longer than I think it has), stick them in boxes in some sort of reasonable order, and put it on a t-shirt. Possibly all the same size, possibly with the early stuff really small and the later stuff growing in size until the current month’s panel.
That way it’s more of a nostalgia “look how far I’ve come” piece, rather than merely a piece of bad art that made it to a t-shirt.
Also, I’ll bet some people would enjoy having a t-shirt with Selkie’s vomit fish on it. And you could do some of the art from the myth tales that crop up, as that is an interesting change of pace.
So what is the motivation behind our beloved principal’s consistent behavior? Does he also have an Anti-Selkie bias? Consistent allusions to his failure to support the truth and failure to discipline offenders have surely affected our beloved mermaid. Yes, let’s have some more background on the principal. He seems to be quite the – hmmm- what word to use here – jerk? – doofus? – jackass? – pick one.
I think the problem is that the principal has lost control of the situation, and now he’s seen something he can use to try to regain control — the “no cell phones” rule. Todd and Selkie, on the other hand, could probably care less — they want Trunchbull to learn the truth about his son. Selkie, in fact, would probably welcome another suspension — more time to play with her grandparents, only this time she isn’t sick!
Kent,
No doubt you are correct. There are real people like this in the world – which makes the comic all the more interesting. But the motivation to hurt one particular student – in a world where there have actually been “bullying” studies is no longer a mere conversational topic. The true life component of bullying by adults – and I ask, why would a grown man “need” to control the situation as this principal is doing – is spot on for a man who definately knows he has lost control. What – again – is a good phrase in this situation? Dog paddling to keep his head above water might suffice. Like the policemen and women in both the UK and the USA, having a camera gives a person the feeling of power, but the police seem to always make the situation intolerable for the photographer. Accountability is tough when someone exposes you as a wanker. Mr. Principal, you sir, are busted – as is “Truck”.
Usually when someone doesn’t want personal cameras (cell phone or the old-fashioned kind) in some place, there’s something they want to hide.
I’d bet Selkie gets another week’s suspension over this—that is, if these discussions don’t influence the plotting.
As he said it would be confiscated rather than a week suspension. Confiscation is always a pain, they take it and tell you that a parent has to come to get it back. So the parent either has to take off work or use their personal time to come to the school, get a mini lecture (more like the teacher tattling) with the student about why it’s not allowed. Then both parent and student leaves irritated at the teacher and time wasted over a phone.
I had one of those digipet things, I wasn’t even playing with it and a teacher confiscated it from me telling me that I had to get it at the end of school. I rode the bus so my window of time to go to his class which was in the exact opposite direction half across the campus then to the bus before they pulled off and left me behind was nearly impossible. When I finally got it back I saw that the old bastard had been playing with my pet. And I say that because he was, he failed me on a true and false quiz because of the way I wrote my Fs, I had him for computer keyboarding and despite my progress he made me stay on that little learning machine while all of the other students got to work on actual computers and word doc to learn useful things that I missed out on until I could try again with a different teacher.
What is “computer keyboarding”?
Learning how to type without looking at the keyboard, which was hard to do given the little training machine we started with was like a keyboard with a tiny screen like a calculator.
You’d think the guy would spend some time with the students he thinks are struggling to get it right, nope. We were basically left to our own devices until the end of the semester.
“tos bes fairs, they’s boys with girly hats.”
Yes yes, to be fair.
You know, I have no idea how you’d handle the economic/legal side of this, but have you considered taking the top (most artistically appealing) three or four Selkie fanarts and discussing with the creators if they’d like to split the profits on a Selkie t-shirt?
I mean, if you’re having trouble coming up with your own designs, that might be an option you could pursue.
If you’d be concerned about offending the fans whose art didn’t get selected for this, consider having a voting process of some sort, where all fans (artists or not) vote on which fanarts to be pursued. That way the result is out of your hands, and from there it’s only a matter of which fans can be privately bargained with for a fair split of profits and which fans either can’t be reached or aren’t reasonable about money.
Well the thing is, there’s very little profit to BE split, for one.
And even if that wasn’t the case, I simply wouldn’t be interested in contracting out merch designs for the same reason I have turned down offers from people to take over artwork duties on the strips. Selkie is my thing. I don’t want someone else’s artwork posted as official “Selkie” art. If it’s good or bad or mediocre or whichever, it’s still my work. I don’t want to give that up, even if someone else could do it better.
And as to the difficulty of merch designs, it isn’t really difficult necessarily. I’m just not great at putting aside the time to work on artwork that isn’t Selkie strips. Just something to address.
“I don’t want someone else’s artwork posted as official ‘Selkie’ art.”
That is a very reasonable point of view. I remember trying, as a teen or in my early twenties, to connect with another artist for the purposes of drawing the comic that I had wanted to make for a long time yet didn’t feel I had the skill for yet. Turned out that the artist the comic shop connected me with was roughly on par with my artistic development… and several years younger, so her art was good for her age but poor compared to mine, which was an interesting conundrum. And it felt like alien art there, like they had the rough idea of my stuff but weren’t really my stuff.
So I do understand how you feel, and accept your reasoning. (Though I would like to point out that many professional-quality strips and culturally-important long-runners have taken to using guest strips, partly to take a bit of a burden off themselves, partly to increase networking and get some cross-fanbase exposure (on both sides), and sometimes just to cover for the original artist during a trip to a con or such – not to mention the comic crossover events (where two comics switch artists for a day as kind of a prank). This doesn’t in any way solve the t-shirt problem, but it’s something to at least consider eventually; if even strips as big as Sluggy Freelance have done this, it’s not “giving up” the original, and not the same as hiring a full-time “I don’t have to draw anymore” artist for your strip.)
Just to clarify, I am not at all opposed to temporary things like guest strips or fanart. What I do not want is the more permanent thing of contracting out art duties and handing that part of making the strip to someone else.
Okay, good to know.
I hope you saw the “Evolution of Selkie” t-shirt idea up there. The more I think about it, the more I think it’s likely to be one of the better choices for t-shirt designs right now, both useful now and valuable even in the future (after your art gets a lot better), plus fairly easy to craft (hunt through old strips and pick out useful panels, copy-paste, possibly touch up a bit).
I did see that. The idea sounds fun but I’m not sure how it would look in practice.
Theft risk? Yeah, I guess I can see that. I mean, a cell phone is a valuable item, and if another student were to steal it, the school itself could be liable. It’s not the same as, say, wearing a shirt to class, because all the students have shirts and nobody would steal someone else’s shirt.
….oh wait.
Buuuuurn!
BOOM
“My school. It’s mine. The floor and ceiling are mine. All your feelings are mine. You always knew it, that’s all there is to it. It’s mine, mine, mine, mine, mine.”
(His comment reminds me of when the former mayor of my city referred to the community center as HERS. “If you have an issue with me, you can come talk to me in my community center…”)
We had a mayor that pretty much ignored the citizens in favor of the 1% probably 99% of the time. She took some wetlands and proposed turning it into a golf course. Goes up for vote, gets shot down. She puts it up for vote again, it gets shot down again. She has the golf course built anyway. She even tried making it private until she found out it was an election year and she got voted out.
Then her and her buddies at the next election tried doing a write in campaign and were found cheating. (Trying to buy votes and committing out and out voter fraud.) She got ran out of town on a rail.
I read in Audubon that due to the recession, U.S. golf courses are being closed, bought up by assorted conservation groups, and converted to wildlife habitat. Dare I hope . . . ?
Should also say…I’m not that interested in merchandise, but if you ever line up “Selkie, Volume 2,” I’ll be there. If I’m anywhere at all by then.
In panel 3, Principal Ashton looks like J Jonah Jameson…and has about as much credibility.
I hadn’t realized this at first, but Principal Ashton sent away all the other kids, Jessie. who got directly threatened by Truck, and Mina, who witnessed the threat … and tried to send away Selkie. If things had worked out as he planned, it was going to be him, Professor Trunchbull, and Truck. I’m guessing his intention was to smooth things over with the Trunchbulls again.
Principal: “How dare you carry a device which allows you to record evidence of harms done to unpopular kids and call law enforcement and emergency services when needed!”