We can rule shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, kings, and boiling seas from the discussion; pig wings may be up for grabs.
-edited because I mis-remembered the line-
Dialogue from panel 5 excised for brevity: Brown: ...You KNOW I mean Selkie. Be more subtle about phishing for information, Todd. It would have gone along with other dialogue/body language intended to imply Todd was trying to covertly find out information about the sarnothi. Again, cut for brevity.
…Agent Brown has gained a little respect from me for his sort of quote. Better watch it or Avery Brown might become *GASP* likable.
I thought he was already pretty likable! But you’re right, he got lots of points here.
Selkie is going to be disappointed that she missed the fish wings. 😀
Small correction: it’s “sealing” wax, not “ceiling” wax, and pig wings, not fish wings. And yes, I do know most of The Walrus And The Carpenter by heart.
Also, this is mostly irrelevant, but Avery is a corruption of Aubrey, which comes from the Old English for “elf-lord”. This might be meaningful.
Elves in the FBI?
OH DEAR HAN SHI JIAN THO NO.
(Sorry, I’m a firm believer in elves being Pratchett-style, i.e. having no morals or empathy.)
WOW Todd….
Either you’re frazzled, or you’re having a day where you can’t pick up a hint because they fly over your head. >.>
I know’s an “agent”, which implies Federal Government, but has it ever been specified WHICH government agency.
FBI are “special agents”, not just agents.
Mort, why can’t it be ceiling wax? They sell floor wax, why not ceiling?
I like the way you think, sir!
It can’t mostly because that’s not how the poem goes. Other than that, there really isn’t any reason. But I’m with Mort that if Dave is going to reference the poem, he really should be referencing it right. (Though I’m with Dave that, only having heard and not read it, I was never certain which it was supposed to be either.)
I’m gonna need to give myself a good hard googling over this
Now yes, but when Lewis Carroll wrote that verse wax was too costly to put on a floor or ceiling.
Putting was on a car is hard enough, I can just picture how tiring waxing a ceiling would be. 😛
I’ve always liked Agent Brown. He’s not a bad guy at all. Then again I like all the characters everyone else hates. In fact my least favorite characters seem to be the ones everyone loves. Selkie, Mina and Todd tend to be the most obnoxious ones for me. That being said I still like them. I just find them more flawed and ok ne dimensional than the actual ‘bad’ characters per say. My favorite character thus far is Professor Trunchbull by far followed closely by Amanda. Maybe it’s because they seem like more real and relatable people. Like their problems seem more real to me. Selkie and Todd’s problems (being different/outcasted and being a parent of said problem.) are definitely real and relatable things, but I feel like they’re far too blown out of proportion/exaggerated in order for me to feel actually immersed… Like I feel as if they’re written far too unrealistically. Granted Selkie is a mythical creature in a fictional world lol… I love the story and the elements to it, it has all the elements of a real life problem, but it seems,as,if it’s been executed rather poor in some cases. Lacking depth if you will. I do like that we’re seeing a more bratty side to Selkie though! Its making her more realistic and likable for me. As well as Todd getting annoyed with her brattiness! Any parent would get angry with a child who thinks they’re so smart they deserved to go unpunished. Your writing is definitely evolving in that respect and I eagerly await what’s to come!
One dimensional*
Typing on an android phone with weird auto correct is hard sometimes lol half the time my spaces end up being commas.
I ignored the ceiling wax/sealing wax and thought that the fish wings were intentional?
But yeah, Mort is right.
Sailing ships may be pertinent to the history of the Mer-Folk, interactions with the dirt-folk may go back that far, back to when people used sealing wax, back to the time of Monarchs. That said, a very nice Lit-Ref. Well done, Sirrah.
Are “Asian pretty ladies” ads kosher? ‘Cause I got one.
http://i.imgur.com/drWKefv.png
Ah fer kcuf’s sake…
Thank you for letting me know.
I really wonder how often real Intelligence agents have fun playing the “Secret Agent” card?