That wraps up our side story cut-away! Come back next week, Selkie fans, when the main arc resumes!
Ten minutes on their butts... oh cruel irony.
That wraps up our side story cut-away! Come back next week, Selkie fans, when the main arc resumes!
I like the bilabial fricative, there in panel 4.
Wiki says that ain’t what it’s called, but I believe George Carlin.
XD What utter goobers.
Finally this is over. I think I’m the only one here who hates obnoxious, immature kids like Sandy and butt-related humour. It’s really just personal preference though, since I know Sandy is a fan favorite and people have found the past few pages cute/funny and I see how writing some random silliness could help after all that drama that’s been happening with Andi.
I’m sorry if this sounds mean but the past few pages have been my least favorites so far. I’m glad we are getting back to the main story on Monday since it has just been getting better and better.
Yeah that’s more or less why I kept this cut-away short. I wanted a break from writing the heavy stuff and this chapter-break was a good spot for it, but leave the story hanging too long and you’ll only hang yourself.
At first I was all “A break? Now? No offense to Selkie’s friends, but I do not care what they are doing at the moment. AAAAAAA–Oh, well, I’m glad Dave is taking care of himself. I’ll just enjoy these silly strips for what they are.” And then you went and put plot-relevant information (Keisha is making tentative steps toward having other friends at the orphanage!) in with the silliness. Clever boy. 🙂
Dawn, you’re not alone in not being a fan off butt-related kid humour, but Dave, you’re allowed to take “cerebral breaks” from the main stories, too. 😛
If you have kids you know how hilarious even the mere mention of bottoms are. I think using the joy of children for inappropriate humor is a good bridge back to a slice of normalcy.
Agreed. Also, butts.
Hmm. Am I detecting a pro-butt bias in our male readers here? e.g. the ones who were once immature little boys? And are now, um, not little boys.
Not a fan of butt humor either but this still amuses me in an ‘dear lord, why?!?!’ sort of way. Altho I’m a little less forgiving of the mental flashback it caused. Nothing like a car full of teenage boys singing The Diarrhea Song to make someone want to claw their eardrums out. Why?!???!?
Being the big sister definitely had a few drawbacks.
…and that’s going to be stuck in my head all day now. At least I can share the pain. :p
I appreciate vignettes like this. The kids in this webcomic are among the most kid-like kids I’ve seen in any piece of media.
I was reminded of a long car ride I was on with my eight-year old niece. To pass the time, we played an interactive story game: I told a story with her in it, and she told me what she did within the story. It was very soon a story all about butts.
I just want to take a time out to respond to the mention of “immature kids” reference. Most eight year olds are immature, and do you know why? Because they are not mature. It takes time to learn to be mature, and for some it takes even longer, and some never learn to be mature. But as far as eight year old kids go, it’s really hard to expect them to behave like adults (not to mention it would be very boring as well).
OMIGOSH She’s got Heterochromidia!
She must be decendant of royalty from the Belkan Era!
(if anyone actually gets that joke, ill be very surprised)
Stand By Ready.
I really like that the time out is monitored – after all, it’s not punishment if you’re allowed to have fun in the time-out corner. (This is also why time-out stopped being a punishment to me as a kid after I started writing stories in my head… XD)
Exactly. I never cared if I got sent to my room; all my books were in there.
This is why my mom started sending me to her room for time outs. It only worked until I figured out where my dad kept his books. Probably part of the reason I got interested in Asimov and Chaucer at such a young age.
My mom would find the most boring room in whatever building we were in she could find. Then she would lecture me on the things I did and why I did wrong. In a measured monotone voice. Some kids I knew got smacked around, I got bored to tears.
Nah my punishment was a time out and writing about what I did. My mom was a librarian and she would make me spend 10 minutes writing what I did and how it was wrong, and if it was spelled wrong? I would have to do it again after. I never could stand writing much after that. (Although I did learn a lot of correct spellings of dirty words I shouldn’t have known at a young age)
“…and think about what you did.”
I don’t think she realises she just ordered them to think about butts for ten minutes.
They could interpret it that way, or they could take away the moral “Don’t stand up for anyone”
That South Park reference…
“Let’s do the thing that got our friend in trouble, only worse! This couldn’t possibly go wrong, right?”
I thought Wu was smarter than this.
They’re little kids. Short attention spans and all that.
Sandy drew her picture on paper; these kids were actually damaging the walls. So maybe Sandy’s time-out was shorter, or maybe Mary’s going to also make the kids clean up the mess.
Will you be at SnafuCon this year as well? This years I wills have moneys to buy arts from yous.
How Biblical
Mary has become orange. O_o