“Put down those invisibility packs! I’ve told you, you can only get those if you do your dishes every night. Also, the mind-reading kit is out of question until you’re 15!”
In my mind I am up-voting your comment to first place, at the very top. I think Thomas has been bad, I was going to say the same thing. I think he’s been playing with the mind reading kit behind your back.
“You are not getting superpowers” is one of those supremely ironic statements that pretty much only ever gets said in situations where a person is about to get superpowers.
Also, I’m having flashbacks to “What do you want me to do, dress in drag and do the hula?” Which is a similar, though not identical, trope.
Except in the last strip she gleefully asked if she will kill people in the war like her mom. I understand she idolizes her mother but hearing that from a child will freak anyone out and Todd is doing a great job of trying to keep it together.
I agree. I’m sure it doesn’t seem that way to Todd, but he’s navigating an insanely stressful situation (almighty Dagon, he almost had his head bitten off a few minutes ago) quite well by staying focused on how it impacts his child. A fair amount of shouting on his part is simply natural at this point.
He’s also focusing his wrath on Avery- an adult- instead of on his child, which is a very important distinction. Avery can take it. He’s emotionally stable, understands that this will blow over. Todd’s being short with Selkie, but not yelling at her- more being dismissive if anything, which, if not done regularly, is easy for a child to, well, dismiss.
@Anvildude: Also good points. Avery for his part is being patient, understanding Todd’s anger and his needing to vent. As you say, Selkie won’t resent her dad dismissing her for the moment; she knows it’s something he rarely does and that he takes her concerns seriously.
In the older TV mini-series It (The Steven King Novel/Movie), the monster in its “Pennywise the Dancing Clown” guise is introduced by trying to lure a child down into a storm drain because “We all float down here!” and seems to have a fascination with things floating throughout the program. not sure if that carries over to the new film.
Thanks, explains why I didn’t catch it – not a fan of horrors in general, and only thing I know about this particular one is that a bunch of kids have an orgy. :cringe:
That’s only in the book, and it’s…not exactly an orgy. It’s a very weird scene and it’s pretty obvious that King was so on crack when he wrote it, but it’s not as distasteful as it could be, probably because the girl is in charge the whole time and in a weird way is written as taking back her “power” through it – taking control of her body the way her borderline sexually abusive and definitely physically abusive father was trying to take it away. It’s a good but extremely strange book. (Re-read it again recently).
i wonder, does using his powers make pohl high? it would explain SO MUCH 😉
also, its really no wonder that todd is so angry, after all this is nowhere near the first vital information brown and his ilk kept from him…..and i´m sure a part of him is also worried about keeping selkie´s budding powers under wraps to keep her safe.
It was specifically the ‘will I kill people in a war like mom’ part, paired with nearly getting killed by an eel, that got him.
He feels like he’s losing his child to some kind of death cult, and needs to get out before anything else happens and they end up telling him Selkie should totally stay so she can be taught how to handle her ancestral weapons!
That could be cool… but also troublesome, if you lost your ability to react normally to situations while using the powers those situations required.
Reminds me, though, of when I learned that black-and-white vision processes movement much faster than color vision can, so I dreamed up an elf-like race who evolved to shut off their color vision when in stressful situations.
Which, of course, immediately had me envision them in the modern world, trying to disarm a bomb, and having to attempt to calm down enough to get the color vision they’d need to disarm it….
I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain,…. Er,… Sorry! Wrong comic, sorry.
I wanna know what Selkie’s talents are, first. Is it engineering? Math in the abstract? Inventing? In my head, Echos wouldn’t occur in Sarnothi with a talent for poetry or prose, but that’s just Darwin nattering in me brain. So theoretically, it could occur in any one with the right parents, regardless of their innate talents or proclivities? Am I wrong?
I don’t see why not; we saw Pohl use his “talents” to tell a bedtime story, and Selkie’s mom made some kind of puppet thing in a flashback. Using fancy special effects makes an entertainer more valuable to the tribe, thus appeasing Darwin. :3
At Batgirl1: OMG, I forgot about that! You are twice right.
Bedtime stories were never this much fun! My Dad’s bedtime stories were so bad, I fell asleep every time he told one.
LOL. And the purpose of a bedtime story is revealed again. I have to admit I would stay up to watch Pohl’s, which would probably makes it awful for a bedtime story. But regular storytime? He would be the most popular adult in a library/school if he were allowed to do that! And that *might* be a way to help bring it into public light with a little less fear…
Bards and stories are both valuable to the tribe. Bards collect history and culture and convey it in easily-digested form, promoting cohesiveness and tribal memory, as well as, when they’re traveling bards, communication across distances.
Stories have a strong benefit to emotional stability and can pass along core values in memorable fashion.
As Chesterton once put it, children don’t need stories to know that monsters exist — they KNOW that monsters exist. They need stories to know that monsters can be beaten. (Okay, he said “dragons,” but same diff.) Stories contextualize reality, and can help a person learn qualities in advance of needing them: courage, honesty, kindness, fairness, “never leave a man behind,” “might doesn’t make right, so stand up for the weak,” “individuals are important but groups working together can be more powerful and get more done.” Things like that.
So stories, and stories in song or poetic form, are not to be discounted as less important than a strong arm or fast feet or sharp perception or a quick wit. And we tell stories in all manner of formats now — including video games. Some of which are unimportant; others convey vital lessons, some of which are best experienced in interactive form (that is, a non-interactive format would be less effective at driving the lesson home).
As Doug Walker put it, “Bad art is a distraction; good art changes people.”
I am so mad on Todd’s behalf. What if she started using green stuff at home? She doesn’t know what it is either. What if they didn’t tell the government types it was happening? Could be really frikin dangerous. Or maybe the government is monitoring their house just in case? Such a bad idea all around.
Remember why Then showed up at Todd’s apartment in the first place: They detected resonance being used there. It was the broken bow, true, but it does indicate that they’re watching for Selkie to start developing Echo abilities.
Heh… I bet one of Todd’s favorite comic series was X-Men. Some part of his brain has to be going “Where the F*** is Professor X when you actually need him?!” 🙂
Todd it’s an inherited thing, in her blood, you’ve got no pull here man. Sorry, but you’ll have to pull up your big boy panties and suck this one up. (And impose a lot of rules) Also nice IT reference!
Note that he’s mad at Avery for not telling him, not at Selkie for developing them, or the existence of them in general. I think the “Not getting Superpowers” thing is more just to try and keep Selkie from going power-mad.
Knock, knock, knock. (Sigh) I’ll devil-porter this porthole no longer!
Here’s a doctor who righted a wrong and just left a kid handed, only to find his friend’s glass hat had been Pants-ed. Me hopes he dost have a phial of Klonapin int his bag, lest his friend turn rabid and full fathoms sink all their hopes.
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Almost always!, folks respond that they can’t follow nor figure out what I’m saying. Are you trying to tell me that you not only can follow my jokes, but that you get them? I admit they are jumpy and high context.
Hmmmm. That must be why I like your analysis on web-comics.
Hey, Avery? You’re really screwing up here. Todd needs to know EVERYTHING about Selkie, HE IS HER DAD.
If it takes extra disclosures, or higher level clearances, or s**king the d**k of the Director of the FBI, you better get s**king.
Todd CANNOT be a competent parent for Selkie unless he KNOWS about this s**t. You are setting the entire program up for failure.
This is akin to adopting a kid with some kind of disease and NOT TELLING THE PARENTS about it. Oh, wait, you DID that already, by not telling Todd what he was getting involved in.
Nope. Matter of fact, I’m pretty SURE it’s not up to Avery. The fact that he used Pohl to get him SOME information on the Sarnothi to Todd tells me that.
Still, though, he needs to be raising hell up and down inside the organization to at least get Todd clearance for this stuff. Other people here said it– what if this had happened at home? or at school? What if Selkie had lost her bow down the sewer on the way home from school (where she wouldn’t have seen the recording) and she had gone mutant in the orphanage?
This whole thing is being colossally mismanaged by the gummit and Avery is really the only one who can advocate for Todd here. That’s why I’m saying he’s screwing up.
Hey, Pohl is an Echo. He could have told Selkie what might happen but he’s not gonna do that unless Avery ‘prods’ him.
It was implied that he already was raising hell to get Todd clearance – there was the whole scene at dinner where Avery’s son brought that up. Avery may truly have a choice between disclosing all and then possibly losing his clearance, getting fired, or being tried for treason for letting secrets public; or going the route he has. We don’t know what the situation is here. Then could easily come over and have this talk as well, but no one is jumping down his back over this. Maybe because he’s already shown himself to be a jerk, I don’t know. But I don’t blame Avery in this one at all at this point.
Well, this is true. We really don’t know how much effort Avery has been putting in on Todd’s behalf, and we do have Benny’s comments to back up that he’s been doing *something*.
But trying to explain that Todd hasn’t been disclosed about potentially dangerous abilities his daughter might randomly acquire because “it’s highly sensitive information” seriously sets off my bullshit detector.
Had Avery responded with “I’ve been trying to get you this information because I know you need to know about it” I would have been a bit more mollified. Avery would NOT jeopardize anything by telling Todd this, it’s actually BETTER than telling Todd the information is classified.
After all, with Pohl being an Echo it’s not like HE couldn’t tell Todd what’s going on or what to look for; he knows Plo Quar is an Echo so he knows it’s possible for Selkie to gain those abilities.
I think he’ll steady down once he gets over being angry. It really does seem like this freak-out is less about Selkie’s super powers than it is about having that information kept from him all this time.
It might be a little about her superpowers though, because how does a muggle parent cope with a magic kid? The possibilities are endless for taunting her sister … to say nothing of shenanigans at school. He may be subconsciously trying to figure out how to cope with that as well right now.
I doubt it – at least deliberately. Selkie has been fully equipped with claws, fangs, and poison spit for years and never used them on her bullies and aggressors. She already HAS super-powers, so to speak (at least Wolverine-type) and has been responsible with them – her bouncing over the “I’m like Mom!” aside. Not even when Truck had her against the wall – when she could have easily bitten into his hand/arm to GORY effect. I’d be more concerned about the uncontrolled side, if the echo abilities – assuming she can do more than make her eyes glow, we still don’t know how badly that hairbow impacted her abilities – react to her unconscious emotions/desires.
I doubt it – at least deliberately. Selkie has been fully equipped with claws, fangs, and poison spit for years and never used them on her bullies and aggressors. She already HAS super-powers, so to speak (at least Wolverine-type) and has been responsible with them – her bouncing over the “I’m like Mom!” aside. Not even when Truck had her against the wall – when she could have easily bitten into his hand/arm to GORY effect. I’d be more concerned about the uncontrolled side, if the echo abilities – assuming she can do more than make her eyes glow, we still don’t know how badly that hairbow impacted her abilities – react to her unconscious emotions/desires, is the thing.
Excellent points. She already has a high degree of self-control if she can refrain from reflexively using her inborn defenses. I suspect that was instilled in her by both her mom and the orphanage staff. That discipline is a solid foundation for controlling her Echo abilities.
Avery’s face is just so… heartbreaking. I feel bad for him, I really do.
And Pohl… sweet innocent Pohl. Sweetie, I doubt you’re helping making an evil superpower alien clown reference. We do not have space turtles to defeat it.
The thought occurs to me that Then really doesn’t like how the Sarnothi intergration has been going.
He’s been kind of a jerk in the past, but not telling prospective parents that their child might be a science-witch sounds like the kind of thing he wouldn’t take well too, since he’ upset that theSarnothi have to pretend to be human.
He might end up taking Todd’s side in this one.
Now, as long as someone in the government doesn’t try to take Selkie away from Todd becuase he knows too much, Avery and/or Then raising some Hell about Todd being insufficiently informed coupled with this incident should be enough to get Todd the clearance he needs.
If some dumbass does try to take Selkie… Well, Todd does have a relative with a farm(Where Todd was made to shovel horse crap for saying bad words.) Any takers on whether or not they’ve got hungry pigs?
Actually the WORST thing they could do would be to take Selkie away– because at that point the government has lost its only lever in controlling Todd– at that point he’s got nothing to lose.
Having him “know too much” is only solved by keeping him under control– we don’t have mindwipe technology yet, unless you count repeated application of a claw hammer to the prefrontal lobe.
You know, this has got to be one of the most absurd parts of the story. That somehow the government had a alien staying in a orphanage, adopted her out to a man and never brought up all of this information to any of her care givers.
It’s just ridiclious. It seems like the govt has been aware of this for awhile and yet the orphanage had to experiment on different kinds of food for Selkie.
And what about Todd and Selkie meeting others like her . Did they just never expect this to get brought up? That nothing would happen?
I mean what if she had discovered these powers on her own and hurt herself or someone else? To be perfectly honest this feels exactly like Frozen and that’s why that movie pissed me off too.
It’s was handled in the worst possible fucking way. Instead of caring for and nurturing Elsa, they just lock her away and try to ignore her, the result is a shit storm no one seemed to have have the brains to ever consider.
In a story with a whole undiscovered civilization of amphibious aliens living in Lake Superior, the part that feels absurd is… the American government doing something stupid and callous in the name of security?
Well… A fictional government, I suppose, ought to make more sense than the real world.
Hahahaha, your jokes break me up! You used the word “plans” and government in the same sentence, hahahah, that was such a good joke! Made me spit coffee on my device! There was a plan to be PROactive with Rebuilding flood damage, like in Texas, but that plan was rescinded as unnecessary by PotUS! Plans! Hahahaha. Puerto Rico shows us that they can even be proactive or even active, only reactive.
Especially when you consider that the only thing keeping Selkie from going full Cyclops was a hair ornament nobody knew the capabilities of. Had she lost that, or it had gotten broken earlier, things might have gotten a LOT more entertaining, especially in an orphanage that didn’t even know to not feed her sugary fruits.
Agent Then has a point– the government is insisting that Sarnothi pretend they are human, when they fundamentally aren’t– and there are going to be problems with trying to make that fantasy a reality.
“You’re not getting superpowers”
kinda sorta not your choice, Todd.
Dave, we need a system which allows us to like/upvote comments.
“Put down those invisibility packs! I’ve told you, you can only get those if you do your dishes every night. Also, the mind-reading kit is out of question until you’re 15!”
In my mind I am up-voting your comment to first place, at the very top. I think Thomas has been bad, I was going to say the same thing. I think he’s been playing with the mind reading kit behind your back.
Yeah, Todd is taking this roughly as well as can be expected.
“You are not getting superpowers” is one of those supremely ironic statements that pretty much only ever gets said in situations where a person is about to get superpowers.
Also, I’m having flashbacks to “What do you want me to do, dress in drag and do the hula?” Which is a similar, though not identical, trope.
Yeah, that is usually said right before someone turns out to be a mutant. At least Selkie is being positive about it….
Except in the last strip she gleefully asked if she will kill people in the war like her mom. I understand she idolizes her mother but hearing that from a child will freak anyone out and Todd is doing a great job of trying to keep it together.
I agree. I’m sure it doesn’t seem that way to Todd, but he’s navigating an insanely stressful situation (almighty Dagon, he almost had his head bitten off a few minutes ago) quite well by staying focused on how it impacts his child. A fair amount of shouting on his part is simply natural at this point.
He’s also focusing his wrath on Avery- an adult- instead of on his child, which is a very important distinction. Avery can take it. He’s emotionally stable, understands that this will blow over. Todd’s being short with Selkie, but not yelling at her- more being dismissive if anything, which, if not done regularly, is easy for a child to, well, dismiss.
@Anvildude: Also good points. Avery for his part is being patient, understanding Todd’s anger and his needing to vent. As you say, Selkie won’t resent her dad dismissing her for the moment; she knows it’s something he rarely does and that he takes her concerns seriously.
Last panel reference to something?
In the older TV mini-series It (The Steven King Novel/Movie), the monster in its “Pennywise the Dancing Clown” guise is introduced by trying to lure a child down into a storm drain because “We all float down here!” and seems to have a fascination with things floating throughout the program. not sure if that carries over to the new film.
Thanks for explaining! I thought perhaps Dave had had a stroke 😉
Thanks, explains why I didn’t catch it – not a fan of horrors in general, and only thing I know about this particular one is that a bunch of kids have an orgy. :cringe:
That’s only in the book, and it’s…not exactly an orgy. It’s a very weird scene and it’s pretty obvious that King was so on crack when he wrote it, but it’s not as distasteful as it could be, probably because the girl is in charge the whole time and in a weird way is written as taking back her “power” through it – taking control of her body the way her borderline sexually abusive and definitely physically abusive father was trying to take it away. It’s a good but extremely strange book. (Re-read it again recently).
That scene is not in either of the adaptations, so don’t worry.
It is carried over, yes.
It does, but the line is used in a scarier, creepier way.
Not a good time for your sense of humor, doc.
Actually, just MAY prove to be the PERFECT time. We’ll see…
😉
i wonder, does using his powers make pohl high? it would explain SO MUCH 😉
also, its really no wonder that todd is so angry, after all this is nowhere near the first vital information brown and his ilk kept from him…..and i´m sure a part of him is also worried about keeping selkie´s budding powers under wraps to keep her safe.
I know using magic would make ME giddy.
It was specifically the ‘will I kill people in a war like mom’ part, paired with nearly getting killed by an eel, that got him.
He feels like he’s losing his child to some kind of death cult, and needs to get out before anything else happens and they end up telling him Selkie should totally stay so she can be taught how to handle her ancestral weapons!
He’s just kinda freaking out, is all.
That could be cool… but also troublesome, if you lost your ability to react normally to situations while using the powers those situations required.
Reminds me, though, of when I learned that black-and-white vision processes movement much faster than color vision can, so I dreamed up an elf-like race who evolved to shut off their color vision when in stressful situations.
Which, of course, immediately had me envision them in the modern world, trying to disarm a bomb, and having to attempt to calm down enough to get the color vision they’d need to disarm it….
*admires this concept*
I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain,…. Er,… Sorry! Wrong comic, sorry.
I wanna know what Selkie’s talents are, first. Is it engineering? Math in the abstract? Inventing? In my head, Echos wouldn’t occur in Sarnothi with a talent for poetry or prose, but that’s just Darwin nattering in me brain. So theoretically, it could occur in any one with the right parents, regardless of their innate talents or proclivities? Am I wrong?
I don’t see why not; we saw Pohl use his “talents” to tell a bedtime story, and Selkie’s mom made some kind of puppet thing in a flashback. Using fancy special effects makes an entertainer more valuable to the tribe, thus appeasing Darwin. :3
At Batgirl1: OMG, I forgot about that! You are twice right.
Bedtime stories were never this much fun! My Dad’s bedtime stories were so bad, I fell asleep every time he told one.
LOL. And the purpose of a bedtime story is revealed again. I have to admit I would stay up to watch Pohl’s, which would probably makes it awful for a bedtime story. But regular storytime? He would be the most popular adult in a library/school if he were allowed to do that! And that *might* be a way to help bring it into public light with a little less fear…
I demand that you implement your plan immediate.
This must be done, because it is the best idea. (End of problem) ???
Bards and stories are both valuable to the tribe. Bards collect history and culture and convey it in easily-digested form, promoting cohesiveness and tribal memory, as well as, when they’re traveling bards, communication across distances.
Stories have a strong benefit to emotional stability and can pass along core values in memorable fashion.
As Chesterton once put it, children don’t need stories to know that monsters exist — they KNOW that monsters exist. They need stories to know that monsters can be beaten. (Okay, he said “dragons,” but same diff.) Stories contextualize reality, and can help a person learn qualities in advance of needing them: courage, honesty, kindness, fairness, “never leave a man behind,” “might doesn’t make right, so stand up for the weak,” “individuals are important but groups working together can be more powerful and get more done.” Things like that.
So stories, and stories in song or poetic form, are not to be discounted as less important than a strong arm or fast feet or sharp perception or a quick wit. And we tell stories in all manner of formats now — including video games. Some of which are unimportant; others convey vital lessons, some of which are best experienced in interactive form (that is, a non-interactive format would be less effective at driving the lesson home).
As Doug Walker put it, “Bad art is a distraction; good art changes people.”
As someone once said, “Good art doesn’t match your sofa.”
I am so mad on Todd’s behalf. What if she started using green stuff at home? She doesn’t know what it is either. What if they didn’t tell the government types it was happening? Could be really frikin dangerous. Or maybe the government is monitoring their house just in case? Such a bad idea all around.
Or worse, she could have developed them at school.
Remember why Then showed up at Todd’s apartment in the first place: They detected resonance being used there. It was the broken bow, true, but it does indicate that they’re watching for Selkie to start developing Echo abilities.
It kind of makes sense. You don’t tell the muggles about magic until their kid actually turns out to be a wizard.
Heh… I bet one of Todd’s favorite comic series was X-Men. Some part of his brain has to be going “Where the F*** is Professor X when you actually need him?!” 🙂
Todd it’s an inherited thing, in her blood, you’ve got no pull here man. Sorry, but you’ll have to pull up your big boy panties and suck this one up. (And impose a lot of rules) Also nice IT reference!
Note that he’s mad at Avery for not telling him, not at Selkie for developing them, or the existence of them in general. I think the “Not getting Superpowers” thing is more just to try and keep Selkie from going power-mad.
I think it’s more about “Selkie it’s not SUPERPOWERS, it’s a big pile or problems” than “nope you’re not”
I dub thee: Crackswise the Dancing Doctor
Knock, knock, knock. (Sigh) I’ll devil-porter this porthole no longer!
Here’s a doctor who righted a wrong and just left a kid handed, only to find his friend’s glass hat had been Pants-ed. Me hopes he dost have a phial of Klonapin int his bag, lest his friend turn rabid and full fathoms sink all their hopes.
GP, I always love your comments…
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Almost always!, folks respond that they can’t follow nor figure out what I’m saying. Are you trying to tell me that you not only can follow my jokes, but that you get them? I admit they are jumpy and high context.
Hmmmm. That must be why I like your analysis on web-comics.
Weird minds think alike.
lol, Dave!
Hey, Avery? You’re really screwing up here. Todd needs to know EVERYTHING about Selkie, HE IS HER DAD.
If it takes extra disclosures, or higher level clearances, or s**king the d**k of the Director of the FBI, you better get s**king.
Todd CANNOT be a competent parent for Selkie unless he KNOWS about this s**t. You are setting the entire program up for failure.
This is akin to adopting a kid with some kind of disease and NOT TELLING THE PARENTS about it. Oh, wait, you DID that already, by not telling Todd what he was getting involved in.
Sorry,
You are assuming it’s up to Avery.
Nope. Matter of fact, I’m pretty SURE it’s not up to Avery. The fact that he used Pohl to get him SOME information on the Sarnothi to Todd tells me that.
Still, though, he needs to be raising hell up and down inside the organization to at least get Todd clearance for this stuff. Other people here said it– what if this had happened at home? or at school? What if Selkie had lost her bow down the sewer on the way home from school (where she wouldn’t have seen the recording) and she had gone mutant in the orphanage?
This whole thing is being colossally mismanaged by the gummit and Avery is really the only one who can advocate for Todd here. That’s why I’m saying he’s screwing up.
Hey, Pohl is an Echo. He could have told Selkie what might happen but he’s not gonna do that unless Avery ‘prods’ him.
It was implied that he already was raising hell to get Todd clearance – there was the whole scene at dinner where Avery’s son brought that up. Avery may truly have a choice between disclosing all and then possibly losing his clearance, getting fired, or being tried for treason for letting secrets public; or going the route he has. We don’t know what the situation is here. Then could easily come over and have this talk as well, but no one is jumping down his back over this. Maybe because he’s already shown himself to be a jerk, I don’t know. But I don’t blame Avery in this one at all at this point.
Well, this is true. We really don’t know how much effort Avery has been putting in on Todd’s behalf, and we do have Benny’s comments to back up that he’s been doing *something*.
But trying to explain that Todd hasn’t been disclosed about potentially dangerous abilities his daughter might randomly acquire because “it’s highly sensitive information” seriously sets off my bullshit detector.
Had Avery responded with “I’ve been trying to get you this information because I know you need to know about it” I would have been a bit more mollified. Avery would NOT jeopardize anything by telling Todd this, it’s actually BETTER than telling Todd the information is classified.
After all, with Pohl being an Echo it’s not like HE couldn’t tell Todd what’s going on or what to look for; he knows Plo Quar is an Echo so he knows it’s possible for Selkie to gain those abilities.
I think he’ll steady down once he gets over being angry. It really does seem like this freak-out is less about Selkie’s super powers than it is about having that information kept from him all this time.
It might be a little about her superpowers though, because how does a muggle parent cope with a magic kid? The possibilities are endless for taunting her sister … to say nothing of shenanigans at school. He may be subconsciously trying to figure out how to cope with that as well right now.
Hermione Grainger’s parents didn’t seem to have too much trouble; they thought the Toothflossing Stringmints were kinda cool.
OMG, I hadn’t thought of that. Amanda doesn’t even know that her sister has leveled up here.
I forsee Amanda bouncing around in a big green bubble at some point.
I doubt it – at least deliberately. Selkie has been fully equipped with claws, fangs, and poison spit for years and never used them on her bullies and aggressors. She already HAS super-powers, so to speak (at least Wolverine-type) and has been responsible with them – her bouncing over the “I’m like Mom!” aside. Not even when Truck had her against the wall – when she could have easily bitten into his hand/arm to GORY effect. I’d be more concerned about the uncontrolled side, if the echo abilities – assuming she can do more than make her eyes glow, we still don’t know how badly that hairbow impacted her abilities – react to her unconscious emotions/desires.
I doubt it – at least deliberately. Selkie has been fully equipped with claws, fangs, and poison spit for years and never used them on her bullies and aggressors. She already HAS super-powers, so to speak (at least Wolverine-type) and has been responsible with them – her bouncing over the “I’m like Mom!” aside. Not even when Truck had her against the wall – when she could have easily bitten into his hand/arm to GORY effect. I’d be more concerned about the uncontrolled side, if the echo abilities – assuming she can do more than make her eyes glow, we still don’t know how badly that hairbow impacted her abilities – react to her unconscious emotions/desires, is the thing.
Excellent points. She already has a high degree of self-control if she can refrain from reflexively using her inborn defenses. I suspect that was instilled in her by both her mom and the orphanage staff. That discipline is a solid foundation for controlling her Echo abilities.
Well, I saw putting Amanda in a big green bouncy ball as being a little less violent than her turning Truck into truckburger.
That would have been especially awkward given that Truck’s dad knows all about the Sarnothi and their capabilities. He may even know what an Echo is.
Avery’s face is just so… heartbreaking. I feel bad for him, I really do.
And Pohl… sweet innocent Pohl. Sweetie, I doubt you’re helping making an evil superpower alien clown reference. We do not have space turtles to defeat it.
I don’t think Todd and Avery are supposed to have connected speech bubbles in panel 2.
The thought occurs to me that Then really doesn’t like how the Sarnothi intergration has been going.
He’s been kind of a jerk in the past, but not telling prospective parents that their child might be a science-witch sounds like the kind of thing he wouldn’t take well too, since he’ upset that theSarnothi have to pretend to be human.
He might end up taking Todd’s side in this one.
Now, as long as someone in the government doesn’t try to take Selkie away from Todd becuase he knows too much, Avery and/or Then raising some Hell about Todd being insufficiently informed coupled with this incident should be enough to get Todd the clearance he needs.
If some dumbass does try to take Selkie… Well, Todd does have a relative with a farm(Where Todd was made to shovel horse crap for saying bad words.) Any takers on whether or not they’ve got hungry pigs?
Actually the WORST thing they could do would be to take Selkie away– because at that point the government has lost its only lever in controlling Todd– at that point he’s got nothing to lose.
Having him “know too much” is only solved by keeping him under control– we don’t have mindwipe technology yet, unless you count repeated application of a claw hammer to the prefrontal lobe.
You know, this has got to be one of the most absurd parts of the story. That somehow the government had a alien staying in a orphanage, adopted her out to a man and never brought up all of this information to any of her care givers.
It’s just ridiclious. It seems like the govt has been aware of this for awhile and yet the orphanage had to experiment on different kinds of food for Selkie.
And what about Todd and Selkie meeting others like her . Did they just never expect this to get brought up? That nothing would happen?
I mean what if she had discovered these powers on her own and hurt herself or someone else? To be perfectly honest this feels exactly like Frozen and that’s why that movie pissed me off too.
It’s was handled in the worst possible fucking way. Instead of caring for and nurturing Elsa, they just lock her away and try to ignore her, the result is a shit storm no one seemed to have have the brains to ever consider.
In a story with a whole undiscovered civilization of amphibious aliens living in Lake Superior, the part that feels absurd is… the American government doing something stupid and callous in the name of security?
Well… A fictional government, I suppose, ought to make more sense than the real world.
Makes me wonder if our world governments actually have backup plans for us finding aliens lying around, just in case… 😀
search for things like “u.s. government conspiracies about the existence of aliens” and you’ll find PLENTY of theories out there in the wild….
Hahahaha, your jokes break me up! You used the word “plans” and government in the same sentence, hahahah, that was such a good joke! Made me spit coffee on my device! There was a plan to be PROactive with Rebuilding flood damage, like in Texas, but that plan was rescinded as unnecessary by PotUS! Plans! Hahahaha. Puerto Rico shows us that they can even be proactive or even active, only reactive.
Can’t! Supposed to be that they “can’t even” be, auto-correct crashes my brain.
Especially when you consider that the only thing keeping Selkie from going full Cyclops was a hair ornament nobody knew the capabilities of. Had she lost that, or it had gotten broken earlier, things might have gotten a LOT more entertaining, especially in an orphanage that didn’t even know to not feed her sugary fruits.
Agent Then has a point– the government is insisting that Sarnothi pretend they are human, when they fundamentally aren’t– and there are going to be problems with trying to make that fantasy a reality.
I wonder how long the bubble around Todd’s head is going to last! ^_^
That joke was so far inside it was in the back yard!