Selkie no, those aren’t obscure psuedo-emojis you’re speaking.
-EDIT 3-8-2019- I’m sorry,but the next Selkie update will be tomorrow. I worked a twelve hour day yesterday then had to go help pack up items and move furniture at my Grandmother’s house to help move it along towards being sellable. I was wiped out last night.
I miss the pseudo-emojis sometimes, it was something distinctly "me" and I had fun coming up with them, but they were just causing too many legibility problems.
OMG, Selkie is gonna kill something…
“Oh, what in the fresh hell… ” LMAO!
I love you, Selkie xD
If one Must be in hell, it is a nicer more pleasant stay if it is a fresh hell.
“Welcome to Heaven! Here’s your harp!”
“Welcome to hell! Here’s your banjo.”
You might have those reversed. I’m pretty sure that amateur harp playing would be worse than amateur banjo playing. And while Youtube does have “dueling harps”, I switched to something else after about 30 seconds.
I’m reminded of the Native American (from the arctic region) who was close to accepting Christianity when he asked whether hell was or hot or cold… when he heard it was hot, he walked off! ;-}}
Amanda appearing before Selkie, with big shiny eyes and the biggest smile, calling her “little sis”… If anyone had told me at the beginning of the comic this was a thing, I wouldn’t have believe it!
I hope I got this right;
http://www.thenewchurchofsatan.com/blog/images/hell-and-the-devil-as-seen-by-gary-larson/
You got it right, I misremembered it. It was accordions, not banjos they were handing out. The banjos were for the Maestro’s hell, to try to teach the children to play.
Legibility problems? Really? I thought the garnished swearing via emoji was actually really well done (when not overused). And it was certainly a marker of a comic that allows children (and adults) to realistically swear when they reasonably would, yet is clean enough that I’ve never hesitated to direct friends, family, and children this way.
Only place i remember it causing confusion was the “Andi giving up Amanda” flashback page but that one wasn’t even for swears.
Personally, I just found the censorship emojis annoying. But then, I find any censorship annoying. (I grew up in a household where the rule was there’s nothing wrong with hearing/reading profanity, just don’t repeat it.)
you should do a comic were teen Amanda has a birthday and Selkie gives her a gift but then Amanda then says.
“Aww now what did my cute little sister get me.”
And Selkie just has this I am so done with you face. Or a pouty face.
I say bring back the swearing via emoji.
I thought they were a fun little riddle to be solved.
Also, what Kilyle said…
I miss that bit of your unique style.
Snail gods…? I am now picturing merpeople worshiping snails. I must come up with domains, subdomains, and portfolios for this god. Thanks a lot.
I’m not reading that as “eel and snail gods”.
First she’s cussing. Eels and snails.
The she’s saying, “God, strike me dead. Please”.
And Dave, since she’s using a human phrase – God, strike me dead – it should be a capital G.
God can be used capitalized or non-capitalized.
I prefer to use god non-capitalized, as I don’t distinguish the term as a ‘name’, especially considering that, in a Catholic, Christian, or Judaic environment, it is, in point of fact, not an actual name, but a job, or a role. It’d be like saying that if someone’s an Actor, or a Carpenter, or a Refrigerator Repair Man, that you must use a capital letter for their job.
Now, if she was asking El-Shaddai, Adonai, Yahwei, Jenovah, Zeus, Shiva, or any of the vast assortment of different names for gods, to strike her down? Yeah, no, then she should -definitely- be capitalizing the first letter of the word ‘god.’
She’s referring to Han Shin Joan Tho the eel and Ban Ie Tho the snail (Jin’Sorai’s patron spirit), not God the entity. So I believe the lowercase is correct here.
Yeah, she is totally sincere and not finding another way to poke at Selkie. Or is trying to butter her up to “learn magic powers”.
I like the emoji’s for the standard swear words. I prefer non-standard swearing to be rendered normally with only the actual swear words turned emjoi. Like, mother (male/female signs)-er, instead of (mother emoji) (male/female signs). Or bull (poop emoji), instead of (bull emoji) (poop emoji). Or even, “(male/female signs) me in the eye with a (poop emoji) stick” for the really creative ones.
I just love the organic way the characters interact, like they have totally gotten over the whole hidden aquatic race thing.
And they weren’t pseudo-emojis, the technical term is dingbats. Yes, Archie Bunker’s favorite slur was a real word that predated him. There is even a Dingbat Font for putting them into your own documents.
Although in their fonts list, the Evil Empire lists the dingbats as “Wingbats,” they are still Dingbats. They changed the name to be cute, because wingbats starts with “Win” as in “M$Evil Empire.”
Amanda might think she’s clever, but after being such a torment to Selkie, does she honestly think this sudden shift in demeanor won’t make her suspicious?
Also, I can’t waaaaait until she has to deal with the hard fact that she’ll never have “magic” of her own.
Selkie’s too young to appreciate this now, but there will come a time when being the youngest isn’t a bad thing. In my case, it was when my oldest brother turned 40.
Selkie, just remember that when you’re both 90 being the younger sister will be payback.