Happy 100th strip Selkie fans! 😀 Here’s to one hundred more!
Got a few items to share. First, my friend Mitchelle D’Souza is competing in a video contest with a cute animated short. Check it out here and vote for her. 😀
Also, I got two moire Fan Arts over the weekend! From Pashakitty:
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And another from Darklight 16
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Thank you both!
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
haha oh gosh Theo cracks me up
Also i love the short your friend did, it was cute :3
I love that the things you’ve been telling us finally made it into the comic, heh. I also love the Dew of the Mtn… reminds me a bit of my personal preferred caffeine source~
As always, I’m impressed ^_^
It’s all in the labeling. Would you like a Potion of Thirstlessness? You drink it and it quenches your thirst just unlike magic. (It’s water.)
The parents are such gold mines of laughter.
xD
As the saying goes “Roswell that ends well!”
I love that episode of Futurama. My favorite bit is the “good old fashioned alien autopsy”.
“I ADOPTED her from the government! Would it help you guys to see her file?”
“…She has a file?”
I lol’d.
Oh man, this was a great comic.
“I ADOPTED her from the government.”
That’s a good point. I think you won that argument. lol
Haha for your secret commentary:) I’m curious why Todd drinks soda. Is he only against eating flesh or things with faces? Bad stuff for your bod is okay? Me, I do drink soda but I was curious. I also eat meat and anything else I can find:)
I’m vegan, but I drink soda…
My general reference on Todd’s vegetarianism is that it’s primarily a taste/texture thing for him, with a side bonus of healthiness.
Fellow “meat tastes bad” people unite! (Also, all the more meat for the carnivores.) Though I’m only ovo-lacto vegetarian, so if Todd doesn’t want ice cream… All the more for MEEEEE! Ahahahahahaah!
Selkie can have *all* of my share of fish eyes.
I vote for a thousand more!
And the last panel totally made me laugh.
Remeber, What the state and local government know is not always shared with the federal government. On a different note, happy hundrith comic.
Grats on hitting 100 strips. Here’s hoping for a long, enjoyable run. 🙂
Honestly, I’d be less worried about the government, and more worried about the media.
That’s actually a really good point. I imagine unwanted attention is more likely to come from there.
And I’m with the people who think that non humans, while unusual, are not unheard of in this verse. There are plenty of children who have rare diseases and/or conditions that the public at large has never heard of. I imagine it’d be a similar case here.
O___o You make a good point. She goes to a normal school doesn’t she? How come nobody’s caught wind of her fishy-ness there and spread the news?
On another note: Congrats on making it to 100 strips Dave!!
Amanda called her a fish, but as to why nobody’s made a big deal of any sor t about it, I can’t say for certain. If I had to guess, I’d say maybe the grownups in her life all either care about her or would not benefit in any way from bringing the media down on a little girl (especially a student of theirs in the teachers’ cases) and if there’s any kids who might do that people wouldn’t believe them.
Right, right…good hypothesis. You’re probably correct. (Seems obvious now that I think about it…-sigh- Oh well.)
Nah Rahna you make a good point. It is stretching it just a bit ha ha. But Dave has said that the level of acceptance borders on fairy tale levels so realism in that sense probably isn’t his primary concern. Still it’s not that implausible that she’s eluded media attention up to now. I know it was under different circumstances but Joseph Merrick managed to avoid popular notice up to adulthood. Perhaps the why and how of all this is coming up in later chapters. All the more reason to keep reading ^^
I have to say, this comic just keeps getting better and better. I think that the parents are so funny because they know so little about her.
Hmm. So the government is willing to let Selkie be adopted by some random schmuck, rather than, say, placing her with some government agents to raise. Yet, non-humans are so rare in this world that Theo’s first idea is “alien”. Still trying to work this out…
Could be some scientific study, and they are keeping closer tabs on her than might be known, yet. The Government, or government research team may have directly vetted the applicants.
They probably have an RFID chip in there somewhere. Todd could run an AVID scanner over her …
Just kidding Todd!
But I’ve noticed that you have another big milestone around the corner: the one year anniversary. And many, many more to follow I fervently hope.
I’m glad you made it to a hundred strips! But don’t be letting that accomplishment lull you into a sense of complacency. I’m pretty sure I can find and hurt you if you ever stop the comic 😉
Just leave the hands alone, their my moneymakers. XD
I’m wondering if the government really knows how different Selkie is. The conclusions reached by Lilian Haversham-Wang might have been private among the orphanage staff, including whatever doctor attends them regularly.
I love this comic, is really great 🙂
I’ve been reading this comic since the 6th or 7th strip and I’ve just wanted to congratulate you on reaching 100 strips. It seems like just yesterday I found this comic in its early stage and I can say with joy that your styled has improved greatly. I wish you luck on another 100.
Wow, a hundred strips! Not bad!
I just started reading this strip a week or two ago. I read quite a few web comics, and this isn’t quite my usual fare. But for some reason your story has really caught my interest, and I can’t wait for more updates. It’s also pretty remarkable just how much your artwork has improved over a hundred strips. I always find it interesting how people’s art styles improve and evolve over the course of drawing a comic strip. Your current style is looking quite good. (I really like the fact that you’ve started giving Selkie pupils too!)
As for her standing out in the crowd, I’m guess that non-humans / aliens / whatever are pretty unheard of, but perhaps genetic abnormalities are a bit more common? Or well known? It’s almost like she has some sort of confusion field around her. People see each individual peculiarity, but write each one off as a birth defect or some such without ever quite putting the whole thing together in their minds. Unless, of course, they spend time around her. Even Todd seems to be suffering from a touch of this so far!
Anyway, great comic! Keep up the good work!
What is with all the concern about the government taking Selkie, or them being heard of but uncommon in the Selkieverse? Let me put this simply. Lets assume people in black suits attempted to take Selkie away form the orphanage. The orphanage refused and the case was brought to court. Now lets say YOU are that federal judge set to interpret how the constitution applies to Selkie.
You’ve had a chance to talk to the orphanage, and converse with selkie. Would you rule to interpret the word “people” in the constitution to include Selkie’s kind, or would you be indifferent to Selkie’s plight and have her taken away by some random scientists for experimentation?
Yeah, I thought so. Is it so hard to believe any federal judge would rule differently?
What makes you think the men in black would bother to take it to court? Or allow the orphanage to?
Exactly what “men in black suits” are you talking about. If you’re talking about the real world I seriously doubt there is a legal group to handle a situation like this. I mean, why would said group even exist if creatures like selkie are unheard of. I think you need to stop watching so many movies.
That sounds just like what one of THEM would say.
Actually its the men in white that handle the paranormal.
And there´s the catch: no *legal* group. The super secret government agency that keeps tabs on non-human sentients probably wouldn´t let itself be held back by such pesky details as laws or civil rights.
No, I don´t think such a force exists, but it would require less suspension of disbelief to have them in the ´verse than Selkie herself does.
I get what you’re saying Duban but people have an astounding capacity for doing things that make absolutely no sense. If you think about it logically the prevention of womens suffrage and the preservation of slavery and other things like that don’t have much backing them. And yet for years people defended them as if civilization itself depended on it. You could argue that part of that was myths and misinformation but there’s no reason that couldn’t happen in Selkie’s case. What if Amanda starts a rumor that Selkie has a taste for human flesh and the media catches whif of it? A judge with that misconception in mind may not think that Selkie’s species has any place in our society. And as for why the fans have been discussing it so much well fans like to speculate haha. And I think it is a very interesting question. Plus considering the level of detail that went into Selkie’s biology I think a lot of readers are curious about where else he’s put in that much thought.
Yay 100 strips! Only 999,900 more to go! 🙂
😯
You realize, at the current strip schedule, that’s 9, 614 YEARS… right?
I better start finding that Fountain of Immortality then.
Nooo Dave don’t! I don’t want you to turn into a bunch of flowers! (hugs) lol
Well then, it’s about time I started reading this comic again. Great work so far!
I bet Five internets that Selkie wont be in comic 200 either.
I really love your comic, can’t wait to see what happens next. But I’m a little confused about the world you’re creating. Maybe this will all be revealed in time and I need to be patient, but:
I got the impression that aliens were not unheard of in Selkie’s world; there were even one or two other kids in the orphanage that didn’t look entirely human. But Todd’s parents are acting like they’ve never heard of an alien before. So– what is the status of other species in this world? Are aliens unheard of (like in our world), are they just rare, are they mistrusted and marginalized, what? And– we really don’t even know if Selkie is an alien (from outer space) or just another intelligent species living on Earth (or whatever planet Todd and Selkie are living on).
If this will all be revealed in time, then I’m looking forward to it! But otherwise: would love some background to help me understand everyone’s reactions to Selkie!
I think maybe creatures like Selkie – or sentient non-human species in general – are “not unheard of” in the same way that, say, centaurs or satyrs were “not unheard of” in Ancient Greece. That is, people have heard of them, and while they still might freak out at actually meeting one, having their existence confirmed would not be an Earth-shattering revelation to them, more like the confirmation of something they´ve sort of believed, but never really given any thought.
Think about it: Nobody – not Todd, not his parents, not the people at the orphanage – goes “Oh my god, a fish girl, this is the discovery of the century!” when they find out Selkie isn´t human. So clearly while they didn´t expect meeting one, they have at least in the abstract thought such people might exist.
By the way, Todd´s father doesn´t sound to me like he´s never heard of aliens – more like he´s heard of a lot of alien-, UFO- and Men-in-Black-related conspiracy theories and thinks there might be something to them.
High fives) I think you got it in one dude ^^
Dave!!! Congratulations on reaching #100!!! I’ll toast you tonight as I’m having a beer (probably a home-brewed oatmeal stout) – another of my favorite carbonated beverages. I’m very glad that I’ve been along for a goodly portion of the ride so far. Wishing you another several hundred … 🙂
Congrats on your milestone Dave! We’re right behind ya here ;).
Okay…that last panel made me laugh. A lot. XD