That’s not practicing, Selkie!
Deleted scene that I liked but cut to keep overall progression moving: Young Pohl wakes up at the hospital, with tubes and fluids. Sai Fen lurches over to him, hugging and talking very very quickly in Tensei. Pohl looks apologetic, she looks both worried and angry. Two of the nurses are close by. Nurse 1 (observing the interaction between Pohl and Sai Fen): Phew. Wish I knew what was going on, there. Nurse 2: "How could you?" "Why did you do it?" "Did you even think about how this would make me feel?" Nurse 1: You can understand that... whatever that language is? Nurse 2: Not a word. But "angry wife pissed that her husband did something stupid"? That's a universal language.
damn
Aww i was hoping to hear what happened for the aftermath.
How sick did pohl get after drinking the alcohol?
Honestly, I was kind of looking forward to a few strips of the aftermath. There’s a description of one of them in the Transcript section, if you aren’t familiar with the Somewhat Secret Director Commentary. I had about four strips I think of aftermath stuff.
But one of my recurring flaws with Selkie has always been keeping things to-the-point and timely, so I chose to invoke “Kill Your Darlings” and move on from the flashback.
Short version: he got REALLY sick, and after recovering had to explain himself to a few people in his medical program. But he avoided the worst of it and went on to complete the program.
I see you REALLY liked that commission mentioned last page! 😀
While naturally much more beautiful in full-size, since it’s a profile shot, it works well as a forum/comment avatar too!
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That deleted scene would’ve been amusing, and I’d have liked to have seen it; buuuuuuut, it probably would’ve spoiled the mood.
Yeah, hands covered in Sarnothi blood and probably a hell of a lot of pain.
Thanks, but that can be a deleted scene, AFAIC.
If he woke up in the hospital, with nurses just standing by and letting his wife that close, he would have been bandaged/cated for at that point. Definitely still an implication of bads though, you’re right about that.
Yeah, pacing was my key reason not to go ahead with it. Staying on track and not side-lining the story with fluff has always been one of my weak points.
Second Panel: are ‘meansto’ and ‘upwith’ typos or intentional single words?
No, those are space bar fails. -_-
IMAO– cats are the worst cause of space bar fails.
….and now you have to assure selkie that she doesn´t need to grab a pair of scissors and mutilate herself in order to be accepted and have a career.
i´m also kinda curious how other sarnothis reacted to his lack of webbing – ok, his wife would´ve been mostly worried, but i can see a few others thinking he somehow betrayed their kind by giving up his webbs….or being scared that they´ll all have to do it eventually if they want to stay.
Depending on the career a lot might have to cut their webbing.
Medical and food handling both require sanitary gloves
Construction and other jobs require work gloves.
Becoming a mad scientist requires gloves. So Selkie might have to choose a different career path.
As her first act of Mad Science, she designs webbed gloves.
people in this comic really need to learn how to close a door before having a conversation
Open plan apartments may be low on doors. (Our house has four rooms on the ground floor — kitchen, library, living room, and dining-room-turned-TV-room. No doors. There’s a door into the mud room, and then a door for the bathroom that goes out of the mud room. And, of course, doors to the outside.)
They still haven’t really solved the issue, future sarnothi doctors will probably need to do the same thing – just like get an actuall doctor to do it, maybe. 🙁
Depending on the career a lot might have to cut their webbing.
Medical and food handling both require sanitary gloves
Construction and other jobs require work gloves.
Hopefully now that the world is aware of them gloves will be made with their physiological needs in mind
The problem isn’t a lack of custom gloves, it’s that gloves that work with webbed hands face significant limitations do to physical laws. Non-sanitary gloves, such as work/gardening style are probably more practical. Gloves that don’t need to maintain high levels of dexterity can be done (they are mittens basically). But high dexterity sterile gloves for webbed hands are going to be difficult if not impossible, at least at the same scale and price as human gloves. It’s probably possible but highly expensive/difficult.
Yes but now they can use their magitech more openly to fix the problem and make gloves as well…
That’s the problem with being a pioneer in any field; you have to make the most sacrifices in order to make it work. If you do your job right, everyone that comes in the field after you is gonna have a progressively easier time with it.
Pohl for example has proven that Saronthi can be trusted to properly use and administer human medicine, so hopefully steps will be made so that it’s easier for future Saronthi doctors to do their job.
*Nurse 1: You can understand that… whatever that language is?
Nurse 2: Not a word. But “angry wife pissed that her husband did something stupid”? That’s a universal language.*
This is soooo true.
Angry wife sounds the same in any language except German. German angry wife sounds much, much scarier cause she DOESN’T raise her voice and sounds very sweet.
That deleted scene so needs to be a comic. I don’t care if it’s a once-off, I wanna share that last line on facebook *so* bad.
I could see revisiting that scene during a hiatus where there’s just a handful of one-off scenes for various characters….
OR as bonus comics in the back of the Graphic Novel*
*Whenever that gets made 😀
I have to say this is one of my favorite comics period. Your pacing, story content, and storytelling are all very good. I imagine it might be hard to keep up the quality you have with your schedule. You also have a great sense of drama. Didn’t expect Selkie to eavesdrop but should have seen it coming… well played.
Also you don’t NEED gloves to be an Evil Overlord. They are stylish but not necessary. Just saying.
Wash-n-were, …. That is so clever/brilliant, I just, I don’t even, … I have so much envy!,… And no Zombies! (I am soooo dang tired of zombie-everything, but you can never have enough Where-woofs?!)
I’m learning “How to Be a Werewolf” … Much fun, would read again.
Deleted scene needs to be reinstated please.
Awareness, AND for a company to make vinyl or latex exam gloves for Sarnothi hands!
Seriously, it wouldn’t take much difference: cut them with shorter fingers, longer palms.
We’ve gone over this on previous pages: It’s not about length, it’s about flex. Palms don’t have hinge joints in them, so you can have a big sack around them without much problem. Glove fingers need to be tubes, so they will hold shape when the finger inside is flexing.
“I just realizeds if they ever makes a Power Gloves that actually works, I won’t gets to try it”
For the gloves issue- while Pol may not have had the option, with so many Sarnothi joining the human world, it would be worthwhile for a start up to start making gloves for them. From watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-uH0KmgU_o on how gloves are made, doesn’t look too difficult if you can get enough volunteers to measure for mold sizing.
The problem isn’t having enough customers. The problem is that webbed fingers mean you can’t make gloves that stay tight when a single digit moves. Sarnothi gloves would basically be mittens which aren’t going to allow for fine dexterity needed for things like surgery. Making gloves that stay tight to hand even as you flex them with webbed fingers is going to be expensive and complicated at best, impossible at worst.
Just because its difficult doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be worth doing. There’s obviously a need from medical to food handling for Sarnothi gloves. From looking at the Anatomy sketch, the webbing stops at the last knuckle allowing for high dexterity work. Have the gloves match the webbing and the last joints of the fingers and I don’t see it being difficult.
Sarnothi surgical gloves made of something like skin-safe Plasti-Dip?
Sarnothi surgeons using Echo-assisted micro-surgical robots and tools?
Autoclavable eel-skin (putting the “SSSS!” in “PANTSSSS!”?