Baalu’d all to Frenzy and back.
(I want to offer an explanation for the comic going up late so nobody worries unduly. This is not late due to an exhaustion moment, I am perfectly fine. This is up late due to an idiocy moment. I swear I uploaded this last night… gluh.)
Such LANGUAGE! tut tut.
Slow clapping intensifies
Yeah right, who DIDN’T see that coming?
i guess poor, stressed out agent brown was still vaguely hopeful to avoid that particular clusterf# for a while
Well, so much for my waiting for Selkie to goad Tehk into getting himself in trouble. Gah– Selkie! You are such an eight year old! Where’s your frontal lobe development?
Dear Dr. YRH Princess Terrorhammer, rule #1 of the fight is that “If you let them turn-on your temper, you have defeated yourself for them.”
I DO understand that Tehk is SO MUCH a perfect specimen of a typical boy, without being too cliche, and we do see him through Selkie’s story, of which he is not the protagonist. But CLEARLY while I don’t remember anyone teaching Amanda to play chess, I thought the babysitter, or the Landlady,… Someone… Was teaching Selkie to play chess?? Clearly I’m wrong.
Someone should have taught her about this scenario popping up honestly, and it’s much more documented than people think.
She’s always wanted superpowers since the comic started, and she got them, and she has a short temper, and she’s had enough of being belittled and bullied because of the orphanage and Amanda and Truck. This scenario, and similar scenarios like it, pops up all too often in kids shows and movies where the kid becomes the chosen whatever and goes off to save the world. All of that means is this entire scenario is a kid’s dream come true to actually one-up someone on their own merits and revel in it…and then reality hits.
She really needed to watch Frozen. Or the Incredibles. Or X-Men. Or any movie that deals with supers using their powers responsibly in their world, because what Selkie just did is exactly what some of the other supers did to mess up their lives; they lost their cool. This actually could have been prevented.
Yes, in hindsight maybe it could have been prevented. Maybe. But… then how would we get Plot Happening?
Kudos to Dave for setting this moment up so it feels inevitable.
If she’d received more positive reinforcement of the “responsibility” aspect of her powers, like the movies you mention, I think she might have lasted longer. I don’t think she would have lasted forever. Selkie’s personality plus the average mental development of an 8-year-old…I think an outcome much like this one really was inevitable.
Mistakes have been made.
Unless you’re R. B. Banner. Which she clearly isn’t, so be quiet Dondonesque.
People needed to find out about echoes at some point.
Lets just be glad she’s not full powered.
Cheeze it, it’s the fuzz!
OK but i am THRIVING on the hair flip! Lol
“Selkie, no foreign cussing.”
… baalu.
Tsk, tsk — didn’t we *already* go through a lesson about blabbing secrets? And you did catch yourself after mentioning the existence of the village, so why proceed into the details?
Naughty word was previously seen on page #293, as an interjection.
The only ones at fault are those who thought an 8 year old would follow top secret protocols.
Right? She did better than most by keeping it a secret for any amount of time.
I suspect that some of the problem is that she’s not just talking to humans (who aren’t supposed to hear about the Sarnothi side of her life), but others of her own species, who don’t need to be so protected from these things.
Hard to context-switch when the contexts are swirled together.
Every panel’s a winner, but panel 2 especially is ADORBS. And panel 7–yeah, pretty baalu’d there, Selk.
What I said before about expecting an eight year old to actually keep secrets still stands.
But hopefully Selkie learns from this.
Yes, Selkie.
You have.
Why kids make bad superheroes, reason #4;
Failure at subtlety.