Some technical difficulties with finishing the comic. “Technical difficulties” being defined as “Dave once again didn’t save frequently enough, and a 3am photoshop crash set things back to a point before the coloring and dialogue had been done.”
Snuck this in to work to get the dialogue re-applied and uploaded (shhhh), will add color tonight. Also I don’t think I actually named Te Fahn’s mother, will need to think on that.
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
Ahhh, doctors!! No, I don’t wanna be a patient!!
Wait, patience? …. Never mind, we’ll wait.
What’s that? Smells like rose petals. Sounds like Marvin Gaye. Feels like indigestion.
It’s love.
Her nickname is Bonte, or Bonte is a Sarnoth word that we haven’t seen / I have forgotten? Because if her nickname means “kindness” in French that’s so cool.
That’s a happy coincidence (VERY happy actually, I rather like that.) Bonte is “hello” in sarnothi language (tensei)
I figured that’s what it meant, but now it seems rather surprising that we’d gone this far into the comic before encountering such a basic word!
Awww. Her shyness is adorable!!! :3
I hate computer crashes. I’ve spent hours on training documents at work, only to have Word crash and realize I hadn’t hit “save” in awhile. Ugh!
gringe bullet dodged… or delayed…
*cringe
just read ur name coment, name her Bay khan
Well, you are what you eat. XD
Do we know what kind of store Te Fahn’s family runs?
Hasn’t been discussed yet.
Still gotta work on those Accidental Tangents! First panel of final row looks like her nose is attached to the wall, which also gives a weird intuition as to relative size of the characters (making me think she was her mom). And the parallel lines of her profile and the wall being so close together was already kinda strange.
I know you probably don’t do this the way my larger projects go, but when I have each character on a separate layer, I can easily move one around until the tangents are avoided. And it often leads to better overall composition within the panel (well, not that I generally use panels, but same diff).
I’ve loved seeing your work develop over the years, and you’ve come a long way with character, composition, expression and posture/gesture, lots of aspects of your art so drastically improved from that first glimpse at the orphanage. This is just one detail that crops up now and again, so I hope eventually you learn to spot and avoid the weird tangents.
Random, but I like her mom’s facial markings. Neat design.
If you do not set yur program to “Save” every three or four minutes, yer too lazy to to breath. Please set Word, Excel, etc, to save at least every 5 mins or so. …plz?
Interesting that they got a store running so fast… least I think its fast dunno how much time has passed in comic since the sarnoth exodus.
Te Fahn’s family are from an earlier assortment of sarnothi who were preparing for integration (the “guppies”), so her family has a bit of a head start compared to the more recent refugees.
How physically compatible are selkie’s people with humans? I know their spit is venomous. I also know they have eggs. But are they sexually compatible? I am just thinking of Brown having to put up with his mouthy stepson and then thought about his marriage. A sexless marriage and a wise-ass stepson sounds awful.
Compatibility exists, but some care is needed to accommodate biology differences. Half-children are not possible though.
Maybe the Watsonian explanation for the French overlap is that the Sarnothi word for ‘Hello’ literally translated to something like ‘kind tidings’?