A cloud of emerald brilliance swept down from on high, as the host took sight upon their prey. They had no mercy. They gave no quarter. The single-minded resolve of the swarm knew only the mission. Only the Will of the Doktor.
They were angels with tyrannosaurus heads, and with pirate-ship-cannons for arms, and wicked sick purple mohawks, and they were Heralds of a totally boss new World Order.
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
So many different feels happening in today’s strip. 🙁
Sai Fen is actively terrified, and who can blame her? Selkie’s smart. If she senses that fear and picks up on Suko calling Scar “Farmer Echo,” she’s likely to feel furious and betrayed to realize that this person she considers a friend is the worst of the worst that Te Fahn could think of.
Meanwhile there’s Scar doing his best to pretend like this is an innocent visit. To him it probably is. Selkie’s his daughter, even if no one else knows it. He just wants to see her. Yes it’s sketchy on how he found out where she lives, but even that could be chalked up to simply wanting to see her, without any ulterior motives. Gien threatened him with what would happen to Selkie if people knew who both of her parents were. I don’t think Scar would risk that.
On the other hand … Scar didn’t know there would already be other Sarnothi (and particularly another Echo) at Todd & Selkie’s house when he got there.
Now that we know his M.O. was to infiltrate under the guise of helping others and then trap them, there’s always going to be that undercurrent of doubt about his motives.
The last panel disarms all that with a chuckle at Scar’s questioning of Pohl’s methods of teaching Doctor Terrorhammer.
This arc is going to hurt a bit, isn’t it?
Nah, no broken hearts! No buckets of tears at the deceptions, no echoing repercussions from actions poorly done, no anguish at lostlings finally found. No cats frightened out of their wits.
With Sai Fen acting to dramatically, I’m shocked that Selkie isn’t confusedby her actions. I’ll watch and see how this plays out, but I’m sure it won’t hurt me. Well, not after the stabbity-stabbing of my heart stops.
Wait, how do we know this guy is her dad?
I was so distracted by the tension in the comic that I almost missed the heralds of the totally boss new world order.
They are my angels of a totally boss new world order… they are my selkie marines
speaking of selkie marines… Are sarnothi able to enlist? one would think they would naturally be drawn to work with the navy..
I wouldn’t imagine they’d want to work with the navy, based on they’re fresh water, and the navy tends to be around a lot of salt water. Not always, but usually a lot.
eh Navy Basic is in the great lakes, So is Coast guard.
And we haven’t heard from the Boss of the comic if they are anadromous or catadromous or if they are Euryhaline, as they obviously have Both gils and Lungs they are Anabantid, or related to snakeheads.
If they are as I suspect related to species Chana or parachana they can handle a fair amount of salt.
Yeah, I’d rather wait for word of Boss to determine if they can or cannot breathe salt water for sure. I bet if they can, yeah, have them join the navy, either navy. Then the other nations will get jealous? Gosh I’d hope not…
I just know they use chlorine tablets or something in their water when flushing? I can’t remember, I know it was super early in the comic. I remember adding potassium to help deal with heat but…my memory’s a little faulty.
Being navy I can count on 0 hands how many times my job has required me to actually get IN the ocean. Your mileage may vary.
Yeah, it does vary, my big brother was in Navy, and he went at least all the way to Italy. He won’t tell me much, he apparently saw a helicopter full of people die his first day so…I don’t ask him for details.
I’m just here fit the author text.
Well done.
::wicked guitar riff::
Pirate ship cannons are dramatic, but impractical because in most modern countries the child labor laws prevent the employment of powder-monkeys. You need four folks to service cannon firing, right? The swabby to make sure there is no fire left in the bore, the strong man to load cannonballs, the artilleryman to (do the math) aim the contraption, and the powder-monkey to carry the bucket of refined, freeze-dried, powdered, “hell-on-earth”, (which must be kept cool and Dry… Because: wet powder?) from down in the hold up to the cannoniers to run the death machine. No powder-monkeys = no death machine.
All the plans fail in the face of a cannon, with a supply of ball and shot, artillerymen to run the thing, and no powder to run the cannon. No powder-monkeys, no cannon fire. If you are in a country that forbids employing 11-16 year old children in combat situations …the whole chain fails at the missing link. NOT implying that powder-monkeys are Darwin’s missing link, although some teens I have known DO qualify, …
Wow, can Sai Fen be any more rude?
Sai Fen is scared and doing her best to be polite while securing her children. Scar is the same person who would trick people into believing that he was helping them, then he would turn around and enslave them. If someone tried to run, he would zap them. On top of that, Sai Fen isn’t an Echo. Scar is. That’s a civilian versus a supes right there. It would be like asking a normal non-powered person in DC to make friends with Darkseid because he’s supposedly reformed now when he (Scar) was KNOWN to TRICK people into thinking he was kind and helpful when he was not. There is almost ALWAYS going to be doubt among the other clans of the Sarnothi because it was their clan members who were being enslaved and hurt by Scar.
D’awwww… look at that face! (panel 5) That’s the face that… that… uh…
(locks all the doors and windows.)
Eh, that’s just Selkie’s Happy Face! (Loos a lot like the one TeddyBear the Tigger drew a few years ago on a sidewalk with a burnt stick…)