I only realized while typing up the dialogue that the Sue and Kathryn character making a cameo here may need some explaining to avoid confusing non Sue and Kathryn readers. Basically, the long-limbed character above Pohl’s head is a robot who primarily speaks by recording what’s said around it and editing audio clips together to form statements. Hence the intermittent KSSSSHT.
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
I figured as much, it just took me a second to remember. It probably helped I re-read the entire for S&K last week.
Wonder if Todd is feeling some unwilling kinship with Scar. Reasons aside, both are fathers who had children they didn’t even know they had abandoned at an orphanage by their mothers. Not sure we know his adoption story, but he nighf have his own thoughts about meeting missing birth parents at some point, assuming he wasn’t removed from them for abuse.
He was removed from them for abuse. There’s flashback images of a fist coming at him, and when he’s thinking about kids to adopt, if I remember right, he recalled himself as a really bruised, beat up kid, and I don’t think they were accidents. That and he went “like father, like daughter” when told how Amanda was hurt by her first family.
I’m glad for the explanation, I tried reading Sue and Kathryn, but I just couldn’t get into it. It looks cute in Selkie, but I dunno, just not something for me.
But before reading the explanation I was worried something was wrong with Todd. “Why is he fizzing? Is he having trauma from when he was being hurt as a kid and this whole episode reminds him of that?” So nice to know that’s not it.
Is the technical term “ideation?” When you are trying to do straight line thinking, and your brain zizzes and pops and the thoughts keep looping around in the same rut, again and again? That may be why it looks like he’s zizzing.
I love both Selkie and Sue and Kathryn. If you haven’t read Sue and Kathryn you really should.
There have been great artists who painted AND did sculpture. Sue and Kathrine is an example of Dave’s creativity, but is very different in flavor tone and and content. Don’t think of it as “More from the Creator of Selkie,” and try it as “A New Webcomic by Dave, (the creator of Selkie)”. That helped me a lot, separating them like that.