Shout out to the finale of Chapter 1, anybody?
There haven't been background kids in this strip or the last one because I was afraid background comedy would detract from the mood. I don't follow the Harold Zoid method of drama.
Shout out to the finale of Chapter 1, anybody?
Yeah…. Amanda has some serious issues.
I assume Amanda’s issues would stem from her being dumped off at an orphanage by people who were supposed to love and care about her unconditionally, but in time decided she wasn’t worth the effort, than was passed over by several other people time after time, I’d even go out on a limb and say that being passed over for a ” fish monster ” probably hit her pretty hard as well. While fictional Amanda is a child, and Selkie got what Amanda wanted, a home and someone who cares about her. Welcome to the world of adoption. Also your art style is getting much cleaner Dave.
So many years down the line this comment hurts more
Poor Selkie.
Dah f*ck? Amanda looks like an old man in the second panel.
LOL.
No she doesn’t. No wrinkles.
Still looks like one without them.
Are you by any chance an Avatar TLA fan?
There is a strong possibility.
Yip yip.
I KNEW IT!
I recognize an ATLA reference when I see one.
Also: SELKIE GET OVER HERE SO I CAN GIVE YOU A HUG. YOU TOO AMANDA. EXCEPT YOU GET A FACE-KICK!
Sokka? Pfft. Toph forever!
SOKKA!!! (he’s my favorite ATLA character XD)
Missed! meant to put my comment under this one!
I hope Toph has other more competent defenders than I…
I like both Sokka and Toph.
Toph and Zuko have always been my ties for favorite character, but Sokka is also awesome. I always got the impression he was a lot smarter than he let on.
Zuko is precious. I just want to hug that li’l emo. XD
In the words of Ray Bradbury, “the playground is Hell”.
For what is Charlie Brown having revenge on Selkie? Will we be seeing any more of Forrest Gump, Pigtails and O Gross? When will Amanda try to kidnap Todd? What of doughnuts? WHAT?
I’m legitimately curious which characters you mean… because I love those nicknames!
Haha, er, bit self-conscious now… I’m just awful with actual names, so I tend to latch onto a characteristic.
Forrest Gump, Pigtails and O Gross are the three who think Selkie’s a demon on 5th September, due to the accent, the pigtails and the first thing he said respectively. Charlie brown is the kid in today’s strip, on no greater evidence than his close-cropped hair.
(Subsides into red-faced silence.)
…and the fact that “Charlie Brown” wore a Charlie Brown shirt that one time https://selkiecomic.com/selkie45/
So… she’s angry because someone doesn’t love pink and pigtails?
No, she’s angry because she’s still stuck living in the orphanage.
Hmm, he corrected tony on her name, perhaps he likes her.
Jealousy is an ugly thing and Amanda has it written all over her fce.
does Amanda act this way toward everyone who gets adopted, or does she just think it’s okay to do bad things to selkie because she’s different?
A combination of the two, I think. Kids can be awfully cruel to each other; learning proper behavior is a big part of what makes us human. Or Selkie 🙂
Now, if I was in Selkie’s position, I would have started bringing a baseball bat to school to whomp all of these jerks left and right.
I suppose I’m just violent like that.
No baseball bat. Gotta preserve the “Sorrys guys, accidents!” plausible denial.
Actually, she might be better off if she took the rumours of evilness and turned them the other way round. I wonder if the Cthulhu Mythos exists in Selkieverse? Because she could reeeaaallllly play off of that to instill some fear in her tormentors. 😛
That way, detention lies…
That last panel makes me think of the song ‘We’ve got to get out of this place’. I have no idea why.
Amanda is a bitch again…that is why she won’t get adopted, and yet she doesn’t realize it yet.
We don’t know anything about Amanda’s story, and we probably never will. But she has a reason for acting that way.
It may not be the best reason, but it is a reason. And it’s her reason.
Everyone has a story.
Besides, how many of the people looking to adopt would receive in-depth info on how Amanda acts towards her age peers? As long as a child isn’t an outright little psychopath, I’d expect the people from the adoption agency to gloss over such things a little, to improve the child’s chances of adoption.
I agree with MaronaPossessed.
In fact, for all we know, she could have been put up for adoption because her parents no longer wanted to deal with her attitude problem. Some people are just born that way – she may very well have anti-social personality disorder.
Selkie may need an IEP (Indviual Education Plan) to help her with Amanda or if she has one already, which wouldn’t be surprising, her dad should add some stuff to it to like ‘Selkie can go to X place to get away from kids that are mean to her and they can’t go to that place’ or something like that.
Do you have those schools in the US where all the groups are a mix of handicapped and non-handicapped children? Because I think that sort of school would be the ideal place for Selkie – the kids there are already used to being around other kids who are all kinds of “different” from themselves, and the teachers tend to NOT tolerate any picking on weaker or “different” kids.
Ooh…poor Amanda. She wants parents more than anything, and she’s jealous of Selkie for having one. That would make anyone bitter.
It is extremely unfortunate how she acts out because of her bitterness, though.
Maybe Amanda hasn’t been adopted because of her attitude.
I don’t know, could have benefited from the Harold Zoid method of drama, it needs pies. He got the Oscar for a reason you know, hehehe.
Make her feel better
O.O Wow. Just… WOW. Amanda has some serious emotional damage going on. I think she could use therapy…
I mean, I get why she’s lashing out like this; why she bullies Selkie and the others, because being a child who hasn’t been adopted is definitely heartbreaking. She’s seen other kids go off with new parents, Heather included, and in her eyes she always thought that Selkie would be at the orphanage forever because she was “such a freak”, “so weird”, “doesn’t have a nose or any ears”… so she definitely has a lot of emotional damage and detachment going on.
As much as I don’t like her way of dealing with it, I still feel bad for her… I really do hope that eventually she finds a good home with new, loving parents who will accept her Angelica Pickles attitude and red-head rage.
That and I think she could use a cookie and a hug, too. :/ You can never go wrong with a cookie and a hug.
first my computer messes up then my best friend moves to london and finnaly my family is having some problems……i dont think ill be back to selkie for a while now
Aaaw. 🙁 Sorry about all your troubles. Hope they ease up.
That little bitch needs to be slapped but good. I don’t care WHAT the reasons are for her emotional damage, it’s time for Selkie to stand up for herself. Amanda wants to spread lies about Selike eating people; maybe she needs a nice set of teeth marks to go with them, just to give her story a little extra believability.
My first reaction was that Hamud should get a clue and not be so gullible. Only then did I recall that Selkie isn’t human and doesn’t look human, and that we know nothing about her culture. If she bit in self defence, even an avid fan like myself couldn’t be sure she’d ever stop biting. Amanda exploited this ruthlessly (and, er brilliantly!) so she is indeed pretty cruel.
Still, capital punishment? There are alternatives, surely?
I mean corporal punishment! Corporal, not capital! I know you weren’t suggesting the scaffold, Rainne!
The older I get the more comfortable I am with disliking some children, both real and fictitious. Amanda’s on that list.
Yeah, children are evil. I didn’t like them even when I was a child.
Of course, teenagers and adults aren’t much better.
It’s a shame Selkie’s too decent to sink her fangs into Amanda’s annoying little face!
Just to say, Dave I love your comic. I’ve been reading Selkie for awhile but not yet commented, please keep up the good work, we love your work. 🙂
LOLs. ATLA is one of my fav series. But Star Wars beats it by a LONG shot.
If I were in Selkie’s position I’d rub being adopted in Amanda’s face, because that would hurt her the most.
oAo
Guys you are making Selkie eeeevil.
This is not heeeer.
Also kids are much more emotional then adults, and when they get upset, they lash out.
Selkie’s an easy target.
When I was at school, my friend and I were the easy targets, so we got crap.
Often not because people knew us, but because they needed to offload feeling-bad so they used us to do it.
I meant comment guys not artist-guy. xD
Sorry.
Selkie shouldn’t count out eating people yet, it can solve so many problems!
Public school:
A part-time prison institution to babysit children and young people, to prevent them from gaining an education, whilst simultaneously brainwashing them into accepting that all meaning in their lives comes from buying stuff and working to make someone else wealthy (usually this someone managed to avoid brainwashing school early in life).
Ah, and I forgot training them to do meaningless repetitive tasks and seek approval from authority figures. Everything the more powerful captains of industry would like to have in their future underpaid line workers.