Want to give a shout-out to my friend Saokara, who assisted me with getting the former transcript-commentary moved to it’s new location across Selkie’s 1400-ish strip archive. Thank you, Saokara, you’re a life saver (and I probably mean that literally).
She also drew a quick sketch fanart I’d like to share as well. It’s called “The Echoes Are Angry”
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Selkie: What do you think of my idea, sir?
Gien: Hmm...
Gien: You have given me much to think about.
Gien: Please excuse me. Enjoy the rest of your visit, Daughter of Jin’Sorai.
Selkie: Okay! Bye!
Benny: How did you DO THAT?!
Selkie: Do whats?
Gien: Hmm...
Gien: You have given me much to think about.
Gien: Please excuse me. Enjoy the rest of your visit, Daughter of Jin’Sorai.
Selkie: Okay! Bye!
Benny: How did you DO THAT?!
Selkie: Do whats?
"I was just sharing ideas, man, no idea what you mean."
I was just looking at Selkie’s swimming leathers, and a thought occurred.
The leathers don’t have any sides, so that her gills can open easily.
Several years ago (real time, not comic time) Todd Marta and Antwan took her to the river and she dove in and chased down some eels.
She was wearing a t-shirt – her street clothes. Wet cotton t-shirt knit clings to the body.
Did the t-shirt cause her any trouble with breathing?
No, it should have been billowy in the water and not clinging. Out of water, it’s not strong enough to impede gill opening.
out of water it actually would HOLD enough water to keep her gills moist for quite a while.
(my stupid EEL managed to get himself OUT of the tank and survived a minimum of a couple hours in a stupidly small puddle of water from the 10 gallons that mannaged to leak out of the tank. )
In through the nose, out through the gills. What’s the problem?
Hey, so I noticed that hitting the random button always takes me to comic 1408. Not sure if it’s doing that for anyone else, but I wanted to bring it to your attention
There is something going on, because while it’s not always the same, but each different visit, I hit random, I go to a random page, and then it’s stuck going to that specific random page for the rest of the visit. But it takes me being gone for a few minutes, closing the tab and reopening immediately did not change the results.
It’s probably an issue with cookie updating. First, try updating your browser, then try clearing your cookies cache, clear history completely if it persists, update your computer, and then restart your device/computer. At each of the aforementioned steps, check the website to see if the problem persists.
Nine times out of ten it’s actually an issue with your browser retaining old cookies and not updating them properly. Google Chrome, with all it’s personal information tracking software and invasive spyware built into it by Google, is the worst for this… it’s also the slowest of all the browsers and eats the most bandwidth. It is also THE least secure web browser in existence… I’d rather run Yahoo on an AOL connection through Internet Explorer 5, than use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
Maybe changing to something like Firefox, the fastest and one of the most secure browsers on the market currently, may help fix the issue as well. If aaaaaaall of that does not fix the issue, then it can be assumed that it is then a problem either with the client side of the web-host that is hosting the webcomic; which means it is usually a user error by the artist creating the comic and something going wrong on posting, or slightly less often but just as likely it is a glitch in the client.
If it is not a glitch in the client or a user error by our dear artist here, then it can then be assumed it is a server side issue that is causing the muckup, again more than half the time most likely some human error in the server that is causing the issue, and if it is confirmed not to be human error, then some 1’s and 0’s are getting stuck somewhere.
The MAJORITY of computer issues and glitches… are human error. Always try to eliminate the issues caused by human error using best practices first. If that does not preempt the issue and something crops up, then look into the lowest possible level of the data hierarchy, working your way up towards the top, eliminating possible human error vectors along the way.
The majority of the time, you’ll solve the problem before you even get 3-5 steps into the process. 🙂
NO, I am NOT saying this is our beloved webcomic Artist’s fault; not at all. I am in Cyber-Security myself, so I deal with computer glitches all the time. Statistically, the majority of computer issues can be traced back to a human doing something that either directly caused it, or that created a minor error in the data stream that cascaded and caused the eventual error that is finally noticed.
I’m gonna say no, in the factor that this comic and another comic I read have the same type of randomize url, except the other comic is working, and this one is not. Sue and Kathryn is also working, so I’m leaning more towards something got wonky when we added the new hidden commentary? Maybe something got deleted in error? I wanted to test on my phone, but apparently random is on mobile. Probably just the browser my phone uses though.
is NOT on mobile* Derp…
Hmm. Interesting. Then I have no idea at that point.
It could be a user error issue, a server side issue, or some issue between browser and software; beyond that I haven’t the foggiest. Without knowing the specs of what you’re using and what the comic is being hosted on, I haven’t got enough information (or access for that matter) to do any real mental troubleshooting. I’d say contact whatever service providers of whatever software or server services are being used, but beyond that I have no idea. If you went through a bunch of troubleshooting steps and confirmed it’s not user error, then it’s gotta be something software related is the only thing I can think of. 😛
Yes, and I’ve seen this on a few other web comics I follow… perhaps something common to the publishing software they use. It’s almost certainly cookie-related, since opening the link in an isolated tab (e.g. private mode, or a Firefox container) produces a different comic.
Agreed. It feels, by the original description, like something with the cookies getting stuck somewhere. Not sure. Maybe something with a firewall or anti-virus software causing a hang up perhaps?
Anyone who’s read some Stephen King (or seen the movie) knows to avoid 1408 at all costs! 😀
Ha! XD
You know, it is even better/funnier if she wasn’t trying to manipulate him…
She was absolutely trying to manipulate him.
I have no idea what you are talking about? Hehehe. :—)
Hoisted by his own prepared. What we-all call “gettin’ skunked!”
He had his little plan prepared, got played, and went on his merry way thinking, “Dang, how did that happen?? Little girls used to be so easy to manipulate.”
Warning to Big Bad Wolves; “It’s no longer like in the fairy tales, times have changed. Little girls are not so naive anymore.”
Suggestion: “Transcript” should include not only the dialog, but also the relevant stage directions, to reproduce the effect of the beat panel with Benny’s shock.
–as someone who enjoys writing image descriptions for audio readers, that’s BRILLIANT and I’m snagging it. Holy fuck, why did I never think to write them as stage directions before?
Benny: How did you DO THAT?
Selkie: Pure awesomeness!
Thank you so much for starting to do the transcripts! I’m so happy I will be able to continue to enjoy the comics.
Subtext of the whole comic is learn from your mistakes, with an emphasis on inclusion is good, exclusion is bad. Dave rocks it, Todd learns fast because he has a kid to raise.
How are the hidden messages supposed to work because I can’t see squat. I only visit this site on mobile.
Tap the purple circle and it should work on mobile
This is the first time I found out about the hidden messages.
Well, that went the last possible way anyone expected, exemplified by that guys expression
My random button takes me to 413. It’s worth it just to see Selkie’s face in the last panel. It rival’s Benny’s face in this strip.
If it turns out that her echo power is already fully developed in “persuasion”…… 😏