Wu is referring to The Enigma of Amigara Fault.
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Selkie: THIS is MY BONE! There ares many bones likes it, but THIS bone is MINES.
Sandy: That’s co cool!
Wu: Ha ha hey, Sandy, that reminds me of the story Dad read us last night.
Sandy: Huh?
Wu: Yeah, that spooky comic?
Wu: “This is my hole! It was made for me!”
Sandy: AAAAAH! WHYYYYY?!
Wu: It’s about people being summoned into haunted torture caves.
Selkie: Gives to me this story.
Wu: Heh heh...
Sandy: That’s co cool!
Wu: Ha ha hey, Sandy, that reminds me of the story Dad read us last night.
Sandy: Huh?
Wu: Yeah, that spooky comic?
Wu: “This is my hole! It was made for me!”
Sandy: AAAAAH! WHYYYYY?!
Wu: It’s about people being summoned into haunted torture caves.
Selkie: Gives to me this story.
Wu: Heh heh...
Enigma of Amigara Fault is technically not inappropriate, but I'd still give your kids their brown pants before reading.
Well, I suppose there’s nothing to be said, but… drr.. drr.. drr…
Ohhhhhh that story I have heard of. So. Very. Unsettling.
Given that Sandy and Wu live at the orphanage, who is the Dad of whom they speak?
They got adopted a little while ago, I think!
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1211/
They got duo-adopted.
Dude I’m kinda side eying thier parents there.
Eh, my son was reading Tom Clancy at this age.
He was reading them on a Kindle. When he saw how big The Cardinal and the Kremlin was in hardcover he kinda freaked out that he had been reading huge inch-thick books all along.
That’s hilarious!
That is a jewel. Save it to tell the grandkids. Think of it as ROI for some egregious thing that happened at 3am, and you had to get out of bed for it. … not as revenge, that’s petty. Think of it as a good joke safes for the Boss’s dinner party.
Eh, it largely hinges on the kid(s) in question as to what is or isn’t age-appropriate.
Something*Positive showcased it pretty well with Rory, as he wanted to watch Pro Wrestling – but his mom and Davan knew well enough to realize he would ABSOLUTELY imitate what he saw on TV, to the point of offering him a deal – https://somethingpositive.net/comic/that-kid-pt-5/
One can quickly see how that went.
Mine own was reading Moby Dick and Eiji Yoshikawa’s fictional biography of Miyamoto Musashi at the tender age of nine or ten years, because he could. This, by the way, was decades before Kindles.
I have read that manga years ago and I have to agree that it is pretty spooky.
One of my favourite books in Middle School was the Big Red Book edition of “Lord of the Rings”. I was lugging around a book that basically weighed, like, 1/15th of what I weighed, to read on breaks and between assignments. And Tolkein isn’t what anyone would necessarily call light reading.
When I was even younger, Redwall and Animorphs were some of my fave series- and thos’re FULL of murder and torture and people getting ripped apart or slowly poisoned or burned or maimed or blinded.
Or being slowly torn apart on a molecular level with the purpose being that the person being shot *feels* it.
Good to meet another Animorphs fan.
Yeah, I was also a huge Animorphs fan back in the day. Did you see they released a graphic novel recently?
First, I tore through books like a lawn mower as a kid. Started easy with Greatest Batman Stories ever told but then I hit Goosebumps and Animorphs and it was game over. Another series I enjoyed were the choose your own adventure style books, it was a reading puzzle.
The real moral of the Enigma of Amigara Fault:
Don’t do crack.
was the comic they read by Junji Ito? I like his stuff but some of the stories can be really absurd yet disturbing.
Wu is gonna introduce Selkie to Gyo. . .oh boy.
Am I the only one that read that and thought, “dang. I didn’t know Selkie was in the Marine Corps.”
https://usamilitaryposters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/RIFEL-CREED-V4-1000.jpg
She probably picked it up from Todd
(Side note: this is an unpublished strip! I can’t remember if I ever linked it before but basically during this early arc, I had a couple strips done that I ended up choosing to cut.)
Hey Dave, whatever happened with that one kid in the orphanage whose parents were missing?
Kids nothing, I have to go hide behind the sofa now and stay away from holes.
And spirals.
And fish.
I’ve read this online, but I lost the URL when a Windows-update deleted all my bookmarks.
Computers are malevolent, sure. But Windows is the death of all joy. (IMAO). I have worked with them (all four quarters; software, hardware, networking, and help desk).
@[Geneseepaws]:
I used to teach computer programming to art-students.
I feel your pain.
#I_Am_Not_Going_Back
#You_Can’t_Make_Me_Go_Back
#The_Horror
At first I was gunna be concerned for the kids, then I remembered Animorphs and the Warriors books are geared towards kids younger than the cast, and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books were extremely popular among kids their age, back in the day.
This does make me wonder if there’s either a Sarnothi equivalent, or just a general parody of Warriors in this universe, using some form of sea life.
Let us note that Wu is wearing a pentacle shirt. Talk about your old folk music… wait, that was Pentangle. Never mind..
It’s been a while, so perhaps you could remind me…
…I think a PENTANGLE points up,
& a PENTAGRAM points down…
…or is it a matter of whether-or-not there’s a surrounding circle … ?
…or are the two terms interchange-able?
( … sorry, it’s been a while … )
Oh hey! Sandy got her ears pierced!
Oh yeah I’ve heard of that, I mean I’m not into manga but I’ve still heard of it.
The Enigma of Amigara Fault is one that has stuck with me for years since I read it – heck all of Junji Ito’s works have. He’s an amazing author.
Rereading this, I remember there’s a Junji Ito dub on that hole story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3vQeYIzh80