The most delicious conspiracy
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SELKIE: And... I'm sorry too. For yelling at you when you were scared.
AMANDA: I... I don't know what it is. I hate it.
POHL: You know, I might be able to help BOTH of you by studying this phenomenon.
POHL: With one having too little Resonance flow, and the other having unprecedented flow, you may be each other's answer. Or not. No clue yet.
SELKIE: Wait a sec... is thats my special ice cream?
POHL: Selkie, I am a DOCTOR. Do you have any idea how many people would love it if I took payment in desserts?
TODD: The perfect conspiracy between Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Dairy.
POHL: And Big Herb. This is rosemary.
AMANDA: I... I don't know what it is. I hate it.
POHL: You know, I might be able to help BOTH of you by studying this phenomenon.
POHL: With one having too little Resonance flow, and the other having unprecedented flow, you may be each other's answer. Or not. No clue yet.
SELKIE: Wait a sec... is thats my special ice cream?
POHL: Selkie, I am a DOCTOR. Do you have any idea how many people would love it if I took payment in desserts?
TODD: The perfect conspiracy between Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Dairy.
POHL: And Big Herb. This is rosemary.
Take two scoops and call me in the morning
That’s our girl! Selkie, focusing on the *important* things.
Like ice cream. 🙂
Big Herb also sounds like a used car dealer.
I really like the dichotomy between their hair clips!
Herb is huge, they always shot him to make it look like he and Johnny Fever were close to the same height.
Speaking of big herb. Do we know how Sarnothi respond to weed/heroin/etc? Are there Sarnothi equivalents that humanity might get use?
Assuming Sarnothi can use human opioids I wonder if we’ll see a rise in Sarnothi drug use among the refugees.
We’re already familiar with Big Herb, but it’s a different woman’s name, not rosemary.
I am sorry, but that hair clip looks Soooooo sus. In the most “where did you get that!” that I have ever seen. I’m not saying what I’m thinking, just admitting that it looks suspicious.
Could be that Pohl had it on him as a fail-safe in case Selkie’s echo abilities suddenly got out of hand (like what happened with Amanda). Still, that’s an excellent point. o_o
Nah, he just MADE it with his Echo /Resonance abilities right there in the apartment a few strips back… Selkie’s hair-clip is the covering that her mom put over her suppressor, and it’s just the cloth clip thingy now, no suppressor mechanism inside anymore… whereas Amanda’s “hair-clip” is JUST the suppressor without any hair-clip covering/disguise (yet) … what’s really gonna be hilarious is the ensuing hijinks when Amanda loses it in school for whatever reason… remember when the kids first saw Selkie’s eyes glow at lunch and wanted to be able to be taught how to do it too?! they’re all gonna think that she learned from Selkie on how to do it!!
Ah, my bad. Thanks for correcting me!
Dave, you’ve really stepped up your game lately with facial expressions. Well done!
…unprecedented? Because she’s human or because she has the most flow ever?
“Big Herb| induces thoughts of Horse Trader Ed, a feature on late night UHF television decades ago.
This is especially true of Selkie’s eyes in the penultimate panel. “If looks could kill” and all that
As soon as Pohl works out how to bottle this phenomena, he’s going to be able to make a bank from parents looking to make their kids get along.
“You will have superpowers, but only when you hold hands” sounds like the worse choice you can give a pair of preteen siblings ever. Just how mum and dad like it.
Selkie, you got nothing to apologize for.
Agreed.
Is it nice, empathetic, and showing that Selkie has a good heart?
Sure.
Does it bypass the fact that Selkie has very real reason to be angry and hurt and afraid of and not trust Amanda in the sake of “sisterhood!”.
Also yup.
I just hope this doesn’t get glossed over. The author seems
to try for realistic storytelling around trauma and tough childhoods, and I would hate to see this brushed off as handling the problem or that selkie’s somehow equally at fault for the relationship.
Amanda was abused. And she chose to abuse Selkie. When confronted woth Selkie’s pain and fear three strips ago she laughed and then doubled down when told it was inappropriate to laugh.
This doesn’t get papered over with happy families in less than a year.
So I’m wondering, is there anything that counts as ‘junk food’ to the Sarnothi? You know, super high calorie that they’re genetically programmed to seek out, but that’s low in nutrition and not good for you if you eat more than a little?