Made it to the drawing board for this one. ;P
Dialogue may require a hit of the back button to understand why Amanda is bringing up homework suddenly. I decided to modify a dialogue choice on the previous comic that was giving some undesired implications, and the homework dialogue here is based on that changed dialogue in 1568.
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TODD: Andi, do you want to have this conversation, like... INSIDE?
ANDI: ALL OF THE YES PLEASE.
JESSIE: So... this is a nice place. You have a... n-nice place, Mister Smith.
AMANDA: Are you sure you aren't here for homework?
ANDI: Jess, I thought the plan was we split at the door and you go home?!
JESSIE: I know, I'm sorry!
ANDI: God, I did NOT want to have this conversation yet...
JESSIE: I was worried! I couldn't just GHOST on you, if Amanda might have been hurt!
SELKIE: Hey, waits. If your Mom is datings a teacher, doesn't thats mean LESS homework?
AMANDA: ... YES! YES IT DOES!
POHL: Hi, sweetie? Tuck the kids in, I'm going to be late. ..Yeah. Yeah, it's drama again.
ANDI: ALL OF THE YES PLEASE.
JESSIE: So... this is a nice place. You have a... n-nice place, Mister Smith.
AMANDA: Are you sure you aren't here for homework?
ANDI: Jess, I thought the plan was we split at the door and you go home?!
JESSIE: I know, I'm sorry!
ANDI: God, I did NOT want to have this conversation yet...
JESSIE: I was worried! I couldn't just GHOST on you, if Amanda might have been hurt!
SELKIE: Hey, waits. If your Mom is datings a teacher, doesn't thats mean LESS homework?
AMANDA: ... YES! YES IT DOES!
POHL: Hi, sweetie? Tuck the kids in, I'm going to be late. ..Yeah. Yeah, it's drama again.
I'm going to need to put some new supports and fresh plaster on the fourth wall after this one.
Is tucking kids in a Sarnothi thing? There’s a lot of land-bound mammalian instincts tied up in bedding.
It could just as easily be a common expression they picked up from English that translates into “bed them down for the night in whatever way Sarnothi do that.” 🙂 But yeah, that’s a great question for Dave: How DO Sarnothi “tuck in” their kids for the night?
They are fluent in English and culture. That saying is VERY common.
Well, sea otters wrap themselves and maybe their pups in kelp to keep them from drifting off as they sleep so…could be similar type thing.
I would definitely expect it to be a thing they’ve picked up from humans, given how well integrated they are into the local society.
Also, sarnothi have a lot more similarities to humans than I think you’re giving them credit for here – I don’t see any reason why they wouldn’t be sleeping on beds, under sheets/blankets. And their kids are probably young and rambunctious enough to have to be put to bed in at least a vaguely similar fashion to human children.
put to bed in at least a vaguely similar fashion to human children.
Crap, I hate the thought of tennis netting and rope for the poor Sarnothi kids. But at least I couldn’t get at my brother.
Pohl and Jessie: My two favorite secondary characters for all of the reasons currently on display.
1. Pohl is the best
2. Jessie is really caring not wanting to vanish if something really was wrong with Amanda, she’s a good (if a bit socially clumsy) person!
3. I didn’t have a problem with the previous dialogue, but the updated dialogue is an improvement regardless.
I love the priorities of these children. They are right of course. Homework is evil.
Poor Pohl…
You have an extra ” u200E” in your link.
Yeah, I can see the reason for the rewrite, this is way funnier, and I’m pretty sure it’s also a callback to earlier strips when one of the girls things that the teacher is visiting to assign more homework.
Nee dialogue for previous strip is definitely 200% better. As for the current strip, I literally LOLed. Thanks, Dave!
adults panicking about the dramatics and ethical concerns. Kids not caring even remotely, because sister pointed out the possible benefit out of curiosity.
God i love how realistic this comic gets!
Pohl, this drama doesn’t involve you. Go home and be a family man. You might as well start making pop- popcorn chicken the way you’re talking.
Can’t say I blame you though. We’re all doing the same.
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God I want popcorn chicken.
Oh, kiddo. Having a teacher date your parent means MORE homework.
And the teacher coming over and making sure you do it.
I’ll be honest, the original dialogue for the previous strip made it totally reasonable for Jessie to admit she was dating Andi as a knee jerk reaction to deny Amanda’s accusation. The new dialogue makes it a little less believable. I don’t see why she would panic at Amanda believing she wanted to give her extra homework.
Yeah, it was funny enough to think that a 9 year old thought the teach has a crush on her, but in today’s climate, I understand Dave for altering it.
Side note: Andi is handling it pretty wellby not flying off the handle… yet.
She still seems frustrated to the max, though.