In which Avery faces down a round of surging unpopularity
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TODD: Okay, Pause. Pause this whole conversation a sec.
ANDI: Oh, thank Christ someone said it.
TODD: Avery, I'm pretty sure SETTING THINGS ON FIRE was a thing we should have bene told about.
ANDI: Eye lasers. EYE LASERS.
AVERY: Miss McClellan, Mister Smith. I promise you both, our first goal here is to make sure the girls focus on safety and control.
AVERY: Also I can tell you without breaking classification, that Selkie did NOT make that fire.
SELKIE (VO): Bullcraps!
AVERY: My cohort simply misjudged the wisdom of telling curious children to play with expensive toys.
THEN (VO): Go to hell, Avery.
ANDI: Oh, thank Christ someone said it.
TODD: Avery, I'm pretty sure SETTING THINGS ON FIRE was a thing we should have bene told about.
ANDI: Eye lasers. EYE LASERS.
AVERY: Miss McClellan, Mister Smith. I promise you both, our first goal here is to make sure the girls focus on safety and control.
AVERY: Also I can tell you without breaking classification, that Selkie did NOT make that fire.
SELKIE (VO): Bullcraps!
AVERY: My cohort simply misjudged the wisdom of telling curious children to play with expensive toys.
THEN (VO): Go to hell, Avery.
When Avery says Selkie didn't make the fire, he just means she didn't actively generate it, a la firebending. She definitely broke the invisibility harness catastrophically.
Haha, so the fire came from the item itself?
Then, be careful of your language in front of the kiddos!
Great work again, Dave!
I’m sure Avery is LOVING the fact that Then can’t sneak up on him without getting someone to make him a new one a lot.
Avery seems to derive great entertainment from Then getting it in the butthole.
As much as I disliked Avery before the “Big Reveal” and have come to respect and enjoy his repartee; I have always disliked Then, and still do, now.
I’m pretty sure we’re supposed to. He’s kind of skeevy.
She didn’t start the fire…
It was always burning since the world was turning.
No, she didn’t light it, but she also wouldn’t try to fight it.
Today’s lesson: Never let 8/9 year old kids play with expensive toys that you’re going to want to ever use again.
Yep. You can definitely tell who the parent is between Avery and Then.
At least we’ve never seen Then ask ‘How much trouble could a bored kid get into?’.
So far, at least.
I genuinely hope Then is never left unsupervised with them as they explore the potential of their abilities.
Or … maybe that would be a good thing. Who knows what they might discover. So long as no one gets hurt, of course.
I hate to harp on this, but Andi, you’re a single mom. You have GOTTA get a grip. Your daughter needs you, and not as a blubbering mess at a table.
Keep in min, her entire world view about whether shit like this was possible was JUST shattered. It might feel like longer due to web comic posting time, but it’s only been like 5 hours in canon at the absolute most. I suspect it’s closer to 3.
Try having something cataclysmic like a hurricane or a car wreck happen. Your world can go to complete shit in *seconds* and you still have to deal with the little ones. They are sitting there in the middle of a wrecked car looking at you asking “What do we do now?” and you *better* have some semblance of an answer.
I’ve had both of these happen, by the way. (Thankfully not at the same time.)
Difference being: from a young age we learn than hurricanes are possible and a natural occurrence and that accidents can happen.
Your kid waking up ans making a hole through the wall by shooting lasers out of her eyes is a way bigger thing to process.
s/hurricanes/earthquakes/ where I live. Mine was aged nine when the Loma Prieta nervous breakdown collapsed Oakland’s Cypress Structure and ruptured gas mains in the Marina district.
spoken like a father, Avery. 🤣
A child who is mastering anger issues, recovered bully, only 9 years old, but can shoot eye lasers? I would be worried too.