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SELKIE: Okay... push. Feel pushing.
SELKIE: I can do this. If Amanda can do it... if MOM can do it...
SELKIE: I can DO THIS!
SELKIE: I can do this. If Amanda can do it... if MOM can do it...
SELKIE: I can DO THIS!
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
I’m reading either disappointment at it being equal or less than Amanda OR shit being lost because when Selkie DOES tap in it’s more dangerous than anyone could imagine.
If it’s the former, then somebody should point out that Amanda isn’t a rival; she’s the bioenergy healing field that’s done more to fix the damage to Selkie’s powers in a week than literally *everything else* in months, combined.
I’m reallly realllly good at predicting which of two paths Dave will take, … and then he takes the third path and I am left being wrong twice. So even when I know what it’s going to be I’m wrong.
But I think you have the right of it.
I’m really hoping she blows a giant hole through the wall but I’m afraid it’s just going to be a small zap.
I dunno, Selkie had a lot more eye-fire going on before the blast than Amanda did.
I’m half expecting it to either say “ERROR” or just be smoldering stump.
My bet is a needle-like ray that hits the device, but is only a little more powerful than Amanda’s on actual output. Amanda hasn’t gotten a lesson yet, and just began to Sing. Selkie, now that she has something concrete to Sing about, having greater focus would be appropriate.
It’s OK, they didn’t need that building next door, really.
Boom
I’MMA FIRIN’ MA LAZER!!!!
*Checks calendar* huh… its not friday… but this is a cliffhanger… weird….
Naw, the cliffhanger will be everyone staring slack-jawed at what just happened.
In which we find out why Pohl didn’t want to cut corners
Lots of ways could go, but my bet says big boom
I’m guessing she is going to push past the block, but it will be like a rusty iris, she’ll get it only half way open.
given her age, her birth parents, how long she had been blocked, and that her flame is still smaller than Amanda’s flame.
I am guessing Selkie’s flame will grow in size as she tries to push past the block, but the final output will be the same as Amanda to twice what Amanda did.
This isn’t dragon ball Z, Selkie doesn’t need to be overpowered during the first test. She is still in training. and currently her parents and mentors, are the ones that will be doing the protecting and heavy lifting. and as the colony will be dividing between land and lake, Selkie won’t be asked to do any actual lifting for quite a while.
With Amanda as a proper rival, this is the beginning of the actual Training and learning Arc, during which they will grow closer as sisters.
If you wanted to update Thursday AND Friday I don’t think any of us would complain pleeeeaaaasssseeee
I love this comic. It is my favorite thing to look forward too in order to make it through the work week. Can’t wait to see the reveal on Friday.
Anyone else getting a Death Star vibe!
So her talking isn’t lazor-ish, but the picture certainly seems to imply a powerup for Selkie. Dang it, gotta love (?) the cliffhangers
Suggestion for a visual effect:
Start off with a normal speech bubble in panel 1, move to the grey one Selkie had earlier in this scene for panel 2, and finish off full black – since her eyes are fully ablaze – for panel 3. Maybe even a gradient grey to black for the “DO THIS!”
Ooh… This is either going to be MASSIVE… or a piddly little thing…
Or it’s just a normal lazer like Amanda’s or something.
OK it’s about 50/50 between “just a squib” to “wasn’t there a wall there just a few seconds ago?”
Rule Of Funny has the wall gone but the targeting device untouched.
im going with nuclear fall out level
Let us all pause for a moment and pity Agent Brown, because if Selkie takes out a wall, imagine the paperwork he will have to do to explain it.