I am sorry about the half-comic again gang. Afraid I just had a lot going on with schoolwork and other miscellanea this weekend.
On the subject of my schoolwork, I am afraid I must make a sad announcement. I have three projects that still need a lot of work to be ready for finals week, and this week is my last week to work on them. I’ve decided that I will need to dedicate my usual comic-making time to these projects. So, I won’t be doing a Thursday comic this week.
BUT.
I still want to have something posted on Thursday, so I will do a sketch/doodle day on Thursday instead of the normal update. And I’d like to offer you guys the option to decide what I draw for that. If you have any suggestions/requests/demands, drop a comment and I will choose the one I like best for the Thursday sketch.
I apologize for canceling the second comic of the week on you guys, hopefully it will never have to happen again.
Ooh! Selkie as a baby! Please?
As someone once said (I’ve heard it was John Lennon), “Life is what happens while you’re making other plans.”
Do what you’ve gotta do. We’ll wait. 🙂
No biggie, it’s all about prioritization. No-one wants you to neglect your other work.
What about Selkie’s Mum? Even the image Selkie retains of her, accurate or not, would be interesting.
I love Todd’s expression in the last panel. It’s all *manly pout*
Anon> Oh, I’d love to do that pic! But I fall under the same category as Dave at this point.
Dave> Just wait. I’ll do a Selkie baby pic for you eventually:) Um, do they look different than human babies? Not necessarily a larvae stage but some baby fish and crabs don’t look much like the adults. Hm… I ASSUME they are much like humans but I didn’t wanna jump the gun there. Also, I feel yer pain with the delays. Newborn, toddler, new job, house chores stacking up, still need to feed myself… Yeah. Alla that means the comic suffers. I almost didn’t shade today’s strip but I did anyway. Oh well. He’ll wake up in an hour anyway and I’d have to get up then to feed him, ya know? 😉
Only Thursday? Whew, when you started talking about a delay, I thought you meant a “for-the-rest-of-the-school-year” type delay, lol.
Maybe a prom picture of Andi and Todd? It would be interesting to see how they looked when they first started dating.
This is pretty much what I figured of Todd and Andi – that the adoption comment was jus the tip of the iceberg that sunk the relationship.
As per doodle pic suggestion, howabout Selkie’s “queen of the fishes” dream scene? 😀
Or you could show us more of Selkie’s medical file.
Selkie getting her first picture taken in Santa’s lap, Todd looking on.
(makes me wonder which of the two will be the most scared and nervous, Santa or Selkie)
Selkie’s old enough — and spent long enough in the orphanage — to know that Santa Claus is bullshit.
A picture of Selkie´s mother would be nice.
…Oh my. Not exactly fluffy kittens and butterflies, is it?…
Well, except for the butterflies in everyone’s stomachs.
I can much more easily accept a skip-day when it’s announced ahead of time, for a good reason like working on a project for school (or work).
Look forward to the next comic next week.
I love the new, looser line style! It looks great!
oh shoot…I’m pretty sure I know what happened in the past with Andi and Todd :<
Having skip-days just means you have a life! 😀 That’s a good thing.
Ooh, lover’s quarrel. Andi suddenly became more likable in my eyes.
Aww, that poor couple. What it seems like is that when they were younger there might’ve been an unplanned pregnancy, and then possibly a miscarriage. It’d explain in part why the relationship went downhill. Sad, but lovely story!
That’s what I thought too. Miscarriage.
Seems just as likely an unplanned pregnancy followed by an abortion, if they were in high school or college at the time. A baby could seriously and permanently disrupt their education, which isn’t good for anyone.
I was thinking abortion as well.
I was thinking either miscarriage or baby that was born and then died early due to complications or an illness of some kind.
Just the fact that you are giving us a doodle is sweet. I am in the thick of wrapping up finals and all that myself. Good luck to you. 🙂
I’m sure we readers can make due with a sketch. Priorities are priorities!
I have an idea as to what happened similar to LetoB’s, but since I put a lot of thinking and deducing into it, it would make a rather long-winded comment that probably will become quite null eventually. So I shall keep the idea of what happened to myself and simply await the actual results.
I say do what you need to do, finish your project, when you come back just make a double sized comic. no one can complain about that. getting the occasional big chunk of story will really leave everyone thursting for more!
and yes my spelling is horrible today because i’m also working on 4 projects that are math related so my spelling brain is turned off ^_^
I bet all those Andi haters feel silly now. See? What I said was more or less right. Andi isn’t a horrible witch, she just wanted her own children. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t also mind having adopted children, but you cannot fault a woman for wanting children that are a part of her and Todd physically.
She’s still Not Getting It, though. She’s still focused on What She Wants, not what Todd wants, let alone what Todd has in his life right now: a daughter he adopted without her.
She wants to salvage their relationship? She needs to accept that if she gets back together with Todd, then she gets the joys and burdens of rasing an adopted daughter in the bargain. So far, she hasn’t said anything to indicate she’s even aware of that basic truth, let alone accepted it.
What I find interesting is how eager folks seem to be (often explicitly saying as much) to put a label on Andi in the first place. This comic is remarkable in how COMPLICATED all of its characters are. Everyone has deep, human flaws (even the main characters Todd and Selkie), and still folks want to condemn Andi as a witch (and even the ones that don’t are “giving her a chance” so they can label her later).
However this turns out, whether she “comes around” and becomes a more sympathetic character or whether she sticks to her guns and makes her and Todd’s breakup even worse, it looks as though Andi is going to be an interesting, extremely human character. I hope to see more of her, in any capacity.
I wonder, too, if Todd’s deciding to adopt a child might have been done as a sort of revenge for the painful button Andi pressed? It might explain why he was somewhat unprepared to deal with Selkie’s presence in his life (though, granted, Selkie’s a very unique case, and one that it would have been difficult to prepare for). Still, if it was retribution, I wonder if Todd will eventually have to come to terms with the fact that he made a decision that seriously altered the life of a young girl (for the better, hopefully!), for a somewhat petty reason…
Adding to today’s remark, since you referred to yesterday’s comments but didn’t respond to any of mine there:
The fact is that Andi knew before showing up on Todd’s doorstep that he had a daughter now, and so far she has only referred to her once, asking if “that sick orphan girl” she saw in the picture gave him the rash on his cheek–she still hasn’t asked the name of his daughter, or anything about her! It’s passive denial of Todd’s new daughter, and of a huge part of his life now.
Perhaps “Andi isn’t a horrible witch,” but she is still acting terribly self-centered.
As special as it is to have your own child, think of all the children out there that need homes… I do think she’s a bit cold, still.
Exactly what I was thinking!
I think that right now she’s just had a bit of an unpleasant surprise, coming to make amends with her boyfriend to find out he has a daughter and doesn’t want to see her anymore.
I still think she’s a horrible *itch. Even horrible *itches have their motivations. And like Kimberley said, she can’t just get Todd back. Todd isn’t a single guy anymore, he’s a family unit together with Selkie. If Andi wants back into Todd’s life, she has to accept that right now Selkie is a bigger part of Todd’s life than she is. And that to have any further positive contact with Todd, she’ll have to have genuiely positive contact with Selkie, too. And I doubt she can do that. She still comes off as a self-centered college kid unwilling to grow up.
No worries, I know what you mean about schoolwork. I get my Bachelors in two weeks, I had no time to spend on anything fun for the past three months. Take time for yourself, we understand 🙂
Finals first. While the comic is great the degree will only improve your future even if you become a professional cartoonist. An earlier reply suggested Selkie’s mom. That would be good.
I really hope he doesn’t get back together with her. I want to see a single father raising a child, rather than single mothers or a couple.
CHRISTMAS SELKIEEEE!!!
Okay, serious subject time.
I know that Todd went through crap as an adopted child himself. And I know he’ll find out about Selkie being bullied at school. What I’m hoping is that he’ll teach Selkie when it’s okay to stand up and fight.
There was a story in the news about a seven year old boy who, while in a fight and being choked – hit the bully in the “family jewels”. That seven year old is being charged with sexual harassment.
Or what about the young man in Australia who was being beaten up by a kid who was much larger? The bigger kid punched the smaller kid in the face – twice. The smaller kid finally BODY SLAMMED the bully. End of fight. But the SMALLER kid got the punishment from the school.
There are going to be times when “I’ll tell my dad” will work. And then there’s times when you have to stand your ground. Hey, it even worked in the Brady Bunch.
So – we’ll have a little break from the comic. Let’s discuss.
I don’t understand the world sometimes. -_-
Um, if you’re talking Casey Heynes from spring this year, you need to do a little more research. Casey was much bigger and older than the kid who was bullying him.
Yeah I was. So the smaller kid was hitting Casey, Casey took two punches to the face, bodyslams the bully, and gets in trouble for it? Hey, bullies come in all sizes and you should still be able to fight back without getting in trouble for it.
Those really sound like “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD” Daily Mail-type bullshit, to be honest. I’d want to see a source before I took either of those stories at face value. And if I wanted to be in discussions about that sort of thing, there are other fora where those topics are more appropriate.
That said, I really like how Andi and Todd have adopted (no pun intended) the exact same pose.
Ah, the divine retribution of the youth… ‘ere the dawning sun, when thine enemies art at thine level, thy means and thy will are the ways of the world. But when thine enemies begin to overpower you, to dwarf ye in the shadows of the colossus, then thine methods must be true and precise. But lo, it is a saddening moment when the defender is the wretch, cast to the pits of shame and degradation for DARING to raise their fist! They are but humble warriors, thine method was clearly too much, clearly uncalled for! It is to thine politics we must approach! Guilty, they cry! Guilty, they scream! All for the masses and for the masses, all. Hung unto death, of thine social standing, for the merest brush with infamy… woe unto us. Woe.
love your comic . i made a fan art for selkie’s mom http://lekadema.deviantart.com/art/selkie-s-mom-fan-art-273220912
Ok, I hate Andi already.
That kind of “must pass on genes, even at the expense of the rest of the world” attitude is the kind of trash-mindedness I cannot abide. Freakin wannabe-breeder. ¬_¬
Except her attitude isn’t actually “must pass on genes, even at the expense of the rest of the world” it’s “must make up for what happened the first time” which you would know if you had actually, you know, read her dialogue. I mean she clearly states that there are other more personal reasons that she wants to have biological children that don’t involve a desire to pass on her genes.