Sorry, in a bit of a rush this morning. Will add colors later,and may do some light re-draws tonight.
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
Sorry, in a bit of a rush this morning. Will add colors later,and may do some light re-draws tonight.
It is just me or without color, Selkie and Amanda looks very similar?
As in “twin sisters” similar?
It’s not just you.
Selkie, for once can you not break your promises to follow rules meant to protect yourself and others?
Dave, one of the reasons I REALLY love you comic is because it feels very real. None of this crap on TV where they purposely don’t have people talk or be rational just for the sake of making a ZANNY situation.
I have seen that cliché for years and it is only made worse by the so called “reality TV” which is just as fake if not more so.
If you have good writing and sincerity, you don’t need all the gags and other fluff that most entertainment counts on to distract you that it has no plot.
I mean it kind of makes sense in comedy, especially sitcoms, but yeah, otherwise it’s stupid.
I do think that in some social circles people don’t ever actually talk about disagreements though, and perhaps a lot of tv writers come from those backgrounds. (WASPs in particular)
The real answer is: Andi and Todd took Amanda and Selkie out of school for a mental health day and they played laser tag.
Yes
Or to the science center! I’m sure their city has a science center.
Science lasers! There are so many lasers
Laser guns are for laser tag
exactly what I was thinking, but I have my own laser (tag) guns so that may be why too
Though I can chalk a little of it up to still being a young child, you’d think that with as many times as Selkie’s gotten herself into trouble by either being nosy or being a blabbermouth that she’d maybe start to course-correct a bit. Even Amanda looks a bit exasperated with her here.
That said, I appreciate that Selkie has some flaws and that they’re handled (in my opinion) realistically, both in a meta sense and from the perspective of the other characters!
Dunno, I just don’t. Looking at the number of mistakes and the Ypres of mistakes. Selkie’s mistakes are spun out more slowly over a longer time frame with greater detail- for our inspection. But I gotta say that the kids in my family make bigger mistakes, more frequent mistakes, and head into them with greater energy and much more quickly than Selkie does,…. I’m gonna call this “Totally Accurate” seen from my perspective.
This may be entirely because I’m looking at them from the perspective of having NEVER been a parent, but very frequently Parent Adjacent.
Yeah, like, I forgot, how old are they? If Selkie is like ten, she’s old enough to know better.
Eight
I have a niece and a nephew that are five, it’s weird at that age because you can tell they are like thinking about what they are doing, they are aware enough to know they’ll get in trouble but still freaking do it.
Yeah, 8 seems a perfectly reasonable age to pull a stunt like Selkie did.
While Selkie would need a talking to, Todd didn’t handle the situation with his parents well from the start. He got Mari (understandably) riled up with “bad news” and then couldn’t really tell them anything of substance. And they should have had a reasonable cover – not a lie, just not the whole truth – as to why that barette stays on. They really should have had fairly comprehensive plans in place, in consultation with Avery, for what they’d tell family and friends in a variety of situations, before they ever left that SCIF.
I make allowances for Selkie suddenly being able to do the ultra-cool thing that she should have been able to do all along but couldn’t. She’s an eight year old who now has her legit superpowers. Sugar high has NOTHING on this!