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We're soooo close to the end of this arc, and yet... there are still a few more story points to cover. ._.
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Keisha’s not a bad friend after all.
Well, at least there was one positive point to this whole scene.
SURELY Heather’s parents aren’t so irresponsible as to send her back to the orphanage over something that kids her age, as a rule, do. Seriously. Kids do these kinds of things ALL THE TIME. SURELY they understand that, and Heather’s fears of going back, even if Keisha doesn’t hate her after all, are completely unfounded, right? Right??
I don’t think the law will let them un-adopt her for such a frivolous reason. This is a serious issue and needs to be dealt with, but it doesn’t warrant washing their hands of her right after adopting her.
In most states adoptions aren’t finalized right away it usually takes 6 months to a year or longer based on how backed up the judicial system is since a judge has to sign off on it. So if it was a big issue yes parents could back out. But something like this? I highly doubt it. Most likely Heather is going to that private school they talked about and is going to see her friends ever again because Amanda was a little brat to her.
Aww…
On’ya Keisha!
I wonder how Amanda will react to Keisha doing the right thing.
Now you can say you’re a good friend Keisha. ^_^ Now it’s a matter of getting the other one to stop being a brat…
As for Heather’s parents, well I’m not honestly expecting them to send her away, not unless they’re super-flakey a-holes, but at most I just see them surprised or wondering why Heather would do such a thing, and simply do what parents do when a kid goes bad, reinforce the “you something not cool” lesson, but also remind the child they don’t hate them for it and to show em’ the light.
But we’ll see how that turns out.
Or they could go the “Our little angel would never do such a thing, so the blue-skinned freak must be framing her” route… we´ll see.
This is what I fear will happen. 🙁
I have the feeling that if they try this, Heather will do the right thing and tell them that they are wrong.
For some reason, I get the idea that Heather’s parents will have the “Not MY Heather, no no, she’d never do something like that” and dismiss it as such; they just really strike me as those types of people.
Aaaaaw c:
Keisha, you’re a good friend! 😀
Now, this is the sort of heart-warming strip that I love.
like most of you, I’m also wondering what Heather’s parents will do. I don’t have many guesses though. Just a profound lack of optimism. After all, Dave *did* admit they were kinda modeled after Barbie and Ken, and that aside, they still seem like the rich-bitch types.
Also… GO KEISHA!!! SO happy to see that particular turnaround ^.^
Don’t hate them cause you ain’t them. ;o
Heck, I’m happy I’m not part of “Barbie & Ken”. :O
And *this* is way growing up with the name Barbara sucked…
Well, Heather’s parents haven’t exactly left any sort of good impression on us yet…but I’d like to hope that they surprise us in the next couple of pages and show some good parenting skills! 😀
So will the parents be monsters or help healthy development…
I think too much, esp. when I’m worried. I don’t think Dave has a simple enough plot line to just bail on the complexities of what happened. I think that he’s stuck “Doing it Right”, so I’m expecting the ‘Rents of Heather’s to be -yes- horrified, and reprimand her, and laugh about it in private. I don’t see her changing schools – at this point- in the school year. (But maybe later.) Keisha=Man-Up, you go girl! She did the right thing,– and now ‘Someone’ needs to apologize for not believing the truth.
If you’re referring to the teachers who didn’t believe it when told by all three in the group at once, then I agree.
If you’re referring to Selie, I would like to remind you that “Someone” had a darn good reason.
… Guys. COME ON. You have to give Heather’s parents the benefit of the doubt, AS WELL as some credit. We’ve seen them in only FOUR comic strips (twice together, twice only Barb), and you’re all making a big mistake of judging a book by its cover. Their character DESIGNS were based off of Barbie and Ken dolls, NOT their PERSONALITIES.
And I’m not trying to be a bitchy know-it-all here, I’m trying to be realistic because it’s people assuming things like this JUST BY the very little information they have on them (what they look like, etc.) that makes trouble.
Just because Barbara Fairweather LOOKS like a snobby, preppy, pretentious b*tch doesn’t mean that she IS ONE. And just because Kenneth LOOKS like a dumb, muscular body-builder doesn’t mean that he IS ONE. He founded an architectural business that is obviously very successful (hence Todd’s employment at the firm)
These two were approved for adopting a child because they passed all of the steps and evaluations. And they picked Heather for a reason, and they’ve had her for a few weeks now. That’s obviously a lot of and enough time to spend with her to bond with and get to know her. Do you REALLY think that they could just give that all up over her acting up one time?
If my parents had the option of giving me up every time I acted up, I would have been gone A LONG time ago.
They’re in this for the long run.
Seriously. You can’t overlook or over-think something when you have so little information and impressions on it. Like I said, we’ve seen Heather’s parents in only four comic strips, and there’s 180 strips.
People… you’re really driving me crazy with all of these “they’re going to say Selkie’s framing her”, “they’re going to be snobby and say that their angel didn’t do anything”, “they’re going to send her off to private school and she’ll never see her friends again” comments. Judging people right off the bat with little or no information about them (in this case, 4 to 176) is what ostracized me throughout my school years. What would you think of a chubby red-headed girl, with either a pink fleece hat with cat ears on it or rubber Vulcan (elf-like) costume ears, glasses, a Star Trek TOS blue uniform-styled sweatshirt, black fingerless gloves, a messenger bag decorated with anime, Jeff Dunham, Star Trek and animal buttons, boys blue jeans instead of girls, gray plaid Converse high-tops, sitting quietly by herself in a school lunchroom, either reading graphic novels or playing on a Nintendo DS?
That would be your first impression of me. Sure, I’m a real person and not a comic strip character DESIGNED after Barbie dolls, but that would be a first impression.
You have to give people a chance. Fictional or non-fictional.
This comment was brought on with my inner frustrations with people being judgmental. This is MY opinion and views.
Good day to you all.
“What would you think of a chubby red-headed girl, with either a pink fleece hat with cat ears on it or … either reading graphic novels or playing on a Nintendo DS?
I’d think, “Hi cousin Leela”! Seriously, you and my couz would really get on.
Might be a bit of an age difference nowadays though, she’s 45.
You had me until “Jeff Dunham.” No matter: While I can’t speak for anyone else, my hoping that they DON’T send Heather back to the orphanage is not based on their appearance, but is inferred from past strips which appeared to indicate (however implicitly and indirectly) that this has happened before to ONE OF the kids.
What would I think of that girl? I would think, “Shove over, I wanna sit with you.”
I would ask where you got your hat.
You just described a friend of mine. 😀
I know how you feel though. A few years back, I was dating someone outside of my race. A friend of mine told me, “Don’t take this the wrong way, but you never struck me as the type that would be okay with interracial dating.”
I believe the face I made was approximately: O_o
You dated a non-human? ew.
Ha ha. XD
Race as in ethnicity.
“What would you think of a chubby red-headed girl, with either a pink fleece hat with cat ears on it or rubber Vulcan (elf-like) costume ears, glasses, a Star Trek TOS blue uniform-styled sweatshirt, black fingerless gloves, a messenger bag decorated with anime, Jeff Dunham, Star Trek and animal buttons, boys blue jeans instead of girls, gray plaid Converse high-tops, sitting quietly by herself in a school lunchroom, either reading graphic novels or playing on a Nintendo DS?”
Probably exactly what I’m thinking right now: WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?!
… And here I am now, to say that I realize I may have gone a little overboard with my previous comment (if you can’t tell…) simply because it just really irked me and it happened to irk me good…
My apologies…
Don´t worry, we all have such topics. I completely understand why you did that.
FWIW, I didn´t suggest they might think Selkie framed Heather because they´re essentially Barbie and Ken, but because they´re Heather´s parents – the more so because they´re her adoptive rather than birth parents. I´m sure you´ve met parents who couldn´t believe that their little angel could do anyone any harm – and in this case, there´s also that they chose to adopt this particular girl, and thus would (unconsciously) need to keep up their conviction that they made the right choice, so Heather *cannot* have done what she is accused of, because otherwise they´d have made a bad choice.
Well, that´s how it *could* go. I´m still hoping they take the “epiphanic punishment” route, like Todd´s mom did with making him shovel horse poop all weekend so he´d learn what “full of shit” really looks like.
No problem, happens to everyone sometimes. I agree with most everything you said. We just don’t have enough information about these characters to make assumptions.
I don’t think Barbie would bring an adopted daughter back to the orphanage, though. From the movies and such I’ve seen her in (don’t hate, I was in the target age group at the time), she doesn’t seem like an the type who would do that. Maybe not the type to knowingly adopt a problem child, but not the type to give up easily on someone she’s made a commitment to. Afterall, things targeted at kids that age generally encourage responsibility and compassion.
The Fairweathers could be reasonable about this and take it in stride, or they could use it as an opportunity to insist that Heather’s friends are a bad influence and send her to private school as they wanted to initially. We shall see.
And you know there will be drama with Todd being one of their employees. At least a bit of tension. That’s far too juicy an angle for the story to miss out on!
Incidentally, Dave, I’d like to compliment you on your color work. In panel 1, for instance, Keisha’s black hair is in front of George’s black hair, but the two shades of black are distinct enough that the two images don’t blur.
Similarly, you use a far wider range of skin tones than do most webcomic artists I’ve seen, even on characters who are prima facie of the same ‘race’. Excellent attention to detail.
Thank you. 🙂 I actually was hesitant about the composition on panel 1 due to the dark-no-dark and how it would look on different monitors. I’m glad the distinction shows through on the hair and skin tones. Especially the skin tones; it bugs me a bit when every person of the same race has the same skin complexion. Even biological siblings don’t always have the same skin tone; my sister and I are a good example. I am pasty like an eyeless cave lizard, she’s lightly-toasted sourdough.
I think the principle is an alien in disguise… he has CLAW HANDS!!!