In case you don’t remember, the big guy with the dreadlocks is Antoine, and the woman with the glasses exacerbating the rhyme-off is Marta. It may be too small to see, but she is holding Clyde (the family beagle-mix) in her arms. I’m amazed Clyde hasn’t started yapping yet.
I am going to do another Sketch Day Saturday this week. And just for fair warning, the drawing will contain some modest Hellenistic nudity (nothing that you wouldn’t see in an art museum). It’s a concept sketch for a statue from the culture of Selkie’s people.
Unused rhyming words: aggressive, expensive, expansive, pensieve
This is gonna be fun.
At least it isn’t puns.
…
(yet.)
Well, it cod be worse. On this scale, Selkie will be fin – if it isn´t just a fluke, that is.
(scnr)
Yeah they’re quite overdone.
no, they are most fun 😉
They’re rhyming… someone get me my gun.
How long can this run?
Until we are all quite done.
Until there’s no sun!
Beats me, son.
Please, no, Marta hun …
Be more like our son,
Or I’ll have to get my gun.
(And now I’m gonna be singing Paul McCartney’s “Band On The Run” all day …)
this sure is a long one.
Time for some rum.
I’ll go get us a drum.
They were rhyming on -ensive, so ‘aggressive’ wouldn’t really work.
You misspelled “C-C-Combo Breaker!”
someone broke the chain? INCONCEIVABLE!
…did you actually manage the music sting from “Fiddler on the Roof” when I read that, I was I imagining things?
Isn’t there always one?
Paddy, more like a ton.
Unles it’s a tale I just spun.
The trouble with webcomics is that you wait and wait until Thursday… and then wham!!! All of a sudden it’s over, it was great but now you have to wait until Monday again…
Does Marta have a trace of Aspergers or something with the rhyming?
I’m quite curious to see the Saturday art however, since I am trying to make a set of Selkie paper dolls and I wonder if her people are mammals or not. I need to know so that I can place the gills and draw the doll itself in the right clothes which are both as brief as possible and yet as modest as possible. I’d simply put her in a standard little training bra, but then the bottom band might cut across her gills and be uncomfortable, not to mention make problems with flushing them if they get dehydrated….
Just try and rhyme with this post, Suckers!!!
(Actually enjoyed the rhyming very much but couldn’t do it myself as I am brain dead this morning.)
On my toast this morning, I had Smucker’s.
Sounds yummy. I stopped at a deli called Tucker’s.
When I stopped at that deli, I was whistled at by a bunch of truckers.
With young men, that sometimes occurs.
I suspect Marta’s had a few chucklers.
Take that, suckers!
Marta does not have Aspergers, she was just bouncing of her father and brother’s accidental rhyme.
A Selkie paper doll sounds fun! Their gills fall about two-thirds of the way down the torso, slightly lower than the bottom of the rib cage.
A training bra? For an 8 year old? Or are you just trying to establish structure and logistics?
I was imagining from where Selkie wraps herself with a towel that bare midriff shirts aren’t gonna be an option when she gets older, but a bra wouldn’t be affected.
Dondy> Why would you assume she has a condition and not that she is simply having fun? And in asking if they are mammalian, I assume you are asking do the females nurse their young via breasts? Good question! Perhaps Dave’s gonna reveal it on Saturday?
Dave> Wow… If all I need to do to get more comments for Shards is do a rhyming theme, I can do that! I’m sure Dondonesque, Wisknort, and other regulars would jump so I won’t think they migrated. (subtle rhyming? I think not LOL)
A mention! I’m elated.
(Shards really is splendid- highly recommended.)
Shards is a wonder, with characters sublime
From fable to fairy tale an adventurous climb.
But if you wish to feel more of commentor’s sheen,
May I suggest Dorothy hugging Velveteen?
;P
Eeeeeeee!!!!!! I live in Wisconsin!!!! You have no clue how extremely happy I was to read that! ^_^
Yeah the princess bride immediately sprang to mind. “no more rhymes now, I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?”
Fezzik, yaaaaay~ X3 If anyone knows a line from the Princess Bride, that’s it.
Princess Bride quote FTW.
Same here, I was going to comment, but you beat me to it!
I’m so pumped about this comic!
The moment rhyming was criticised in the comment, I pressed Ctrl+F and searched for the word “peanut”.
You commenters are so predictable.
I love these guys. They act like this in front of Selkie and she won’t feel nervous in the least. It’s hard to be intimidated by silly goofballs.
I think they are all playing off the goofball that is their father. He might be stressed right now but normally the man is a NUT.
Actually, in the transcript you wrote pensieve, as in Harry Potter and not rhyming with offensive.
A missed opportunity. “No more rhyming, I mean it!” “Anybody want a Peanut?”
That’s old news, we’ve seen it.
(Sorry!)
Dang, you beat me to it. 🙂
Don’t worry, he doesn’t mean any harm…
(Ya’ll asked for it…) New 80’s revamp Saturday morning cartoon: He-mut!
My parents, sister and I did the same thing last time we took my grandma out to dinner. We drove that poor woman crazy.