I haven’t been camping in a long time, mostly because sleeping bags on rocks is horrible.
I wanna thank everyone at this time for the questions and speculations about Selkie's saliva over this past arc. It gave me the idea for this scene, and I think it's addition makes the issue more solid. Thanks for being awesome!
Poor Selkie!
aww poor selkie 🙁
You have people debating the nature of your main character’s saliva.
If that’s not the definition of success, I don’t know what is.
I could not agree more.
Awww poor girl *hugs* dont worry there will be cream and stuffs for it i am sure
it seems to be a bit more than just a rash, there was mention of hands numbing afterwards.
Hydrocortisone! That stuff’s miraculous for most people.
you think sh*t smells bad, skunk + sh*t = too horrible to fabricate.
There’s the problem with the scientific method: even if the results suck, they’re still probably true.
All of human civilization has been an effort to avoid camping. It baffles me that there are people who willingly choose to sleep and defecate outdoors.
Also, that wedding dress is totally made from hemp.
Some people actually like nature and don’t think themselves too special to commune with nature?
Not to mention it can be pretty fun with friends and a lake or shallow river.
There’s things I like and things I don’t like about camping. Everything involving bugs heat and sleeping on rocks is in the grey to dark grey area.
I love nature, but I hate tent camping. I’m too tender to sleep on the ground without a massive air mattress, I have asthma and am allergic to practically everything in the great outdoors, and I loathe having to stumble more than ten feet to the bathroom in the wee hours of the morning. Having said all that, I adore fully-loaded cabins in the woods…
Bah. “Outdoors” isn’t true nature. You want real roughing-it? Try hard vacuum. The best place to go camping is in a spaceship. None of that silly limited atmosphere stuff to get in the way of you and the majority of the Universe!
It’s all fun and games until someone’s lungs and eyeballs implode.
Beth, your comment made my day n_n
One futurist’s reply to the people who say “But we are native to Earth – we couldn’t survive anywhere else” is just beautiful:
We are NOT “native to Earth”, we are native to KENYA. There are very few places on earth where we can survive with no clothing, tools, fire… Everywhere else we now inhabit we are only able to survive there because of our technology. It will be the same in space, and on other planets.
I want that first sentence as a cross-stitch sampler.
An immunity might be acquired.
What’s the next experiment? Intravenous? That’ll be exciting!
Briefly…
Heh, looks like I was right. But that doesn’t mean that adding this scene wasn’t for the good of the authenticity of the events.
…and now you have 5 rash sites to keep track of in the future continuity. 😛
Ssh, don’t break the cartoonist!
XD
I was kind of hoping it would have been just Todd, now I just want to give Selkie a big hug T^T.
Aw Selkie… I really hope there is something they can do about this.
good news is that immunity can be aquired for most things … you just need highly regular doses of it XD
It could be a lot worse: it’s better to find out now than when she’s a teenager!
OOoh Worst first date EVER!
I know right!
I feel bad for Selkie if later in life she and a human boy fall for each other.
Boy? Heteronormative!
You say that as if it were a bad thing.
It can be. I’m still sad Todd wasn’t gay. XD
Just playing the odds.
Nothing about Selkie makes me think she’ll end up being gay.
Perhaps there is a way to neutralize her saliva. And if not Selkie could always use a dental dam when snogging with any future boyfriends/girlfriends. (still banking on the latter haha)
Love your strip, it is quite unique as well as fun. I hope you will find a way to “cure” the saliva problem; a parent who can’t get kisses from their child – well, that would just be cruel.
2Dean
A hemp wedding dress would be the ultimate in practicality. Not only is it ‘green’ but after the wedding the couple can smoke it…
Industrial or fiber hemp contains virtually no THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the active ingredient in marijuana. For this reason, one cannot get high from smoking hemp.
(http://www.ecomall.com/biz/hemp.htm)
Once as an impressionable 12 year old, a friend showed me his hemp necklace and I was, for weeks, afraid the cops would jump out of the bushes and arrest us for having pot at any moment. XD
Considering the price of wedding gowns, I don’t know if you’d want to smoke one afterwards. That would be a horrible waste of something that costs half a third world country.
swear jar didnt last long in our family when my parents realised we could trick them into swaring XD
Bwahaha! Kudos to you and your sibling(s)!
Now the phrase “spit to their faces” has a whole new meaning!
Selkie should now go and give Amanda and gang surprise kisses…
At least the experiment distracted Selkie a bit; she doesn’t look quite as upset as she was at first.
No one is freaking our and calling her a monster. Even if the results were bad they all put in the effort to try and help her. I think she is not quite as upset as she could be because of such a supportive reaction from everyone… pun not intended XP
Panal 5 is great. I love their expressions.
And Selkie’s face in the last panal is great. It perfectly reflects her dissapointment and reluctant exceptance(maybe?) Or maybe it’s just her not being as upset as she was.
I’d take a Selkie kiss :< Selkie will rule the sea!! :3
Just realized I forgot Selkie’s undershirt stripes… grah. >_<
She can just use a piece of cling film between herself and whomever she’s kissing, like on Pushing Daisies…when the couple couldn’t ever have skin contact or she would die.
I LOVE the looks on their faces in the second to last panel.
“Oh, craps.”
MARTA!
SWEAR JAR!
I never sleep on the straight ground anymore. Any kind of air mattress (even the cute little thermarests) makes a big difference, not only in avoiding the rock problem, but also in protecting your body from losing heat to the ground.
Oh, Selkie…
On the bright side, it affects black people less!
Having poisonous saliva could have some interesting results on this upcoming dinner with Heather and family.
Kenny: I want you two girls to kiss and make up.
Todd: Well, make up anyway, not…Selkie, get that grin off your face. No Selkie, stop trying to kiss Heather!