Yeah, Benny, that was not fucking cool. And your stepfather understands why this is a sore point for you, and is willing to let you talk and vent about it, but this was neither the time or the place for it.
My heart goes out to both Benny and Selkie. Also, say what you will about her lack of seriousness, but she’s NINE. I’d be concerned if she was fully serious…just to get that all too real bomb dropped. Death hasn’t even entered her life much if at all yet, so that’s like triple the shock
The reason this page doesn’t _quite_ work is that Selkie’s “can I cuss” at the end of the previous page indicates that she’s taking this horrible news in stride.
I think it shows that Benny’s revelation took a few moments for Selkie to fully process it. She fixated on the “bad word” before realizing the gravity of the subject.
Canonically, we don’t know. Extracanonically someone mentioned a few strips back that they remember Dave confirming she’s a casualty of the war itself, but I couldn’t cite the exact strip he would’ve posted that confirmation under.
Thanks! Yeah, there it is. And oof, “I don’t want to render it on-panel” almost certainly means either Carrie or Benny saw it. Which makes sense, I can’t imagine them leaving if they thought there was a CHANCE she was alive, but ow.
Benny really needs someone to talk about this to. Like…yeah he kind of dropped a bomb on Selkie there, but keeping it under wraps because Secret Squirrel Stuff is hard on a guy.
…you’re making me want to write a fic that crosses over with El Goonish Shive, where Benny and Grace share a moment discussing how much it sucks to have to hold all your trauma inside because you can’t share it with more than a small, select group of people.
Choose your words wisely, Benny.
Also, no further descriptions of homicide either, ideally.
I mean, he didn’t actually say “and then they processed him.”
Yeah, Benny, that was not fucking cool. And your stepfather understands why this is a sore point for you, and is willing to let you talk and vent about it, but this was neither the time or the place for it.
My heart goes out to both Benny and Selkie. Also, say what you will about her lack of seriousness, but she’s NINE. I’d be concerned if she was fully serious…just to get that all too real bomb dropped. Death hasn’t even entered her life much if at all yet, so that’s like triple the shock
The reason this page doesn’t _quite_ work is that Selkie’s “can I cuss” at the end of the previous page indicates that she’s taking this horrible news in stride.
I think it shows that Benny’s revelation took a few moments for Selkie to fully process it. She fixated on the “bad word” before realizing the gravity of the subject.
Agreed.
In animation terms we’d call this a jump cut — frame a isn’t seguing smoothly into frame b..
What happened to Benny’s sister? In the original slide, there were two children with them.
Canonically, we don’t know. Extracanonically someone mentioned a few strips back that they remember Dave confirming she’s a casualty of the war itself, but I couldn’t cite the exact strip he would’ve posted that confirmation under.
2143, I got curious on that strip and asked. Dave prefers to keep it a little vague but confirmed she was a war casualty
…well this escalated quickly.
Thanks! Yeah, there it is. And oof, “I don’t want to render it on-panel” almost certainly means either Carrie or Benny saw it. Which makes sense, I can’t imagine them leaving if they thought there was a CHANCE she was alive, but ow.
Oh, so Benny DOES have manners and can recognize when he is on thin ice. That’s reassuring.
Benny really needs someone to talk about this to. Like…yeah he kind of dropped a bomb on Selkie there, but keeping it under wraps because Secret Squirrel Stuff is hard on a guy.
…you’re making me want to write a fic that crosses over with El Goonish Shive, where Benny and Grace share a moment discussing how much it sucks to have to hold all your trauma inside because you can’t share it with more than a small, select group of people.
what’s el goonish shive i’m curious now