Schedule changes and extra shifts are kind of beating up my comic energy lately, but going to try to get more strips out this week than I have been.
Schedule changes and extra shifts are kind of beating up my comic energy lately, but going to try to get more strips out this week than I have been.
He can have his next Eelrito on his next trip, provided the restaurant is still there.
Pretty sure that is Selkie asking for the eelrito. I know there are no little dialogue pointies pointing at her, and there should be if she’s the one talking, but there’s a lot of plurals in that comments. And I haven’t noticed Benny saying things like “I’ves had” or “whats about”.
The same goes for her, I suppose.
Oh. Well, I still hope the restaurant is still there next time. I moved away from the place that sold the best hot dogs I’ve ever had, and when I went back on vacation, it had turned into a German biergarten restaurant. I never got over it.
This story is so good! I just catched up reading all of it in a couple of days.
Did you sold the movie rights already? 😁
No but the week is young. :O
Nice to see that they get to watch our movies down there!
She’s lived her entire life on the surface.
… that boy needs therapy.
Psychosomatic
Lie down on the couch, what does that mean?
“I don’t think he knows about second eelrito Pip.”
🤣
Apparently he does – including the fact we already had it. That’s the problem.
Get your rest Dave.
Benny, she’s six-seven in a cluster fuck political social situation as near fucked as your own. Only no one was gutted alive and her “parents” mother and father left her alone in the human world. She’s an echo, mixed tribe, clueless about her own species and culture and she actually likes her human parent.
You Benny, understandably have…..complicated feels about the human dad in your life.
That is my head canon dialogue for the first Benny panel.
All I’m hearing is that Benny thinks his own mother counts for Zero. Ungrateful. It’s not Selkies fault. Or Brown’s.
I don’t know. If my father was murdered, I don’t think I would just go happily down the road of Life thinking, AT LEAST I’VE STILL GOT MY MOTHER.
This. I’m sure there are moments where he’s really happy his mom is around. But his life was absolutely shattered when he was 8 years old (maybe 9, I forget how old Selkie is now), and shattered in a very cruel way. That’s a LOT of trauma, and it’s going to take a lot to recover from that.
Honestly, I’m really glad to see that he’s admitting that he needs something here. It’s a good first baby step.
Yeah. It’s only been a couple of years, and he’s still a child. Being told ‘yeah but there are children with no parents at all’ might be true, but not at all helpful. Not that I blame Selkie. He started it, as far as the ‘my pain matters more than your pain’ game, and that’s not even what she meant. Plus Benny is far, far closer to having two loving parents than she is. But Selkie did the equivalent of telling someone ‘you almost died! You’re so lucky! Let’s have a party!’ right after he wakes up from a coma and discovers he’s missing a limb. Sure, from an outside perspective, you can see how much worse it could have been, but the pain to be addressed is the current *loss*. “You could have lost more” is *not* the way to answer someone in the throes of grief.
Yeah, still having one parent doesn’t mean that losing one doesn’t hurt like hell.
its okay man, if ya need to take a short break while you get work sorted. everyones kinda inthe same boat.
sending postive thoughts, or at least what passes for them THESE days.