This strip is based off some of my own childhood experiences with dodgeball. I HATED dodgeball! “Oh, lets give these hyperactive kids a hard rubber ball and have them chuck it at each others heads as hard as they can! Brilliant!”
-EDIT- changed dialogue to correct Tony’s french. Thanks, Boris!
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That’s why dodgeball was outlawed in several states…. poor selkie, sometimes beinga sprite sucks…
…………i use to love those old type of balls……
Aww, poor Selkie! I hated dodgeball too. Mainly cause I suck at throwing but I’ll be honest-I’m a heck of a good dodger…Meaning I was always left last and everyone’s going: CATCH THE BALL! CATCH THE BALL! And I’m going, “I can’t catch either! ToT”
Exact same thing would always happen to me
poor selkie! XD one of the kids at our school had his parents try to sue because he got hit in the face trying to catch one, so now we cant play. 🙁 not only does everybody hate him though, but our gym teachers added cones to the court and just call it “Castle Ball” instead. XD
Pfft. We used to play it, but it was called Battle Ball, and we used Volleyballs. Fully. Inflated. Volleyballs.
No offence to any kids here but everyones a bunch of wimps nowadays. When I was a kid we played dodgeball and I once got went in after a ball was caught only to get hit right in the leg as I ran out and did a full flip onto my back on the court floor. And after about two years we convinced our teacher to allow full court dodge ball where as the number of players dropped your were allowed to go deeper into the other teams territory untill it was down to two and running everywhere possible.
Dodgeball free for all? I won’t lie, that does sound like fun if you can survive to the final round. 😀
While I somewhat agree with this. There is a huge difference between throwing the balls at those actively playing the game, and throwing them at someone who is obviously not.
Dodgeball was about the only game I was really good at (aside from limbo, but that’s another story entirely). I could pelt, dodge, and catch – everyone else was usually only good at one of those.
I love imagining Selkie’s voice in my head. <3
Either Selkie is sitting in the middle of a dodge ball game, or someone is throwing things at the reading corner… but there are no corners! The room is an endless space of featureless lavender pink.
Tony looks like Charlie Brown. I thought I should comment this. 🙂
I love the comic, but I’m sad I have to wait so long for updates 🙁 When does it actually update, anyway? Any specific days? Those should be listed somewhere O__o;
Updates are on Mondays and Thursdays. Hope this helps! 😀
……-rereads the top box- …..redwood forest of paperwork……. -twitch- r-really?
Great concept and wonderful execution.
While i can’t say i agree with the prospective father’s taste in tatoos it takles a real man to want to be a farher and that trumps questionable taste eight days a week.
I actually loved dodgeball, it was the nky Physical Education I was good at, I loatyhed volleyball with a passion and it hated me. I couldn’t throw for anything but I was almways in the final grioup for didintg and could catch the ball. One instructor came up with various ways to play incuklding the goal being to knock over bowling pins on the other teams side.
I’m surprised these younglings haven’t thrown a ball so hard for a guy/girl to fall down…..these damn whipper-snappers need to play old school yard games more often XD
we had a sort of dodgeball/ silentball game that involved a ball made of a wad of paper wrapped in scotch tape.
some wuss got hit in the leg with it and started crying for his mommy. everyone already disliked him before that, but no one talked to him for the next year.
i feel kind of sorry for that kid……..
I feel like I’m caught between two worlds. I loved dodgeball when I was a kid just because I was super-hyperactive, but I also love reading, so I think I get both sides of the coin today. But still, QUIT THROWING THE BALL DUDE, I’M READING!!! ^__^
Hope you don’t mind me bothering you…
The two first French sentences are grammatically correct (except the small mistake, “pleasir” is written actually “plaisir” the last one do not fit… “N’a pas fait” would mean “It didn’t do”. If Tony meant that he didn’t throw it he would have used “J’ai rien fait!” (I haven’t done anything) or “C’est pas moi” (It’s not me). Both ways used often by kids to deny guiltiness…
This is what I get for getting my french from Google. XD Thank you for the corrections, I don’t mind at all.
J’ai rien fait? Whatever. I’m glad that Todd is coming to pick her up.
For us, it was called Battle Ball, and we’d split up into two teams and play on an area half the size of a tennis court. It was a blast.
If you got hit, you were out.
If you caught the ball and didn’t drop it, the other guy was out.
And if the ball was close to the line and you got it, you usually got one or two opponents within five feet of you who were also trying for the ball 😀
I loved dodgeball back in school. Though the way my school played was to just throw a few dodgeballs into a gym full of students and watch the impending chaos. No teams, just hit or be hit. I was great at dodging, and at one point was cornered by a guy with a wickedly painful throw. He chucked it at me and a turned and managed to catch the ball with my leg. everyone kind of went quiet at that.
This is so awesome. Selkie=love, haha.
CHARLIE BROWN FTW
Am I the only one who imagined Selkie to be wearing a pink dress? Hmm.
We call it cuddly ball. Nothin cuddlier then getting smacked in the face.
I got my first concussion playing…this one unnamed game…where you try and hit people with a large rubber ball. Our school didn’t have any suitable dodgeball-like balls. Except a medicine ball from the nurses’ office, which must have weighed twelve pounds. It made a loud “blonk” noise on my head. 🙂
And I’m really glad you picked French as the alternate language of choice.
I would have loved it if we would have used medicine balls. I was one of the few strong kids at my school and porbably the only one who could have administered the ‘medicine’ to the other kids backsides.
Guess I was lucky – when we played dodge ball, we used the old “4-square” balls (the red ones with the weird surface texturing). They bounced off your head really good. I was a frequent target as I was big and slow – but I learned how to catch the bloody things! LOL
Great comic Dave!
And … now that I look at the comic again, it looks like the kids ARE using 4-square balls.
Salam…
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Dodgeball…. Bane of all “weird kids” as they are the first to be targeted.
According to Google Translate, Mark is saying “Throws back?”
“With pleasure!”
and
“I have done nothing!”
in this comic. His grammar isn’t very great.
There’s a schism between English and French. In English there can be 37 ways to say something, and in French, there’s only one or two ways to say the same thing. French kids do the same as we do, cutting words off of phrases to make them easier to say. “Le lance de retour?” is equivilent to “Give it here?” or some such. The grammer correction sites necessarily have to be very precise–they can’t translate inflection. But Tony’s dialogue does read right. 😀
I’m haveing trouble imaging a high-pitch, gravely voice. Also I’m a dodger none can hit me for I am ninja
BecauseI like to jump a several years-late train, third panel: “le lance de retour ?” is not correct, and would actually be difficult to understand.
“Tu me la rends ?” (As in “Give it back ?”) or “Tu me la renvoies ?” (“send it back ?”) would be the closest familiar wording (not really grammatically correct, but totally understandable) of what I assume you meant.
Here in England we played football (you call it soccer) at less than a metre tall in school they kept sticking me IN GOAL. Trust me the last position a small lass like me wanted ta be was a GOAL. Least in dodgeball ya didn’t get beaten up for NOT diving into the incoming ball.