Two things. Firstly, the watercolor print I mentioned on Monday is ready to go! Not sure I can promise Christmas delivery this close to the day, but I will ship any orders as quickly as I can.
Secondly, I received an adorable fanart from Kimchi.
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Thanks Kimchi. So cute!
The episode title is "Terror at 1600". Through an implausible series of events, Sue (a zombie) is invited to serve as head chef for a dinner at the White House. It's not one of the show's best episodes.
Well those two seem to be gettin’ on…
I said they would.
Chemistry! Or just the possibility of a good friendship. But it looks like chemistry to me. That was downright cute. Kudos!
A good friendship also requires chemistry. And “sympathy of souls”.
I quite agree. Friendship or more doesn’t matter to me; I’d like to see Todd have more options beyond his family. And I really like the grins they exchange over the whole invitation thing.
Giggling over the teacher’s reaction to Selkie’s cartoon. Some day could we get a one-off cartoon episode or something? Maybe that rerun where Sue tries to eat the President’s brains? That’d be a fun read. 🙂
am i the only one seeing any sparks between Todd and Mrs. Afkami?
nope, not just you. I was actually about to post the same question, but you got to it first.
Fourth panel: “We are inviting [YOU] to the Parent Teacher Association.” (I’m a proofreader in my day job.)
Yeah, he a word out in panel 4.
It’s not really supposed to be a personalized statement though. It’s more like an informal way of saying “We are currently inviting people to join the Parent Teacher Association.”
The PTA is invite-only at their school? That’s posh.
Plotting world domination is an exclusive activity.
Or at least that’s what I always thought they were doing at my school’s PTA meetings.
I had a feeling about those two since the end of Selkie’s first day. Will Selkie be getting a new mom AND brother perhaps?
Panel 5, I think if you would of kept his hand down then swooped it up in panel 7 it would of been more movementive (is that a word? >_<)
Aww, Selkie, I feels ya there. *hugs*
LOL, bet Todd never expected this being a result of adopting a kid. He should have though. But I mean, when you’re gonna get a kid, who’s first thought is about PTA and Open Houses?
As I’m a non-English native speaker, could you tell me what “Open Houses” means? I think I have the right idea, but it’d help to have it explained. Pretty please? 🙂
An Open House is an event where the school opens it’s doors to the parents. They can meet staff and faculty, check out the classrooms, sometimes the kids make presentations or displays for them to see, some places have short workshops and/or discussion groups about the school curriculum and etc. Usually they are mostly general information sessions about the school, and a way to get the parents and the faculty to connect and put faces to names.
Ah yes, then I was thinking of the right thing. Over here we call it “avoimet ovet”, which translates to “open doors”. Just thought I’d make sure. Thanks for the answer. ^_^
Okay weird question but am I the only one who see’s the teacher and todd actually making a cute pair? Ack sorry bad mind bad!
Oh for the bygone days of innocence when cartoons were non-controversial: Cartoons like Betty Boop, Felix the cat, Rocky & Bullwinkle and Ren & Stimpy. 😉
The fan art…panty stocking style? So cute! I would wanna see it colored!^_^
Oh thanks for flipping my art right side up heh. Sorry about being so lazy with it. Maybe one day I’ll properly line it and color it for you. (And fix her left foot. It’s all messed up.)
And I can see what she’s saying by the PTA thing, the you part doesn’t have to be there. She’s just informing Todd they are currently accepting people into the PTA. Could be worded a little better, but the meaning is clear enough I think.
Also yes, the fanart is Panty and Stocking style. Too bad her name got cut off in the photo. *grumbles*
Panel 5 and 6 for the facial expression win!
Since day one, readers have had it in for Todd and the teacher. Why her? Because these readers are smart. Selkie’s teacher is recently single, amidst a custody battle, and she’s invested in her job. WE CAN SMELL THE PLOT POINTS ON HER. Also, she’s the only eligible female Todd’s age… so maybe we’re not as smart as we think.
Only eligible female Todd’s age… damn, I forgot to create the obligatory harem of women jumping for a chance to date the male protagonist.
Brb, sketching.
Too late! Your fans have already reached a consensus; Todd and Mrs. Afkami are going to be an item. Or at least their going to have fun figuring out if they should be.
Hear, hear, for fun.
Nothing wrong with getting to know people better.
Harems are REQUIRED for online webcomics, didn’t you know? Readers will start to wonder if the character is actually likable if there aren’t hordes of females tripping over themselves to be with him.
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All in good fun though, right? Just kidding ha ha! We’re being sarcastic about the harem of ladies, right Dave? Ha ha? RIGHT DAVE?! DAVID! Are you drawing more women Dave?! PUT THOSE PENCILS DOWN! The center of this comic is Selkie, not Todd’s love life, no matter how muscular he might have gotten recently!
Sorry, but the paradigm shift is coming. In the next chapter a series of hilarious circumstances ends up in Todd and Selkie having to share the apartment with:
Chloe, a petite brunette who is soft-spoken and demure, finding joy in housework and cooking, often cooking Todd box lunches to take to work.
Rachel, a brash and domineering lady who loves beer, X-Box, and football, and frequently gets handsy “on accident”.
Monica, a stubborn woman with a hard time expressing her feelings, who reacts to displays of affection by punching people then running away.
Sarah, a techno-babble spouting nerdette who hides her feelings in her workbench, likes pocky and manga.
and Elisa, a spritely free-spirit prone to wardrobe malfunctions.
Also, Todd’s character design will be changed. He will be slimmed down, obtain glasses, become prone to chronic nosebleeds, and will never quite manage to succeed at his efforts (charmingly so, of course.)
During all of this, Selkie will make a secret pact with one of the women to help them hook up with her dad, but we won’t know which one until the series finale.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
That’s not true! That’s impossible!
(You’ve got a knack for this character creation stuff.)
So… it would be “Friends” then? Also sounds kind of like that that quintuplet of possible adoptees that fought over Amanda.
In addition to what I said earlier about Selkie’s teacher being the only female Todd’s age, I will also point out that the bonked heads back in comic #182, and that pretty much means they are REQUIRED to fall in love at some point.
That’s not just true for stories either, works in real life too. That’s how you get all the ladies to love you, you engineer ways to head butt them. Trust me, I’m a professional.
STOP THAT! Now I want to read some of THAT version of the comic, too!
See Dave, I told you, it would sell like hot-cakes!
Oh yeah, let’s make Todd and the teacher get together. Selkie don’t have enough problems with the other kids.
Looks different.
Talks different.
Can’t eat the same food.
Acts different.
Let’s have her dad date her teacher.
To be fair, at the rate that Todd moves, by the time they might get together, Selkie might be in a higher grade and hence have a different teacher.
Not that I’m criticizing Todd’s speed. He’s a full-time professional plus now raising a kid, slow is a-ok. 😀
I want to watch this cartoon. NOW! I’d give all my pennies to make Sue and Kathryne happen.
Heh, that can be said about a lot of cartoons, I think cartoon network has been on a trend to try and outweird it’s previous creations for quite some time.
Even the best shows have *those* episodes.
Honestly I don’t know where everyone’s getting this “Todd & Ms. Afkhami are gonna be a pair!”-vibe. To me they look like they could become friends, but nothing beyond that. I could be wrong, but I don’t sense a romance spark at all.
just started reading your comic and got through the archives up to this point today… and i say to you… YOU DONT POST ENOUGH!!!! TT.TT btw when you getting back to the andi story i noticed at the hospital there was a selky in the scene with the nurse… im intriguesd and want more strips… NEED more strips… PLS update more… PLS… probbaly cant due to life but still i can beg…
soo in short.. LVOE THE COMIC.. NEEED MORE.. and whats goign on with andi?
ps. kind of upset that andi didn’t tell ( im assumign Todd) that she gave up the baby and tols him it was dead.. but she was scared and looked like she was being pressured by her mom
Yeah, at first I was made at Andi, but when I thought about it and her behavior made sense, so I’m still mad at her.
Also I’m mad at Dave, because the picsionary strips that told that story were SUPER hard to understand.
Hey Dave, thought I’d post a WIP I have going of some Selkie related stuff. I’m hoping to actually get to lineart this one in an art program and color it and give it some neat water effects and put some terrified fish in for Selkie to chase. Sorry for the cruddy photo.
http://tinypic.com/r/6rptnd/6
Looks good so far!
It is fun to have fake tv shows within fiction. Movies too. They have their own mini-themes.
They are going to be banging so soon.
………………… Can we hire Sue for the real-world?