Make the punishment fit the crime. Mouth off to your mother, you shovel poop.
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There was a whopping large amount of fan art sent to me since the previous strip. I was genuinely surprised. After that last strip I expected death threats, not beautiful gifts. XD
First we have a painting by CS Moore:
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Wind Glider brings us a visit to Jurassic Park:
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(Selkie’s got guts, I’d be running scared!)
H. Jackson sent me this lovely drawing of an adult Selkie:
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Jared Sellers sent me a lovely title header:
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And finally, at the eleventh hour I got this adorable portrait by Emery Bracken (I checked my email while scheduling this update, and saw this at the last minute. ^_^):
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Thank you, everyone! I love the artwork!
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I’ve been reading all of your feedback about the previous strip, and I must say I love how attached everyone is to Selkie. Makes me very happy to see people connecting with the characters so strongly. That being said, I feel like I owe you all some sort of “thank you” for tolerating my manipulative crap this week ^^.
Here though, I have a problem. I want to give all of you something extra with next Monday’s update, but I can not decide what. So, I chose to let The People Decide!
Below you will see a list of options. Leave me a comment or send me an email with the bonus content you would like to have most with Monday’s update. Majority rule will decide! It’s your call!
Options for Bonus Content along with Monday’s regular comic:
1. A comic-related pencil sketch
2. A comic-related wallpaper
3. A preview of an upcoming character from the next chapter
4. Non-Spoiler sneak peek at a future comic (I work on the comic 2 months ahead of what you see on the website, so this may potentially be content from Chapter 2!)
5. Alternate/original dialog and/or rejected/scrapped strips.
6. Pencil sketches I do prior to outlining/coloring
7. A double post, two comics on Monday instead of one.
8. A comic-related puzzle/craft project
It’s your call. I’m amazed every day that people voluntarily read and enjoy my quirky little comic. So, let me know how I can properly thank you all. ^_^
Aww, connection at last. 🙂
I really like Emery Bracken’s art. Good job to everyone, but that last picture was especially cute. I like the eye, and the little fang.
I vote for a wallpaper!
-trying hard not to laugh-
I’m so happy to see that theirs more people who want to show the love for this comic!
and I vote for double post!
Long time reader, first time commenter. Vote for double post! xD It would make Monday so much better!
Totally love this comic! ^.^ Major “awwww”s at Selkie, just TOO cute. Also, DOUBLE POST DOUBLE POST!! ~Jumps up and down, flailing arms wildly~ Pretty pretty pleases with sprinkles on top??
Double post all the way!
I’ve been reading for a while now, but this is my first comment. Selkie is adorable, and I really just want to give her a bunch of hugs some time.
But I vote for 2. While double posts would be very nice, this is an opportunity to see something we wouldn’t normally get to, so I chose the wallpaper. (:
I will be surprised–and disappointed–if *everyone* doesn’t answer #7. Seriously, double post is where it’s at–very much enjoying where this comic is going so far, therefore more of it at once is nothing but good.
Kudos to anyone that shares art. It shows a great deal of courage.
double post! double post! please 🙂
or a wallpaper.
cuuuuuute
-votes double post-
Oooh, doubt post please! More story is a good thing.
Selkie is so cute making that “trying to hold it in” face.
oooh, definitely double post!
I cannot stop laughing…. people are staring….. my stomach hurts…. i can’t breathe….
O_O Inhale, quickly!
Oh, man, double post for sure!!!
Double post or dele ted ‘scenes/scaps’
BUT i prefer double post
Ah!!
This is so creepy, but I just noticed. When I was 15, I had a character (her name was Evangeline) who was almost exactly llike SELKIE!
Argh! She had the same everyting, even donw to the speech-impediment. I was thinking of posting a fan art of the two.
I’d love to see it! 😀
Likewise. Please do that.
Double post, man! Double post! 😀
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definitely double post Monday would send me all atwitter, lol
beautiful fan art, and great story 🙂
Hehe, I was honestly expecting Todd to be a little put off by her violence, especially to a stranger. I’m glad he’s not…probably was prone to outbursts himself as a kid, with the black eye and all.
I vote double post, even though the other options would be interesting as well.
Silly, silly artist, need you ask? DOUBLE POST DOUBLE POST
The fan art is all great! I LOL’d at Selkie at Jurassic Park! I was pretty impressed with all of it that’s for sure. Jared’s header was very good, very professional look.
I’m with everyone else, I’m glad Selkie and Todd finally connected. Sounds to me like Todd and Selkie are going to be extremely good for each other.
As to voting, I have to agree with what appears to be the majority so far & vote for a double-post. And, I have to say thanks for asking – while many comic artists will occasionally post something extra from time to time, I can’t say that any have ever asked for input on it.
Omigoodness a double post and CS Moore’s painting is beautiful
All of the above? Ok, ok. Double comics Monday then.
Everyone knows you double down on a sure thing. So double post please.
double post, totally.
those fan arts are AMAZING. 😀
oooh… must… get home…
must… get sketch pad…. and colored pencils, Selkie is nothing without her Violet-grey skin
I sense an email approaching. 😀
I lost my idea…. and my new one is a bit too violent for Selkie’s character…. Though I have no doubt she would flatten the child in revenge… just not with a red rubber ball.
I vote alternate dialog/ rejected strip! also, your comic is awesome!
I don’t know HOW you get such devoted fans to draw you fan art. I try to get my band’s fans to draw fan art for us all the time and we rarely get any 🙁 You’re very lucky!
Love the strip 🙂
I would have said wallpaper, but I’m using “stars and vomit fish” as my wallpaper right now. So, I go with alternate or rejected. Which seems to put me on one of the wrong sides of, roughly, 25 to 2 to 2. Not that I will complain about a double post!
I like Selkie’s expression in panel 6, right after Todd has finished explaining. She has to be visualizing a young Todd shoveling, and shoveling, and shoveling…. no wonder she bursts out laughing!
In your list of other webcomics, there are 4 that I’m currently following, 2 that I found recently and am still plowing through the archives, and one that I had been following and lost track of somehow. The connection here is that Emery Bracken’s Selkie, while definitely Selkie, also reminds me of Sandra from Sandra and Woo.
Double post please!
lol, Todd’s mom sounds scary. I wonder if Selkie will get to meet her or not. I feel so giddy that she laughed. Always good to make someone laugh.
I vote for double posts!!
Heh, this is my first post. Figure I’d stop lurking and put in my two cents. ^.^
I love the bonding going on between these two- laughing over childhood swear stories. Ah, those were the days. 😀
Also, though double posts are beyond awesome, a nice wallpaper would be even better. It would be kinda cool to collect wallpapers from each of my favorite webcomics.
Either way, AWESOME!
PS Love the fan art by the way. Great job guys! <3
Oooh! Oooh! I vote two comics on Monday!
A: no apologies for the manipulative crap, it’s what makes your storytelling good.
B: I vote rejected strips, and barring that, more vomit fish.
I vote double post!
0-o -overseeing all that want a double post- wow….maybe It should be a 3 days a week update yaknow like mon-wed-fri
I would if I could. But if I did three day a week updates all the time, instead of just occasionally, I’d use up the comics faster than I can make them and have to start scrabbling them out at the last minute and possibly missing updates entirely.
-nods- don’t worry 2 days in a week is better it kind of makes me feel like i need to get up for it and work my week for the next update…but that’s just me
By the way, I dunno if I said or not, but I wants a douuble post.
i would LOVE a double post please 🙂
Double Post Please!!! One of the best Web-Comics I’ve read so far! Love the characters!!
happy ending
DOUBLE POST! DOUBLE POST!!!!
Thank yous… thankyouthankyouthankyou for makings everyones happy!!! 🙂 I am very happies and thankfuls! 😀
But a second post would makes that all so much mores awesomes!!! 😀 PLEASES!!!!!?!?!?!?!?
I do not care if I seem super crazy and embarrassing. I really love this comic, and I really love Todd and Selkie. I have not too much else in my life which is super awesomes, so I want thems to be 🙂
Pleases makes thems to bes supers awesomes… 🙂
Last pic reminds me of Midna, lol.
Yah, doubly post. MORE PLOT MORE PLOT. This is a heartwarming, quirky lovely comic and the fact that there is not more is saddening and extremely upsetting.
Also Selkie’s awesome.
Todd’s mom sounds like my mom. I still won’t touch pears (those are for her lunch!) and I’ve been doing my own shopping at my own house for ten years.
I vote wallpaper first (and a conglomerate of the top 9-12 fan art pieces would rock!!) and double post second. 🙂 Please and thanks!
hey at least it wasn’t pig pens.
Wow, this comic is pretty original, I’m impressed. Faved
Background image, hands down. I show a lot of people stuff on my laptop, and I like having new and exciting backgrounds each time.
#6 or #8 is my vote:)
Now that is how you get passed the armor. The emotional armor Selkie has built up. He made her laugh in a fun way, at his past experience! A wonderful bonding moment.