Pronounced Deh-Mah-Dee-Ay.
You may recall Dr. De’Madiea from a brief appearence in an earlier strip, or from a New Years sneak peek last year.
What you may not realize though, is that Pohl and his wife were also secretly my subjects for the Anatomy Sketch. :3
Dr. Pohl De'Madiea has been bumping around my head nearly since the comic's beginning. I've been looking forward to finally introducing him.
Agent Brown’s comments, in quotes, could easily be a code phrase – “the swallows fly south at midnight” kinda thing. But the doctor’s response seems to be real.
“Ick” is serious, I need to examine the “guppy” — would make more sense, I think, than putting his entire response in quotes.
Unless his entire response was the countersign.
I got the impression that these were pre-determined code phrases – Agent Brown’s to describe the situation, and Dr De’Madiea’s to confirm that the correct person got the message.
Basically, “There’s a sick kid of your species.” “Understood. I’ll come at once.”
Of course, it’s a code exchange the doctor hoped would never be necessary to use, hence the ‘shock panel’.
Wait…what if selkie’s real name is “selkie de’madiea”? It makes perfect sense!
Whoa, stuff just got real.
I can’t believe I have to wait for Monday!
*sits on edge of seat*
Yayyy; Dr Gilman!!! ’bout time!
Oh yes, we all called it.
The markings around the doctor’s eyes (at least I assume they’re markings like Selkie’s mother’s) make it look like he was crying. Is that an intentional effect?
Eat your heart out, John le Carre!
Why, cliffhanger, why???
Nice to meet the mysterious doctor. And…yeah, Truck’s assault is having more and more serious repercussions. Bring THAT up at your PTA meeting.
CALLLLLLLLED IT!
And thank GOD (and whatever the Piscanthropi have in the way of religion) that Agent Brown is not calling in Mr. (PROFESSOR!) Big Mean Meanyhead Trunchbull.
Speaking of the Trunchbulls… how is Agent Brown going to react when he learns the story of how Selkie acquired her cold, and of how the perpetrator and victim were handled? Agent Brown and his agency can much more heavyweight bullies than the Trunchbulls and Principal Hobbit-Brain.
Both the doctor and the agent (last comic) are green, while Selkie and her mother are blue. Different races (like Caucasian and Negro) among the mer-folk, or are men green and women blue?
Different races.
I believe in Dave’s anatomy sketches, he mentions “sub-species” among Selkie’s race, which I took to mean different looking ones.
Is this a special facility or just a normal doctor’s office? Either way, I’m happy to see that people of Selkie’s species have broken into the medical field. It seems like they deal with some injustice in the everyday world. So go you, Dr. Green Tomato!
I still say that they are members of a dagonite race….And yes after this Todd can bring this up and if he wanted he could sue the school for suspending Selkie and for allowing it to happen…saddly no way that Mina is really ever coming back as a love interest she might get fired too
Did she just call him Doctor Tomato?
Black-background-shock-panel FTW. Yeeeeeeeeeah I’d feel that way too if I was being called in by a government agency.
Just wondering why Dr. De’Madea and his wife didn’t take Selkie in themselves…adoption agencies can get kinda, well, funny about certain ideas concerning ethnicity…
Some people just don’t want to adopt. =
Didn’t look at the New Year’s Sneak Peak till just now…so they already have a baby…well, I want to say “girl” but I’m not sure…
At first, I was going to mention how I’m vaguely disappointed that you’ve chosen to make these plot revelations so early on instead of going much more slowly over a few years of enjoyable Daveness.
But now I’ve realized something else.
Selkie was given up for adoption for *political reasons*. She’s a proof of concept. A demonstration project.
Her mother may even have tried to explain that to her before surrendering her to Lillian, but of course Selkie wasn’t paying attention.
I’m starting to think something along those lines as well. And if so, it’s worse than sad.
But if Dr. De’Madiea *does* come along with Agent Brown, and *does* talk with Todd…he (and we) might get some straight answers…
Any doctor worth his salt will ask questions. What happened can give a doctor everything he needs to know. But in this case, it only raises more questions. “So you were caught in the cold? Why?” Then he hears that Todd did make her put on heating pads because she won’t want him in trouble.
Next up: “Heating pads should have protected you. Why didn’t they?” And then they find out about Truck. And of course, the question becomes was the boy punished, and then they find out yes, but Selkie was as well. And the Doctor, not having his head up his arse, of course decides to bring the fed hammer down.
How does one pronounce “De’Madiea”, anyway?
it’s pronounced so that it sounds vaguely like “tomato”.
Deh-Mah-Dee-Ay. I added it in to the blog post, probably should have done that in the first place. XD
Wait, I’ve reached the most recent page? Damn. Gimme a second, I’m going to draw you some fanart >:o
(I love this comic, btw <3 I only just started reading it a few days ago.)
My guess is something like “duh made yuh,” since that could be mistaken for “tomata,” which is how many people say “tomato.”
To quote what I hope Todd, Lillian, Todd’s parents, and Dr. De’Madiea himself will say to Agent Brown, in various forms as suited to each:
“You let a little girl go from age five to eight without so much as a checkup from someone who actually understands her physiology, when you had access to just such a doctor the entire time?”
I love, “Pohl”‘s expression in panel 4!!
I’m more concerned about what accent Carol has. Just sayin’. lol
I imagined her sounding like Lilly Tomlin’s “telephone operator” character.
New England, either MA or RI.
Absolutely not MA. ‘Doctah’ is right, but everything else is wrong. Line, medical, hold, and please are pronounced as spelled. Not ‘meydicahl’. I agree with Turrosh Mak.
Well I’m happy to see that the doctor gets to be seen again in a more serious light, but I also noticed another of Selkie’s species in the facility where Mr. Brown is. Lending credibility to the idea that there may be more living and working in other important high profile jobs. Like scientists, and Doctors for example. I like the route this could possibly be taking.
It would be interesting if Dr. Trunchbull encountered Dr De’Madiea or one of his species and they are the ones that spit, not Selkies. Bringing out wrong information like that would be big problems, also embarrassing. “How did you know this Mr. Trunchbull? “Well the other aquatic humanoid I encountered could do that.”
Is it just me, or does the gal walking along with the Doctor look like one of the girls at school (and my brain is blanking out on her name at the moment)? Is it her mom, or is it just a coincidence?
Dr. De’Madiea: “In the meantime, I’m going to devour some brains.”
Phyllis: “Oh please don’t, I got so many angry calls from the neurosurgery and the forensic pathology labs after the last time…”