Initially I was going to draw Pohl using crazy-black-and-green stuff to make a padlock-shape on his phone before dialing to suggest he was securing the line, but I think making a phone call to his wife is a lot less risky than using crazy-black-and-green stuff in, well, a PUBLIC STAIRWELL.
This is going to be interesting.
Why is everyone ok with aliens living in their neighborhoods?
To quote the eleventh Doctor:
“They’re not aliens; they’re earth!…liens”
Just because they live there doesn’t mean they get invited to the block parties.
I’d be thrilled to have aliens as neighbors. Or merfolk, as the case may be. Anything nonhuman that can carry on an intelligent conversation would be just as thrilling, really.
I’d love to have something in my neighborhood that could carry on an intelligent conversation, human or not!
Well… that would at least make one intelligent species to talk to.
People probably don’t realize and assume it’s a skin condition, or someone into body mods like tiger man.
I thought that “The Maiden and the Eel Spirit” might be the Sarnothi equivalent of Genesis (as a hybrid origin story), but it looks like the maiden in the statue is Sarnothi already (webbed hands).
I’m assuming that this lovely lady is a sculptor by trade?
I like the ‘Don’t Tread on Me!’ graffiti on the stairwell
I spies a “Don’t tread on me”
Eurynome and Ophion? Or the equivalent?
Oh no… don’t let her be an assassin.
The blade is probably used to help her carve stone. She seems to be some sort of sculptor.
Oooh… pretty…
I AM TALKING ABOUT THE BLADE AND THE SCULPTURE NOT MRS. DE’MEDEIA ALTHOUGH I AM CERTAIN SHE IS A FINE SPECIMENT OF SARNOTHI WOMANHOOD IT IS JUST THAT TIGER STRIPING IS NOT MY THING OKAY?!
I have an image in my head of Mrs. De’Medeia going into crazy ninja mode, there being a blur of blades and rock shards, and then stepping back to reveal a beautiful sculpture.
And while I know it’s probably not true given the fact that Plo Quar is periwinkle and Mrs. De’Medeia is green, I can’t help but wonder if Mrs. De’Medeia is Fing Mar, her twin sister. (Although … Mrs. De’Medeia looks pretty bluish … they might be fraternal twins from a mixed marriage! Aha! She could be Selkie’s aunt!)
Doctors aren’t supposed to treat their close relatives (family bonds make it difficult to be objective). Were Pohl Selkie’s uncle, I’d think the feds would have steered a different Sarnothi physician to live in Calumet.
Also, if he was her uncle, he´d be even less trusted not to reveal any secrets to her and her human adoptive relatives.
In the case of an emergency (like being the only doctor in the area who knows her species’ physiology) I think there could be an exception to that rule.
… In reply, I have to tell you that I was crushing on Selkie’s mum. This ones I find even more attractive. (I know, it would never work out, biting can still admire the beauties)
*but I
Not ‘biting
Interesting. Y’all saw the rock and the blade and thought “Michelangelo”. I saw the blade and the look in her eyes and thought “Kato and Inspector Clouseau”.
Hi Dave, I rather like the knife connect the dots power-up graphic.
She’s cool. I like her.
So Doctor Pohl is not only a Sarnothi doctor, he’s also a magic ninja. I approve.
*edit* and his sister? No editing of comments!?! Joke ruined! Must send ninja Sarnathi chick after whoever made this website!
I have a question about the webbing on the Dr.’s hands.. or lack there of. Is it a male/female thing (as far as i know we havent seen any other male sarnothi except for him) or was it for cosmetic purposes since he’s a doctor as it
either may be a hindrance on practice or may off put patients?
Dave did an anatomy sketch, a while back, of a male and female sarnothi.
(Sketch contains clinical nudity)
https://selkiecomic.com/images/Anatomy-Sketch.png
The webs are on the male fingers, too. Now that you point out that he has no webs, it does seem odd. Maybe it is so that he’s less encumbered as a doctor.
did she switch blade hands between panels?
Yeah. You totally missed it, too. There were explosions, ninjas, and hair metal music, too. The space between the panels has really rad events.
Looks like two different blades (if that’s what those are) to me. I think she is holding one in each hand. The ‘camera’ just is pointing at opposite hands per pane.
I don’t think so. Notice that her right forefinger is glowing, and touching the knife. I believe she is energizing it. All the little green dots on the blade, in the previous frame, are now connected by a glowing green line, and the entire edge of the knife is glowing.
I believe she picked it up with her right hand, fitted it to her left hand (some people, when doing precision work, wish to hold the tool the exact same way every time, and that is easier to do if you pick the tool up with the non-using hand and place it, correctly, in the using hand, than if you pick it up with the using hand and have to adjust your grip), and then energized it with that right finger.
I do that all the time.
I haz an ideas! The crazy green glowing stuff is some kind of fluoride alloy … and sarnothi are capable of seeing ultraviolet light. Only they can see it glowing.
Although if they could see ultraviolet light, I imagine that they would perceive colors a LOT differently.
Or maybe not and it’s technology … that arose independently of humankind … actually, that would be really cool.
I see this set working from an artist point of view. If “righty” an artist would pick up their tool with the right hand, then switch it to the left to energize it with power from the dominant hand. for me, gets me to believe she is sculptor rather than a assassin.
Did we also see The Maiden and the Eel Spirit referenced in Selkie’s dream?
… I did not catch that. It’s a likely assumption, I would think.