Selkie457
Apr04
on April 4, 2014
at 12:07 am
Lineart on this one is complete crap because my scanner isn’t working, so I had to take a picture of the drawn page with my cell phone. It makes a compelling argument for going back to computer-inking, I tell you what.
WARNING: I might need to miss one of the updates next week. Monday’s should be no problem to make but Friday’s is almost a guarantee that I’ll have to post filler, and maybe Wednesday too depending on how things go.
I’ll let you know.
An early draft of panel 4 was a dream sequence bit I cut out from a much earlier point in the comic. In that original draft, Plo Quar (her mother) shifted to a 1930s cartoon style complete with big white gloves and noodle-arms, gave Selkie a left-handed salute while saying, "So long, Screwy! See ya in Saint Louie!" before jet rocket flames erupted from her feet and she blasted off into the dreamscape's stratosphere. It's a really fun idea, but I think a simpler rendering distracts less from what the imagery suggests about Selkie's inner thoughts.
Take care of what you need to, we understand that you have a day job, among other things. Your loyal fans will be waiting for posts. I love this comic and can hardly wait to see where this page is going… But I will wait, as long as it takes. 🙂
I see a shriek in the near future, that makes Truck spring a leak. Followed by a great periwinkle shark attacking at warp speed (how’s that for mixing visuals). I see “non-orphans” scattering in all directions, with Truck standing, frozen in fear (or maybe held in place by yellow ice).
I’s the terror thats swims ins the nights.
I just see a smile. A big, friendly smile, with all those fish-ripping teeth prominently displayed hinting that they just might be able to rip silly mammals who hurt the friends of a Sarnothi warrior-maiden …
Why do I have the feeling Selkie/Nei Li is about to dig herself an even deeper watery grave?
I was just thinking the same thing.
Raise your hand if you think this will end well.
No one? No one at all?
wow, the first thing that entered my head as i finished the strip was the phrase, “this will not end well”
Not so sure. If she just gets one of the present supervisors to the window…
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Desire to prevent immediate harm from friends and gain revenge verses desire for conclusive evidence and revenge at cost of friends pain.
… At her age, I probably would have done something stupid either way.
This situation is about to go completely to Hell.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions…
Evil! Cute, portentous evil!
Cute! Selkie Nei-Loki right here!
(Dave, i wanted to ask a question. I have some fan-art of cute lil’ selkie for you, but no clue how to post it??)
Oh yay, Fan Art! 😀
I have an email link in the top menubar. It’s dave AT selkiecomic DOT com.
Hrm. I *think* Selkie is expecting Truck to just randomly attack one of her friends, thus providing more evidence that she was not the initiator in their own conflict. Theoretically possible, but even so I’m not sure the school administration would understand even when bashed over the head with a clue-by-four. 😛
Haha, “clue-by-four”!
I’ll have to remember that one for later 🙂
So… she wants to be The Bully’s Bully?
Maybe she wants to, but getting them caught again might send the message a little more effectively… and is less likely to get the adorable fish girl hurt…
One day I need to get off mah butt and do a Selkie/BB crossover fanart.
If you do that well SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
She’s at a library window, in a library with TWO potential adult witnesses. My bet, she’s going to drag one or both of them over to said window so they can witness Truck assaulting her friends.
Of course, that would require her to think clearly…which I’m not sure she’s doing just now.
The trouble with “authority-type” witnesses, is the villain must DO THE DEED before action can be taken. The cop can’t arrest the gangbanger for standing in the parking lot. He has to wait until the miscreant has actually broken into a car.
The teachers can’t punish Truck for just standing there. They can break it up, but that just puts it on hold for a while. Before they can string him up by his heels, over a slow fire, as they lash him with the cat-o-nine tails (reckon I don’t particularly like bullies?), they have to SEE HIM pounding on the little kids. Which means that George and the others get pounded on.
Vigilantes, on t’other hand, don’t have to wait for the crime to be committed. They can do “preemptive punishment”.
Preemptive punishment is a dangerous game to be playing.
Remember, it is more unjust to punish an innocent man than to let a guilty man run free.
Authorities ought to wait for a crime to be committed before administering punishment.
Agreed, when someone says something like “vigilante,” just fill in “lynch mob” and it has essentially the same meaning…
Ohh man, I have been there. Heck, in lots of ways I’m still there. The tough part is realizing that you’re tethered to everyone else, so no matter how much they deserve to be punished, they can’t be hurt without it hurting you. But on the plus side, anything they do to you they’re doing to themselves..
Justice. Vengeance. Swift righteous retribution of the icy depths to wash upon thine face as the salty breath of the mighty waves roars past thine ears, ye of the growling Truck thine fate is sealed! Thine actions may have power, oh they have might and brute, oh but your anger is only a sniveling whelp compared to the dragon ye have awakened! Run if ye dare Truck, run if you can, for the jaws of fate shall catch your heels and snap your bones, and make you suffer for the unjust actions against your foreign kin; the time… is nigh…
Are you a writer for Batman?
Poor Selkie. The more we see of her views of being left at the orphanage the more I think telling her about the war back in Sarnoth would be a good thing. I have the strong suspicion that it’s what led to her being left there.
Is it just me, or do the last few panels reinforce the “Selkie’s Secret Item is a Cell Phone” theory?
Completely forgot about that. Looked back, it’s in page 348.
But it still seams that showing a teacher would be better, unless its got a video function?
..I’m.. looking at the tags, and.. wondering.. if the tag for Plo Quar isn’t improperly applied.
I mean, the tag’s been in four different comics, and the only thing they seem to have in common is Selkie?
Whoops, not even that- she’s not in the first.
I need to finish tagging and stop being a lazy jerk at some point. But no, the three comics with Plo Quar’s tag are all properly assigned. Even that first one.
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You tease, Dave.
Does she actually appear in that page? Or is it an indication of her ‘off screen’ presence?
I wouldn’t have tagged her if she weren’t visibly present on the page. 🙂
Dave is teasing you. He says in the transcript that Plo Quar is her mother.
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… No, no he wasn’t teasing. (Well, not entirely.)
I found her. In strip 122.
It’s like Where’s Wally?
It’s good too know she’s still alive.
It draws another potential parallel between Selkie and Amanda, too, when they are re-united with their respective birth-mothers.
I have been waiting so long for someone to catch her, back there. :3
Oh, cool! I’m so glad she’s alive. I wonder if she’s been watching from a distance, and knows where Nei Li ended up.
Oh yes! Oh no!
I have mixed feelings about this. I want Selkie to do something. I don’t want her to do whatever’s making her make that face. I’m so conflicted! >o<