Little State of the Comic note for this week. I mentioned on the previous strip’s notes that I would have to miss Friday’s strip and maybe even Wednesday’s, if you recall. I am on a trip this week and am not really ahead enough on the comics to have full strips done for the week.
However, as long-time Selkie readers know, I place a lot of value on keeping up the pace of the story even if I have to cut corners on other things. In keeping with this philosophy, I’d really rather not have two updates of filler/doodles/illustrations, etc. So, for this and the next two strips, I am calling it a Dave’s Phoning It In Week.
All strips will be uncolored lineart this week. Unlike previous times where I posted “lineart now, colors later”, it is unlikely that I will be returning to color these right away. So, story progression will continue but with “Diet Selkie” artwork this week.
And as one last note… FAN ART UPDATE! This super adorable Selkie is courtesy of India:
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Thanks, India!
Please please PLEASE for the love of God let Truck push Ms. Afhkami – not so that she gets seriously hurt, but enough that the full force of the law can come down on him and maybe Todd can forgive her!
Glad to see I wasn’t the only one thinking, “If we’re real lucky, Truck will hit the teacher and end up in Juvie”.
If we are extremely lucking he will try to hit Mrs Haversham-Zhang.
^ THAT would be well worth the price of admission. Ms. Haversham-Zhang vs Mr. Trunchbull? That’s worth the price of admission, twice!
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I find myself unable to disagree. At the same time, that is a SERIOUSLY scary thought. <~<
It would be Pokemon style:
A wild TRUCK appears. TRUCK uses punch, Missed!
Lilian uses stern look. Critical hit!
A wild DR. TRUNCHBULL appears. DR. TRUNCHBULL uses self-importance, it’s not very effective…
Lilian uses glare of the archangel. DR. TRUNCHBULL surrenders.
That would be pretty cool. But the best thing to happen would be if Mr Trunchbull were forced to eat crow and apologize.
A person like him would rather sue than apologize.
Good that you used the word “try”. He’d never lay a finger on her.
I love and appreciate your choice for the line art. I get to see the progression of the story!
I don’t think this will end well at all. Truck aka Thomas has show that while he has a short temper he is also intelligent and able to plan when things change on him.
Also I think truck is either extremely spoiled and or beaten at his home. It seems he shows signs of both.
Just now, however, he was unable to take into account that a teacher was watching.
Seems like it might be a symptom of something on the autism spectrum. That would account for:
1) Obliviousness towards authority other than maybe parents. (and he probably doesn’t really understand that, given that he seems to keep thinking that he has the same authority as a parent)
2) Insecurity regarding feeling “stupid”.
3) Legitimate motivation for the parents to be overprotective.
4) Being actually quite intelligent, but not really understanding how this whole “other people” thing works, and being frequently frustrated by their (from his perspective) disruptive, chaotic, and sometimes downright abstract behavior.
1, 2, and 4 are also potential signs of Anti-Social Personality Disorder.
Well his parents seem to be both be into extreems of child rearing. His father being far too stern, while his mother treats him like an angel that can do no wrong. Must make Truck one hell of a confused kid. But confused or not, he’s a bully.
poor TRuck, getting verbally abused by his classmates like that, by this point he is mearly defending himself
Are you absolutely kidding me? No. NO. Not poor Truck, there is no self defense here. He is bullying. He almost killed Selkie. What if he HAD? Are you a bully to? If I recall; he decide on his own to join the snowball fight and then get violet when he ACCIDENTALLY got hit and retaliated not with playful war but with extreme violence. You can pity him because of his abusive parents, but not the actions of his classmates you ass. You do NOT respond to name calling with violence that could FUCKING HOSPITALIZE YOU. Fuck off you troglodyte.
I think that metzger is either being sarcastic, or assuming what the parents will say about Trucks antics when they find out…
Well that was embarassing… Reacting like a rabid dog to opinions different from your own is bullying, is it not? Even though Metzger is probably being sarcastic, there’s no need to defend a drawing on a piece of paper. You should feel compassion for everyone, why not a misguided child who only has bad examples?
I said you can pity him for his abusive parents, but not his actions. And rabid dog? Really? Oh, no, I could’ve been a lot harsher. And yes, there is need to defend a piece of paper because it is the principal of the thing. If Metzger is not being sarcastic then their “opinion” – which is actually a skewed vision on a situation that makes him absolutely the same as the people who let him get away with nearly killing Selkie – could land a REAL child in trouble, provided he ever decides to have offspring of his own. It will lead him to be a bad example for real children.
Awkwaaaard. Your name suits you.
He needs to Stand His Ground
Truck shows his true colours… in front of a witness.
There were witnesses before. Fat lot of good that did. I just hope Selkie doesn’t do something stupid.
There comes a point when witnesses can’t be dismissed. We’re dealing with multiple witnesses in multiple incidences, and that troll of a Principal will be getting a visit from Agent Brown soon.
Mina has to Mega-Evolve before she gets super dagger-manifestation powers.
At what age do Sarnothi “magic” abilities start to manifest, I wonder? And is there some kind of external (emotional) catalyst? The comic isn’t colored yet but I’d swear I see a hint of green around Truck right now. >:)
Don’t tell me no? Well, if it isn’t the general opinion of his parents that shines through..this will not end well at all.
That skull Selkie’s thinking of … That doesn’t appear to be a human or a Sarnothi skull. It looks like a horse skull, which makes me wonder if she’s thinking of summoning a demon to go at Truck.
In Stephen King’s It, Henry Bowers is a brutal schoolyard bully who’s getting old enough to be genuinely dangerous. The protagonists – the Losers Club – live in fear of him, but they don’t realize how truly out-of-control he’s gotten until an old lady tries to interfere with his attack on one of them, and he turns on the old lady herself, thus proving he respects no authority anymore. Looks like we may be approaching that moment for Truck.
I do know one thing for sure. Panel 5 was the moment he went from “our big buddy who beats up those stupid orphans for us” to “scary berserker who we should avoid if possible and appease if not” to the kids in his circle.
Please, please, please let Selkie have a recording device of some type, please…
I think this is a smartphone, which, of course, has recording capability.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie438/
If she just remembers to use it.
I wonder what Truck’s parents will think when they see video footage of their son beating up other students…
If it were, that would be perfect.
I think this is what she was laughing about last page.
She wasn’t just laughing in that last panel on the previous page – she was reaching for something in the front of her sweater like there was a pocket there.
It´s a GOOD THING that Mina doesn´t have a real “dagger stare” – the stab wounds would kind of complicate the effort of making it clear that Truck is perpetrator, not victim, here.
So this is why she was laughing in the previous page. She saw her teacher in the background and knows he’ll be getting in trouble.
Clever.
Oops, didn’t see your reply here. Well I guess we agree, then!
Your art and your story are both wonderful with or without color. Travel safely, Dave!