Selkie472
May09
on May 9, 2014
at 1:33 am
Just another reminder that I am going to be occupying a common area at Anime Central next weekend if any Selkie readers in attendance wish to say hello. I’ll tweet and blog my specific location here once I set up camp. I’m also planning to bring some small freebies to hand out. 🙂
First blood.
He’s totally about to be a Dick, isn’t he? 😀 … and now to wait til Monday. 🙁
Selkie gets all my love.
Not all, please. Spare some for “library guy” – he´s a hoot.
Seconded.
Shots fired!
Do Not Taunt Unhappy Funball
Oh wow, she’s even mouthing him off.
I wonder what trick she got up her sleeve 🙂
Claws. And teeth.
Up her sleeve?
Maybe the fact that he just asked two faculty members where to find the girl he’s about to beat up?
Plus a digital camera or smartphone, with video recording capability (my camera, pretty cheap as digitals come, can do that, including (poor quality) sound), placed on a shelf facing that table and set to record.
… and that same video will show that she TAUNTED HIM. So the blame will be shifted TO HER.
She can cut that out in post.
Poor sound quality. Can we really tell if she said “Dick” or “Truck”? All we can tell is she adressed him, nice and friendly and smiling.
You aren’t seriously suggesting that a verbal taunt and assault and battery are equivalent, are you?
Legally? If you have taunted a person, that can seriously mitigate any harm they do to you. Provocation (that is, “he provoked me!”) is a viable legal defence to assault.
All it takes is the defence being able to go “well, a reasonable person would have been provoked by this” followed by “Truck is a young boy with some impulse control issues and while those clearly need to be worked on, can you really blame him for reacting to such provocation?”
(Not that this EXCUSES anything that Truck does, of course. But it does mean that punishing him for it will be harder.)
I recommend that he immediately visits the school nurse, so that she can apply treatment for that severe BURN!
I have the feeling he may have a more literal burn before this is done. Remembering what a little peck on the cheek did to her adoptive dad… a spitball would be very painful.
Fan of the Smothers Brothers?
WHY MUST I WAIT FOR MONDAY
YOU ARE UNFAIR
God that kid is a Brat.
I wonder what happens next
Damn you weekend!
Heh. I get it, Dave, if the joke is intentional. He visits her in the detective section and she calls him a “Dick” which is a derisive name for a detective;) And I have not forgotten that Todd gave her something in case of emergency. That’s why she was so eager. Methinks our little Selkie has a bit of a revenge planned, and I think it might be due to the fact that she was totally scared by Tommy when he attacked her. Vengences… Ah, mys sweets…
Obviously, she forgot his name was Thomas and thought it was Richard. Perfectly innocent! >:)
And, honestly, how do you draw such hateful little eyes and yet clearly show through art how much Tommy looks just like his Daddy? Scary…
There’s a lot of “stfu and gimme what I want” there. 😀
In all honesty, I never considered Truck to be the type of person to know where a specific section in a library is, much less visit one.
Just because he’s a big kid means he never reads? I’ll bet his parents hold him to pretty high standards given how they react to accusations against him…
It’s nothing to do with his size, it’s to do with his attitude.
Yeah, although he doesn’t know the guy’s name, he just calls him “library guy.” That means he’s not in THIS library very often, at least.
*bounces up and down on seat* Oh boy, oh boy! Hurry up Monday!*
*I feel very, very odd saying that.
God, Selkie is clever.
This is not going to end well for Jessie. I’m surprised she wasn’t smart enough to figure out what Selkie had planned and intervene. She’s totally going to be blamed for the fight that’s about to happen.
Todd won’t, once Selkie explains it to him, and he’s the head of the PTA. So Jessie’s fine.
Hmm, well, that didn’t do Selkie’s old gym teacher(Chris?) much good. And I think Todd might not be all that impressed that Jessie left Selkie alone with Truck, after Truck’s last assault, simply because Selkie told her to do it. Jessie is an adult, and responsible for the children’s safety. Selkie’s eight years old.
Yeah I’m rather confused and frustrated that she let truck go to selkie without supervision, after everything. as a teacher, this is getting less and less believable for me. it’s our job to protect our students, and no teacher is that clueless.
Has she just left them alone, though? He ran over there, but Jessie could easily have followed him.
To be fair to Tommy, I didn’t care about ponies at that age either. I tolerated Original My Little Pony TV because sometimes it was my sister’s turn to watch TV and OMLP episodes tended to range from “at least it’s not Strawberry Shortcake” to “OMG THE SMOOZE IS THE BEST THING EVER.” (technically The Smooze is from the movie, but basically same thing)
But given a choice between Seuss books or Pony books, I know what I would have chosen. Anything Sci Fi would be even better, but I’d take Seuss.
Maybe something totally unexpected will happen, like Tommy apologizing
Every Tom, Dick, and Pony.
What kind of school is this?!
I know that this is all for the sake of plot but seriously they should know what happened with Selkie, they should know what Truck did, so why would they allow him into the same room with her? She should have seen the small panic attack she was having at the thought of him coming after her. Even if Jesse had some confidence that Selkie could handle this situation there’s some sort of responsibility in trying to prevent him from approaching her right?
I know it’s just a work of fiction but it’s just that it bugs me because in some twisted way you sort of know that there are teachers out there who are this careless.
Yup. Pretty darn clueless of Jessie not to have put two and two together as soon as Selkie’s panic changed to glee.
It’s a typical school, in my experience – that is, run by some of the stupidest people to squeak through to a college degree, with the teachers only understanding half of what goes on between the kids, and the principal either utterly clueless, or inclined to side with the bullies.
In my experience, my teachers were quite smart and understanding. One teacher even realized I had bruises on my arms and confronted me about it, telling me to tell him what that was all about. I tried to shrug it off as nothing, but he kept pressing, not taking no for an answer and eventually I told him I was being abused by my older brother. My older brother had anger issues so I never wanted him to be punished for his outbursts. My teacher got it all to stop while not being unpleasant with my brother.
So the fact that all these teachers are clueless dumbasses or spineless cowards really takes the realism away. The teachers are biased in favor of the bullies? This comic is biased in favor of the ‘good’ kids. Everything is so hell bent on making them seem like victims who are loads smarter than their ‘dumb dimwitted’ bullies and adults. The only smart adults are Todd and his family. The ‘bullies’ are either stupid or so ridiculously ‘evil’ or ‘malicious’ for no real reason. Yet the ‘good’ kids are so clever and intelligent and always well meaning… it really irks me!
Selkie’s current devious behavior actually surprises me and kind of counters the whole “good kid” thing that you mention. At least in my opinion. But it is realistic, especially as she comes from a predatory race. She is stalking and about to pounce on her “prey”.
And, yes, I think Jesse has been designed to be a dumbass because of comedy relief LOL
It has already been established that Jessie isn’t the fastest runner. So with the speed lines behind Tommy in panel 8, my guess is that Jessie is pretty much close behind him, and will appear into whatever happens on Monday pretty quickly.
I am also pretty sure that Selkie’s plan is not “get beaten up and have that on camera”.
I’d like to register my astonishment that a boy that fat can manage more than a waddle 😀
Um… I think it is not the weight necessarily that slows larger people down but the uncomfortableness of moving at those speeds. The presence of added bulk may hinder for that reason but anyone can put physical matters aside if their gray matter is looking well beyond that, and Tommy appears focused on revenge… or destruction… or both.
OOOOHHHH!!! KILL ‘EM… not literally, in a figurative sense.
Kids like Tommy Trunchbull are one of the reasons I changed from a teaching major (the others were No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core).
If I weren’t fired for going way off of the lesson plan (ya know, actually teaching them), it’d be for “assaulting a student”. Which would typically just be grabbing the bully by the arm/ear and dragging them to the principal’s office. But for a kid like Tommy it’d be for slapping him upside the head first, then dragging him to the office.
I just want to say I adore the librarian. Gotta encourage kids to read. Can’t always win, though…