0-to-nightmare in .5 seconds.
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So, a reader emailed me and gave me an idea. I have some Selkie bookmarks leftover from ACEN. If you’d all like one, I can mail one out to you. Just email dave AT selkiecomic DOT com with your shipping info.
First come first serve while supplies last.
Took my time to try and get the Big Friendly Smile juuuuust right. XD
Woot that face! XD also I would like a book mark but I’m in Australia is that a problem?
Not at all!
I too would love a bookmark. Also Selkie’s face from sweet to creepy – so perfect! I wish that was a book mark lol.
ooh, if you are making bookmarks can “this is my happy face” be one? It really needs to be (instant classic!)
Please make panal 5 into a background, pretty please with fish paste and rare beef on top ?
That would make an awesome desktop background!
I like her eyes, in panel 5. Being able to shrink the irises at will, and enlarge the eye sockets. That would be a NEAT talent to have.
“Friendly face” does look friendly. “Happy face”, on t’other hand, seems to be thinking, “Goodie. Supper.”
This comic has filled my heart with joy!
JOY, I TELL YOU! 😀
Is it bad Selkie and I share the happy face when revenge and come-upins are involved? Also what countries for the book mark, because I read this comic over Skype with my little cousin in Jamaica.
Her happy face reminds me of Jack Skellington haha.
The game. It is over.
Nah, it’s not over until he wets his pants: Which should be
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Yes! Yes! Yes! Win! And I love the Jack Skellington grin she’s got going there. Also: dear Trunchbulls: the principal, teacher, aid and librarian witnesses your son verbally abusing and physically threatening to strike said aid. Want to try that “no witnesses again?
And finally Tommy gets to experience fear for himself. This, and not frickin’ “self esteem” is what eventually leads kids to have respect and empathy for others if they have been raised in a respect-for-others-deficient and empathy-deficient environment.
The longer a bully has their abuse reinforced (or ignored), the longer it takes for them to learn the essential basic concepts of “people can hurt you back, and you just might actually deserve it”. Today, Tommy has had his world shaken, and he’ll be better for it. With his parents fighting such things, it won’t be easy. But it’s a step in the right direction.
On the supervillainy side of things, I love the “horror red” background when Selkie does the happy face. That panel was worth the wait.
If you stare at the big friendly smile long enough you can just barely hear the curch organ scream in torture beneath the hands of a monstrous 2 year old.
Come Tommy, let us gives you hugs. Bigs, friendlys, toothy hugs.
Welcome to the real world Tommy. Welcome…to the food chain.
Is there a way to like this comment multiple times?
Actually, yes there is. Come back in a couple of hours. Somehow it doesn’t recognize that you’re still you.
Hah! “Welcome to the food chain” is exactly right.
Mouth full of razor sharp teeth. Poison saliva. And the Shriek (which Selkie hasn’t used in a while, but it would be a good idea.) Apex predator.
Ah, so THAT’S how it feels to have your balls leap up into your body from sheer terror. Good to know. I’m off to go turn on all the lights in the house, put my back to a corner, and pray I never see that face again.
Are you assuming that his balls dropped back down from where Selkie originally kicked them?
GLEE HEE HEE HEE HEE!
THIS! THIS IS WHY I WAITED THROUGH ALL THE GUTS-CHURNING FEELS! FOR THIS MOMENT! RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
If you can’t stop a bully from beating on you, try scaring him to death…
I still find it strangely adorable. Is there something wrong with me?
Not at all! Would you like a hug? ^___^
Tommy, I’m afraid there’s no school rule against being weird and creepy. Threatening and insulting staff, on the other hand…
*Gasp! >weeze<*
Oh goodness! Oh dear Goddess. Laughed so hard at that I was choking for a couple of minutes.
Hehheeheheee! XD
I have quite a range of creepy smiles myself. Practiced for very simmilar reasons. Also, I've only been beaten twice in staring contests!
Ah! Good times. ^_^
… Kinda wondering what the teachers think of the ‘happy face’ though…
Yeah….I am really hoping she doesn’t get in trouble for that creepy face.
As long as it’s not on camera, it doesn’t matter how many witnesses there are, it never happened. Right, Mr. Trunchbull?
Even if an incident was witnessed by a thousand people and filmed from several angles, Mr. Trunchbull would still claim “PHOTOSHOP!” if Tommy The Truck was involved. He’d also say “the 9-11 attacks never happened!” for the same reasons.
I’ve personally discovered that the creepiness of a smile is largely affected by the angle at which is viewed.
1. Smile, displaying plenty of teeth for added affect.
2. Tilt your head by lowering your chin. (If you have glasses like me, look over the top of them)
3. Observe a normal smile become a serial killers death mask!
At least, it works very well for me.
Man those are some honkin’ huge books in the background XD;
I likes her happy face.
On a side note – to Principal Coward: you should give your job to Mina. Now. It seems that she has the will and the ability to actually do it.
That and she commands the Weirding Way LOL.
Dave> I love Selkie’s happy face. The hair, the pinpoint iris of her eyes, the dripping saliva. Good coaching from the De’Madeas!
Wow, Selkie’s happy face looks downright… EVIL.
I like it. Very much.
Oh my, Selkie is gloating over Tommy’s troubles.
Then again, I suppose she’s got reason; Tommy is a bully and a problem to everyone he “doesn’t like” (which seems to be everybody), so he’s got it coming. People in Paris used to gather around the guillotine and cheer when nobles, tax collectors and other officious bullies were on the block, too…
And, you know, they also cheered when the clergy (Who were rather annoyed by the banning of Christianity) and ordinary workers (who were the vast majority of the executed people) were also guillotined.
In my opinion, the revolution got a little carried away. Not that I’d have said that at the time, because my head is rather attached to my neck, and I’d have preferred to keep it that way!
“Took my time to get Selkie’s happy face juuuuuuuust right”
Nice
“Tommy you are mistaken. I am not in the library with you. Your in the library with ME!”
So very true!!
I would still hug that. I might need to get professional help afterward, but totally worth it. Selkie has got to be the most adorable apex predatory evil mastermind I’ve ever seen.
Nice to see Selkie remembering the lesson she learned way back in #415 …
Also, not to be nit-picky, but did Mina’s glove disappear in panel 2?
It got scared of her wrath and fled.
>_>
Works for me. Besides, if Mina’s wrath didn’t do it, Selkie’s “happys face” definitely would!
Principal Hobbit, would you be so kind as to get Tommy a new pair of pants?
“Bring me my brown trousers!”
And with this moment Tommy discovers new phrase: Bring Me My Brown Pants. Selkie meanwhile learns a new chess term: Checkmate.
With this turn of events, I imagine Truck will never bother her again. In fact, seeing the alpha bully run away like a dog with his tail between his legs might scare off all the bullies. She’s too strong and scary in reality to be a good target anyway. She just needs this boost of confidence.
I want panels 4 and 5 on a bookmark someday. Or a plushie Selkie where the hair is a wig so you can turn it around to get either one of those faces, as desired.
Good Cop, Happy Cop?
That just reminded me of Will Dafoe in The Smile Man.
http://saoirseranekaera.deviantart.com/art/Night-Terror-Selkie-455581739?ga_submit_new=10%253A1400717758
It wouldn’t let me click on email, so I’ll just give you the link here. I made some scary fanart for you!
Ummm, yeah. that picture cranked up the nightmare fuel to 11, there. Thank you, as if Witch’s House hadn’t already made me jumpy of huge ass teddy bears.
Oh frikken sweet!
That face. That face. That marvelous face!
XD
I see someone likes Walky.
And The Producers 😀
Ahahahahaha! So loving Selkie’s “Happy Face”!
I’ve read Selkie for a long time (and loveit!) but I had to leave my first comment on seeing panel 5. That is an AMAZING face, and I love it! 😀
This win over Truck was totally worth it. Now let’s have the same go for his parents, and I’ll be in heaven-on-earth. 😀
HECK YEAH! COMEUPPANCE AND TERRIFYING TOMMY! (And if he tries anything this time no force on earth will save him.)
The thing is, if Truck is being written like some RL bullies I knew (past tense is so lovely), he is not conscious of having done anything wrong. The rules are that Truck gets what Truck wants, and what Truck wants is to never, ever have anybody do even the least little thing he doesn’t like, and also to have a target handy whenever he’s in a bad mood. Like a toddler, except big enough to do serious damage. So even though he just had a teacher use the Scary Voice, he probably is not going to learn a single thing from this. The world was mean to Truck. Poor, poor Truck.
Some kids like Truck do learn better. But by this age, most of them are stuck in this mindset, and the best–well, the least bad–thing you can do for their targets is to send the bullies far, far away to some other school where they will arrive with a record and be watched like hawks.
Parents: Don’t protect your precious blossom from the mean old world that keeps calling him a meanie for no good reason. If one person calls your child a bully, it may be happenstance. Twice could be coincidence. But three times or more is a sign of a problem!