She’s a real gem.
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Thank you, Victoria!
Not a good day for Mike.
Ah, the Righteous Wrath Spirit speaketh through Giselle!
Even if the Trunchbull’s whine and complain their little angel’s way out of official trouble again, looks like Tommy’s time as BMOC at this school is over. Once the underlings are on to you, it’s all over.
Loving the ubiquitous “Tolerance” poster in the background of this week’s panels. 🙂
Also loving the fan art! Very nice work!
You saved me from typing it. And juxtaposed next to the evil laughter.
And everything blows up in Tommy’s face. BOOM. (Pun completely intended, if you watch CSI: NY.)
OH NO! The teacher used her first, MIDDLE, and last name! That’s how you spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E with 24 letters.
That’s nothing. Try having 5 total names- two first, two middle, and one last. Defcon levels could be set by my name.
I have just one first name, two middle names and a last name, but together they come up to 28 letters. It can be something of a nightmare to fit them on the puny short lines of official forms you have to fill.
My name has a total of 37 letters- 4+8+7+11+7.
I’ve got 5 as well! Though really, 1 first, 2 middle, 2 last (non-hyphenated). Or 1, 3, 1, depending on how you count ’em.
But – look at what she’s getting in trouble FOR.
It’s not for yelling at Tommy, it’s for using Michael as a support.
Ms. Afkhami knows not to get in the way of a dramatic realization.
Love that speech bubble in the last panel, along with the fact that Selkie and Georgie are losing their minds.
I am so loving this page as Giselle is finally putting all the pieces together to figure out her and her friends got played.
My screen has a dead pixel that was in just the right position when I read the last panel to make it appear that Giselle had a trickle of blood coming from her mouth.
The scene improved tenfold.
Looks like the fight’s about to start again right there in the waiting room.
While it’s nice to see Tommy get his comeuppance, I hope that at some point in the proceedings, some adult stops Giselle from laying the blame yet again, and says “No, Giselle, Tommy got you caught. You got yourself in trouble because what you did during that snowball fight was bully behavior and it’s wrong.” Mina? You seem to be good at this.
As for Truck, I expect him to be genuinely surprised when someone doesn’t consider “you made me mad” to be an excuse for pushing them down. In his world, apparently, that’s what the powerful get to do.
Agreed, on all points.
How else are the powerful meant to deal with their problems? Discussion?
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Then shouldn’t they all get in trouble and take their own blame?
Tommy convinced Selkie into the snowball fight and she really agreed after a bit of taunting from Tony so he provided the invite and she took the bait so that’s on their own heads especially Selkie who was told to use her best judgement. And it was a snowball fight that was against the rules from the start.
Tony and the others crashed said fight but Tony brought in all of the others to have an advantage over the other kids. Loyalties switched to even the playing field when it was too unfair and Giselle said to smear the orphans. But I wonder would it still be considered bullying if the original group was more mixed with other students other than just the orphan group of friends?
Even though the orphan group started the snowball fight they ran and fake cried to the teachers using their orphaned status to gain sympathy and put the others into even more trouble which George needlessly rubbed in with that jab about them being jerks.
Without all of the information all of the other kids felt that they had been set up to take a fall and be punished thanks to Tony and Truck lying.
So everyone has the blame to share for their part in this by that logic even if they were aware or not for what had happened even if it all started as having fun with a snowball fight.
Which is exactly what’s happening right now. How convenient.
Yes, because when a large group attacks a small group, it’s bullying.
But it wasn’t more mixed, was it?
They brought in the teachers because the snowball fight that they started was invaded by a bunch of bullies who were hurting them, and they needed to end it.
George’s taunt turned out to be a bad idea. But it was entirely deserved. They invaded the orphans’ innocent (if illicit) game and turned it into a torture.
Do you have an actual point here, or are you just presenting the bullies’ point of view? Because I. for one, am not interested in looking into their evil little heads.
Please, do try to remember that in this portrayed situation, they are KIDS.
Kids that don’t have the emphatic level to think for someone else, and to realize how bad someone else can feel by that bullying, which for themselves they think it’s just having fun.
So calling them ‘evil’ kind of makes my neck hairs stand up.
Sure, there might be a few among them that really are twisted little fuckers, and especially when they are bullies in College or High School. This is Elementary School: for all they know the world stops doing what it does when they go to sleep, and start it’s routine again when they wake up, just for them.
Your request is reasonable but extremely difficult.
As for twisted little fuckers, Giselle is right behind Tommy in that regard, as far as I can tell. In fact, in the long term, I’d say she’s the really dangerous one. He was only ever going to get so far bulldozing through life on brute force – in fact, it looks like he’s come to the end of that particular road. Give her a few years, and her nasty little plan to steal all of an enemy’s friends won’t be so clumsily executed, and her targeting of some marginalized group will be more subtle than “Smear the orphans!” She needs to be brought up short now.
agreed
They ran to the teachers after the turn which had evened out the odds or put it in their favor. I can’t remember which at the moment. If what was pointed out that makes those kids bullies then George could be called on for name calling and taunting the other kids who were in trouble. And Selkie equally for her name calling and that bumping Giselle out of the way to take a seat for the forceful physical contact without asking her to move over. It’s a stretch but in those terms they are.
And I am presenting this in the view that all are to blame for one thing or another by action or inaction in what had gone down, not just the ones you say are the bullies.
And personally speaking I feel as if that word is being thrown around so casually towards anyone who isn’t acting all sunshine and rainbows to the other kids. I’ve said something in opposition to someone’s comment and I’m branded a troll and a bully (not here but elsewhere) all because I disagreed with what someone, an adult, was saying. I won’t deny that bullying is a real thing and an issue but in some cases people are just too thin skinned that they see anyone who is against them as a threat of some sort.
These are children, still learning and developing and right now they are at that stage where they have learned right and wrong and have learned of that messy gray area and can manipulate circumstances and people in their favor. Not to mention finding their niche and their social clique and then working to stay within it. I could stand outside of a school playground right now…well when the summer is over…and hear them calling names and acting roughly. I wouldn’t outright call them bullies or twisted. That said their behavior should not be excused but corrected a great example we see in Truck.
But I can already see that you’ve already decided on how you wish to judge these children and nothing I or anyone else except the word of god that is Dave can say to change that.
Right. You know what? I’m’a just skip over any comments you may make in the future. This comment alone tells me that your opinions aren’t worth reading.
Ah I was right that you are one of those types. You took that one part and left out the context that validates it.
But let’s admit it people will hiss, boo, and condemn other characters for certain behavior then turn around and applaud the protagonist for the same behavior.
What really makes this is Selkie and her best bud losing it in the background….
Oh how the tables to turn! For once I appreciate Giselle’s aggressive attitude. At least, now that it’s being directed at the right person for once!
*do turn.* man I wish you could edit comments on this thing. I don’t know how many typos I’ve left on this website. Drives me crazy.
I remember that pose. So pleasant to see Truck have that reaction, and this time it’s a human girl so no one can whine about the scary poisonous amphibian being scary for no reason.
A distinction should be made: This isn’t just *any* human girl. This is a human girl who is speaking in dripping capitalized blood font. If Tommy were smart, he’d be halfway to the hills by now.
Except he can’t leave. He’s been sent to the Principal’s office.
And with this, Tommy’s position of power is dead. He’s the kind of bully that despite his size and strength needs backup to cover up for him. With no one willing to support him he’ll find even with his bozo father acting as a bully he won’t get anywhere. To use power you need it to begin with. No power, no ability.
I like Giselle now that she realizes that Truck is a little ***** *** *****. Sorry for the language
It seems once the gears start turning Giselle is rather on the ball with putting the pieces together, something none of the others (outside of Selkie’s circle and the witnesses have yet to do).
Ah, a satisfaction comic at long last. Seeing either 1) the senior Trunchbulls get the smackdown or 2) realizing their kid needs some serious reprisals and act on it (the first time those parents will actually behave like real parents) will be my cherry on top.
nah, the Trunchiepoo’s will turn this around on the Principal as well, since they will never take anyone else’s word on how their “little Angel” is misbehaving. i’m almost positive that when under their direct view Truck acts like a perfect gentleman, and therefore they only see that side of him so “obviously you are lying about his behavior…” as for the Principle, i suspect that he’ll attempt to weasel-word his way out of it without having to tell them the bad stuff, and trying to shift blame again, especially after he caved in the last time… but he won’t be able to get away with it this time because of Selkie right there, probably with a video camera (that we THINK she has, but have no PROOF of…, yet!) showing it without a doubt.
I love how the kids act like kids in this. None of them are “good”. They are all selfish stupid whiney brats at times and good people at other times. Switching from the bully to the bullied happens so fast. Even tommy isn’t “bad” he just has been given too many excuses by his parents that do not fly when you get into the real world. If something like this doesn’t happen and he learns from it he will grow up to be a douche like his parents but for right now everything is in flux. You really write children well. I want to give this comic to all my nieces and nephews!
Looks like someone’s about to lose all of his minions. Bwahahahahahaha!
The King has fallen.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!