Der kraken prezzie, revealed!
I actually intended for the first flashback bubble to include a little doodle of an octopus with the Selkieverse brand name of the phone on the screen: the kRaken. But it made the phone look more like some sort of DS-style portable game unit than a phone so I nixed it.
I am hitting refresh on the page saw 490 show up only to have my hart put into a vice…. gah hurry up make this is the biggest cliff hanger since…. well i’m too distraught to think of a good comparison but i’ll just sit her tapping refresh till your done, k thanks <3
Same here, but really really should sleep
Wow, pressure of the fandom. :/
I had meant that in a goood way, that I am so enjoying his story I was willing to forego sleep to hear more.
Having positive pressure is better then indifference or hate. I love his work and nothing wrong with people saying the cliffhanger stings 😛
For the tiniest glimmer of a second I thought you were about to post a joke about going on hiatus. I’ll just put away the torches and pitchforks now.
Yeeaaaaaaaah, this WOULD go down after I make that joke… >_< D'oh.
Yeah, I was afraid he was going to post something about being on hiatus, and then wait until Monday to post the update. That would have been really funny in about five years, looking back, but not now.
Take your time! Good things are worth the wait, and this comic is certainly a good thing. Thank you for working so hard!
Well, if we have to wait, I only hope this comic has what we all want 😛
Absolutely worth the wait! Thank you!
Now get some sleep, you have work! XD
Meh i had insomnia anyhow.
…Oh my gosh, it’s there. It’s there the whole time, it’s even what she grabbed off the shelf when they left the library.
…She got EVERYTHING. 😀
Also: YES! I was HOPING it was a cell phone!
And since this is my first comment here: This is one of my favourite webcomics of all. The writing is superb, the characters are incredibly real and believable, and just…everything. If you have to take a break to keep bringing us something this good, I can be patient. Thank you for a great comic.
I just found this comic a few days ago and you already stole my words 6 years in advance 😛
I was half suspecting the gift was some sort of camera but I still had to go back to look and only now I finally see the phone in the bookshelf. It’s right there, hidden in plain sight (given it’s only visible in a few panels). Very nice.
YES! Finally, vindication!
YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYEYSEYSYESYESYESYEYSYESYEsYES!
Thank you SO much for this. Now I am off to sleep for my first day on the job. Just-
Thank you.
By trunchbull’s expression, the picture seems to be sinking in. I just hope he doesn’t try to explain it away to himself.
I don’t think he’ll be able to explain away much of anything, once they get to the scene in the library where Truck is bragging about his parents getting people fired.
I admit I feel a bit sorry for him, because he put so much faith in his son, but he brought it on himself by doing so.
Trunchbull is getting the old Russian proverb rubbed in his face (almost literally): Trust, but verify.
What the others said…
Plus… “Selkie selfie” *chuckles*
Those who will not listen must feel.
Oh, well put!
Selkie, I have never loved you more than I do right now. You go girl!
I just went back to reread the pages shown in the phone- in those pages and the following ones you can TOTALLY see something purple barely there. Good job Dave! Great continuity.
Gods, the look of utter, CRUSHING despair hitting the good Professor is freaking beautiful. We don’t even have to see his whole face, just his eyes alone are expressing his dismay.
Also, Selkie Selfie. I want that panel with those words on a t-shirt.
Oo- perhaps the selfie, with those words as a banner underneath?
That would indeed look good on a T-shirt.
Either one works, but the end result is the same; I would pay money for such a shirt.
seconded!
(Starts to write something about print-on-demand t-shirt services, thinks wait a minute doesn’t this guy already have one? looks around for link, finds site…)
WAIT A MINUTE, why is the Selkie t-shirt selection limited to ONE Selkie picture and a creative swearing pic?
Seriously. Get some more choices up! There’s something very weird about a merchandise page for a family-friendly comic having its primary offering be a swearing joke (not that I mind the t-shirt, but it ought to be buried in other choices so it’s an interesting alternative, not the main theme of your stuff).
Workin’ on it. I keep sketching and scrapping ideas. >_<
Have one of Selkie standing in her mad scientist gear, doing something ambiguous and underneath in bright purple letters SCIENCE!
If you’re having a shirt with a picture of Selkie as a Selfie, why not frame it with other family pictures? You know, kind of like if they were all attached to the fridge together.
This is by far the best comic you’ve made. jsut hoped it owuld be full color
Oh it will be. I sometimes do this when I lose track of time and don’t get everything fully completed by the stroke of midnight. I generally try to just post as much as I’ve got then fill it in later, rather than posting filler or a shoulder-shrug, so people coming in early to read the strip at least have SOMETHING.
Also Just noticed going back. that purple phone is visible in many of the previous comics. never really noticed it before now. great job.
I’m just curious now. How many of you readers out there associate “Trunchbull” with this protective father, yet to be “un-unreasonablized” mother, and ill-taught bully more than a nasty headmistress from a certain book?
They have become about equal in my mind, sad to say.
(Now I’m having an image of Selkie using Sarnothi magitek to pick up chalk and move it about on the chalkboard to go “AGATHA. THIS IS MAGNUS.”)
It’s not hard to do since it is an intentional reference.
I would post something about how happy I am, but it’s been summed up pretty well by all the posts above me.
Which book, Mathilda?
I feel incredibly sorry for the Professor, something I’m not sure I’d have thought possible just a few weeks ago. No matter how needed and important, having your disillusions shattered is a painful thing. Also, am I the only one foreseeing a reluctant friendship between Trunchbull and Todd?
I hadn’t foreseen any such thing, but it’s not impossible. Trunchypoo will have to overcome his prejudice against the Sarnothi for that to happen.
As for Trunchy’s pain…remember that he destroyed people’s careers rather than face the truth before. His pain is richly earned, not just in the sense that he deserves it (though he does), but in the sense that this moment wouldn’t be happening if he hadn’t worked so hard to make it happen. He did this to himself.
Did anyone else hear the skillet/egg commercial, in your head? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub_a2t0ZfTs&feature=kp
“This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.”
This is your son. This is your son, the thug.
I heard something more like:
This is Tommy.
This is Tommy beating up my friends.
Now look at me.
Now look at Tommy.
Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped usings Old Spice and started usings lady-scented body wash, he could smalls like me.
Look downs, look up. You’re on a boats in the middle of the Great Lakes.
Look at your hands, it’s one of those weird Sartnothi artifact things.
Look again, it’s my phone recorder thing.
Anything is possible when a little girl smells like a lady and not Old Spice.
I’m on a giant eel.
LOL. Look again, the fishies are now diamonds.
This was great. 🙂
I won’t lie, this comment just had me dead laughing. Good job.
Between Selkie and Todd, I think they could easily take over the world as a father-daughter pair of genius mad scientists.
“And pushing his own friend. And threatening me. And talking about how he did actually attack me. And how he’s untouchable. And physically threatening a teacher’s aide…”. Trunchbull is not going to thank her for this knowledge.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I really hope this doesn’t backfire. Trunchy’s just the kind of person to raise all kinds of hell about Selkie taking video of Tommy without his knowledge or permission. I suppose it will come down to the laws in their state if he’s able to make trouble for her or not.
I don’t think it will backfire. There’s too much evidence, right before his eyes. He won’t be able to keep up the denial. Without his denial-armored total certainty of being completely in the right, I think he’ll revert to his other fallback attitude: “He’d better not have…”
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie338/
There is also a law in Wisconsin that for legal reasons only one party needs to be aware that they are being recorded. Just like how an employer cant put up a camera without making their employees aware that they are being recorded, but don’t necessarily have to inform guest or customers that they are being recorded in their facilities. Of course privacy rights still mean they cant record in bathrooms or changing rooms.
Hm. Didn’t know that one.
There’s also a school-district-specific code of conduct that bans the use of cell phones during school hours. THAT could be trouble, if it’s in effect here.
Selkie’s hands in the last panel seem a bit odd to me… It’s like her head is floating in the background while her hands are coming out of the ground.
Not that I have any experience with this, but maybe it’s the proportions or the lack of a body?
It is mostly the extreme angle and the foreshortening that accompanies it. You can’t see her arms because of the phone in her hands, therefore you are missing some of the input you would normally get to help you parse the scene. Find a kid, and have him/her move a book from their chest towards your head. Much of their face may be obscured by the object if they are not careful, but I think the rest of the image would look rather similar.
Plus: She’s sitting down, so it would be an accurate depiction.
This is going to be interesting to see how this actually plays out. Did anyone else hear about on the news how a student actually DID this and showed it to his parents? Enraged the parents went to the school and demanded the faculty do something about it.
Know what happened? The school demanded that they delete the content immediately, they insisted that what their son done was illegal and that he was not permitted to record or video tape anyone on school premises.
The family was actually SUED by the school, thankfully a judge threw the case out.
As mentioned before, it all depends on the laws of the state you happen to be in. In some states it is illegal to record a conversation or interaction when all parties are not aware of the recording. In some it’s not.
A wise man once said, “The lessons you remember are the ones that hurt.”
Does it hurt, Dr Trunchbull?
PROFESSOR* Trunchbull :p
Say it with me everyone, CATHARSIS!
CATHARSIS!
…I am such a follower.
FUZZY PICKLES- oh, um, er…
CATHARSIS!
the mournful look of despair, the despair of having to witness the lies about your creation you’ve been telling yourself fall to shadow and the creation is revealed to be monster.
It is delicious isn’t it? Too bad that only happens once in a person’s life if they choose to learn from their mistakes. If not, you can feast on despair quite a few times.
Gendo Trunchbull: “Well, then it’s obvious. Selkie clearly altered this video with image editing and special effects software.”
Gendo was a better father.
And he had better weaponry…but we have Gendo, Asuka, Shinji…
I feel kind of greedy because I was kind of hoping for a panel under the last one says “and this is tommy physically threatening a ta and admitting to hurting me and others.
I think the look of despair and world implosion is captured quite well by the look in his eyes. Almost makes me feel bad for him.
You know, the look of pain and despair on Trunchy’s face actually gives me a bit of hope. That’s the look of a man who can’t deny the truth anymore. That’s the first step in fixing this.
YesyesyesYES! Been waiting so long for this single moment!
About time something like this happened. Zero sympathy whatsoever for “Trunchypoo.” His son is an asshole, he’s blinded to it, and he needs some good old fashioned WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE.
There’s further complications to this evidence. Remember the bit about Tommy’s previous school?
I didn’t notice the came in the previous strips before.
afterwards it was obvious.
Also, is panel 3 of page 474 the perspective of the cam? sneaky
I love the smell of failure in the morning. The prof thinks he’s been an ideal Dad when in fact he’s created an arrogant bully. His supercilious attitude has just been hit with a humbling clue bat. He just might ship the fat little punk off to a military academy.
Perhaps the only thing that could wound His Professorship more deeply would be a meta-situation, where he would not only be made to witness the initial attack, but also all the speculation in the comments as to whether his son’s behaviour was indicative of an abusive home life. Quite a blow to one who has always seen himself as a good father and his son as a good boy.
His biggest flaw as a father was simply now allowing Tommy to be flawed or to make mistakes. By never allowing himself to accept the fact Tommy was acting out and fighting all who suggested it he’s made Tommy genuinely believe himself perfect and beyond reproach. Tommy dose not believe that hitting someone is right or wrong, he sees it as a matter of privilege. He simply believes himself to have the ‘born right’ to control others. Because his parents have made it that way by in there willing ignorance.