And the Triceratops Biker is… REVEALED. 😀
Ever since the playdate arc where George came to visit Selkie and the Ikaris popped in and joined the game, I've felt like my usage of them extends beyond geeky paradoic reference humor. They popped in to play board games, Asuka teaches Selkie german... at this rate, I don't feel like they're "just" humorous nods; they're basically supporting cast in their own right by this stage. So I've essentially decided to make them more stand-alone and more... "mine"; mostly with some palette alterations and some light design modifications (Asuka's bangs are more like how I draw everyone else's bangs, now). I was also going to change their surname to something else, probably Horaki. But I don't think that much retconning is necessary.
In this early-draft version, the ‘door’ looks like a random barrier allowing them to emerge from a two-dimensional plane. Or possibly like they are walking through the walls. Which begs the question … is it the character or the walls that are insubstantial?
Also, I agree with Selkie. Triceratops is an excellent dinosaur.
Only the fourth wall is insubstantial.
BA-DUM tsssss
Not the triceratops biker outfit I was expecting, I assumed it would be more of a full costume, is there an explanatikn behind this?
It’s not a full body triceratops outfit because I wanted the Silly Outfit from the poll to be something he could feasibly be working in day-to-day. Thus, work t-shirt with biker-triceratops accoutrements.
OH MY GOSH. Dave, I think I love you. Triceratops biker for the win!
“Black as my lungs and my coffee” … Somehow, I find that even more hilarious than the triceratops biker.
Awesome!
Did not notice the design on her shirt in panel two. Then in four, it looks like she has something yellowish in her hand. Breakfast. Cookie, cracker, maybe a Twinkie. Then in five she’s playing with her hair and whatever she was holding is just floating there in space. 😮
I need coffee.
you mean the yellow embroidery on her shirt?
That looks like some sort of embroidered company logo to me, yep.
If you want Selkie to kill you, insist that she may only have the triceratops nose over your dead body.
TRICERATOPS BIKER. I LOVE IT.
And yeah, I think their names can stand as a shout out without needing retconning.
Wait, last I heard Shinji used to be a pilot, how’d he get reduced to wearing a triceratops biker outfit.
That was Asuka, but she never completed training; she quit school for unspecified reasons.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie110/
Dino Riders? Is that a reference to the toy series that came out in the 1980? (the only thing better than a Tyrannosaurus was a Tyrannosaur with artillery!)
Ooops, nope, I forgot that was even a thing.
I had to look it up, actually. That is some total 80s cheese. Meeeemoriiieeeees. 😀
I’m impressed Selkie doesn’t add an “s” to the end of sentences in German.
Pluralses don´t end with an “s” in German.
But neither do most of Selkie’s sentences in English.
Some do: Autos (=cars), Fotos (=photos); although the suffixes -n -e -er and -en appear more often.
Speaking of German: ‘Morgen’ (=morning) has a capital ‘M’. ‘morgen’ means tomorrow’.
Who the hell gave Selkie sugar again? lol
Aww… Why change her hair to black? 🙁
Did somebody send you a whiny letter about copyrights? Respond that parody is a protected right and invite them to shove their pointless letter somewhere uncomfortable! You’re fine as long as you’re not claiming to be the original creator of NGE.
Naw, entirely my own decision. I want to distance them a bit from being parodic reference humor so they can be proper supporting characters in their own right.
In retrospect, a half-Japanese, half-German girl whose red-hair gene survived contact with her Asian black hair genes was pretty unlikely, but we’ve long been trained to not take anime hair too literally (in fact there’s a whole field of study on how anime hair colours are related to personality archetypes).
Dear Ikari, i believe, its not a nice thing call your husband ‘stupid’ in front of everyone! Even if he really looks a little stupid in that outfit.