Aaaaaaand with Selkie nodding off to sleep after a difficult week-and-a-half (in-story) of getting bullied then fighting to clean up the mess, we call it “closed” on the Trunchbull arc. The characters stories and information within it won’t go away, but for now it’s a closed story arc. I know you’ll all miss the Trunchbulls and the Principal, but we’re moving onward.
Two things will happen on Monday. The first thing is the start of a new arc, something I think you’ll all enjoy seeing (hopefully). The second thing is a little something I’ve been setting up.
Announcement on Monday. 🙂
I was going to go with a silly ending, but I felt this whole arc deserved something with a bit more closure.
Uuuuuu, that hurt just to read. Poor Todd. Poor Selkie.
Goodnight sweet child, and let little fishies fill your dreams.
Goodnight, Selkie. Goodnight …
Owwww, shot through the heart.
No good night kiss for sweet little girl? Makes it even more heartbreaking.
As to the bow: Taking apart an old-fashioned alarm clock (mechanical, with dozens of small toothed wheels) to see how it works: possible. Taking apart a mechanical wristwatch to see how it works: difficult. Taking apart a microprocessor to see how it works: forget it. Taking apart a piece of alien micro (or even nano) technology to see how it works: no comment.
Selkies saliva is a little bit venomous. The one time she kissed Todd he broke out in allergic hives. Because of that they are a hugging family, no kissing!
Makes sense, even if he doesn’t seem to have a problem with kissing her.
Actually kissed him three times, not one. Twice on the cheek, lovingly, and once on the hand, resentfully, to prove she did NOT have poison spit. Oops.
But I thought the same thing about the kiss – Todd shoulda kissed HER goodnight. Lots of places to kiss someone that do not get saliva on you. I, frequently, kiss my daughter on top of her head. That would be a perfect place to kiss a sleeping child.
“Not the mamma!”
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Where’d the bow go? We never saw him put it back on her. Is he going to wander off and trigger the hologram again?
The bow has been off of her before. It triggers based off of a long distance. It only triggered when she had gotten far enough away to be riding in a car on the way to school. I don’t think it’ll trigger again.
It must be very different to adopt a kid old enough to remember their parent – to remember and love them – than a child who never knew them. Kind of reminds me of the kid in Free Willy – he has the foster parents trying to help him but keeps insisting his mom’s going to come back and get him some day. Selkie has been surprisingly free of that so far.
Interesting that she has no memory of a “dads” as far as we can tell, but considering what’s his name’s “baby sister” was in an apparent egg underwater, I guess that’s not a potential surprise.
I think she’s gonna dream with her mother.
I really,really, really hope that Selkie’s mom is just doing some legal stuff. And isn’t dead. Because I’ve been hoping that she’ll see her mother when she’s older.
Well we know Selkie’s clan were the victims of genocide so I’m thinking her mother put her into the orphanage for safe keeping while she went off to fight in the Jin’Sorai resistance force.
I bet. Which makes me worried if she’s still alive or not.
Todd, these are all good questions, but better to put them to your new friend Pohl and his wife.
That’s dark about the golden goose thing. I don’t recall it ever being cut open
Yeah, they cut the goose open to get all the eggs, but there weren’t any. They were magically produced just once a day. Morality tale of don’t get greedy and kill your income source.
Hey Dave, calling back to the subject of Patreon: Tailsteak, the guy who writes Leftover Soup (and to my mind is one of the most thought-provoking webcomic artists on the internet), has just announced that his Patreon level has reached the point where he can drop from a full-time job to a part-time job — at $400/month funding from fans, a lot of whom are $1 and $2 supporters.
As he puts it, he cares much more about free time than about being able to buy things, and when he can reclaim some of the time he puts into work just trying to pay the rent, that’s perfect for him.
I don’t know if your fanbase will ever get to that level, but it’s gratifying to see the Patreon model working for all these creators that I follow and enjoy, and I look forward to seeing it work for you as well.
Here’s the link to his announcement: https://www.patreon.com/creation?hid=1601316&u=197278&alert=3
I saw that! Actually when he said he had “an announcement on the future of Leftover Soup” I worried for a moment he was going the way of Girls with Slingshots and Shortpacked.
But yeah, I looked at several webcomicker’s patreon campaigns before deciding to go through with starting my own, and I’m motivated a lot by the ones that are able to make a career out of their webcomics. I just need to learn their secrets. Possibly with a hypno-ray.