All Tai Li really needs right now is a stable water temperature and air circulation.
My original draft was for Pohl to say, "She's an egg, Todd. She doesn't really need much from us until she hatches", but on further thought I think the De'Madieas know better than to discuss such things openly.
Glad you explained that. I was reading and thought, “wait a minute. Did that kid hatch?”
Now it makes sense. 😀
Yeah, she’s still just yolking around. 😀
Oh shell no, you did not.
Please don’t egg him on.
Everyone seems to be scrambling for puns. Mind if I crack a few, too? I promise most of them will go over easy.
… I’m b-egging you not to.
Everyone is being ovary punstaking.
Yes, you wonder what scheme they’ll hatch next.
Maybe I’m too hard boiled, but I don’t find any of these yokes to be funny.
Too funny! These yolks are just white. You guys crack me up!
Oh no. Such an egg-spolsion of puns are just runny all over.
Yup, things are all scrambled now.
Eggcellent. I love poaching new ideas.
I’m poaching a few for next time.
I like the others overhearing and jumping to conclusions because while Pohl and his family know not to discuss certain things outloud, the human childcare plans wouldn’t be something they’d think of 🙂 anyways, I love your comic and checking to see if you upoladed a new one helps me not stress about finals
That last panel is gold!
To be fair, I’d also be really confused and instantly think of neglectful parents if they said their baby could fend for themselves lol
While not an ideal response: There’s a lot of people who treat their pets like family and call them “my babies” and such. And a pet is much more likely to elicit an “Oh, I forgot all about them!” than a human/sentient child.
…come to think of it, talking about her in an egg or in her cage or something would probably *reduce* suspicions. Far better than continuing to talk about her like a human child.
I know people that would say something like that, just to screw with the minds of others around them. “You don’t want to hear terrible things? Then quit listening to my conversation.”
Holy Cow! That is one heck of a huge aquarium! Not at all like what I was picturing, lol.
Wow. That aquarium has far larger hallways than any aquarium I’ve been in.
I am mildly frightened.
It’s a re-purposed mall that lost its merchant tenants due to the recession and was bought up by SeaWorld. They are trying to see if large scale murals and a supermax cinema film of the aquatic mammals will suffice over having live ones in captivity and a picket line of animal rights activists outside. They advertise that you can now go into the water with the whales to try and entice people into the supermax cinema, but the seats are uncomfortable so nobody much goes. Even their second film which was advertised as being in the water with Jaws doesn’t seem to have picked up the hype they were expecting.
(Dave may possibly dispute this background information.)
I still remember seeing the IMAX Beavers film. I would love to see more wildlife POV films.
Also, you’re reminding me of the stuff we watched on the Mt. St. Helens tour.
Aaaaaaand Pohl and Said Fen have taken off their hats, thereby proving Said Fen’s joke as just that, a joke. XD
Old people, what you gonna do 😛
I love the way how the old couple are more disturbed by their comments than by their looks. Sure, a family of green-skinned web-handed black-eyed beings are standing right in front of you, but what’s really interesting is their parenting skills! 🙂
P.S. A lot of people give strangers flak for openly starring at different or unusual people. The reality is, human beings are inherently curious; they’re not glaring with judgment, but with fascination. If someone like Selkie walked into a room full of strangers, of course they’d stare at her, and there wouldn’t be anything malicious or sinister about it.
“Did you HEAR that?”
“Mabel, I can hear YOU. Isn’t that enough?”
I figure in the real world, the natural adult reaction to meeting someone who looks unusual is to read them as either “human in costume” or “human with medical condition”, because we “know” that there aren’t any sentient aliens on the planet. One likely exception would be a conspiracy nut — I wonder if the family has ever run into one of those.
not yet I’m sure, but then again maybe that is one of the things that the various Alphabet Agencies are taking care of… keeping the blatantly obvious whack-jobs well away from the area, and/or otherwise keeping them muted and not in the public eye for them to draw more attention than the Government is willing to put up with at this time…
Sad to say, I did a double-take the other day with a (I’m sure I will get the PC term wrong) Little Person? who was getting out of a car. After the week I had had I kind of wanted to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating 🙂 There wasn’t really an opportunity to apologize.
Aren’t they concerned that the tank’s water heater or filter might break down while they’re gone? Unless the egg is robust enough to handle that, of course.
I don’t think they’re stressing over that. It’s the sort of hypothetical you can’t really defend against except by twenty-four hour surveillance.
Even if either of those do break down, it’d be half a day or more for a tank that size to be signficantly affected. They’re not going to be gone that long.
I like how the lady in panel two is smiling benevolently at the kids. I bet she’s a granny.
Hmmm I dunno, their behavior still seems kinda neglectful. What if something breaks down in the house? The power runs out or there is an earthquake and the ‘nursery’ is destroyed?