Carrie and Benny took English names when they moved to the surface, if you wondered. And no, Avery didn’t initiate it.
-EDIT- Apologies, I meant to include this as a reminder link last night and it slipped out of my brain. Here is the beginning of the sequence where Pohl describes how the civil war got started.
I had a joke that popped in my head for this strip but chose not to do it since it wasn't really relevant. Selkie: I cans marries a humans?! This changes everythings... Todd (grinning jokingly): Hmm? Got your eye on someone, do you? Selkie (pausing for a moment before answering): ...Yeahs. James Bond. Avery: Wow. Really? Selkie (smug/decisive): Hes wills be mines. I'll tames hims. Todd: Well good luck with that one, hun.
Oops…
Oh, man, that transcript would have been an awesome comic.
I can *just* imagine Selkie as a secret agent. Hell, a Navy Seal.
“Screw the harpoon gun, I’ll just bite ’em.”
Sounds to me she is going the super villain route on that. Dr. Terrorhammer, Science Witch just takes what she pleases.
OR, Sydney Scoville, Jr. only she’s going for Wolverine…
You had to bring Sydney into this, didn’t you?
Arrgggl blaarrgglll hype hype hype siracha sauce
Dave, please tell me scant didn’t give you any ideas.
I would so love to see the 2 Daves do a crossover al-la Chrsipco and Mandy Seeley (Precocious/Curtailed).
What about it Dave? Can you convince your counterpart to let you borrow Sydney for a few days? (Or Crona – having someone to hack reality and let them get the bow back could be fun…)
That might be fun for a non-canon for-funsies side story, although I have like no idea what Selkie would do in Sydney’s world. Steal the orbs, maybe, drag Sydney around the place a bit.
Would make for a great dream sequence with Selkie’s alter ego.
She would likely do what any child with a super hero would try, sic them on their bullies. 😀
Selkie: His names is Trucks! Beats him ups!
Sydney: Maxima, the little blue girl wants me to beat up children now! At least I think, I’m not sure.
Maxima: *Sigh* I told you not to go down this street.
This sounds like a great dream sequence. The mad-scientist witch Selkie captures and charms the intrepid Bond to rule the world beside her.
I *love* Benny’s haircut.
Sar Tari? Someone refresh my memory who were tjey?
The different Sarnothi clans and a brief history are first introduced between page 401 and 407. On the other hand, I don’t remember when (or even if) Selkie was informed of the whole civil war situation…
Their clan is responsible for the Civil War and the near genocide of Selkie’s clan.
However, any that leave Sarnoth are permanently exiled. This means the Browns are defectors, meaning not bad members of the clan and likely have a bigger target in their backs since, if we use human zealots as a parallel, nothing is a bigger crime than disloyalty.
You could as well argue jin sorai (Selkie’s) are responsible, since they insisted on blood for blood.
Clan Sar’Teri are Sarnoth’s majority clan. They’re also the ones currently in control of the city and responsible for the attacks on Jin’Sorai territory that wiped out large numbers of Selkie’s Clan.
I meant to link to the sequence where Pohl describes this to Todd last night, but it slipped out of my brain. 😡 Edited it in up top but I’ll link it here too.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie405/
Um, Yes, that name ‘means something to them’… like, they’re ‘only’ the clan that practically eliminated Selkie’s clan from the bottom of the lake* in their civil war, ya, know nobody special… 😀
*(I couldn’t really use the term ‘face of the world’ now could I?)
While I don’t approve of genocide, be aware that the reason for the war was to stop Selkie’s clan from going to the surface and demanding retribution from the surface eWorld for the accidental death of one of their members, probably involving the blood of the entire trawling crew.
No, that was the excuse for the war.
When the “opening shot” of a civil war is a targeted decapitation strike, it’s fairly safe to assume that the side who fired it had been waiting for an opportunity to justify doing exactly that.
One can hope that the fact that they’re in human territory and not Sarnoth implies they disagree with their clan.
Dave… I love your stories and even your artwork… But I can’t lie… His wife and kid look like Kermit the Frogs extended family. It’s probably the shade of green. (I am sure it ain’t easy…)
Using that logic, they look about as much like Kermit’s extended family as Avery does Miss Piggy’s… I think they look more like Pohl’s extended family than any frog’s… oh wait, they ARE Pohl’s extended family, even if VERY distant cousins….
I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I’ve had the same thought about Benny. Something about his skin tone plus his cheeks sticking out just a tiny bit.
I could definitely see “frog” becoming a Sar’Teri equivalent for the “fish” insult Selkie dislikes so much.
LOL I am glad to hear that. I didn’t want anyone to think I was slandering the character or your art. My first impression just struck me hard and I couldn’t help but say it, kind of like how a small child blurts out things without thinking.
In regards to “frog,” on one hand, I don’t want to be associated with anything that inspired a slur (even for a fictional character) but on the other hand… that would be awesome, and I would smile every time I saw it, not cause of the slur but the origin.
its not easy being green…
I think the Sar’Teri design looks awesome. I love the green skin tone with yellow patches. Please don’t change the design.
The first thing I thought when I looked at them was snake-people not frogs.
I want to know so much more about them. This is such a crazy twist. Also I want to know the inner workings of agent Brown’s relationship *cough* but uhh maybe that’s just me :O
Question – is the entirety of the Sarnothi civilization found in Lake Michigan? Or are there other cities/colonies/places? It seems like a relatively small part of the world to cover when they’ve at the same time got a city-state of some reasonable population density, I gather.
Yes. Sarnoth is a city-state in Lake Superior, and mostly isolated.
Does that mean we’ll never meet them? Cuz I wanna. They seem so nice.
Avery’s face in the last panel isn’t even surprised, from the looks of things, just resigned. Guessing that’s something they might face a lot of among fellow refugees.
Question! If the Sarnothi that had been killed had been from Jin’Sorai and they demanded blood for blood would the Sar’Ter still have responded by putting the City State on lock down and killed off the Jin’Sorai? Because honestly, up to the point of the lock down/genocide I don’t think the Sar’Ter were wrong. The afflicted family was part of their clan and they (the Clan) had the right to act or not act as they saw fit. Though with the way the tension between the Sar’Ter and Jin’Sorai had been increasing, with Sar’Ter wanting to maintain the isolation and the Jin’Sorai wanting to end it, it was only a matter of time before something like what is happening was going to happen.
OK, I’m going to bet a cookie on their native names being Thei Foh and Voh, and it sounds like the son may have taken on a name that honored his late father.
That still leaves the question of what happened to the other child.
War is hell.
Ummm – does that mean we’re going to see Sarnothi show up with Sue and Kathryn?
Ha ha. XD
The closest SnK will likely come to including sarnothi are the Atlanteans (like Flo the merman who was part of Soleil Corbeau’s “pirate” crew.)
Beat me to it. I only just put the pieces together.
Well shit, that got real dark real fast.
That opens up so many questions.
Did they originally want blood for blood like the Jin’Sorai did?
What do other Sarnothi think of her marriage to a human after humans killed her husband?
Was she against the civil war and against the attack on the Jin’Sorai?
If the other kid is dead, how did it die?
What does she think of the Jin’Sorai clan?
so i´m guessing the wife (and her kid) are on the run because she doesn´t agree with the rest of her clan…still, simply being sar’teri would make her an outcast among the other refugees who are on the run form her distant relatives….it also raises the question, what happened to the boys biological dad?
I don’t think they would be outcasts, Remember on page Selkie401 Pohl said that Clan’s is not a family it’s a combination social caste and political party. And his wife is from Clan Tel’Dora the scholars and scientists but she is an artist. So she is with Clan Jin’Sorai.
I have the impression from the artwork he was the one killed by the trawler.
I would not be surprised if the next comic contains something like this line:
“At the risk of invoking Godwin, Tod. Not every German was a Nazi. In point of fact, quite a few who were most strongly opposed to their government’s open warmongering expressed it by emigrating, refusing to feed the war-engine with so much as a single tax dollar-equivalent. That’s the sort of person my wife is, as were the grandparents of a lot of folks in the USA with German last names.”
(Hinoron will not share is real name on the interwebs… but raises his hand nonetheless.)
Sooo…. is the name Benny related to Behn by any chance?
Wait a minute…Carrie’s markings match Behn’s wife in Pohl’s explanation. And her son’s adopted name seems like too much of a coincidence. AND Brown says they experienced losses….
What happened to the other kid?