I mean depending on who or in what circles you ask, Amanda may not be wrong.
One could also replace civilian wit that OTHER c-word... customers... brrr...
I mean depending on who or in what circles you ask, Amanda may not be wrong.
Once again Benni gets scolded for (to me) no reason.
And yet he is never stopped.
Beginning to think that the Benny/Avery dynamic is “Benny gets snarky; Avery tells him to cut it out.” Like… if Avery didn’t react, Benny would get more upset — Benny is going “NOTICE ME! CARE ABOUT WHAT I DO!” and the “cut it out” without much in the way of teeth is just… the pattern. Call-and-response.
Hard as heck to watch if you’re used to a different dynamic. Much like how my spouse and his (late) dad would insult each other cheerfully whenever they were around, and… it was just how they interacted and they knew they were just sniping with blanks.
This is very much how I read the dynamic. I’m Not ignoring you, I AM reacting, I’m Not overeating to ever infraction , I AM listening to what you have to say, and I AM conceding to what points you may actually have. Such as him talking about the refugee town as a hole. Yes the wording needed to be pulled up, but it doesn’t remove the truth in the statement. We currently live in a world were being offended by the method or tone of delivery is somehow a removal of any truth that statement has. I’d rather a teen that swears and talks back because you can see it, feel it and notice changes in behaviour easier then the perfect child that one day snaps. And mind you that snapping can often be suicide so, I’d take and honest child over a ‘respectful’ one any day.
Where’s the like button when you need one?
Ok, now Amanda is kinda being a dick again.
Amanda never seems to not be a dick.
She definitely has trouble respecting adults, and with her history we can all see the reason, but I am consistently surprised by the lack of reaction when she says she thinks her dad is an idiot, or that everyone around her is dumb. I mean, my parents weren’t hardcore “respect your elders”/”don’t question your parents”, but calling them idiots would NOT fly.
no shes kinda right. If you mean stupid as in “those not in the know of the ins and outs of a specific social structure” Of which “black ops officially denied by the government” IS a community in and of itself. For instance I CANT tell some people here the ins and outs of what I do for a living. SOME people I can tell everything SOME people I can tell SOME of what I do.
No. She isn’t.
Just when she starts to be remotely tolerable.
I’m so sick of her as a character.
Same. Well past. I have yet to see anything but unbridled selfishness, rudeness, and cruelty. Even the “she was abused” is beginning to wear thin. Get the kid in therapy and start making it plain her rotten little games are over with. I have yet to see anyone properly shut this kid’s behavior down as unacceptable. I love the comic, but this is getting infuriating.
I’m actually warming to Amanda a lot lately. She’s gone from hatred/fear/insults to a more friendly kind of snark which I like. And she’s clearly enjoying herself in the company of Sarnothi which bodes well for her and Selkie’s future relationship.
Oh man, is Amanda going to become interested in Secret Agent stuff?
I can just see it- Selkie, all grown up and set to conquer the world, when her underwater volcano base is infiltrated by a daring spy. Her frogmen manage to capture the spy and bring her to their Evil Overlord, but when they remove her mask- GASP! It’s Agent 00Amanda!
“Hello, Fishface.”
“Hellos, Sisters.”
I know this was mainly a joke, but I’d still hope that Amanda once she grows up is gonna put the racial slurs to rest.
true, but you gotta admit, that it’s very stereotypical for the good guy to mouth off to the evil overlord as he’s been captured and brought before the bad guy… it would even be funnier if they didn’t know who their true identities were until this moment… just like the movie Mr & Mrs Smith with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
I like the idea of that all happening and Selkie tosses her a controller.
Selkie: “This times we plays Streets Fighters!”
Amanda: “Ugh, fine, but I get to play Ryu.”
Just this being an elaborate ritual to do something inconsequential like playing video games.
It’s how they end up doing Sisterly Bonding!
Hurray for Dave showing the red tape in Selkie’s word seems much like the red tape IRL. And now Todd can just barely start to understand what all Avery has done for the family so far. Although I still don’t see why they couldn’t have told the orphanage right away that she was a carnivore…
My understanding is the government didn’t get involved until some time after Selkie has already been with the orphanage.
to all the people with OCD, as a writer my self I wanted to say something cause I see someone posting about some plot point not being entirely explained on the story every so often in different comics
It’s OK to have lose ends in your story, not everyone is G.R.R Martin and haves the impulse and drive to tie every single lose end they can find
If it’s not in the story it’s not interesting, or relevant, to have it in your story
If it’s not interesting or relevant, and you still need to know what happened, imagine the least interesting or relevant reason it could happen and then that was it
unless it’s used later to give a plot twist or a mayor reason or motivation for a character to do something, it’s NOT a real “plot hole”
thank you for your time
We thank you for your service.
“not everyone is G.R.R Martin”
Yea some authors actually finish their works. 😀
IKR XD XD XD
I mean I liked his books, but I think he over stresses to tie everything so hard that it kinda hurts the pacing
That’s for the reader to decide if they are interested in it. I know several books that were ruined because of details the writer never covered.
Such as one series I read a few years back, which had two different races with two different kinds of magic. Except for one guy, who for some reason, had the other race’s magic. AND THEY NEVER EXPLAINED WHY. IT WAS THE ENTIRE MAIN PLOT AND THEY NEVER FLIPPING EXPLAINED IT AND AGARDAJSGAJADSKFDAJKLADSJDASFJA
now THAT is a plot hole
Hi, new comentor here. (Not new to the comic; faithful reader for years). Just wanted to put in my thought that a plothole isn’t really a plothole until the story (or possibly series) is over. Until then, the reader doesn’t really know if it’s foreshadowing or just something that hasn’t been covered yet. If at the end the point wasn’t addressed and it still makes the readers go “wait a minute!” then you’ve probably got yourself anything from a divit to a freakin’ chasm. Just my opinion on it.
True, but commercial TV and movies have made me quite wary of such things. Foreshadowing turns into a plot hole when the series is unexpectedly canceled. And then there are the many times when it _was_ explained, but the show ran two minutes long so some exposition was trimmed, by someone at too high a level to be bothered with actually watching the show and understanding what is going on in it. Or they brought in different writers for each episode, and each one (mis)understands the show differently.
Ah, true. I suppose I was thinking more in terms where writers have more autonomy, as in novels or webcomics. TV is kind of a different beast, as you point out.
Hey now, don’t giving Dave any funny ideas. We don’t need an “aquamarine wedding” or “Ice Zombie Dinosaurs” appearing in the story.
Pardon me, could you please hold this door for me?
Hodor Hodor, HOOOODOR!
;_; too soon
Amanda hasn’t followed that line of thought through yet and if/when she does, she’ll be disappointed. 🙂
Do you mean the thought about it taking years to be able to visit SelkieLand, or the thought that wait a minute she is also a civilian?
That she too is a civilian.
Honestly, everyone is some kind of civilian or another regardless of their “not a civilian” status. There’s always another group out there that you’re gonna be the civilian/outsider to just as there’s always going to be the time when you are the customer being served rather than the one serving the customer.
Oh so Benny wasn’t laughing at Avery just at Todd. XD Heh. That’s kinda funny.
Nah Amanda, Civilian means “Normal Person”
or just not in the Know. or person who wont/cant/isn’t able to understand.
In otherwords – someone who NORMALLY wouldn’t know/understand?
So it IS an insult. Glad we cleared that up.
Re the commentary, yeah, there are some days when I feel pretty strongly about some customers… 🙂
eehhhh…so, Amanda just gleefully insinuated that she thinks/hopes that they are calling her dad “stupid”
Waiting on the “wait, what? what’s wrong with this kid?” reactions from Avery and Carrie.