I like this comic. I especially like this comic because I like things that deal with adoption, having three brothers and sisters who were adopted.
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.Well, I think Fighteer (having adopted a kid, if I recall) would probably be the best person to ask about adoption here on the wiki, if you wanted to know more.
I doubt this would be the kind of webcomic he'd like to read though.
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From what I've observed, Fighteer's not real big on Slice of Life or Life Embellished stuff. I could be wrong, of course.
. . . It links TV Tropes from the comic header?
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something AwfulYep. The author is most likely One Of Us. Now if we could track him down...
Gentlemen: It appears our goal is obvious. The writer of this comic obviously reads tv tropes. That means he must read his own page, as a matter of pride. We must take him from that page to here, so we can bombard him with WMG and fan wank. Any suggestions?
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.He seems to be bombarded enough in the comments. He gives off the same pleasantly frazzled air as Dan Shive (whose work he's admitted to liking.)
Finished the archive binge, though I suppose it's not much of an archive yet. Still haven't quite gotten over Selkie's appearance—the skin tone makes me think "walking corpse," and the teeth do not help. Charming kid, though. And you can really tell this isn't the author's first comic—Sluggy Freelance took four years to reach the level of narrative quality demonstrated as early as #22
.)
Alternately pleased and oddly frustrated that this comic links so many other comics I almost never hear people talk about. I actually re-added The Phoenix Requiem to my to-read list because of this, but there's no way I can keep up with all the others at once, no matter how interesting they seem.
edited 31st May '11 11:33:59 PM by feotakahari
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something AwfulHuh, so what other comics has he done?
Also, I really like the whole inversion of the "Cute monster girl" trope. While selkie is cute, she is not pretty (unless you have a fetish for that, ewwww.)
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.I'm sure other fishmen will find her quite beautiful.
His previous comic was something called The Adventures of Sue and Kathryn. He makes references to it several times in Selkie, as a Show Within a Show. However, he must have pulled it off the interwebz, as I can't find any archives.
As far as I know, he never did any other webcomics.
edited 1st Jun '11 7:37:36 AM by TotemicHero
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Fishies please, fishies for me, I wants all the fishies ins the seas!
Nice to know Shinji plays World Of Warcraft some fantasy MMO.
edited 6th Jun '11 7:32:46 AM by TotemicHero
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)More fans is good.
Also using this as an excuse to link the latest strip
(didn't link it before because it looked like the conversation had dried up).
One of the hazards of spending too much time on TV Tropes is that I can no longer decide whether this
is heartbreaking, or just trying too hard.
I called this from the time Amanda freaked out at Selkies adoption. (Just did an Archive Binge.)
Mainly because she's always popular with the parents, so... why is she still in the orphanage?
Kids a jerk, but no one deserves to see everyone leave but them. Also, yeah, file it under heartbreaking.
edited 7th Jul '11 8:18:42 AM by GameChainsaw
The term "Great Man" is disturbingly interchangeable with "mass murderer" in history books.To me, it's really one of those scenes that's a great idea, but it suffers from the limitations of the comic medium. Would be better if we actually heard Amanda's frustration and sorrow.
Still, definitely sad. Amanda is earning her Jerkass Woobie merits quite nicely.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)I just want someone to make that team fortress mod. I really want to be able to say "my spy backstabbed your sniper with a carrot!"
Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.

We do not seem to have a thread for Selkie. This must be rectified immediately.
Fun little webcomic about adopting...something. The art, while simplistic, is well done, and has improved nicely.
First page
, for those who want to start from the beginning.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)