Extra Comic - Fingers

A Rose and Aya comic about fingering! (no not like that)

A Digital Dilemma

This is one of the test comics I was working on before starting the prequel. The character designs are still a bit in flux, but they’re looking more like I want them to look.

Avatar: The Way of Water came out at the end of 2022, but I spent so long tinkering with this that the movie they are initially talking about is now basically forgotten.

And yet, I keep going back to this conversation. My spouse is Team Aya, I’m Team Rose. How about you?

Transcript:¹

1. [Rose is reclining on a couch in a coffee shop, talking to Aya]

Rose: …but the only difference is that his kids have four fingers, while the other Na’Vi only have three. I’m not, like, an Avatar geneticist. But I’d expect a human-Na’Vi hybrid to be, I don’t know, SHORTER? Less BLUE?

Aya (looking at her hand): Ok, sure, but… Why four fingers?
Rose: Uh, because that’s the standard number of fingers for a person to have?

[Aya holds up a hand with all fingers extended but her pinky]
Aya: FOUR fingers?

[Rose holds up her whole hand]
Rose (laughing nervously): No! Four fingers and a thumb.
Aya (unimpressed): A thumb IS a finger.

Rose: I guess? But you wouldn’t say that, like, MICKEY MOUSE has four fingers. He’s got three fingers. The thumb is just assumed.

Aya: Why would we assume that? Some people don’t have THUMBS!