El Goonish Shive VII: The Comic is 20 Years Old, but the Cast is Still 18

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Well carp. Also Lake carp. River carp? (Edit: Phew! Carp are freshwater fish.)
Noah's eye. And his mother's naive, joyful faith in the master of fire implies a lot of painful regrets ahead for her.
Or to put it another way: critical hit right in the feels.

"I never knew my mother, and my father was a bitter, quick-tempered fanatic who helped create Damien, the monster that killed him and many others."

Combine that with Painted Black noting that Damien as made by religious fanatics who got tired of waiting...

Yeah, that's almost certainly Noah's father and something must have happened to sour his father.

...Could also be that Noah's father was gender non-conforming, given the emphasis on a lack of a gender binary the second panel.