![[0074] Rabid Escape](http://www.sandraandwoo.com/comics/2009-07-06-[0074]-rabid-escape.png "[0074] Rabid Escape")
The current story arc started with this strip: Summer by the Lakeside.
(Well, it’s certainly understandable that Shadow is concerned, but at least someone was successful during the last mating season 
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The name of Shadow’s wife is Echo. (Just in case you wonder why there is echo in the tags.)
- Shadow: AUGH!!!
- Kevin Dean: OW! MOM!
- Tanya Dean: KEVIN!
- Shadow: I’ve bitten a child. Completely unprovoked.
- Shadow: I’m dead, dead, dead, dead.
- Shadow: They’ll kill all foxes in the area to test them for rabies, including ol’ Flint and…
- Shadow: “… my wife and kits.”
- Echo: No hunting success this morning, darling?
- Shadow: Been somewhat absent-minded…… Say, don’t you think that this territory has become pretty boring lately?
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I’m interested. This is good. I really like Shadow, actually, he’s got a twist of lemon in his character.
Having a look at your username I’m not surprised you’re interested
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Awwwwwww, the kits are just adorable!
But man, Shadow just made a collossal blunder. I had no inkling how bad it was going to be from last comic.
As a side note, love the second panel. Really instills a sense of urgency.
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I really like Shadow’s freaked out expression. Lol, and just like us guys to not completely give the REAL reason as we’re doing something.
BTW what’s the kit on behind Echo doing?
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Tail chasing, I imagine.
And how very dare you judge me by my internet handle, Novil, as accurate as said judgement may be.
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Yeah, just like ‘us guys’ to be complete idiots and never be honest, like the lying cheating…
I’m worried you are relying on commentaries and other out-of-comic to provide info. Larisa’s pyromania come to mind. Larisa’s NAME comes to mind. It’s generally considered bad form to require extra reading to get full enjoyment out of a comic strip, so it would be helpful if you tried to work in at least names and such into the dialog.
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Oh, KBF, you so crazy.
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Now we’re in trouble…
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I just bought a ‘Food Chain’ t-shirt. All is well with the world.
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The kits are adorable! WE MUST SAVE THEM!!!
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Prepare the diggers! Ferment a new batch of Agent Orange! In search of the heinous pepetrator of this unmatched atrocity, we must uproot the entire forest!
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this is everything a comic page should be.
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Wow, this escalated QUICKLY.
I actually like how Shadow’s family kind of jumped out of nowhere for this page. It’s a great surprise and really ups the ante for how all this plays out. That said, KBF has a point. In the FOLLOWING comics, it would be good to have the basic information for these characters stated as part of the story rather than in author’s notes.
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Like how the story arc just took a serious tone with a dash of humor in it.
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I can understand Shadow’s panic. Around here, in order to test for rabies, the suspected animal must be killed first. Their brain tissue is then tested for rabies.
Here in the northeastern USA, raccoons are the main carrier of the disease followed by bats. As such, I’d be just as concerned for Woo as Shadow. If neither parent really saw what bit Kevin, thye might go after Woo and other raccoons before Shadow and other foxes.
@ KBF: I don’t understand this complaint. It’s absolutely not necessary to know her name to understand the strip, it’s just an additional piece of information.
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This is pure awesome. I really did not see this coming, Shadow didn’t seem the character type for a family so far. He seemed more like a juvenile who just left his mother’s den, at least to me. But this could be problematic for the entire Vulpes vulpes population in the area… Poor chap.
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Shadow has a family 0-0? Thats news to all of us. Yay the one I like matters. Nothing really creative to comment on, though I think adding the red both works and seems slightly off. Then again its blood so it works but one color in a B&W strip looks off to me.
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I think the red touch to the blood was good–it popped and drew your attention to the intensity of the situation. “Hey, this isn’t just slobber here–this is a big deal!”
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Mild splash of color on mostly B&W FTW.
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I believe what KBF is saying is introduce the mate and kits by name in the next few strips. I agree that having to read the “footnotes” to a comic means the strip hasn’t provided necessary information. That said, I agree that naming the character in their first strip isn’t required, but it should be done soonest.
There is also a need to name the characters as a “footnote” since the strips are indexed by key words. If the footnote was missing, everyone would be asking if “Echo” was the name of Sid’s mate or one of the kits.
So you cannot win no matter which way you jumped.
Don’t know if it is done in Germany, but in some major parks in the US, the forest service drops drugged meat where racoons and other animals will find it. The drugs are an anti rabis drug that is suppose to prevent the wild animals from becoming infected and subsequently infecting humans. I remember this being a program the government was planning on curtailing due to budget problems. (Penny wise and dollar foolish.)
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Opps, my bad. Sid should be Shadow. The old hedgehog must remember to edit his comments before hitting the submit button.
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Awww, having a really bad day, are we? Maybe some animal activists will protect you.
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Oh crud.
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With modern vet methods? Naw….
What.. Would they do that? Used to be they’d do that, then open the skull to examine the brain for Rabies.
OhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrudOhcrud
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ZOMG NEW CHARACTERS WHY DON’T WE KNOW EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT THEM ALREADY!?!?!?!?
Seriously, it’s a webcomic, and this is a secondary character within said comic. And maybe the story to introduce them is *gasp* this one!
Anyway, enough rant, now with squee. AWWW KITS! I love the one trying to catch the mom’s tail… and failing. I feel bad for Shadow. Hopefully Sandra or Woo will be able to help… or he’s screwed.
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the use of red is brilliant, and the last panel may be one of my all time favorites!
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This could get serious. I can imagine some fox like Flint getting killed in this arc, and Shadow having to live with the guilt of being responsible.
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Why…there’s only one true answer, here. The Human family must die before they can escape the forest.
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oh dear… I’m worried FOR Shadow!
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As the Robot Chicken version of M. Night Shamaylan would say, “what a tweest!”
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I’m too honest. If it were me…”No hunting success this morning, Dar-”"I-ACCIDENTALLY-BIT-A-CHILD-WE-HAVE-TO-GET-OUT-OF-HERE-BEFORE-THEY-KILL-US-TO-TEST-FOR-RABIES!!”"How could you accid-”"I-WAS-GOING-FOR-A-PEAR-AND-HE-WAS-REACHING-FOR-THE-PEAR-AND-I-BIT-HIS-HAND-LET’S-GO!!”
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Must have exceeded a limit or goofed. Then I take a deep breath and pass out from hyperventillation.
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random question: “Who would win– Shadow the fox (from S&W) or Shadow the hedgehog (from sega)?”
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Noes! Not Shadow :<
And he’s got a family! It better turn out to be ok
Also thats a really cool shot on the 2nd panel of Shadow running, looks really dynamic and (somehow) really emotional
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If you intend to kill one of the just-introduced foxes, it does seem a bit cruel to introduce a character for the sole puropose of killing said character off in a few strips
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Squival, maybe Shadow will have an ear-tag showing he and his family were vaccinated against Rabies, and are actually part of a scientific study for habitat management?
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Who wants to crash at Woo’s house?
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Ooh, Echo’s such a pretty name. (I’ve got one character of my own somewhere in a pile of dust named that, if I remember right, actually…) And a nice twist at the end there, I sure didn’t expect it!
Oh dear. Will Sandra have a makeshift fox den under her bed soon?
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@dzamie: I don’t think the hedgehog would fear the park service.
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Somehow you forgot the thumb. Either that, or Shadow but the kid harder than he thought.
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Is it just me or do the two names “Shadow” and “Echo” sound suspicious?
(Cough cough) Shadow MONSTER maybe? MR.Echo?
Or maybe the two names are entirely coincidence and I’m just grasping for loose straws…
Wow I don’t even think I said that saying right.