The current story arc started with this strip: Summer by the Lakeside.
- Woo: This woman has set up illegal traps and laid out poisoned bait all over the forest! She’s not playing fair!! Typical human.
- Sandra: Hmm…
- Shop sign: C. Nostra – Humane Pest Control
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Humane pest control? I would like a place like that 🙂
Keep up the good work!
Meeting both parties down the middle. Smart. And if they’re idiots, double for your side.
Will the bald and psychic boss within be called C. Nostra Dome-us? XD
This could end badly… I’m surprised no-one has caught on to what “C Nostra” means, though.
I suppose that the meaning of “C. Nostra’ was so obvious that nobody felt the need to mention it. However, I could see a disappointed Sandra finding out that it is merely a conspicuously non-Sicilian exterminator with an odd sense of humor. Also, her hair looks odd.
Of course, the mob may simply send her a photograph of a dead fish if it wishes to avoid hits unless they are absoultly necessary.
hmmm, you mean the towel on her head? if you don’t look close enough guess it could make her hair look odd
Oh, wow, now I’m really curious XD
Well, Google isn’t helping, so would some of the more world-wise fans mind enlightening me as to this “C. Nostra” punchline?
Try looking up Costa Nostra on Google Ken Cypher. That seems to be what they’re talking about. At least, I think it is.
Closest guess I got is Cosa Nostra Mafia. Took some looking to get that, which a good punchline it does not make. Then again, I might just be dense, so there’s that.
I think the punchline is humane pest control, not C. Nostra. It’s just a little additional joke.
C. Nostra, uh?
As an Italian I can say it reminds me of something…. sadly.
But the strip is funny, anyway.
And laying traps like those would be dangerous to any human who didn’t know about the traps in advance, like Sandra, right?
I’m actually curious in how did Woo know that those are illegal traps, too.
Sorry, I just read last strip’s comments.
Humane my foot. It’s the Mafia man! Though I can’t wait to see what happens next…
I have to wonder exactly how she’s going to pay them…
Wait, Sandra’s getting the mob after this woman?
That IS devilishly clever.
I dont think Sandra’s gunna be havin dealins with the Mafia here. Maybe she’ll buy a bunch of anti-pest stuff and throw it all at the pyscho animal killer woman and hope for the best? 😛
Interesting use of italics in a shop name. ‘Course, there’s Italian before the italics.
I have a hunch this is gonna be good!
Man this will end goodly for woo, bandly for that mean lady.
why she have towel on head
I bet this Nostra person will make an offer Mrs. Dean can’t refuse,mwhahaha.[/corny]
(and I can’t believe this hasn’t been said yet…)
Something tells me that this is less humane pest control and more human pest control…and while I hope Sandra’s not aware of that, the fact that she went with her devil would seem to indicate she is…
Humans don’t play fair. 😛 It’s not in our best evolutionary interests to do so, since we didn’t invest in claws or sharp teeth, but in brains and generalization.
I know it’s just a comic, but still. 😛 😉
I like Sandra’s thought processes. Scrap choosing between right and wrong, whichever one comes up with an idea first wins!
Fight evil with a another evil?
Yeah! Two lefts make a right! Or is it two wrongs make a 180° turn? 😉
If not for the need to prove it, I would of said I stepped on one of the traps and then taken her to court
Actually, Frank, three lefts make a right. You just start to go backward with two lefts
Well…she already sold her soul to the devil. Might as well embrace that evil side and give it all she’s got, eh? X D
Come on people, it’s a lighthearted comic. Nothing lethal is going to happen to the nasty woman. Nothing violent, even. I’m sure our artists have some creative and funny solution in mind.
Well, of course. But that doesn’t mean the fun can’t be =evil= ; D
Been reading for a while now, and I wanted to say I enjoy the comic. ^^ Thanks and keep up the good work!
Just taking a guess about the joke… ‘human’ pests?
Well, we do have a problem with those blasted apes… a few million wasn’t so bad, but we’ve got six billion of the monsters tearin’ up the planet!
😛
Well at least Sandra knows where her towel is.
Yep, it’s Cosa Nostra, a kind of italian mafia (thrust me, i’m Italian myself)
… Reminds me of those silly tunnel traps for queaks. The ones that tip back and trap the live queak inside. My mother loved those things after I drew her attention to the way our adorable kitties mangled rodents slowly to death for the lulz.
She started putting these little tunnel traps all about the house…
So I frequently volunteered to “let them go” … which my mother naively thought meant taking them the long way down to the end of the track and letting them out in a nice, safe place… as she did sometimes.
No. Just no.
I took the queaks outside, summoned all the cats on the farm to my position*… then let the queak loose in the middle of them.
It was hilarious.
(* : I miss those days when I could just go outside, meow loudly, and about eight cats would pop their heads out of various farm buildings and come running down the yard to me… except Galahad, who always slept in the laundry room after I re-tamed him, and was too old and lazy to run anywhere.)
Do I smell canole wafting out from the door?
I find the thinking Sandra on the 2nd panel adorable.
Kudos to Sandra for her new found skill as a force multiplier, indigenous crime syndicates are always good to have on your side when moving against an hostile leader.
I’m guessing that C. Nostra stands for Cosa Nostra, aka the Sicilian Mafia.
Loved the post. I appreciate you discussing the issue from the readers’ point of view. Great insight.