Seriously. For all the money he spent on ACME junk, he coulda bought a George Foreman grill, a year’s supply of chicken, and enough therapy to forget the Roadrunner exists.
Wile E. actually broke the fourth wall in one cartoon, when a couple of kids sitting at home watching the cartoon wondered out loud why he was so obssessed with the Roadrunner.
I forget his exact words, but he explained it, complete with charts.
Hey, Novil, is the comic ever gonna show some colors? Not that the black and white style aren’t good enough, it’s just that it’d be interesting to see them in another way. You can do it every once or twice a month as a “special strip”…
Me: Wile E. Coyote have you ever though of just USEING your money to hire someone to catch the RR FOR you???
Wile E. :*holds up sign* no
Me: wana hire me?
Wile E. :*still holding the sign saying no* … … …
Wile E. :*takes down sign* *puts one up asking how much and how long it will take me*
Me:100mill and it will only take me not even 5min
Wile E. :*holds up sign* O.o O.o O.O o.o
Me:*takes cash and gives him a box saying ACME on it* here ya go … this will get you the RR in not 5min
Wile E. :*holds sign* WOO!!!”woo comes and opens box..”
RR:MEEP MEEP!!!*runs off*
Me Woo RR:*laughing to much and walks off hopeing one day Wile E. will just get REAL food and stop geting scamed by ACME*
sorry if that was to long lol…
I once saw a roadrunner that had gotten caught in the grill of a Chevy. Laughed for an hour. Only wish I’d had a camera so I could have done some creative photoshopping with Wile behind the wheel.
If i remember right, Coyote just had a TON of credit with ACME. And i always wondered how ACME stays in business when most of their products blow up for no reason other then their Anvils. I guess ACME anvils are their only good product.
@ Lax: We could do more colored strips, but not as long as we are doing so many strips consisting of two full rows like the one today. And considering that most of those long strips are among our best ones, I prefer them to colored ones.
Heehee, yeah I think every kid who grew up in the 80s wondered about this at some point. And if Wile e. Coyote couldn’t catch the roadrunner, what made him think he could try catching Bugs Bunny?
I saw some roadrunners in person for the first time last week. They bear about as much resemblance to the WB Roadrunner as Tasmanian devils bear to the WB Tasmanian Devil.
Yeh, yeh, I wondered why Coyote didn’t just order out too.
I highly recommend Kage Baker’s novel “Sky Coyote”, part of the Company series, to everyone who’s a fan of Coyote or the Roadrunner (or Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Speedy Gonzalez, Tweety, or Sylvester).
ya .. there anvils might not blow up but thay do tend to fall..then somehow warp space and time just to land on Wile E. most the time .. and i though Wile E. just put all that on his tab…how would he have nearly 692trill in credit with ACME?”that # is just a guess cuz most the bombs he gets show there price when he is geting them on a laptop”
oh by the way … Wile E. has a unlimited credit card account witch was his pay for being *and still is* a beta tester for ACME and that is why he allways use’s ACME stuff “so he really gets all he wants for free”… wiki it if you dont beleave me lol…
Why didn’t Wile E. Coyote order something else like food? Because it would ruin the series, simple as that :). I love comics like this, they make fun of what everyone is thinking already :D.
“If Murphy’s Law’s a religion I must be a saint
What else explains semis bursting from tunnels I paint?
A thousand Rube Goldberg nightmares lie smashed in my garage
How many falling pianos can that damned bird dodge?
From magnetic birdseed to dynamite darts
I could buy General Mills with what I spend on parts
But I’ll get that Roadrunner if it’s the last thing I do!”
-Tom Smith “Operation: Desert Storm”
@Mouse: You miss read Novil’s sarcasm. He was poking fun at Rabid calling Political overtones on this one cause its set in the Mohave desert. (A beautiful place by the way, for anyone that hasn’t been there)
@Rabid_Fox: I didn’t like the Politisizing of the comic either, but everyone tries it at least once. And in this strip, there wasn’t any. Its back to the carefree randomness. At least they learned. Cris Paloni didn’t and lost almost half his fan base.
@ Nivarion and Novil: So I did, my bad. I offer my humblest apologies. *blushes* It seems I didn’t catch Rabid’s inciting statement, probably because I noticed the odd comment Novil had made first.
Again my humblest apologies. Can we say big woops?
It’s these WB classic cartoon take-offs that have me returning to view this strip. Remembers Judge Harry Stone admonishing my mentor and relative to just buy some food next time. NOW WHERE’S THE SPORT IN THAT? Never ate roadrunner, but have eaten pheasant–a close cousin to that annoying speedster. :=)
I do agree that Wile was doing it on matter of principal.
However, on matters of funds, I am in question on one thing and suspecting a real world reason for the answer to the source of the funds…
Question: Just how old is Wile vs. RR, anyhow? I am thinking that it’s been around far longer then the ’80s.
Answer: And, if it is as old as I think it might be, then we’re reaching back into a more innocent time when credit cards were a new idea. An experimental idea. A dangerously, out of control era for them, in fact. Back in the days when they’d almost bend over backwards to give the stuff away. It wasn’t unheard of for elderly, middle aged, children, recently departed, pets with good names and pretty much anything with a pulse could qualify for one of these wonderful cards. Back to a day when swiping a magnetic stripe across a reader head did not exist. Instead, a physical bar pressed a sheet over the card’s raised number, imprinting it’s ‘signature’ into the slip. (Yes. Businesses today may still have one of these primitive devices.) All of this paperwork meant a bit of a nightmare for tracking all the outgoing funds. However, the hosting companies were so willing to get this system of credit started that they seemingly didn’t care to investigate whom was getting the line of credit. In such an environment of such free flowing cash, is it really such a mystery how a wild animal with a name managed to acquire credit? On top of that, that coy mutt had an extra life quota of some video game characters. (Probably making him the…or amongst the first to do so.) And, seeing as how he keeps dying, his early credit requirements were constantly being renewed.
In our day and age of computers all over the place, that wily yote would have a credit score of zero and be forced to learn how to scam rich folks (Oh, Yosamity might do) into donating into phishing spam schemes. Either that, or he just has a team of lawyers constantly sueing Acme for making faulty products that harm and/or kill him. That kind of cash could keep him going for life…after life…after life…
😀
but then, coons are a touch smarter than wild dogs…
the roadrunner quickly went beyond just a source of food for Wile E., and more a serious obsession / challenge to his status as the region’s “top predator”. he had to catch it to prove himself. obviously he’s either independently wealthy or secured some deep line of credit that would be unthinkable in the modern age, and some other reliable, if meagre, source of food (he may look scrawny but he never starves).
in the strange, somewhat post apocalpytic nevada sandbox where he lives, however, chances for ordering pizza – or any food other than birdseed, which we must presume he cannot digest – might be few and far between.
hunting methods indeed…
Someday, some continuity. It’s kind of important, though not very, but kind of slightly.
The food didn’t explosively backfire? That may be a first for an ACME product!
All this eating will help the bird sleep, then the real feast will began. (Maniacal Laughter)
One thing I always wondered..if Wile E Coyote had the money to buy all that ACME stuff on mail-order, how come he never just ordered a pizza?
Seriously. For all the money he spent on ACME junk, he coulda bought a George Foreman grill, a year’s supply of chicken, and enough therapy to forget the Roadrunner exists.
Hey… um… I know this doesn’t belong here, but… does anyone else think that Sandra actually looks really cute in comic 54…?
Me: Hey Wile, ever thought of doing what Woo just did?
Wile E Coyote *holding up a sind*: No.
Me: Ever thought of ordering pizza?
Wile E Coyote *holding up a sind*: No.
Me: Ever thought of eating something other than the roderunner?
Wile E Coyote *holding up a sind*: No.
Wile E. actually broke the fourth wall in one cartoon, when a couple of kids sitting at home watching the cartoon wondered out loud why he was so obssessed with the Roadrunner.
I forget his exact words, but he explained it, complete with charts.
Hehe, I think after the first three times Wile failed to catch RR, it became a matter of principle… 😀
Haha, nice 😀
Hey, Novil, is the comic ever gonna show some colors? Not that the black and white style aren’t good enough, it’s just that it’d be interesting to see them in another way. You can do it every once or twice a month as a “special strip”…
Me: Why not?
Wile E. Coyote: Because. There is nothing tastier than roadrunner. Once you start chasing one, nothing else is worth eating.
Me: Wile E. Coyote have you ever though of just USEING your money to hire someone to catch the RR FOR you???
Wile E. :*holds up sign* no
Me: wana hire me?
Wile E. :*still holding the sign saying no* … … …
Wile E. :*takes down sign* *puts one up asking how much and how long it will take me*
Me:100mill and it will only take me not even 5min
Wile E. :*holds up sign* O.o O.o O.O o.o
Me:*takes cash and gives him a box saying ACME on it* here ya go … this will get you the RR in not 5min
Wile E. :*holds sign* WOO!!!”woo comes and opens box..”
RR:MEEP MEEP!!!*runs off*
Me Woo RR:*laughing to much and walks off hopeing one day Wile E. will just get REAL food and stop geting scamed by ACME*
sorry if that was to long lol…
I once saw a roadrunner that had gotten caught in the grill of a Chevy. Laughed for an hour. Only wish I’d had a camera so I could have done some creative photoshopping with Wile behind the wheel.
If i remember right, Coyote just had a TON of credit with ACME. And i always wondered how ACME stays in business when most of their products blow up for no reason other then their Anvils. I guess ACME anvils are their only good product.
Always wondered why Wile Coyote don’t do like this himself…
@ Lax: We could do more colored strips, but not as long as we are doing so many strips consisting of two full rows like the one today. And considering that most of those long strips are among our best ones, I prefer them to colored ones.
Ha! Why didn’t Wile E. ever think of this one?
Hang on… Roadrunners are insectivores?
Heehee, yeah I think every kid who grew up in the 80s wondered about this at some point. And if Wile e. Coyote couldn’t catch the roadrunner, what made him think he could try catching Bugs Bunny?
hehe lets see Roadrunner run now!
Looks like the Coyote could learn a few things
I saw some roadrunners in person for the first time last week. They bear about as much resemblance to the WB Roadrunner as Tasmanian devils bear to the WB Tasmanian Devil.
Yeh, yeh, I wondered why Coyote didn’t just order out too.
I highly recommend Kage Baker’s novel “Sky Coyote”, part of the Company series, to everyone who’s a fan of Coyote or the Roadrunner (or Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Speedy Gonzalez, Tweety, or Sylvester).
ya .. there anvils might not blow up but thay do tend to fall..then somehow warp space and time just to land on Wile E. most the time .. and i though Wile E. just put all that on his tab…how would he have nearly 692trill in credit with ACME?”that # is just a guess cuz most the bombs he gets show there price when he is geting them on a laptop”
Where did woo get the money to pay for all that tasty fruit?! lol Good Hunting Methods indeed!:D
oh by the way … Wile E. has a unlimited credit card account witch was his pay for being *and still is* a beta tester for ACME and that is why he allways use’s ACME stuff “so he really gets all he wants for free”… wiki it if you dont beleave me lol…
According to a WB comic, the ACME board of directors is composed entirely of road runners.
HAhahaha, excellent. There is nothing like a good not-what-you-expect joke that takes things off the rails a bit. This is why I read this comic 🙂
Why didn’t Wile E. Coyote order something else like food? Because it would ruin the series, simple as that :). I love comics like this, they make fun of what everyone is thinking already :D.
I don’t like the political everytones of this happening.
This comic is total shit! Everybody knows that global warming is a myth! And therefore deserts like this one do not exist!!!
I’ll global your myth and also all the Polar Caps. More like Baseball Caps, amirite.
@Novil:
Who cares?
Wilie should learn from this.
@ the FAKE Novil: Seriously, dude, you choose to waste your (rather questionable) hacking skills on a webcomic? Couldn’t get past PETA’s defenses?
@ the REAL Novil: Love this comic and the little stories it provides!
Say Novil, I’m a pretty good at photoshop and could color something like this strip in an hour and a half.
Maybe you’d like to see my work?
@ DRKS and @ Mouse: Please see http://www.sandraandwoo.com/removal-of-comment-sections/
😉
“If Murphy’s Law’s a religion I must be a saint
What else explains semis bursting from tunnels I paint?
A thousand Rube Goldberg nightmares lie smashed in my garage
How many falling pianos can that damned bird dodge?
From magnetic birdseed to dynamite darts
I could buy General Mills with what I spend on parts
But I’ll get that Roadrunner if it’s the last thing I do!”
-Tom Smith “Operation: Desert Storm”
@Mouse: You miss read Novil’s sarcasm. He was poking fun at Rabid calling Political overtones on this one cause its set in the Mohave desert. (A beautiful place by the way, for anyone that hasn’t been there)
@Rabid_Fox: I didn’t like the Politisizing of the comic either, but everyone tries it at least once. And in this strip, there wasn’t any. Its back to the carefree randomness. At least they learned. Cris Paloni didn’t and lost almost half his fan base.
I’m glad S&W is back to normal.
🙂
@ Nivarion and Novil: So I did, my bad. I offer my humblest apologies. *blushes* It seems I didn’t catch Rabid’s inciting statement, probably because I noticed the odd comment Novil had made first.
Again my humblest apologies. Can we say big woops?
@Mouse lol, stuff happens. Don’t sweat them.
It’s these WB classic cartoon take-offs that have me returning to view this strip. Remembers Judge Harry Stone admonishing my mentor and relative to just buy some food next time. NOW WHERE’S THE SPORT IN THAT? Never ate roadrunner, but have eaten pheasant–a close cousin to that annoying speedster. :=)
Ahaha. Ah. Bless.
I just read your entire catalog of strips.
Awesome!
One would think the Coyote would finaly give up and pick the Roadrunner off from a distance…..
I do agree that Wile was doing it on matter of principal.
However, on matters of funds, I am in question on one thing and suspecting a real world reason for the answer to the source of the funds…
Question: Just how old is Wile vs. RR, anyhow? I am thinking that it’s been around far longer then the ’80s.
Answer: And, if it is as old as I think it might be, then we’re reaching back into a more innocent time when credit cards were a new idea. An experimental idea. A dangerously, out of control era for them, in fact. Back in the days when they’d almost bend over backwards to give the stuff away. It wasn’t unheard of for elderly, middle aged, children, recently departed, pets with good names and pretty much anything with a pulse could qualify for one of these wonderful cards. Back to a day when swiping a magnetic stripe across a reader head did not exist. Instead, a physical bar pressed a sheet over the card’s raised number, imprinting it’s ‘signature’ into the slip. (Yes. Businesses today may still have one of these primitive devices.) All of this paperwork meant a bit of a nightmare for tracking all the outgoing funds. However, the hosting companies were so willing to get this system of credit started that they seemingly didn’t care to investigate whom was getting the line of credit. In such an environment of such free flowing cash, is it really such a mystery how a wild animal with a name managed to acquire credit? On top of that, that coy mutt had an extra life quota of some video game characters. (Probably making him the…or amongst the first to do so.) And, seeing as how he keeps dying, his early credit requirements were constantly being renewed.
In our day and age of computers all over the place, that wily yote would have a credit score of zero and be forced to learn how to scam rich folks (Oh, Yosamity might do) into donating into phishing spam schemes. Either that, or he just has a team of lawyers constantly sueing Acme for making faulty products that harm and/or kill him. That kind of cash could keep him going for life…after life…after life…
No, the whole never ending hunt business is just cartoon groundhog day. Willie Coyote Memento action. Alzheimer’s in the animal kingdom.
It is always day 1 of the hunt for our poor hunter.
Ahaha! Oh that’s brilliant! This has immediately become one of my favorites. ^.^
😀
but then, coons are a touch smarter than wild dogs…
the roadrunner quickly went beyond just a source of food for Wile E., and more a serious obsession / challenge to his status as the region’s “top predator”. he had to catch it to prove himself. obviously he’s either independently wealthy or secured some deep line of credit that would be unthinkable in the modern age, and some other reliable, if meagre, source of food (he may look scrawny but he never starves).
in the strange, somewhat post apocalpytic nevada sandbox where he lives, however, chances for ordering pizza – or any food other than birdseed, which we must presume he cannot digest – might be few and far between.