![[0186] Take It Easy](/comics/2010-07-29-[0186]-take-it-easy.png "[0186] Take It Easy")
The current story arc started with this strip: Hit-Boy.
Whew, I’m already really excited about the strip that will be posted next Monday. All I can say is: This story ain’t over yet!
The original line of the police officer in the last panel was “Hey, look on the bright side! At least no SWAT team has shot your dog during an apartment raid,” but neither Powree nor Neveko got its meaning so I replaced it.
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- Nigel O’Sullivan: Good work, Mrs. Williams. Without your fast intervention this boy might have died!
- Ye Thuza: Oh well, the medic said that it was just a mild heart attack.
- Brandon: Can I go now?
- Nigel O’Sullivan: Not so fast, my friend! First I want to know why you two went completely ballistic after seeing some guys in superhero costumes.
- Nigel O’Sullivan: Hmm, maybe because… you’re your own best customers!?
- Nigel O’Sullivan: Hey, take it easy. In ten, twenty years you’ll be free again!
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Okay, comment section re-opened.
However, all comments containing complaints about the amount of swearing in this story arc or containing generic criticism about the general direction of Sandra and Woo will be deleted immediately.
Busted. I love the comic as usual!
That definitely qualifies as illegal search and seizure in panel 3. Freaking out because your friend had a heart attack and there’s two strangers in costume in your apartment does not count as probable cause.
You know… In America at least.
I find myself glad that Cloud will be able to continue his appearances on S&W, but disappointed that no one is dead. Still, awesome comic.
10-20 years, eh?
Most people over here get 6, and that’s for murder =P
everybody readed the comic? well Im just tired of the misinformation, Big Daddy was the badguy or at least a dangerous misfit, not a hero. Im not saying no spoiler, you can download the comic (buy the complete tome when you find it, is really good)
Frankly, I am glad you changed the final punch line– it makes more sense. I’m sure you thought the other comment was good, but it makes more sense the way you ended up doing it.
Love your comic!
Heh, I had a feeling this was a ‘scared straight’ kind of thing. Still love it.
Isnt ten to twenty years on someone his age a little harsh? It takes away his entire life basicly, spending you young years in a prison and coming out a beaten-by-inmates 30-40 year old?
And after that lets not forget how much that would scar him, I mean he could come out something much worse after that experience.
Just sayin. :I
He is joking.
I thought the action took place in the alley, or street?
Coming from a police officer, I had no idea he was joking. The arc isn’t over? Wow, I don’t see how it could get better! I love the perspectives of the donation drawing.
I think the strip also works if you assume he is serious.
Oh, wonderful. his life is permanently ruined and when he gets out, with no prospects, he’ll be foreced into REAL drug trafficing, including murder. They did the community a GREAT service, there….
Oh, he was joking? Uh, nevermind.
Why can’t you wait to see the rest of the story before making such statements?
That’s like walking out of “Over the Hedge” after half of the film and saying that the raccoon RJ is a complete brick.
Kind of an oversimplified approach to drugs, unless it gets more complicated and embarrassing after this. IMHO, for a lot of illegal substances used for recreational purposes, the illegality does more damage than the substance.
I’m a lot more scared of a government that cuts corners on civil rights than of some funny recreational chemical. Just look at 20th century history. The death toll from the former is orders of magnitude higher than from the latter.
I’m not saying that consuming weird stuff is good for you.
Still hoping for some embarassing complications from this.
I called it. Didn’t I call it? I said that Johnny wasn’t dead but Brandon thought he was.
Okay, so I didn’t pick that Johnny had a heart condition (although the hospital he was leaving in the first panel a few strips back should have been a clue). I still claim coup on the “not dead but thought he was” part of the plot. 🙂
Now I’m going to guess that Ye Thuza and Cloud will somehow intervene to get Brandon a lighter sentence on the drug charges. Or perhaps they won’t, but Ye Thuza will foster Ralph because he’ll have nobody to look after him with his big brother in prison. Yeah, that sounds more likely than the first guess.
Now I shall wait to see whether either of my latest guesses turn out to be true. 🙂
Is this a definition of poetic justice? Haha
Awesome Comic!
YAY, I WAS RIGHT, two comics ago i said ether somthing unexpected happened, or it was a setup, i was right with the first one
justice owns again
@Novil: You mean “serious” as in “really assumes Brandon is going to get 10-20”, or as in “trying to scare the you-know-what out of that idiot”?
I had been thinking the other boy had planned this ahead with Cloud and his mom, to give Brandon the scare of his life – hopefully to scare him straight. Guess I was wrong.
Ah so THAT’s why the comments section was closed. Hate to say it, but it’s almost just as well to keep it closed. Our culture is waaaaaaaaay to sensitive. Even if you DID remove the swearing, they’d just find something else to b*tch about. Some people won’t be satisfied until you’ve turned the comic into the Care Bears.
Yay!
(Also, Yay for the reopening of the comments.)
It’s more than a little sad to see people jumping the Gun here, And Either moving to conclusions before the story-line has finished, or getting upset that it has a bit of adult language and an adult based situation.
When looking at the rest of the Comic, The Stories before this one I mean, it seems to follow the same joyful balance of Life-Lesson/Comedy. The Context on this one merely Shifted to suit what was needed for the message to get across, and for the Comic as a whole to continue on.
Was there Something here that the Characters did which seemed out of the ordinary, or made them act in ways against their Nature? Not at All. In fact it seemed completely in place, and realistic in the world which they live and breathe.
The officer’s Comment? Take it how you like, Personally, I saw it as a Joke. Don’t get upset when it’s not even over Yet. That would be like watching Pirates of the Caribbean Two, And the Second Jack Sparrow Gets all Gobbled the Heck up by the Kraken, Walking out of the theatre and bitching that Jack Died. Even though in the next Thirty minutes everything seems to work out in an elaborate and joyful Twist.
Will That happen here? Not saying it will, but at least ride it out long enough to find out.
Also, Sorry about the Cursing there. My Sincere and Actual Apologies.
This webcomic has inspired me to write one of my own!
Unfortunately, I’m a terrible artist, so I can’t.
Still, like the superhero approach of the latest arc.
Love the comic _usually_.
But that story arc is… well… stick to the fun and happy parts…
Or do it right.
Whoops. Busted. 🙂
That didn’t stop Novil, did it?
You only have to convince somebody with drawing abilities of your comic idea.
(don’t try to convince me, my drawing abilities only cover maps)
Well it looks like I hit close to the mark when I deduced that he might have a life altering medical condition. Mind you I made a large enough number of suppositions that there was a decent chance I would have been close =P
As for the locking of the comment section, I was initially surprised but now can clearly understand that my Neighbors to the south are just as annoying as Tweety-Bird when it comes to their presumptions of other peoples morality. If only there were raccoons with the stomach for the job.
And the story continues
– As for American search and seizure, fergetabout it since this is not the USofA.
– I look forward to more overacting on the Police officers part.
– I have a hunch that the officers and “Mrs Williams” may already be acquainted
I thought it was the US of A? However, what the cop did seems legal in the US, look up “stop and frisk”. . . although I doubt that the cop put “subject is afraid of two subjects in superhero costumes” in his report.
was the reference to the dog getting shot a reference to New Tricks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tricks_%28TV_series%29
Hit-Boy looks awesome!! That was what I was wanting to say when the Comments were closed and now I said it, Woo!!
Hey, just started following S&W about a week and a half ago, and I’m loving it. Great work on an awesome comic, and thanks for also posting the comics auf Deutsch.
Even if that happens people will STILL find some reason or so to complain.
Anyway.
GO cloud and Cloud’s mom. And that medic, regular day heros!
There is no way he’ll get 10 to 20 for that little pot. Maybe a couple of weeks, or a ticket.
But its not like he knows that. 😀
Does this comic take place in the US or Canada? I know there are no raccoons in Germany…
Well I think you can rule out illegal search and seiz because by the way the kid was acting and the probqable smell comming from him (yes pot has a very noticable smell and most police know that smell) he has all the probable cause he wants. As for a sentence< most first timers if they show respect to the court get a slap on the wrist sand drug counseling.
@Mosley
Suspicious behaviour or any suspicion of criminal activity is legal grounds for search and seizure. Read over the Patriot Act passed by the Bush administration, if you’re suspected of a crime, or anti-national activity you can be stripped of your rights, searched, and detained until it is proven that you are not a criminal. So, this is definently legal in the USA, but wouldn’t be legal in say… Canada, unless you were suspected of being a terrorist (Canadian Terrorist Act), which isn’t a term thrown around everywhere over there.
I’m going to just go out in a random direction and say I adore Clouds superhero costume. I also really love the look of that officer there. His appearance feels like such a perfect nod to the cops you’d see in the Orphan Annie or Dick Tracey comics while still fitting the scene perfectly. =)
He is lucky he is not in Singapore. The drug laws are a bit… Harsher. For possession, you get the death sentence. (Overkill, in my opinion.)
If more drugs were legal, there would be less overdoses and less people in jail for no reason.
By doing drugs you get two highs, the regular high of the drug, and the high of doing something you’re not “supposed” to do.
It’s our bodies, we should have the right to do what we want with it.
Oh come on leave it. The strip, the arc and the comic itself is JUST fine the way it’s going, it’s called evolution and you know what’s the best for it. So just keep it up man. 😉
BTW so these drug stuff get you 10-20 years in jail? Ouch. :O
yay for coments!
There are raccoons in Germany since 1934. And they do quite well, it is believed that there are several hundred thousands of them now.
i like the story and all but what happened to s&w i kinda like the stories about them better
I guess the original punchline was this event here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003299.html
I wonder why the police officer`s name is “sullivan”.
Did you play “Bioshock” ? 😀
What treully amaze me is that everybody here take this joke so seriously!!
“oh 20 years its too much” or “yeah thats illigal seizure” blah blah blah…
Hu din’t you guys noticed thats a webcomic we are talking about?!…even if the cop says that he will be on the electric chair who cares!!!!!
and for me even 20 year for drug smuggling isn’t enough but thats my personnal point of view…
I know someone who used to work as an addiction counselor. She told me about the “shoot your dog” scenario:
Drug dealers often keep large dogs to protect them from their enemies. Dog attacks during police searches and arrests are so common that it has become standard procedure for officers to shoot advancing dogs on sight.
This may seem cruel, but keep this in mind: Most dealers try to escape while the dog is attacking, abandoning the animal anyway. If a dealer escapes or is arrested, then the dog becomes homeless. A dog that attacks humans can not be placed with a shelter or foster family. So even if the dogs are taken alive, they will probably be put down for the sake of public safety.
These situations are pretty tragic, and I don’t think they are common knowledge. I’m glad Sandra and Woo used the alternative punch line.