The current story arc started with this strip: Dinner.
- Sabrina: Oh no.
- Heather: You’ve run over another mother with kits?!
- Sabrina: It’s not my fault!
- Sabrina: … She ran right in front of my car.
- Heather: All right, I’ll take care of the little one.
- Sabrina: Thank you.
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Oi, gutted, innit.
Oh that poor driver. But at least it wasn’t a hit ‘n’ run though.
*sob* why do cry?
At least the driver stopped and got Sid to a wildlife rehabilitator.
A moment of silence for poor Hazel. I’m glad that Sid will be taken care of and not simply abandoned to fend for himself.
Just look at the predator to the right in the first panel. If the driver hadn’t stopped…
poor Hazel, good thing Sabrina stopped and taking Sid to be cared of.
Thank god someone will tack care of this poor child ;__;
Poor little fella…
At this turnmoil of sadness what does Sabriana do? she LIES so in this sad,sad, Family seporational time she FIBS?!?!!? and i cant IMAGANE the last Squirrel…..:'( But Am i the only one who noticed the BADGER, WEASEL, thing in the first pannel? Last pannel hmmmm? But atleast Sid has a good home. But if you think about it it was kind of a Misunderstanding, Sabriana WAS kinda sorta telling the truth, but only the part SHE knew. So in a way she was Misunderstood. But the sadest part is there Probbaly wont ba a buriel for hazel…:( So JIC its never made: RIP Hazel the Squirrel
A good,Caring,Loving mother Squirell
Who Litteraly Fell into a chamber of
Events leading to her doom. MAy she be blessed
In heaven for her Sarcifice……….
Talk about being gut-punched! I’m glad that Sid has a good home though
@ Raven:
Why in the world are you, and would you be, happy? .__.
i’m more concern with the statement ‘You’ve run over another mother with kits?!’ , how many have fallen prey to her ways?
i don’t blame her … ok i do really but things happen and you can’t change the past and if you could everyone would abuse the power at some point.
and poor hazel we barely knew ya, but the story must go on and not everyone will forget you
Oooerr… I got a bit of whiplash from that tone shift there.
You went from making throwaway gags to having your character hit by a car?
Granted it made an impact but I would advise thinking your tone levels through next time.
Your friendly writer,
Adzy
What I’M really concerned about is that she said *ANOTHER*.
@ Adzy:
I’m not some fancy literary professor, but I think that was the point. Tragedy out of the blue to shock the reader.
And yeah, the whole “another” thing worries me. D:
I mean, how many squirrels can one person run over (rhetorical question)? They’re so small and fast, you’d think that they would be harder to hit.
So this is a qualified wildlife rehabilitator with the training and license that are required in most states? If so, she should be wondering why the heck she’s looking at a European squirrel.
And per my previous comment, a responsible wildlife rehabilitator would NOT release an exotic species into the wild. So it will be interesting to find out how Sid ended up there.
I wonder if this means that Sid will become someone’s “pet” for a while. If so, it would give him and Woo something in common with other. Perhaps they could be more like actual friends and less like potential prey and predator.
Another? Does she do this regularly? R.I.P Hazel.
And how could she convince Sid to get in this… I think it’s a paper bag?
Poor little guy.
But it looks kinda cute as he looks out of the bag in the last pannel.
@ Raven:
wait… what? o,Ô’ That makes no sense at all.
Well, that was lucky.
And I’m not sure why, but this looks very “New Hampshire” to me. Is that where Sandra is supposed to live?
@ Landbark:
Landbark wrote:
Hey, you bring a good point there: Indeed, we never saw Sandra’s Mom nor do we know why she’s absent from this comic. Has she died before Sandra’s birth or afterwards? I hope Novil or Powree will explain us that someday in this comic. Could make an interesting story :]
Brendan wrote:
I doubt it. Hazel “landed” at O’Hare (Chicago). NH would be an awful long run in ten weeks. ANd I doubt Sandra would drive that far to find someone to take care of Sid.
It’s a shame Hazel didn’t wind-up on the west coast ’cause there are a few species of squirrel out that way with ear tufts like the European ones at which there would be less question about why Sid has tufts.
Unknownman wrote:
Indeed, we never saw Sandra’s Mom nor do we know why she’s absent from this comic. Has she died before Sandra’s birth or afterwards?
If she died before Sandra’s birth, we’d never get to see Sandra, either. 😀
Poor Hazel 🙁
They’re small and fast, but there are a lot of them and they don’t understand traffic very well. I’ve hit three myself, over the course of about 20 years. The first one had already made it to the other side of the road and would have been fine if it hadn’t panicked and run back. The second just picked a bad time to try crossing. The third tried to cross a busy street during morning rush hour, and would almost certainly have been hit by someone else if not me. It’s a pity but what can you do?
Oi, whoever hinted along the lines that this may well be how Shadow and Sid ‘met’, good call, I’d be well up for that as a storyline.
Side point, I helped raise a fox cub once. Bloody hard work, I can tell you that, but eventually happy ending; he got released into a nature reserve where he’d still be semi-looked after (cause at the end of the day, releasing a semi-domesticated fox into the wild is just irresponsible). Damned fine way to spend a summer, though. Incredible feeling of well being.
Moxie Man, there’s no way that Hazel could have landed at O’Hare unless this strip is ignoring biology and landscape. Hazel and Sid were being pursued by a marten, and martens aren’t found anywhere near O’Hare. And the landscape in this strip is full of pine trees and does not look like the Chicago area. Most of the Chicago area is farmland that used to be tallgrass prairie, and the woodlands there are mostly oak savannas, not pine forests. Pine forests are found much further north, as are martens.
Poor Sabrina. If she’s able to get Sid into her purse for the trip over to Heather’s place, she must have gone through this heartbreak too many times.
On the other hand, Hazel could have theoretically landed at O’Hare and still ended up in marten country if she had managed to run from O’Hare to the northern edge of Minnesota or the upper peninsula of Michigan during the last ten weeks. Seems pretty doubtful to me.
Anne wrote:
I suggest you go back to the airport scene and read the sign in the first panel:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/01/03/0233-blind-passenger/
you guys do realize this is a comic? Right? For all we know she coulda used a jet pack.
Hmmmm…squirrel jet pack squad, no, too TMNT
So maybe I missed this part, but how did Sid get there? I mean didn’t only his mother fall in the suitcase?
Good question@ Chaoxys:
@ Chaoxys:
there’s a “Ten weeks later” in the previous strip, probably Sid was born during those ten weeks
@ Chaoxys:
I think it was mentioned by Novil in the comments of an earlier strip that Hazel was pregnant when she fell in the suitcase.
Either Novil said it, or we theorised it like that. It makes sense either way.
@ MrGBH:
Novil DID say that in one word that said it all…”yes.” When one asked, “Was Hazel pregnant in that suitcase?”. Thus if im correct she was pregnant IN the suitcase, Gave birth in the forest, Raised sid there (And dont ask me how he “Grew up so fast” its a comic guys seesh) Badger thing or whatever chasess sid and hazel, Sid trips, Hazel tries to save sid from the badger thing but then sees car lights……and then this pannel… SO thats what happend. Just wanted to clear that up without us fighting over What happend or how.
Unknownman wrote:
There was a strip early on where Sandra was visiting her mom’s grave, though we don’t know how she died.
Stormrose wrote:
Strip #25, to be precise. Given the date on the headstone, when she died Sandra must have been about 8 years old or so.
This is what happened to me when my mom found a baby bunny.
Moxie Man, obviously you are correct. So apparently in this strip, Chicago looks like Canada and contains martens. I shall wait with interest to see what other ecological marvels are in store. Perhaps a polar bear will become a regular.
What does Heather mean, “You’ve run over ANOTHER mother with kits?!” How many furry little woodland creatures has poor Sabrina dispatched!
(Notgonnagry-notgonnacry-notgonnacry :'( )
It’s so sad, but at least Sid wasn’t just left alone.
Some ppl called the woman Sabrina, from where did they get her name? Is she a character I forgot about?
@ gaboris:
It’s in the dialogue, thingy, beneath the comic.
@ rabid_fox:
Am I the only person in the entire forum who understood what you were trying to say in the first comment that has been downchecked by everyone?
In UK slang, to be “gutted” is to be absolutely miserable, feeling lower than low… like a reader of this strip would feel when a character we like and have barely gotten to know gets suddenly killed and leaves behind a helpless baby. I somehow doubt you were making a callous comment about what happened to Hazel, which is probably what all the Americans reading your comment thought. Here in the USA, to be “gutted” only has the literal meaning…
I know it’s sad and everything, and this is going to sound increadibly morbid.
But Hazel left a beautiful corpse.
@ Professor Igneous:
With the number of squirrels I’ve seen on the road, they aren’t that tough to hit. I don’t think most people care if they hit one or not, seeing as they’re all over the place.
Me? I’ll slow down and try to avoid them if I can, but if it’s between hitting a squirrel and running off the road or into oncoming traffic, the squirrel is going to bite it.
😀 FYI
@ Jim:
May not be the best time but, She never said she only killed Squirrels…she said MOTHER with kits SO she might’ve hit a boar, (My dad accidently did so its possible) or raco- i mean mouse, jack rabbit, Reindeer, or a chipmunk. Just so you know
@ baxtrr:
I was wondering why that got so many thumbs down… and I’m American. :0
@ Greek:
Animals with babies called kits are foxes, goats, badgers, skunks, rabbits, ferrets,squirrels , and weasels.. Not boar.
BTW, you all people complaining about it not looking like Chicago – do you realise the writer is German and the artist from Indonesia? And that, in spite of this distance between them, we’re getting a new strip every Monday and Thursday?
I study English on university, so theoretically I should know more about the English speaking countries than an average European person does, and I’d be lost in this. I also have a strong suspicion that if an American was writing/drawing a webcomics that would feature my home country, there would be much more mistakes, and no one would care (except for a very small percentage of Czechs out there). I’m speaking of experience here. Most people only know Prague, and some still think I live in Czechoslovakia.
So, please, take it easy.
(And this comment, too. I just wanted to get it off my chest and point out how lucky we are that we can read this comics in the first place.)