[0372] Junk Food
└ posted on Monday, 30 April 2012, by Novil
- Sid: That means you eat… wolves?
- Ruth: Just the pups. Grown-up wolves are way too chewy.
- Sid: I, for one, prefer to eat nuts.
- Ruth: Ew! You eat that junk!? Don’t you know how much fat there is in a single nut?!
- Ruth: A wolverine leg, on the other hand, is rich in protein and dietary minerals! Don’t you want to give it a try?
- Sid: NO!
- Ruth: Just wait. In a few generations, nut eating will be a thing of the past.
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Well… This is my first comment here ever, and I don’t really know what to say. I’ve been following the Sandra and Woo-comic for maybe a year and a half now + the Gaia-comic since the start, but I’ve never commented anything. So here we go!
Great comic, as always! I’m kinda curious of how this story arc will end, with this… special new character.
Well… I hope you don’t get salmonella!
This squirrel is insane and somewhat creepy.
So why do I love her?
Nut eating. Yep. I’m pretty sure that if she ever meets Sid, he’ll make sure it never goes out of style… if you know what I mean.
Except for those nuts excised from male predators, presumably. >:=\>
Yes, Sid was right to refuse that wolverine gammon steak. Undeniably, there are many nutrients in there, but there’s also a whole lot of other stuff that even dedicated carnivores wouldn’t eat by choice. And that fat content is just what you need in a hard winter. Nature: don’t mess with it! Unless you’ve really covered all the angles.
This whole situation sure is getting pretty… nutty.
Okay, I want to see the knife she’s hiding in that knapsack. How else does she obtain perfect wolverine “steaks”?
Don’t worry, it’s only a health nut.
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A health nut.
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Sorry, my CSI Miami sunglasses are in my other bag.
@ Andrew M.:
I sometimes ask myself that too…..She’s way too cool for a squirrel…
but you know what??? if someone get her eating any kind of meat, he or she might think that the female squirrel has some kind of Virus…….more trouble coming…
a vegetarian and a carnivore let see the adventure in this one
In the last strip, someone suggested Sid was trying to resist the urge to break the 4th wall in the last panel. In this strip, it’s getting even harder.
So she’s SERIOUS about eating meat? That squirrel is cute, but she is seriously nuts. BEWARE, Sid.
@ LupisLight:
No pun intended? XD
@ Neospector:
I love the fact that this is completely true and even has a pun in the phrase! XD
@ WolfieMario:
He probably WILL break the 4th wall. He’ll do it literally by breaking out of the comic strip! XD
When she said she prefers meat, I thought she would be the OPPOSITE of a health nut. Now we see that she is the stereotypical female of today: a health nut who thinks anything fatty tastes nasty, even if it actually doesn’t. XD
Now that I think about it, Sid could actually be looking at the entrance to the tree rather than at us. He’s probably contemplating whether to stay and try to start a relationship or change her opinion about things or something like that, or to get the heck out of there. Maybe he even thinks she will eventually become cannibalistic because it would be “the healthiest possible lifestyle”! XD
@ Andrew M.:
Yeah, I seem to have fallen in love as well! What gives?!
What happens when that squirrel runs out of ammo? does she rob a gun store?
@ Andrew M.:
Crazy chicks, some guys just love crazy chicks ;p
@ Moxie Man:
Shaving blade is smaller and sharper.
If anything, Sid is probably worried about his two carnivorous friends. You know… Shadow and Woo. One of them is a main character. They may not be at the top of the food chain, but they are by no means safe from this nut job.
This squirrel… is so… -_-
My username should tell you how I feel about this.
I’d expect this type of behavior more from humans, but even Cloud didn’t go so far as to kill the wolves that were threatening Woo. I’m also somewhat reminded of that Far Side cartoon where one of the Three Pigs is on trial, “So you set the fire after you knew my client was coming down the chimney? Are you aware that he is an endangered species, while you are a walking side of ham?”
I say give all the woodland critters firearms to level the playing field. Then see what happens.
For one predator there have to be a thousand prey animals…
*holds out some cashews* nuts? oops, sorry!
His face this time screams “HELP ME”
Okay, ignoring the inuendo of “nut eating”, now this freak eats CHILDREN!? When did this become Sin City? Not that I’m complaining. When this becomes a movie, PLEASE bring back Bruce Willis. i know he’s dead, but who cares.
I can kind of see where she’s coming from. As I understand it, rodents eat more than nuts and berries. Why limit yourself to insects and legumes for your daily protein needs?
It goes without saying that she’s a bit of a shrew… the genetic markers are all there.
Phew! After discovering this comic about a week ago, I’ve steadily read my way through all 372 strips and finally caught up!
Great series, all the characters are very well defined, and likeable in their own way (although it’s probably not a good idea to spend too long in the company of Larissa!). Ye Thuza is completely awesome; and Sandra and Cloud are so cute together
-oOo-
As for the current arc, a gun-laden carnivorous squirrel is unexpected but totally in keeping with the rather unusual wildlife surrounding Sandra’s town…
Nick/Tyrong wrote:
At first, I thought you meant Bruce was dead, which had me looking that up. I see that you meant his character in Sin City. I never watched/read that book/movie.
As for eating children, I’m starting to like this Ruth squirrel less. Sure, it’s wolf pups & the like, creatures that would still like to eat her(even if their parents have to catch the prey for them), but just the idea seems less attractive. A squirrel with a gun is still cool, though.
“Don’t you know how much fat there is in a single nut?!”
*squirrel proceeds to bite into the fatty portion of her steak*
Uhhhhh………..ok…….evolutionary squirrels FTW maybe?
Wow, she’s grossing out the “Carnivore”
R.U.T.H.
Shadow of chernobyl: The Fauna
Andrew M. wrote:
I would say that is the reason right there!
She is insane and somewhat creepy in a fun and unusual way.
Oh this is an aberration against Nature herself. This is so wrong there should be physics rules against this. Park rangers around the country should be hunting these carnivorous rodents for nothing good shall come of them!
But, she is cute and cool in that demented rationale kind of way. Oh what a sick and twisted web we weave!
Squirrels really do eat meat (and have, in rare cases, been observed killing and eating dogs) but it’s still not good for their insidey parts to eat nothing but meat. Amazed she’s not half-dead from nutritional imbalances. Ruth must have terrible breath, too!
Sometimes I think Novil just doesn’t like wolves
But yeah, most predators tend to eat the young of other animals because they’re easier to catch. Maybe it’s also because they’re tastier too. People tend to think lamb and veal is better than sheep and beef.
Ah, animals who don’t eat what nature intended them to. :3
Reminds me of the one strip of this where Woo’s with all those other exotic animals and finds another raccoon who gets sick at Woo eating earthworms.
I’ve seen a squirrel carrying off a dead sparrow, so I think they do eat meat; they’re just less-than-menacing hunters. The same goes for raccoons, actually.
My yard is swarming with the furry little rodents, so the thought of an evolved race of squirrels armed with Derringers honest-to-god strikes terror into my heart.
You know how King Xerxes in 300 says “This is madness! This is blasphemy!”? He should have come to Sandra and Woo’s world. He’d find plenty of madness and blasphemy here XD.
@ Neospector:
Here, you can have mine!*gives them over, internet breaks*
Yeah…um…I may need these back…
Hm… I’m still not convinced about her whole “I’m a wolf-baby eating predator squirrel” story.
She may have nothing against occasionally eating meat, but I doubt her being a baby-killer.
As Moxie Man pointed out, that steak is cut too perfectly.
I’m guessing she got the steak from the same place she got the gun – she fund it or stole it somewhere.
If her story was true, why didn’t she kill the wolf instead of only grazing his ear? I like the concept of reversing the predator-prey relation, but this is a family comic and somehow the pup killing, “Hannibal Lector wibe” character doesn’t fit in.
She seems more like a tongue-in-cheek, self-reliant, confident female squirrel. Just the thing that Sid needs
Besides, I would have been more convinced if Sid wasn’t breaking the 4th wall again
The poor whelps, developed by a maniac squirrel.
She’s a nut. I guess that means “you are what you eat” must be a fallacy.
Sorry if that was a corny joke. *rimshot*
@ Kalde:
I think this is likely, too. Even though she said that she prefers pups (8′C) she would probably have actually shot the wolf if she was a “carnivore” as she had said. This is very likely more of a ‘joke’ to freak him out.
It seems some people commenting know the gun-toting squirrel’s name to be Ruth. I re-read the strips in this arc and don’t see any indication that she ever gave her name. Did she appear previously in this comic? I don’t remember seeing her before.
@ Andrew M.:
A squirrel…..with a little red neckerchief! How could you fear such adorable-ness?
Sid keeps looking at me for help. Sorry buddy, I’m looking at you through a computer.
I think some little squirrel has been hitting the mad cow a little too hard.