- 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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When herbivores eat meat we get weird viruses and such THIS IS VERY BAD!!! But it’s a cartoonish world so it might be fine
@ Frogalog:
In some of the previous strips, there has been a transcript below the comic, indicating the name – it was also in the tags for these strips. But yeah, she never actually introduced herself :p
This is how it starts. This is how the squirrels, start to dominate the Earth. I always had a feeling this day would come.
okay..no its official…i hate that squirrel.
Don’t break the food chain,
poor wolves..they never get a shining moment here. (also the poor wolverines.)
i will be glad when the comics returns to the regular jokes with sandra and woo in there house. (where no wolves can be harmed…i hope)
This reminds me of various cartoon tropes where the smaller animal is chasing a group of larger, obviously predator types. Here however, I can see her aiming a shotgun.
I, like some of the others here, for some strange reason am fascinated by this character.
As for those squealing about herbivores turning carnivore, read the other posts, look up squirrels, talk to a zoologist already – they are omnivores just like us and woo and company.
I get the feeling Ruth is putting on a bit of a show for poor poor scaredy squirrel Sid, but the foolowup strips will prove things one way or the other.
The Bounty on Gunslinger Squirel “Ruthless” Ruth still stands! and i upping the reward to $$500,000!!
Wolf in Bears Clothing (its the last thing they’d suspect)
@ Frogalog:
From the strip “[0370] The Most Unusual Hunter” and the two since then, in the text under the comic where the dialog is written, female squirrels lines begin with ” Ruth: … “.
Also, in the keywords under the strip, there is “ruth” next to “sid” (and other key words).
Never mind, WolfieMario already answered.
Page only showed me first 50 comments, I missed the more recent ones…
I get a kick out of the fact that some idiot has been trying to downvote one on every comment made on the past few strips.
Carnivorous squirrels… truly, the end times are upon us!
@ Wilddwarf:
That wasn’t Xerxes, that was only an ambassador. No offense
Kalde wrote:
I see. That does indicate the name of the character.
Now it kind of bothers me that the character’s name was propagated this way instead of within the strip itself. Traditionally in stories, the reader is not privy to the name of new characters until these characters give their name within the story itself. The author should have identified the gun-toting squirrel in the text below the strip in the same fashion that Sid identified her in the initial strip, as “pine squirrel”. Maybe I’m just crying over spilled milk, but it just seems like a terrible giveaway that’s unfair to the story.
I’d like to point out to the little silly squirrel that the fat in those nuts are heart healthy Omega 3 fatty acids.
She’s rejecting some really good food for something a bit more on the questionable side.
@ Kalde:
Good point, that hadn’t occurred to me. Either her aim is too poor to actually kill something, in which case she doesn’t want to be using a gun with a two-shot capacity; or her aim is so good that she purposely didn’t shoot to kill. It also did seem rather suspicious that an accomplished hunter wouldn’t know the difference between a wolf (Canis lupus) and a wolverine (Gulo gulo).
@ Frozenwolf150:
My thoughts exactly 🙂
And that is even more emphasized by the fact that it’s a one-shot gun. Single barrel, and only one trigger (as far as I can discern from the comic). You don’t go hunting with something so low caliber and a single shot capacity unless you’re such a marksman that you can guarantee a kill shot. And hitting a ear of the wolf from that tree was a great shot for such a gun. So why not shoot him outright?
Only other explanation is that Oliver and Powree don’t won’t to show overly graphic violence in the comic (like wolf being shot and killed), but referring to such a degree of violence by characters is acceptable. Which doesn’t seem consistent…
get you guns people! it’s gonna be the age of revanous squirles soon!
This seems to me like a subtle jab at vegans….
Heaven save us all from a world filled with carnivorous chipmunks. Can anyone say, “Vorpal Bunny?”
The look on sid’s face in the last panel translates to: Meep.
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You know squirrels are omnivores, right?
Youtube it if you don’t believe me.
Personally, I think Sid has finally found a girlfriend.
Sounds a lot like vegans…
“Perfectly natural and healthy, you say? Well, I am going to change my diet into something that could only work in our day and age!”
oh just wait till your herbivore stomach rots and burst out due to cholestrol level and you weak hydocholric acid and disgestive juices end up giving you mineral poisoning, best part will be obviously seeing you unable to digest it and it getting stuck in you constipated belly.
Take that, vegans!