- Ruth: Oh boy! This is gonna be a feast! I’ve never had lion before!
- Ruth: To be honest, I got an anonymous tip that I’d be able to snag a huge catch here today.
- Ruth: Isn’t it great to know that there are people who only want the best for you?
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[1061] Anonymous Tip
└ posted on Thursday, 21 February 2019, by Novil
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They forgot to mention, cut the wire first?
On the other note… What some would do for a piece of meat…
I should have seen that coming… If an alpha predator dies a violent death in this comic, there is one perpetrator more probable than all others.
Actually… I did not expect that kind of outcome.
But at the same time it doesn’t really surprise me either. This is what makes the comic special 🙂
I was thinking that some people might not agree with this, but Ruth has a gun. You don’t argue with someone who has a gun.
Really? THIS again?
Don’t believe their lies, Ruth is an hologram, Llion’s death was an inside job: https://i.imgur.com/Y95rg61.jpg
John W. Stafford wrote:
Yup! “Fun With Ruth!” 🙂 I wonder if she’d make a good Marlin Perkins…. 😉
Another lion dies a senseless death.
Believe me, if anyone would know it’d be me.
I still don’t get any of this. It’s like a really bad trip.
I’m honestly relieved that it was Ruth, and that this wasn’t going to end up as a serious political comic.
I knew it. Good comeback, Novil.
@ John W. Stafford:
Yeah , im also sick of this joke
Could you make other jokes? you had done this one to death.
@ John W. Stafford:
Seriously. The last three strips have been, as RedLetterMedia refers to it, “nonmedy”. It’s anti-comedy. It’s comedy so uninteresting that it actually makes you even less amused then when you read it.@ John W. Stafford:
Iron Ed wrote:
Yup! “Fun With Ruth!” I wonder if she’d make a good Marlin Perkins….
But who’d be Son Fowler?
I find the happy, smiling, chipmunk’s naivete more disturbing than the lion’s death that I had no context for. It’s a very small ping on the meter, but it’s there. “No matter what, it can always get worse.”
Wow so many people are missing the point of this strip. It is not just any old “Ruth kills and eats other animals” joke, it IS political commentary.
See, the lion was opening the lid on the kind of “inconvenient” truths that make the rich people behind the curtain look bad. “Coincidentally”, before he could get into it, somebody tipped Ruth about the lion, and Ruth did as Ruth does. Worse, Ruth doesn’t even realise that she was manipulated into doing a “hit” for the inconvenienced party because all she could see was how the destruction of the lion benefitted her temporarily.
These two strips are commentary about how people in power manipulate narratives to use common people to destroy suspicion.
‘An Inconvenient Ruth.’
@ Salisria:
“Jim” Fowler? 🙂 I started to say, Sid, but he’s not nearly brave enough (unless you’re planning a spoof show; which is entirely possible considering Ruth is waaaaayy more blood-thirsty than Marlin.). Soooo, perhaps one of Woo’s kits?
Crestlinger wrote:
LOL!
in the last strip he was clearly diseased, taking cold medicine, time to die from unsafe meat!
lol wasn’t expecting that
I didnt realise Ruth was a dentist.
It’s seems Ruth got the lions share of the loot.
Breja wrote:
I think it’s meant as a criticism of target 2. But yes, it’s hard to understand & ruth has become a little drastic/bloody.
Well, not all strips can be top notch. There is nothing wrong with one or two strips being less great.
And who knows, maybe there will still be an actual punchline in the following strips.
HarlequinGnoll wrote:
I couldn’t agree more! The passing of Ruth is something I wouldn’t mind at all.
Political and/or social commentaries tend to be hit and miss and I don’t care much for them. But pretty much every comic with Ruth in it annoys me to no end. I don’t find them funny, thought provocing or anything. Just plain annoying.
Could all the sad sacks who complain about this beautifully drawn, remarkably moving, funny and clever comic please sod off and make their own one?
Pylgrim wrote:
So much this. The sad part is that people seem to miss it… It doesn’t bode well for us, that even when it’s pointed out, people choose to ignore it. 🙁
I’m confused with the rule of this S&W universe. I thought the animals here are actually animal, and they hide the fact that they can actually communicate with human. But then, how come this anthropomorphic lion is wearing a suit like human and reading the news ? Who are the audiences ? The humans ? The animals ?
@ oledakaajel:
A dumb question, but how does she get ammo?
Maybe I’m not the targeted audiance of this webcomic, but nevertheless I don’t find this kind of. … is ist really humor? … funny.
I also disliked the comic with the bear, wich headed in a similar direction.
I’m aware, that this kind of humor was present from the beginning on – eating squirrels and stuff – but I really hope, that it keeps to a minimum.
This strip, and the one before, somehow really made me feel uneasy and a little bit of sick (weird feeling in the stomach region).
It is important for me to state, that I’m not judging or hating this strip. I just wanted to give feedback how it made me feel like.
Is she gonna do that on TV? Oh boy…
HarlequinGnoll wrote:
Unlikely. If I had to guess I would say his disease is viral – which means that it’s highly unlikely to cross species (or higher level) boundaries and affect Ruth.
@ persia:
Got ti admit you piqued my interest. What clmic are you talking about?
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And why are you talkkng about it here? Ô_o
But in honest commentary, the reason why this doesn’t really work is becauae Ruth has been shown to be resourceful, strong (even ridiculously so) and intelligent predator.
And now she’s a punchline in strip where she has been made too dumb to know when she is being used by “the man”, she’s hunting prey that’s not existing even in loose lined world of S&W.
Overall the comic started out as clever childhood-story about child and her unusual pet with some political or social commentary interwoven in it. But it has lately been spiralling into more fetish-esque, bounderless social and political commenting highly on the expense of any storytelling or basic narrative elements.
Therefore the old neckbeards among us grumble, because we remember when S&W was that “remarkably moving, funny and clever comic”, before it became a bit too clever for its own good (and lets face it, beautifully drawn from lineart isn’t wrong as such, but in category of beauty, I fear S&W has some tough competitors in the inthaanets [not that I mind thoug, I like this kind of style]).
Sorry if our grumbling distract you from your trip. 🙁
Isn’t it grand how even soulless big banks have nothing but the best interests of a tiny minority of squirrels in mind? *nudge nudge wink wink*
PS2kid wrote:
I agree. Aside from being kind of gross, I don’t see how this arc fits in with the rest of the comic. It just kind of came out of nowhere, with no context or explanation, and so far doesn’t make much sense, not least for the reasons you mention. Maybe the arc is salvageable. A case for Sandra the private detective maybe? But I’m not optimistic. (And yes, the killer squirrel thing is getting pretty old).
Kelloggs! The best to you each morning! 😀
Is it just me, or has the strip in general gotten significantly darker and more “darkly adult” oriented of late? Not saying that’s a bad thing necessarily, but just noting my perceptions.
Call HQ and tell them the target been eliminated.
@ Night-X:
Roger that Mr. X, calling HQ
What are you doing, Ruth?! This is an one-shot editorial cartoon, you belong to the continuous storyline universe! Don’t eat this or you’ll get infected with satire and start talking about politics all the time!
Dark-S1ayer wrote:
Also report that the target is being disposed of by our best meat eater.
@ Velgar:
Resourceful? Sure, very much so. Intelligent? I don’t see it. She’s a very efficient killing machine and has, as movies would put it “a very particular set of skills”. She’s single-minded to the point of unawareness of everything that is not killing and eating. She’s a perfect example of the kind of people that fall for manipulative narratives: single-issue, “loud”, self-interested and with a clear disregard of other people’s needs and rights when they don’t align with their own.
@ Pylgrim:
Fair assesment, but only recently she was seen caring about Sid to the point of going back eating nuts for sustinance and not even shooting Shadow, who is an actual predator, when he further complicated her move to more bountiful hunting fields.
Also very few of the cast are anything but smart at least, geniuses at best and she (until now) has been shown to be more capable than quite a few of the cast, which by this comic logic would make her well above average on smarts.
Not to mention if she was this easy to run into desired situations, she would have been driven to some sort of trouble far longer ago already. Sure, she might have the capability of besting whatever in creation in combat, but there are far more ways, as even this comic has shown us, to go against an opponent than mere combat.
And as the late mrs. Honeysun, there are very well-spoken and tactful predators even in S&W reality, so it’s reasonable to argue that there would be also predators on par with our cast on resourcefulness, smarts and other capabilities, while Ruth is still alive even having no doubt ran into one of such. Every action having its opposing reaction and whatnot.
I just want to get back to the comic about a girl and her pet raccoon…
@ Pylgrim:
Plenty of people get the joke just fine… it’s just not really that funny or interesting. I would love the comic to go back in time two weeks… before all the ham-fisted and dull political commentary.
627235 wrote:
So the lion was making a viral video?
Yes. It was. Thanks for killing that somebody that wanted the best for us, by the way. Jerk.
Still don’t get it.