![[0066] Compromise](/comics/2009-06-10-[0066]-compromise.png "[0066] Compromise")
The current story arc started with this strip: Addicted.
Raccoons should not watch CNN.
Remember that Sandra and Woo updates three times this week. So don’t miss Monday’s strip: 2.8 Weeks Later.
- Sandra: Sandra North, hello?
- Larisa: Hi Sandra, this is Larisa. The school board just called. They’ll decide about the insulin ban tomorrow.
- Woo: PAI ATENTON TOO ME! I HAS THE BOMP!
- Sandra: Not now, Woo.
- Sandra: I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
- Larisa: Thanks. I’m sure they’ll stop this insanity… One thing still bothers me, though.
- Sandra: Which is?
- Larisa: My parents wanted to forbid me to set anything on fire ever again.
- Sandra: Sounds… reasonable.
- Larisa: Reasonable? … Whatever, after some arguing, we’ve finally found a compromise.
- Sandra: A compromise?
- Larisa: Yeah. I’m now allowed to set things on fire twice a month if I’ve done all my homework already and can be reached on my cell anytime.
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Wait… Those Russian stacking dolls there. The one being opened first looks to be screaming in agony, then has the cartoony dead face, and the one inside looks utterly terrified at what just happened. That’s… so random! And a little depressing! Ah, well, they’re just inanimate ojects (I hope)
the face changed so…
Woo is being North Korea
LOL!!! That reminded me of Cyanide and Happiness:
http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Kris/section.png
Yay! Matryoshka dolls! I haven’t seen those things in ages! I’m guessing the one with the “utterly terrified” doll is the third one from the outside inwards; the “screaming in agony” doll having been put off-camera.
By the way, what’s a bomp? or is it a way to show Woo has bad handwriting?
And while I’m at it, are we ever going to see Woo in a shopping cart in the strip?
Oh, and I had to look up the spelling for the Russian dolls. I always called them “mamushka dolls” when I was a kid 🙂
It’s a bomb. Presumably, there’s a hostage standoff going on in the strip’s universe.
I want Sandra’s friends >__>
Who put the Bomp in the Bomp-Bomp-Bomp-Bomp-Bomp?
Woo put the Bomp in the Bomp-Bomp-Bomp-Bomp-Bomp!
Matryoshka Doll Massacre, coming soon to a theater near you!
The matrioska side gag is wonderful!
Yes. I love how each frame has a second story going on. Kind of shows how even the artist is getting board with supporting such a serious arcing story line. In frame 1, Woo is pulling for attention like a star actor, having had all his lines cut for several episodes. Frame 2 and 3 are using the dolls in a very attention grabbing bit of comedy. (And, I agree that the ‘dead’ and ‘Uh-Oh’ dolls are the second and third ones in.) And, frame 4 answers that ‘Bomp’ is a bad spelling for a ‘water bomb’.
Besides, the poor spelling seems rather natural. After all, we can’t possibly expect a raccoon to have had a proper schooling education. Any writing skills at all are to be considered amazing, in such a case.
“So, Tarzan. I would like you to prepare a journal of your experiences out here in the jungle. Please write a hundred pages of…”
“Me, Tarzan. You, Jane.”
“Yes. I am Jane. You’ve had so many more experiences with your life then just meeting me. Can we try to write them down. Create a resume of your life and go…”
“…Res….es….esu…..miiiiiieeeee?”
“Oh…never mind.”
Can’t keep a good pyro down. 🙂
How utterly stupid. I mean what is teachers and school staff suppose to be but intelligent? They don’t know that insulian is something needed, not abused? No frigging wonder the U.S. is dying in the education departments when you got boobs like this.
You’ve hooked me on the strip. Was recommende by a friend, so expect to see me more 🙂
And please keep this stupidy up. It’s the only way of keeping stupity from breeding.
– Shado
The matryoshka dolls are excellent and it’s nice to know Larisa will still be lighting things on fire in the future.
I really like the two additional visual gags, too. I was thinking for quite some time until I came up with them. If there is that much text in your panels, you better take extra care of the stuff going on in the “background” so that your strip does not look boring.
Well, it’s based on a real story. Sadly, this comic hasn’t really gotten into why it actually happened.
Zero-tolerance drug policy.
Think about that for a minute.
I don’t know. I’d like to see Cloud bring a sword to school (he IS a swordsman, right?) and see if they ban THAT over insulin.
Autismdegree: Well, considering they’ve got zero-tolerance policies for weapons too (using their own ridiculous definition of “weapon” (not that I wouldn’t agree that a sword is one)), it probably wouldn’t be a good idea for him to do so…
And you might want to think about that policy for a minute, too.
Especially considering that the mind is one of humanity’s greatest weapons…
I’m kind of surprised Cloud hasn’t been suspended for having plastic knives in the school cafeteria. We KNOW what he can do with one of those….
Well there was a girl suspended for having a (deadly weapon) eyebrow shaver that could only cut hair. So I wouldn’t be surprised if Cloud gets suspended for plastic knives in the cafeteria.
Did the sign Woo is holding suddenly increase its spelling mistakes? I’m pretty sure I remember it saying “Pay attention to me” last night (June 9, 9pm, EST), instead of saying “Pai atention too me”
Sorry, EDT. Funny how you can be sweating all over and still forget it’s summer. Although EST should also work OK, since 9 pm EST corresponds exactly to midnight, GMT
@ Frank: No. The sign has not changed at all.
A reasonable compromise.
This is a rare case in which the side gags top the main punchline.
I have been enjoying this strip for a while now… but after the last couple installments I move that while Larisa remain a supporting character here, she deserves her own spin-off strip.
Who put the Bomp in the Bomp-de-Bomp-de-Bomp…
Who put the Woo in the Woo-ma-lama-ding-dong,
Who put the Bomp in the Bomp-de-Bomp-de-Bomp…
Who put the Woo in the Woo-ma-lama-ding-dong,
Who was that man,
I’d like to burn his sand(al)s!
He made my school take in-su-lin from me!
The dead doll is the first one, the patterns are the same 😛
Did not even notice the dolls until I read the comments, that’s why doing so is a good idea even if it slows down catching up with the strips. I guess I don’t find the conversation had between the girls boring at all.
The most amazing nesting dolls I’ve ever seen!
…I wants them.
Also, this story arc is awesome.
LOOK OUT HE’S GOT A BOMP!!*door gets kicked down and the swat team come in*
Awesome doll.
And the bomp.
Neat. I am a diabetic and this is the first time I’ve read a comic with a diabetic in there… wonder if it will show up again. Anyway, this is a funny story arc that I’ve enjoyed a lot, but still, the school is not completely incompetent…
I need this strip in color NOW!
@ Anglomancer:
There are some things others find funny, that I find disturbing: basically anything mean. So I understand. This time, I could tell it was only the artist playing around. It’s harsh humor, but as I knew it was only a subtle, side-show joke, I laughed. I think it shows that the creators of “Sandra and Woo” give more thought to such things than most of us. Presented with a real set of nested dolls, that’s all I would see. If I saw them as little people that would be hurt if ‘opened’ to reveal the others, I just couldn’t play with them.
I haven’t set fire to anything in years… I guess I was cured of my pyromania or something. =/
Ah, Woo’s typo reminded me so much of a Midnight Frogs’ reading of a Peter Chimaera story…
ThornBrain: “…which is the only thing that can disarm so many bomps.”
*group laughter*
Travis: “Those damn bomps!”
Woo knows speaking, but doesn’t bother with spelling?
Never noticed those russian dolls before. 😀