![[0077] 10:27:42](/comics/2009-07-16-[0077]-10-27-42.png "[0077] 10:27:42")
The current story arc started with this strip: Summer by the Lakeside.
Geez, Shadow has to work on his comforting skills.
While many of you might have an idea what might happen in the next strip I’d take nearly any bet that noone will get it exactly right.
Another filler to prepare everything for the great last four strips of the storyline.
- Sandra: Back already?
- Woo: We had an unplanned date with a hunter but we managed to escape.
- Sandra: Better be careful and not go alone to the forest anymore. The new owner seems to be a mean one.
- Woo: That doesn’t sound good. I hope nothing bad happens to Shadow and Sid.
- Tanya Dean: Yes, you heard it right. 100 pieces!
- Echo: The kits and I should move out? You’ve got another vixen, haven’t you?! {Sob}
- Shadow: Believe me, Echo, it’s worse than that.
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100 pieces of what? Explosives?
Poor Echo. She looks so pitiful.
HA! Save a tree, eat a beaver. When I worked for a boy scout camp as a counselor, that was a cheer for approx 1 week. After that, it was strictly forbidden. If only for the unique set of jokes it caused.
Also: Poor Shadow. He may have to live with the fact that his family has to leave their nice, formerly safe den because of something he did only accidentally. I hope his mate forgives him and I hope it all turns out okay.
Loving the comic!
When writing the strip I was fully aware of the fact that the slogan “Save a tree, eat a beaver” is used all over the internet. But since it was fitting so well I decided to use it anyway.
You know what I love about this? All the dramatics and storytelling going on with established characters (and the narrative is great, but you’ll get stacks of comments about that) and yet, and yet, the caricature Cruella Da Ville type has a picture of a smiling kid on her desk. And you don’t know if it’s her kid or not but it’s just enough of a little detail to make you go, “Oh hmm. Wait a second.”
That’s brilliant.
Now here’s a thing – cubs or kits? Kits for young foxes always, always sounds wrong to me, seems to be an American thing.
I’m usually giving very detailed instructions about every single panel, but the photo on the desk was solely Powree’s idea.
“Kits” was a natural choice for this strip since it’s a false friend (that’s not the right word for it, but I hope you get what I mean) of “Kids” which would have been used by a normal person in a sentence like this.
That makes beautiful sense. I shall now make coffee and sip thoughtfully until Monday rolls around. Anticipating the next one – the sign of a successful strip.
“Save a tree – eat a beaver”.
Well, she’s not wrong…!
Also, will the new owner decide the best way to purge her forest would be to detonate a neutron bomb in the heart of it, leading to an exhilarating climax where Jack Bauer defuses the bomb while held dangling from a helicopter by a chain of forest animals? 8)
Jack Bauer, or in this case, Jack Bear…? 🙂
Could this be taken as a insult against Canada, as their national animal is a beaver? I can’t tell.
For every beaver you don’t eat, I’ll eat three.
love the changed up format. adds something really interesting to the current story line.
Novil, the phrase is ‘false friend’ but that’s actually more like a homophone.
What does beaver taste like anyway?
Issa flavor’a chicken!
she want 100 pieces of what?
anyway, why is she so mad, i mean, it was only an accident, sure he bid the boy’s hand so what, just becourse he did doesn’t it mean he or his friends (or his family) has rabies.
what a weird b****
Hee, hee, “Save a tree, eat a beaver” I recall a news story about a British park, or nature reserve where several trees were being felled. The police were working overtime to catch the culprits of this heinous environmental crime. Then they finally found out that a pair of beavers had moved into the area! =^^=
I’d ask “100 pieces of what?” but everyone else seems to have done that already.
And no Zaiki, as a Canadian, I can say we won’t be insulted by eating a beaver.
Eating a MOOSE, however…
But I love eating moose, how was I supposed to know it’s an insult to our upstairs neighbors?
Things are goin bad :<
This woman kinda brings Sarah Palin into my mind, who I cant even begin to describe how much I loathe
I would ask where’s Jack Bauer when you need him,but seems everyone has that covered already.
Rabid: It *is* her kid… in fact, that’s the problem. You’ve got an angry mother there, and angry mothers tend to leave whatever threatens their kids in bite-size bloody chunks.
Noone isn’t a word, dude, it’s another internetism, like teh, or pron. The correct spelling is “no one.”
I figured she was saying, “Chop those animals into 100 pieces!”
@Rabid: Young foxes can also be called pups. They’re one of the few animals with three options for calling the young in English.
I’ve had beaver. It’s quite tasty. Never had raccoon. If you’re in the US, try http://www.czimers.com for all sorts of game meats you don’t have to be a hunter to try.
My father practically raised me on them. I personally can’t understand people who turn green and run for the bathroom when you tell them they’re eating elk or moose. Effete snobs. They’ll be chomping it down, complimenting it, enjoying it — until you tell them what it is, then they go green about the gills and run for the toilet, like all people have ever eaten is beef, pork, and chicken. Silly.
Yeah, well, having been one of those effete snobs when knowingly trying Kangaroo and Crocodile meat when visiting in Australia, I will tell you that if you’ve never eaten anything besides beef pork or poultry, any other game meat is going to taste a little funky, especially after you’re told what it is. It’s the thought of eating something that you’ve never before considered to be a source of food. I bet ya if you were given dog, cat, or monkey meat in eastern Asia and not told what it was until afterward, you’d be kind of disgusted too, because we westerners don’t consider them to be food sources. I would think it would be a bit similar to the stigma Indians (not Native Americans) have about cows, but not so strongly for us as westerners.
Never eaten rodent but I’ve eaten venison, so moose is a step up. Perhaps the owner is referring to Reese’s Pieces, a popular comfort food with some humans, but usually ordered by weight–not quantity.
A friend once attended Boy Scout camp where they adopted a litter of fox kits as the vixen had been road-killled. He told of how sharp the kits teeth were.
I’d think pigs and cows would be more disgusting than beavers, just because they seem to be dirtier animals. But then I’ve never really been around beaver much, whereas I grew up on a beef farm, so I don’t actually know how clean they are.
Not that it matters. You eat their insides, not the outsides, so cleanliness only matters when it comes to how healthy the animal is.
Save a tree eat a beaver! XD
The owner of the forest looks like a witch.
Hmmm, pointy nose, pointy eyes, yep, a witch. No wonder she makes Elmer Fudd look like an animal rights activist.
I officially predict that Shadow will NOT tell his vixen that the forest is now owned by a rabid hunter who wants the entire pack dead.
I’m very glad to see I’m not the only one that seems to think 24 with that clock
i am surprized not one said 100 dollars as a bounty on shadow thats what i think she means tho, yeah the way she says it it also makes me think of pieces of eight, gold coins that pirates use
ah matey! please keep the great story and amazing artwork coming
one thing i find strange about this comic is that ppl keep compearing it to calvin and hobbies i have a few of those books and i just dont see the simaleritys to me the feel of this comic is very different
Oh! Oh! I bet the aliens show up and abduct the land owner. Yeahh… totally plausable… 🙂
@waffle
My dad was in the east when he ended up eating some dog. True to his fashion he asked for seconds. I really have no problem eating strange things either, and am up for trying anything, just so long as i have me epipen.
Ooooh , that lady better hope the enviromentalists don’t hear about her nature. There will be problems fer her if she ignors them.
I bet Woo will totally save the day somehow… Anyway I Love this comic!
I bet shadow and his vixen will be in couples counseling, his comforting skills really do suck
Heh… If it was my woods, I’d have already placed rabies-vaccine bait stations… problem solved. You’d find me listening to ‘Zakas – Shunk Daddy Grind’ on the CD player somewhere.
why ”save a tree – eat a beaver” when you can ”save a world – eat a human” :D…. thumps up for me 🙂
First-degree murder charges would put a rather big crimp in my day. Besides, if Idi Amin was truthful when he claimed to be a “reluctant cannibal”, human flesh is not really worth the mess.
100 pieces has got to refer to guns, I thought, as “gun” is referred to as a “piece” by some people, I have no idea why. Very gangsterish.
I’ve seen the beaver/tree quote before somewhere… I live in Australia, so local game meat is the feral deer and rabbits (the people who introduced them here were very wrong to do so, and we are doing our best to eradicate them, thank the Gods that no one introduced beavers to Oz….) and kangaroo, which is very tasty, and better for the environment, over here, as the hard hooves of common farmed meats (cattle, swine, sheep, etc) damage our native plants and there are overgrazing issues that kangaroo don’t cause in the same way. The meat tastes rich, is high in iron and low in fat.
I take it that as the fox is a native over in America, it gets a protected species listing? Or are there enough of them that that isn’t an issue? Perhaps someone can whack a protect-listing on the park? Or perhaps the foxes can move in with Sandra? … not that that would make her that popular, foxes are troublesome housemates.
I’m pretty sure the woman wants the animals in 100 pieces…
I think protected status depends on the species and region.
@ thisfox–Fox are not protected here in the US. In some locales, they are rather prolific. They may be hunted with a furbearers license in my state–usualy done in the Winter when the pelts are of best quality. (Coyotes, however, may be taken on a small game license.) Predator populations rise with increase in prey populations. A healthy fox in action is a joy to watch but I don’t get to view them very often. 🙁
Actually, even though she’s clearly a villian, I could halfway understand the reaction of wanting all the foxes dead. She doesn’t know that Shadow didn’t mean to bite her son, all she saw was some ‘animal’ biting her son and making him bleed. That can set any mother off and she was pretty off kilter to begin with.
And I may be wrong about this but I do believe they automatically try to seek out and kill ‘possibly rabid’ animals the moment you report the injury, regardless of if it was an accident or not.
why doesn’t he just move out with them? he does make it sound suspicious
Hmmm… …Shadow and Echo and their kids? D’aaaaaaawww…. XD
Save a tree, eat a beaver.
Good lord, do I have a dirty mind!
Ironic that the “save a tree, eat a beaver” poster is made of paper.
And I thguhot I was the sensible one. Thanks for setting me straight.
i have several things to say. [:
1. i love this webcomic.
2. she looks like that chick off of “over the hedge.” was that intentional?
3. i love how it has calvin and hobbes/ozzie and millie/ video game references.
4. i love how it reminds me of calvin and hobbes/ozzie and millie.
5. you have a fox in the comic =epic win.