[0139] Unfavorable Comparison
└ posted on Thursday, 18 February 2010, by Novil
Sexy whiskers.
- Woo: Sandra, can you explain to me why humans are attracted to each other?
- Sandra: Huh? Why shouldn’t we?
- Woo: Well, just look at you: no fur, no tail, not even sexy whiskers! How can you fall in love when all the other members of your species are so ugly?
- Sandra: HUMANS AREN’T UGLY!
- Woo: You might invent all this fancy stuff, but in the end you’re only slaves to your hormones. Just like slugs. Am I right?
- Woo: I must have touched a sore spot…
S&W in German/auf Deutsch
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As a furry I lol’d incredibly hard at this comic.
Ah, this is the Woo that makes the comic worthwhile, eloquent and baffled by the reactions he gets. Love a bit of it, the expressions are top notch and the gag is simple but works well.
Yeah, people are ugly.
Poor Woo. So childishly clueless. Someone needs to teach him that you can’t apply one species’, or even one society’s within a species, standards of beauty to another. Only cuteness has a universal standard.
The whiskers part is debatable, but Woo (and Hobbes!) are certainly right about the missing fur and tail. If I were a raccoon I’d definitely prefer raccoons to humans too. 😉
Yes, I like it how he’s incredibly offensive without even noticing it.
Yeah, Woo’s definitely having a Hobbes moment here.
Also, Sandra’s expression in the third panel is AMAZING!!!
I dunno, I’ve seen some incredibly ugly people before….
Indeed, Blitzkrieg1701, a Hobbes moment. reading your post, I remembered one strip where Calvin was telling him his plans to become a tiger, he would draw stripes, and sharp his toenails so they…
“mine are retractable”
Nothing like an animal to put things in perspective
Well, maybe Woo is helping:
“Sandra, you are not a five. I never see a human higher than two”
I do believe that panel three is the best expression this comic has had to date. +30 XP to Powree.
Nice thing about fur is that there is no worrying about pimples, tanning/cancering, peeling, etc. But on the down side, you shed, you’re stuck with a fur coat year-round, washing is more trouble, and you’re more susceptible to parasites.
Personally, I think I prefer skin + clothes. Then your “fur” is optional, and can have pockets, can be machine washed, and can be easily swapped for fur with different designs.
HA! The expression in panel three looks like something one would find in a Sam & Max comic if it was using the style of anime.
I love it when two completely different cultures try to compare themselves with one another. No matter what side you’re on, the other culture will always seem alien compared to yours. It’s a great learning experience…
But I guess Woo better learn fast.
Hmm, I still have yet to see Woo transform into something…
oh wait, that’s only Japanese raccoons that can do that
(+ one cookie to whoever gets the reference)
Woo is about to learn a lesson in tact.
BUUUURRRRNNNN! While Woo is “childishly clueless” some humans do act the way he described (in the third panel anyway). Still, from the look of Sandra’s face of the third panel (which is AMAZING!!!) he will be dead soon. Definitely a Hobbes moment 🙂 but with Woo’s argument we could flip it around on his species.
@ Mystery Penguin Tanuki :D.
“Slug Fest: 2010!”
Oh… and Woo.. Human’s are a form of Great Ape; Ape’s lack tails.
Oh.. and I admit our feet are weird.
living in northern california, i can just imagine a big poster of this strip at next year’s further confusion in san jose!!!!!!
“Sexy Whiskers”! I LOVE IT! 😀
The raccoon is wise. *bows to the cute ‘coon*
Warning! 3 completely different subjects in one comment 😛
Well, you can’t really compare different races like that but that’s nothing Woo seems to care about…
Am I enterpreting too much in this or is this a little prank on racism, too?
Since there are also differences between “human races” and you might like them or not.
One might see a body-attribute as a mark of beauty while others think it’s gross.
@Mystery Penguin
Oh, a cookie, thanks! *munch munch*
All Woo needs is a leaf of the right size, you know? 😛
I was already wondering while there is no fanart of this kind…
“[…]slaves of your hormones, like slugs[…]”
wait a minute…hormones? slugs? XD’
That’s the second funniest comparison I’ve ever heard ^^
And I mean ‘second’ in a Monkey Island related figure of speech.
@Mystery Penguin: Based on Sandra’s expression in panel 3, and the contents of panel 4, one might think you’re about to see Woo “transform” into a hat…
Kidding, of course. Sandy wouldn’t do that. She might think about it, though. XD Especially right after the “five” incident; Novil wasn’t kidding in the last chat when he said he was about to put poor Sandra through the wringer a bit…
I like Woo in the 2nd panel. 🙂
Sandy does so have a tail… Well, sorta. (Is that a stylized pony-tail, or something similar that I don’t know the name of? I like it, whichever!)
Reminds me of another comic I follow. Boy is looking dreamy about a girl and instead of talking about green eyes and long hair as a human might, he gets dreamy about “green eyes, long whiskers”. 🙂
HAH! i love Woo, he’s such a great character.
also, good point, Woo. no fur, no tail, no whiskers…
=v.v=
Sandra’s just about to EXPLODE into F-Bombs in the 3rd panel. xD
(Yes, an explosive can explode to smaller explosives, do not question the F-Bombs!)
Woo should really learn it’s not a good idea to mock the standards of other secies. <.<
I'd wonder how the reactions would be if he had this sort of conversation with something like an insect or a shellfish?
Can she really fault the raccoon for not finding her attractive.
Wouldn’t it be more freaky if he did 0.0
Also, fur, tails and whiskers.
Well, good to know the animal kingdom have parts of affection like we got faces, butts and breasts.
om nom nom nom… 🙂
…some of us have sexy whiskers.
Woo has a point. Humans would be much more attractive if they looked more like raccoon-people.
Now just a minute here! What gives anybody the right to go around dissing slugs?
XD so were the equivalent of slugs. Ha! Though Woo might have some reason to that..maybe he’s seen all the slime we humans produce when we have the sniffles.
@Mystery Penguin
I believe those were tanuki, not raccoons…
But yeah, I’ve often thought of that reading this strip.
I don’t know if any of you follow the development blog for the game “Overgrowth”. It’s the sequel to “Lugaru”, where you played as a ninja rabbit. Anyway, today’s entry featured some fan art of a ninja raccoon. (Unfortunately, there are no current plans to feature raccoons in the game. Just dogs, wolves, cats, rats, and rabbits.)
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/02/Overgrowth-fan-art-spotlight—xiss-burg
Maybe this’ll shut up those who thought Woo was crushing on Sandra.
PizzaIsGood wrote:
*grumble* My typist gets the worst of both worlds:
In RL, he still has problems with pimples and peeling… but he’s furry enough (in RL) that he sheds everywhere, and has a fur coat year-round.
Pockets. Those are good things about being human. Pockets.
Yup, let’s hope.
Ah, Woo… still as insensitive as ever, I see. 🙂
I’ve suddenly realised how much Powree’s style has evolved since the first strips! It’s now much simpler, and achieving powerful comic results with less lines.
Mysterypenguin-I thought that kitsune were foxes, not racoons.
@dg
Tanuki is Japanese for raccoon, where the hell did you get foxes from?
@kepesk
Tanuki is Japanese for raccoon
technically Tanuki are raccoon-dogs ;P
Sorry for the double post but it the words of Calvin and Hobbes:
Calvin: What do you find attractive in women, Hobbes?
Hobbes: Well, I’ve always be partial to redheads… with green eyes. I like green eyes. And WHISKERS! LONG whiskers!
Calvin: Let’s change the subject.
You got it right on with the whiskers Novil.
@ Mystery Penguin – Tanuki are raccoon dogs, which look a lot like raccoons but are a completely different species – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_dog – also @ dg “Kitsune” does mean fox… although that doesn’t relate to what Mystery Penguin was saying (I think) 🙂
@dg/@penguin Latest info is that tanuki are canids, not procyonids. First the panda, next the raccoon-dog, the raccoon clan is getting horribly denuded.
@Pizza: many arctic species have to worry about UV exposure even through their fur, because of the way their fur channels light to their skin.
They share the same Superfamily; that’s not quite the same – it’s the same difference like humans and gibbons 😉
Tanuki is translated the US as raccoon, but that’s owing to their uncanny resemblance to raccoons, and the fact we don’t have tanuki here. Raccoons are thus the closest thing we have to them.
Sadly, Woo is right.
BTW, the japanese word for REAL raccoons is Araiguma
I believe that he knew exactly what he was saying when he started to ask that. Any (non-furry) wouldn’t find any of that attractive (cute on a kitten, but not attractive.)
Yeah, we’re a rather ugly lot. unpleasant and contentious. But our species is the one that invented pizza and don’t you forget it!
This is probably my favorite one of all time
Sandra is really going to get wrinkles with all those facial expressions she is pulling lol