![[0193] Moonlight Sonata](/comics/2010-08-23-[0193]-moonlight-sonata-alternative.jpg "[0193] Moonlight Sonata")
Listen to the Moonlight Sonata on YouTube!
Like I have already written in this news post, the current story arc will resume on Thursday since the script for the next strip was not ready in time. But I’m sure you’ll be happy with the “filler” comic. 🙂
You may have already noticed the new blue background, but this is just one of many (small) changes to the website design.
There is now an orange Flattr button beneath every post. Flattr is a new micro-donation service. It works like this: After registering at Flattr, you set the amount which you want to donate to bloggers, webcomickers, etc. per month, for example $5. At the end of the month the amount is split among the creators you voted for by clicking on those buttons on their websites. For example, if you click on ten Flattr buttons and two of them were two different Sandra and Woo strips, we will get $1 from you that month.
But, of course, we’d still prefer really large donations made with Paypal. 😉
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And he wonders why animals want to eat him…
That’s just aces. I like it a lot.
Well … foxes and wolves have NEVER gotten along together. LOL! Love this!
Barn0wl wrote:
Sid is an European squirrel, not a fox.
It’s so very artistic and fantastic! It’s so amazing and i like it….It should be in hall of fame on art!
That would be a great desktop wallpaper or a poster on a wall. (or in a frame like a painting).
*Splash* Hey, quiet down! I’m tryin’ to sleep up here!
Very nicely done. I like the color effects.
Ha Ha! The wolf howling at the moon is a classic romantic/serene nature scene, so seeing Sid spoiling it is perfect :D.
@ Radnom:
Aagh!! I can’t believe I misspelled my user name… I should have said this in my first comment as well, I love the coloring that you gave us in this comics as well.
This would make such a great t-shirt.
It would certainly make a change from the “three howling wolves” one, anyway. 😀
oh look, he has more than one stashed away in his tree X3
I played moonligth sonata (well the first two or three compases over and over again) for my dead grandfather, there was an old wall piano behind his coffin and I just began to play. I also played a little lulaby, It hit me deep.
And I always liked wolfs so I dont like this comic so much, also I dont feel confortable in this new page, the little changes are creepy (like when you enter your room and you find your window open)
ROFL!! Please, don’t do that again. It’s past 11pm here and I had to semi-suffocate myself not to wake up everybody in the house.
It’s brilliant, made my day 😀
But what are these traces in the form of intersecting lines on the sky and the mountains? Is it kind of wind or what?
I have the same picture (only mirror reversed and without Sid) on my wall.
LOL! love this… i am SOOOOO making this my desktop wallpaper
Althea wrote:
Same here, looks wonderfull.
Comic looks cool, this art is amazing, but your ads (especially the ones that get bigger, covering navigation) are extremely annoying.
Just Loved the flattr idea! all web comics should have it!
why must you dealy the murder!
@ Novil:
To be honest when I first saw this comic I too thought it was a fox. I have seen Sid the Squirrel a few times in the strip, just not done in colour. I think the colour is what threw me off… you see, here where I live there are very, very few red squirrels. Most of the ones I’ve seen are either grey or black (and I’ve lived a good long time now LOL).
That scene would look awesome as a poster 🙂
Simply Rlz! It’s a very good work, I just love it n_n
@ Barn0wl:
@ Krynne:
It’s not the comics makers’ fault, though. They did all they could to distinguish Sid as a European red squirrel (and not a fox): red colour, much smaller than the wolf, sitting (standing) in a tree, long hair on the top of his ears and no white end on his tail. Everyone who’s familiar with European red squirrels (as I am, being Czech) should not have a problem recognizing Sid as one.
It’s fantastic. Sid is certainly mischievous…
I need to go buy a big, old custom van just for the sake of getting this picture airbrushed on the side.
Had to really look at this one. Someone’s is in TROUBLE!
Love the music as well!
the moment i saw this i put it as my desktop background
this is exactly what i needed after a long, hard day at work
Um, the Flattr buttons are green, not orange. Or is green the new orange?
I think Wendy and Richard Pini would appreciate seeing this particular picture.
http://www.elfquest.com
Once you read the first episode of the Original Quest (available on that site), you’ll get the joke. 🙂
@ Novil:
Well NUTS! There goes my European Squirrel Identification Merit Badge! Rats!
@ Marmota:
Oh no. I would never blame the artist my my failure to differentiate between a fox and a squirrel! LOL. Thing is, aside from the ear tufts, Sid doesn’t look like the squirrels we have here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abert%27s_Squirrel
Our foxes are red though; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fox
And as for standing up in a tree? Well, that’s hardly the least of the breaks with reality we have in S&W … ROFL
Don’t get me wrong though, I’m still laughing every time I look at this. Novil, you guys are great!
@ Random:
I kinda like the username “Radnom” or “Rad Nom” …nom nom nom.
” Ahh… what a splendid night… just me and the lovely moon.
I’ts even full moon this night. I just have to howl at this perfect moon.
Now nothing can stop me from following my nature and enjoying the glory of my kind.
*takes deep breath*
Hoooww-“*SPLAT!!!*
?_?’?!
I love it! Started laughing the moment I saw it. And I did recognise Sid right away. Maybe that’s because the squirrels around here look like these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_squirrel
It has been said many times that Sid is an Eurasian red squirrel and not as American gray one.
I absolutely love the comic by the way.
@ Althea:
I just did that myself. This is awesome work and really captures the meme of the strip as well.
oooooo….that frekin sucks. Ruining the wolf’s moment like that!! eat him!! eat him now!!!! D8<
Well, I know squirrels can toss nuts with deadly accuracy (just another reason to always wear a helmet when on 2 wheels); I can only imagine what one would do with an arsenal of water balloons.
Great art. .. another soon to put up as desktop background.
@ Barn0wl:
Ah… I meant, red as in red squirrel, not a grey or black one, and didn’t mean THAT feature as a difference from foxes. The rest I did. I suppose I should have somehow distinguished between the two differences…
But whatever, it’s not of much consequence. 😉
Reminds me of a White Wolf LARP I was in…the scenario was just before WWII, I was playing the corax (were-raven,) we had a pack of garou (werewolves), and a couple of mages. We had bunked out in an old castle for the night. The garou had been howling, communicating over long distances with their kin, calling backup. That, in my character’s opinion, was tolerable.
But when one of the mages figured out something (and succeeded in tests to that effect) she was on the balcony cackling madly.
My character picks up a pillow, walks to an adjoining balcony, puts some gnosis (were-mojo) into a gift which allows high-accuracy targeting…and hucks the pillow as hard as he can, knocking the mage back into her bedroom.
Me: “SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!!!”
It looks like Woo introduced Sid to the water balloon.
i was hoping to use this as a desktop backround. can i?
This is the first one that made me burst out laughing. This was perfect.
sweet, looks like a motif for the desktop to me
@ Barn0wl:
sid is a squirrel.
i wonter why they want to eat him
around here we only have gray sqirrels. i looked online, but there dont seem to be any sqirrel vendors. (plus, i would have to run it by the wildlife people.)
The name and content of the strip perfectly fits the motif of the piece after which it was named.
I’m apparently so dense, I can’t locate the Flattr button, be it orange, green, or otherwise… 🙁
Loving Sid being a typical, mischievous squirrel.
I don’t know why,but I REALLY like this one. XD
Oh, also, I think there should be a “Beethoven” tag, since it references one of his compositions.
He reminds me of the red squirrle from Beatrix Potter who foolishly challenges an owl, and looses his tail. How in the world did he get to the States anyway? Reds have been extinct in America for 8,000 years.