The current story arc started with this strip: Bad Sign.
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- Paul Rye: … if you could please sign here.
- Paul Rye: ?!
- Business partner: ?
- Paul Rye: !?
- Paul Rye: … could please sign here.
- Woo: Z
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leave it to woo to fall asleep in an air vent. and i also noticed that to me, Paul Rye looks like Mr. Lodge from the Archie Comics crossed with Colonel Sanders…anyway nice comic
Richard works for “P.Rye Web Development”, so that’s his boss. The guy on the other side of the desk is probably Mr. Locust, who’d intended to buy the company — but may be having second thoughts after being interrupted by the local fauna.
If the deal falls through, Sandra’s family could be in real trouble. Unless, of course, Rye decides the sale wasn’t a good idea (Locust was running some sort of swindle?) and Woo winds up as company mascot. He’ll be insufferable once his picture is added to the roof-billboard.
I can successfully say that this is something that Paul Rye was not expecting to see today.
Yep, they know what’s important, all right.
Ignore the random raccoon, just sign the papers.
It’s a good thing that this isn’t a security company…
So, let me see here, Rye : a grass grown extensively as a grain and as a forage crop
Locust : Swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers of the family Acrididae, able to strip fields and damaging/destroying crops
Will this be a new problem for Richard? or for his company? or sign of bad things to come? or will Woo (or someone else) will safe the day? or ruin it?
Stay tuned folks!
Wow, Richard works for Stan Lee? COOL!
Woo just relaxing is adorable.
You know, Richard asked for it, what was he thinking when he decided to bring Woo to his job. xD
i wonder if that was an important document that was gonna be signed
I love how nonchalant this whole strip is. XD
@ Koon I don’t think Richard wanted to bring Woo….. Air vents make great resting/ hiding places. Gotta remember that.
Mr. Rye’s desk name plate is faced toward him and not the visitors in his office? He must have been a bit disoriented when he was organizing everything. 😛
“Maison de fous! Signerai jamais!”
@ Joseph Le:
It has a triangle form. This kind of name plate is always written on on both sides.
Well, looks like I wasn’t way off with my second guess.
But the confused office workers are actually company directors…
Well, how would you react if a racoon walks in the room, opens the airvent, climbs in and falls asleep?
For this two this is pretty much the >em>”Big Lipped Alligator Moment” of their life.
“Let us never speak of this again…”
Those screwdriver hands are so useful aren’t they? Hope this won’t cause any problems for the company. X3
BTW isn’t there a “you” missing in the last panel or is it just repeating the first line, but it got cut off?
Someone wrote:
Heh NC references are always fun. XD
anyone else notice the name plate was only in the second frame hehe 😛 on another note… WOO IS JUST SO ADORABLEE!!!
And here i thought my cousin was joking when he told me about the raccoon in his bureau. XDDD
Wow, is that exec’s chair ever small! 🙂
@ Gaboris: Maybe Paul Rye is the guy in black, and the plate was what he took out of his coat pocket.
By the way, does anyone know what it is that Woo’s carrying in panel 1? A cell phone? An electric shaver? A massager? A Lollipop? Something I haven’t thought of?
Boss looks like Commissioner Gordon.
Frank, Woo is yawning in the second panel.
@ Frank:
Break room food of course. Now it’s time to sleep it off in the air vent.
Any chance of a parody of those Microsoft “To the Cloud!” commercials? I could see Sandra and Larisa shouting that, or even Ye Thuza in the right circumstances.
However, some of those commercials are dumb. In the one with the mom making a family photo, instead of fixing a photo with only one thing wrong (the daughter texting), she goes to fix one that has several things wrong (everyone grumpy and daughter texting).
@ Frank:
None of the above … looks to me like Woo is just yawning. 🙂
@ J.D. & Barn0wl: Now I see it. Thanks.
Let’s just hope that Woo never finds the company safe…
@ Frank:
he’s not holding anything he is using one hand to yawn and he is holding the other one out so he doesn’t crash into anything
sun tzu wrote:
ROGNTUDJUUUU!
Yeah, that was my immediate thought too. Considering the Knorzers are Europeans, this may be a tiny tribute to the most famous contract-signing attempts there. 🙂
@ reynard61:
Now what practical use would a raccoon have for some paper with stuff written on it?
…Oh, wait, we’re talking about Woo.
Don’t sign it! It’s a trap!
@ Frank: Wha? From where did that answer come from? O_o”
BTW Woo’s not in panel 1 only from the second and he has nothing in his hands. He’s just yawning. XD
Didnt know the forum rules allowed such brialilnt posts.
@ Blaze:
Really? What do you mean by “brilliant”?
@ chrisleech:
In the second panel, it looks like the office door was already open when he walked through it, but it was closed. He used his other paw to push open the door, as indicated by the motion lines.
Woo is, of course, absolutely correct: In a busy office building it’s nearly impossible to find a good place to sleep, if you don’t have your own office and a high enough position to keep unwanted visitors far away. An air vent in the boss’ office seems to be the logical solution.
reynard61 wrote:
Interesting idea. Not that this strip isn’t already hilarious. But imagine if he hadn’t merely loosened some screws to get into the air vent, but if he had instead opened the boss’ (locked) safe and curled up in there…
With paws as sensitive as a raccoon’s I imagine it would be rather easy to open a safe with a combination lock. No need to listen for any click sounds, when you can simply feel them.
Maybe an idea for another strip…
Sometimes I wish I could fit into an air vent during winter, when warm air comes from them.