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The current story arc started with this strip: Dinner.
After receiving so much applications by readers who were interested in becoming an editor for Sandra and Woo and Gaia, we are now holding an editing contest. The goal is to find mistakes in our already published strips. You can even earn a little money this way.
In other news, the release of Gaia will be delayed for a couple of months. Powree is just not having enough time to draw two colored comic pages a week as long as she’s having a day job. An artist needs around three work days to create two colored comic pages. Until she’ll be able to commit fully to Sandra and Woo and Gaia, we’ll rather build a buffer of finished Sandra and Woo strips and Gaia pages, instead of annoying you with infrequent Gaia updates. I really hope we can release the first page of Gaia not later than 1 June and then stick to a “two updates a week” schedule.
- Heather: Shadow! Siddy! Today’s your big day!
- Shadow and Sid: ??
- Heather: Aren’t you excited that you’ll finally be able to live in freedom?
- Shadow: »This doesn’t sound good at all.«
- Shadow: Don’t worry, little one. I’ll protect you.
- Xor: Look, Zor, lunch!
- Shadow: … Within my limited capabilities. RUN!
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Oi, I stayed awake for this. I have to get up at 4am tomorrow. I am alright with staying awake for this. Hooray.
Oh dear god, it’s a big bad guy and a small bad guy! And the small bad guy is a… a mink?
Either way, I like them already. 😛
Oh no! It’s their Darker and Edgier 90’s counterparts!
Shadow and Sid are my favorite characters of this series.
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Suuuuure, that’s environmentally responsible. The squirrel could survive on its own ((maybe)) but with the fox who doesn’t even know how to catch a cold, his survival is in question.
Don’t you think a rehabber would know better to release a nonnative species into the wild? :/ It’s pretty illegal.
ALL IS LOST!!!
A professional rehabber would know better than to release animals that have been living like domesticated pets, period-but this is just a woman who cares for the kits a certain incompetent driver must keep orphaning, and all she knows is that this odd looking squirrel was picked up right around here.
Such is what happens when people think they’re doing a good deed without bothering to actually learn about what it is they’ve undertaken.
And there in lies the problem. Sometimes animals like that become too tame and can’t live that well in the wild. sometimes.
I wonder how did they managed to survive until now. Since they are too naive for the wild world.
Cool story, Who could have imagined that Sid’s fate was this since born.
Thus they learned their first lesson in the wild:
Run
Wait, the weasel’s (?) name is exclusive or?
cardio!
And then Sid learned he ran faster than his predators.
That’s not going to be good for Shadow’s health.
Panel 1 – Cute
Panel 2 – Great expressions
Panel 3 – So sweet…
Panel 4 – RUN, YOU TWO, RUN!
That’s probably how they survived this long, running…
Zoe is right — releasing a non-native squirrel into the wild is illegal, and for very good reasons. Even if it can’t reproduce, it could still be carrying a disease that could decimate the native squirrels, which is exactly what happened when North American gray squirrels were (very stupidly) released in Great Britain. Now the little red native squirrels in the UK are way down in population and could be headed for extirpation. I hope Heather is not supposed to be a real wildlife rehabber. I know a few licensed wildlife rehabbers, and they would never do something like this.
And I think wolves are really cool.
Maybe Heather should have taught them how to survive in the wild first… ya think?
Xor and Zor… I like it.
Why do I have the feeling that Sid is going to trip and Shadow suddenly developes some kind of animal martial arts to save him?
It would somehow fit his calm and mannerly personality.
Or Shadow is going to trip and Sid starts throwing things or using his speed to annoy their predators so much that they run against a tree 😀
That woman is incredibly stupid. Even if you’re not a professional rehabber, the fact that the fox has become friends with an animal that’s meant to be his prey should be one heckuva clue that he doesn’t know how to hunt properly.
(And her sentence in panel two seems a little off to me. Would be better if she said “You’ll finally be able” instead.)
And, in addition to anything else, she lets her passengers ride without seat-belts on – very irresponsible!
Xor and Zor.
Awesome.
I’m sure the rehab lady taught Shadow to hunt and forage for himself. Otherwise how did Shadow survive so long without starving?
“the prey species who doesn’t even know how to catch a cold” will be applyed to my housecat straight away… @ Gabrielsthoughts:
Maybe it’s just me, but Shadow referring to Sid as “Little One” seems a bit, I don’t know, changes the nature of their relationship to me (as opposed to “Little Guy” being a bit less effeminate maybe). It always seemed like they were buddies, mentor and protege at best, but that almost seems like a parental statement there (worst case scenario almost motherly). Eh, maybe it’s just me.
I’m guessing a marten, as they are excellent climbers and do prey on squirrels. Minks are semi-aquatic and would probably not be much danger to squirrels.
“They’ll be happier in the wild!”
No they won’t. They’ll be hungry and scared all the time, and likely get killed minutes after you release them, because they’ve gotten used to being fed.
I think it just didn’t occured to Powree and Oliver – as far as I know, none of them is a licensed wildlife rehabber – that Sid could damage the native environment being European
I think that´s just artistic license… like a fox and a raccoon not being (seriously) interested in eating a squirrel.
i find this comic offensive in the form of animal treatment it advocates
@ jocastaa:
Advocates, or just happens to contain? Because if this being in the comic means they advocate it, I’d hate to meet the people behind Batman, the Punisher, or any number of other superhero comics.
@ Evetsu:
I’d hate to meet the author of Harry Potter, because she wants people to raise deadly, giant snakes in our Secret Chambers. That’s not nice
I like your style.@ Lau:
Lau wrote:
Alright! lets get this rolling!
I’d hate to meet the author of Narnia, because he wants people to check other people closets, and striking a conversation with a lion.
I’d hate to meet the author of Dragon Ball, because he want people to have big muscles and shouting loudly over and over again when the fight.
I’d hate to meet the director of King Kong, because he want people to believe that giant gorrila love blonde actress and prefer to live in Manhattan.
I’d hate to meet the author of Gone with the wind, because he want playboys to not give a damn.
I’d hate to meet the director of 300, because he want people to understand that THIS IS SPARTA!
Oh no…
I hope they will be able to mange..
@ Jocastaa
You uh, do remember what happened to Woo’s previous owner, don’t you? And that crazy woman who bought out the park’s land so could set illegal traps to depopulate it? When you’re a human being in this story and you decide to be a dick to the animal kingdom it comes back to bite you hard in cruel, unusual, ironic, and totally hilarious fashion. Are you drawing that opinion simply from the 3 comics where one animal is in danger of being eaten by another? Because that’s I dunno… NATURE?!
If were going to talk about implied advocacy there’s a whole basket of dirty laundry a cursory breakdown of your handle would reveal in light of certain Greek myths. But let’s not go there. Wild assumptions do not an endorsement make, please think harder before making such an accusation.
This woman at least means well. Woo´s previous owner and the woman who bought the parkland were, pardon my English, assholes.
Heather just want’s the best for the poor things, but yeah if you look at it from such an angle… Lucky they turned out to be pretty tough in the end. 🙂
I’m not good at finding flaws and such so I’m no good for an editor, but I hope you’ll find some useful ppl.
BTW Zor and “Xor” heh that’s just funny, but maybe only cuz I’m an info student. XD
He who quits and runs away lives to quit another day.
@ AckAckAck:
@ AckAckAck:
Bad poster thing. Meh, may I point out that the author of Gone with with Wind also had the ladies pregnancy last about as long as an elephants… What the heck was she pregnant with?
… People seem to forget that this is a webcomic and not real life…
@ Professional Mole:
A stoat (winter coat; called an ermine).
A mink would be darker, and much larger.
Wonderful strip! Started reading yesterday from the beginning.
Had a bit of a giggle when I read “The goal is to find mistakes in our already published strips” in this strip’s description, the first strip in which I notice a mistake! Second panel: the word “in” is repeated.
@ Anne:
I agree with you in principle, but in this case you have nothing to worry about. North American grey squirrels are decimating European red squirrels not only because they’re bigger and stronger and are able to better compete with them for food, but they also carry a viral disease (parapox virus) to which they’re resistant but red squirrels aren’t.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0502_030502_redsquirrels.html
So Sid had better avoid any grey squirrels he meets, although I wonder if the two species are genetically compatible.
I wonder if we’ll be seeing Heather again.
Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character.