The current story arc started with this strip: A New Adventure.
- Eagle: You eating my eggs wasn’t part of the plan. Leave! And only come back when you’ve learned to abide by the rules!
- Woo: All right, all right. I’m going.
- Woo: But where to?
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[0263] Woo’s Way Back Home
└ posted on Monday, 18 April 2011, by Novil
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Wait- What?
So why is the eagle not eating Woo? Or even particularly angry?
I’m too confused.
No offense or anything, but that was kinda a wuss way to handle the eagle situation, it would have been much cooler and more realistic for cloud to come up at the last moment and hit the pissed off eagle with a thrown stone. Then sandra gets to thank him profusely for saving her pet.
If I had a speech bubble above my head, it would say…
( ? )
v
1. The Eagle snatched up woo in an attempt to eat him.
2. Woo then eats the Eagle Eggs and the Eagle lets him go.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
By the way, Mr. Eagle. What’s your name?
“Mr. Doo-Saicks Mockeehn-ah.”
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind humor, I just think it’s kind of awkward for the comic to go from genuine concern to random resolution.
O_O the audience scope now has suddenly jumped to 4+
Sometimes this comic makes me think it’s being translated from another language. Sometimes the language really lacks coherency or voice. It seems like the further this comic progresses, the more I’m missing out on some kind of personal joke. Not to rag on the author, but I’m really scratching my head over some of these strips.
Actually, this make sense to me. It’s morbid to say, but would YOU want to eat Woo knowing what HE just ate?
First I was like this: ¦D
but after the comic I was like this: ಠ_ಠ
@ Blitz:
no…not eat..but maybe..kill the target…what would not be something that the author would do in this comic
I’m a little dissapointed as well. It just seems so contrived.
Umm…that was a very…well, I guess, I don’t have a good comment for this one. Awkward.
WTF? he ate her children and that is how she react?! Im not stupid, please justify better the plots and characters.
Maybe if this was bugs bunny…
This is getting… surreal.
Uh, Mr. Eagle? I think you’ve made a mistake in your disaplinary measures. You’re supposed to EAT Woo!
Not that I won’t you to! >o<
Situation is understandable, you don’t want to eat something that’s eaten your kids.
For me, the only problem with the eagle is that it has no emotion in its voice.
It’s speech reads like a badly dubbed anime, I don’t get any feeling from it =/
Otherwise, Great comic <3
So… the eagle just isn’t hungry anymore? How does this work?
@ MrGBH:
Well,you don’t want to eat the thiing that ate your offsprings because you would have your offsprings in you. Also,it will make you lose your appetite
Actually, I think this IS translated from another language. It’s still weird though.
Also, PARENTING FAIL.
This seems somewhat like an easy-way-out “I’d rather not kill my characters, so let’s give them the best ending possible” cop-out endings. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that you don’t want to kill Woo, but this was a bit much…
MrGBH wrote:
The eagle is just so mad, it doesn’t even want to look at Woo anymore 🙁 It doesn’t want to eat something so heartless and rude.
Wow! That eagle is just like a forum moderator.
I think I’m going to be part of people that go “bwah?” at the conclusion of this one, it will be better if Woo take an advantage of an angry eagle who just lost her eggs and blinded by rage, Woo slip out and run.
This one is kinda hanging o the thin fabric of believable.
Yeah, it’s a strange reaction from the eagle, but it fits it’s personality. First, the eagle gave Woo a choice between being eaten or dropped. Then it lectured Woo about eating it’s eggs instead of stopping him. Now it’s scolding Woo like he’s a disobedient child. The eagle seems emotionally disconnected. But it’s not like the eagle was acting normal, then started acting weird to suit this joke. it’s been weird all along.
Did…
Did the eagle suddenly decide Woo is her child? |D
“Hey you. I abducted you but now I want you to go away and feel bad for eating my children” o_O
… what the…?! My brain hurts… The eagle is either ‘very polite’ or completely confused and in both cases he has a conversation with what would normally be his dinner for no reason.
Or is it more like: “Did you just break the foodchain? Please go and think about that!”
I especially like how the predator says ‘please’ ಠ_ಠ weird Copper-Dragon eagle…
But hey, Woo got a wonderfull view over the landscape. I guess.
@ Someone:
Oh, sorry. I meaned Brass-Dragon eagle >,>’
damn metals…
I think the eagle has tried too hard to be a politically-correct parent, learning all the positive reinforcement techniques in the book, and it has rubbed off on its hunting skills. It’s gonna starve. And mice will eat its next offspring.
Also, Woo managed to eat TWO eggs right in front of the parent??? You just think about what you’ve done, you fat, happy raccoon, you!
So He Is Free Now…
I love this eagle!
@ AckAckAck: We are commenting on a comic wherein a racoon talks to a human companion. We shredded that thin fabric of believable somewhere within the first ten strips.
I agree that this seems rather a deus ex machina but it is one of the first real slips by the creator. Let’s let it go and wait for what happens next.
I’d buy the not wanting to eat Woo ’cause he ate her kids.
But there’s no reason she should have let him live. Woo should be fleeing the nest out of fear, not just ’cause he got kicked out…
Then again, maybe I’m just stuck on how anti climactic this was. I mean… really? Really?
I blame the eagle’s mental disconnect on pesticides.
That….was stupid. Either a joke just flew over my head, or this was just lazy writing.
Looks like that eagle might’ve been raised on human ground, because his/her behavior is really not natural. Not that I mind particularly, at least all there’s left for Woo is to find his way back to Sandra. Now that seems to be the main problem.
@ Blitz:
Maybe not EAT him, but I’d still rip him apart…
Um… worst Eagle ever? Seriously, what?
So he eats your eggs, killing your babies, and not only do you not eat him like was planned, but you let him go instead of evicerating him…. Next comic, is the eagle going to come back with “You thought I was serious!? How dence are you!?” or something like that?
What.
Take that food chain!
This makes absolutely no sense. The only way to rationalise it is that the eagle character is completely insane. The writing in Sandra & Woo is usually quite good, but this part is awful.
Glad the comments are back up and running.
And, it looks like mine is about the only praise to this long winded gag.
I, actually, think this panel sums up what it’s all about. It’s had me rolling in stitches, every time I look upon it. This delusional bird -actually thinks- it is some kind of figure of royalty. As if any creature in it’s presence should feel so honored to have been selected, that they should not only should grovel at the very feet of this eagle, but give words of praise to their dying breath, during the slaughter. No wonder the eagle didn’t want to drop Woo. It now makes so much sense.
But, this commoner did not give praise. Instead, dined upon the eggs and the eagle was so shocked at the display of disrespect, that it literally commanded Woo to leave for showing such disrespect in front of the host. “So, once you learned your lesson, come back. Give me praise and feed your king/queen, like a good peasant should do.”
Unlike some of the other feedback, I’m going to say this was a “FREAKING EXCELLENT GENIUS!!!” method of a conclusion.
Of course, it might be harder for us American viewers to understand, as we don’t have kings and princes, running about. We have celebrities and presidents, instead.
Initially I hated this for being so dumb. Imagine going hunting for a bear, coming back to find it ripping your kids apart, and telling it to go back to the woods and think about what its done!
Then I realised we have talking animals, foxes with their own news program, and super heroes. Suddenly I realised we were all treating this WAAAAY too seriously, and I started to laugh and love Woo again
=D
Eagle or no snobby eagle, there is still one question that remains. How will Woo get back to the others? He is lost in a strange forest. Who will he trick into helping him now? Or who will be his new friend? Hehe, Hope he finds a big wolf and makes friends with him. I can just see Woo charging in on the back of a big snarling wolf! Rescuing the kids from the hunter.
“You ate my children! You should follow the rules more.”
Okay, it’s a little odd, but then again this is a cartoon, the ‘normal rules’ don’t apply. Mind you, I do think the eagle will likely return in a later strip, all angry at Woo. The reason she let him go was out of sheer disbelief at his actions! Doesn’t he understand how this works?
Anecdote- a comedy horror movie, a man is driving a car. In the back seat is a young maiden, who unfortunately transforms into a demoness whenever she sees her reflection. Alas, she does! The man takes one look at the demoness in the back seat, screams, and pushes the pedal to the medal, yelling “she’s behind us! we gotta get moving!” About ten seconds pass, then the demoness taps a finger on the man’s shoulder. He turns to look at her. She’s leaning forward, chin in one hand.
“Okay” she says. “I admit your stupidity was distracting . . . but I’m over that now!”
That eagle forgot to take Woo also being a predator into consideration. ^_^
The way I see it, the writer of this comic’s plot wrote him/herself into a corner; and had to come up with some way, *any way*, to end it without killing woo. There is no realistic way to do that without introducing some new element, or Deus Ex Machina type event.
It ends up being extraordinarily unrealistic. (Even withall other fictional elements, such as the talking animals, being taken at face value.)
I don’t honestly care that much about it, though. It’s easily forgivable, as long as the writer hadn’t thought it actually was a reasonable or likely plot development.
You have eaten my children! I am saddened and disappointed by your actions! Leave immediately and go think about what you have done!
I think it’s kind of clever. The eagle is a “circle of life” type who thinks of the food chain as a big game with a set of rules. Woo cheats at the game by eating her/his kids. While the eagle complains, he eats ANOTHER egg.
“That’s it! Get out! I’m not going to play with someone who doesnt follow the rules.”