[0364] Honor Among Foxes
└ posted on Monday, 2 April 2012, by Novil
- Shadow: It’s my firm belief that there’s nothing nobler than to feed your family by your own paws’ hard work.
- Shadow: It requires a great deal of courage, skill and perseverance to find something to eat in nature day after day.
- Shadow: But the holy fox mother Waa-gosh also taught us that honor is found not only in hunting but also in gathering.
- Amadeus: Yeah, keep telling yourself that, scavenger!
- Shadow: I wonder if poodle is edible…
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![[0364] Honor Among Foxes](/comics/2012-04-02-0364-honor-among-foxes.png "[0364] Honor Among Foxes")
Patriotic speeches are a common gene in their family, I see. 😀 All hail to Waagosh and her trash-searching-techniques teachings!
Shadow, Y U NO GO TO Woo’s PLACE FOR FREE FOOD?
@ JLuigiJohn:
he probably doesn’t know where he lives :/
That poodle probably reeks too much pessimism and privilege to be eaten happily anyways.
I do wonder where this story arch is going. It’s not been my favorite thus far but I’m sure that it’ll have an amusing punchline in the end.
I am reliably informed that poodles are edible, but taste of dog. Not to mention that a solitary fox wouldn’t be able to bring one down on his own.
Dumpster diving is fun, but it looks like Shadow is having trouble getting his paw in. I’d suggest that he instead tries staking out a takeaway food place located near a bar. Once the night really gets going, drunk people eating on the hoof do tend to leave large amounts of food scattered in their wake.
Alternatively, he could just go and visit Sandra.
This is just funny. XD
Landbark wrote:
I have to say that readers who demand something else regularly are seriously beginning to get on my nerves. This is MY comic so I decide what’s going on in it! Sandra and Woo has been extremely diverse regarding its topics from the beginning and it will stay this way until the end. In fact there would not be a single topic left to be used at all since each one is disliked by several readers just because there are so many readers.
Look Shadow, do you want to know where you can get a good paying job in the human world with your speech skill? you can always work as a politician. Don’t worry, no one will notice a talking Fox on the senate. Heck, you’re already overqualified for the position.
Honorable Shadow is Honorable.
And that rat isn’t a poodle; It’s an over-glorified pompom. Now, a big breed like my grandma’s black, standard size, THAT’S a REAL poodle. And she’s much prettier then the white breeds, too.
@ NDividedByZero:
So that poodle is a hipster? I know that hipster meat is disgusting, it smell and taste like a combination of iPhone and Mac&Cheese.
>.>
Yes, poodles are edible.
In some places.
@ Novil:
Oh don’t let people like him rile you up. This kind of behavior can be observed in most all creative media and is to be ignored but not pondered.
Just do what you feel like you should do and keep with your decision despite what the rare few loudmouths will tell you, after all the ones who rarely speak their mind who greatly outnumber the others are most likely quite content with the webcomic just as I am and would rather see something you’d like to do than the same strips again and again due to popular request. After all you can never be sure if popular requests are popular or not unless everyone participates in making requests, and most don’t.
@ Novil:
Word, I think it’s pretty good at the moment, but if there ARE anymore speeches I will literally eat my hat… If I had one. To the dumpsters!
The answer, Shadow, is yes. Now, kill it with Slash! Hopefully you’ll get a critical!
I’d eat the poodle over garbage any day
@ AckAckAck:
I’m fairly certain Woo is the only talking animal in this strip thus far (well, unless Tweety counts). All others have only shown the ability to converse among each other, or were in clearly non-cannon strips 😛
@ WolfieMario:
Well, in political arena all you need to do is bark/howl all day 😉
I don’t understand this comic. An apple core is perfectly edible food for a fox, why is he tossing it away?
poodle is highly toxic, as are the French people, its a phenomenon that is not understood but France seems to exude some form of toxicity into it’s inhabitants much like the toxin that is present in the overly snarky, self righteous, self centered, and stupid/ignorant of any species making any who eat them very ill excluding creatures like crows and vultures. (the facts of arse holes, facts pulled from one’s posterior to be be an arse.)
@ Novil:
Don’t worry, many of us like how you do the comic. We’re the silent majority though 😛
@ Landbark:
I actually like this arc. I think it has a different tac from the usual light fare. Still, It is admittedly Status Quo. You really can’t go wrong with a Horatio Alger or Horatio Hornblower story when it takes place stateside. Besides, Shadow makes a great working class hero.
@ Novil:
I approve of what you just said
@ Novil:
You forgot Rule #1 of troll hunting. Do not feed the trolls.
Do not argue with trolls, it means they win!
Also don’t believe in God, or something like that…
Naw, to stringy! Although I hear a good orange glaze does wonders.
Sid! You only have to last through one more update whether or not we see you in that update. Then the Easter Bunny will show-up. You know, a tasty, fat, plump, meaty rabbit. 🙂
@ Landbark:
I think the story is getting exciting.
Great job, Novil!
WolfieMario wrote:
I’d hate to be THAT guy, but I think you meant “canon” as “cannon” is an old form of artillery weapon
@ Gurren Prime:
Nah, he meant cannon. He was talking about strips not involving gun bunnies! 😛
Don’t they eat poodle in, like, the backwoods of China or somewhere?
Neospector wrote:
I’m sorry, that came out a bit racist. But I think it was China or somewhere…
@ Novil:
I’m not really demanding anything. I like to complain because I know, and wholeheartedly believe, you can do better. You are magnificent creators all of you. I simply think you could benefit from my many years as a reader of fine comics and Pr0n.
After all, we all inspire one another in one way or another. And, every interaction [computer mediated or otherwise] forever has the potential to change us for the better. Because Philosophy and science were developed to wipe out ignorance.
Plus, as you well know, I’m not competing with you. I am in fact, undermining you. The sole reason for this being my fear that you will develop a cult following of sycophants, pooka, and pink elephants. All of which are a public nuisance to trolls in the way tribbles are a threat to Man and Klingon alike.
Also thanks to post hoc ergo proctor hoc I get to live in the fantastic delusion that it was me that conned…convinced you to make Sandra and Woo full color. (Not really but you get the point.
Whining is simply the price you pay for allowing people with assorted narcissistic personality disorders tell you what they think.)Just remember, there’s no need to thank me for anything 😉
Yes, poodle is edible, just ask people in Southeast Asia. (I’m sorry!) I don’t like to offend people but it’s just so easy.
@ Novil:
Here here *Tells the tree where he can plant it!
Amadeus is an awesome name for a poodle.
@ Landbark:
The others will probably hate me for this but i partially agree with the criticism you’ve shared. Not the brash and blunt way you’ve expressed it but the general content of the opinion.
These particular speeches in my sole and minor opinion detract the impact of the fourth panel joke but i like that they have a historical reference and the underlying idea that the foxes think themselves so noble but really they are just as troubled as the rest of the animal world. I also think that this is a good character defining feature.
I have really enjoyed recent arcs, the my little pony arc was ingenious and I only wish you had chosen to bash the black eyed peas for I despise them and the way they massacre classic music.
But I like a few haven’t enjoyed this arc so much. Sid’s arcs and one-offs are pretty samey, the majority of them involve someone trying to eat him. I think you should mix it up a bit. But then, you could argue that in cartoons you get this kind of thing, like in penguins of madagascar 9 times out of 10 King Julien’s stories will always involve him acting vain but coming to a simplistic understanding of the joy of doing selfless deeds.
I won’t tell you any further how to do your job, for i think you are doing a good one, you have many interesting ideas and I am happy to check every sunday and wednesday night for the new update (the strips always appear just before midnight).
Neospector wrote:
I could be wrong, but, I think it’s Korea actually, but not all that common even there. (Probably other countries too, but I’m pretty sure about Korea.) Also; I think there is a special breed of dog especially for eating, and it’s not poodle. 🙂
I must say, the foxes can really make a good speech. If they spoke human, and made speeches about things other than eating rodents and searching through trash, they could easily run for president.
Oh, don’t worry, EVERYTHING is edible to some degree. Even rock is edible when ground into salt.
What I wonder is, where does that poodle get the idea he’s in a position to criticize? He gets all of his meals handed to him on a silver platter, no work involved.
@ Landbark:
Gee, you’re awfully demanding for someone who’s basically getting something for free…
You guys should make another comic with Landon and Larisa! I wanna know what happened between them > 3<
That, is one fugly poodle bitch~
Look Shadow, do your family and the world a favor and just kill the poodle already…
Given we just heard from Jack Kennedy, I was kind of expecting something from Scarlett O’Hara here. 🙂
Seriously, what do people have against poodles? It’s like all anyone ever knows about them is their characterization and their ridiculous show-cut. They are wonderful dogs; intelligent, gentle, and loving. Ok, my grandparents’ new poodle is a bit of a trouble-maker but she’s still a puppy and she’s been growing out of it
P.S. There was at least one kind of dog that was bred for eating: the Chow Chow.
So is the poodle a child prodigy?
@ BabylonRanger:
intelligent? poodle? what the fuck?
@ JLuigiJohn:
Didn’t he just say, “It’s my firm belief that there’s nothing nobler than to feed your family by your own paws’ hard work”? Shadow doesn’t want Woo’s help.
There’s good eating on that apple core! Somefox has been spoiled by exposure to Woo and co.
(P.S. Yeah, foxes do eat apples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEJ8RhcWnVA
They also eat a lot of cherries where I used to live)