- Sid: Why did you eat a nut anyway?
- Ruth: I had to. I was starving.
- Sid: Did you have bad luck while hunting?
- Ruth: No, it went like this…
- Ruth: Mmh, lynx meat. Must be my lucky day.
- Bobcat: Oh no! It’s the psycho squirrel!
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[0487] Psycho Squirrel
└ posted on Monday, 3 June 2013, by Novil
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You think they’d know to avoid the squirrel with the neckerchief, wouldn’t you?
I am suddenly reminded of that “Pistols for Pandas” cartoon on Homestar Runner.
surpriiiiise, motherfucker!
I don’t see how the cat is getting out of this, maybe something else steels the kill?
My guesses:
Bigger predator came out and took her kill because she was out of ammo.
Gun misfired, so she had to run away.
All I can think of at the moment.
Did anyone else get the video/ad about the Canadian lynx below the comments…
I find that awesome =)
Looks like the lynx finds himself….
*puts on shades*
…. Outgunned
You know Sid, people always said that “Don’t stick it in crazy” but Ruth is a keeper. She can keep the predators at bay.
Also I think Sid need to taste meat too. I mean he’s a RED squirrel :p
@ jfujii:
Looks like the Lynx….
( •_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
…..is jinxed
Ruth is starting to remind me of DarkStalker’s B.B.Hood. Dresses up as Little Red Riding hood to attract demons to attack her, only to find out she’s hunting them instead of her… not to mention that they call her a psycho as well =P
What a way to express squirrely wrath.
@ Greenwood Goat:
I thought I was the only one thinking that…!
i feel we need a new t-shirt here: beware of the psycho squirrel!
For her size, the recoil must have been hell…
Ruth would get along quite well with Coney (the half-wolf/half-bunny) from ‘Kevin and Kell”
When in doubt, carry a gun half your size. Wouldn’t the recoil on that thing send her halfway to the moon?
@ D-Rock:
Another predator had called her a psycho squirrel before, which made her wonder if eating meat was so psycho. She asked another squirrel if she was psycho, and he said, “Yes. You make me feel a little nervous when you’re around me. Who knows when you might snap and start eating squirrels?”
“But come on, they’re so tasty!” she argued.
“So are nuts!”
“Yeah, right.”
“Come on. Have you ever even tried one?”
Then she decided to try a nut and she liked it.
@ Evan:
When you’ve got a talking, meat eating squirrel that’s packing heat, you’ve already passed the point where things like how it would be affected by recoil have ceased to be a concern.
it just occurred to me to question where she gets ammo
The artwork is (as usual) stunning – the poor doomed lynx looks so dashing in Panel 3.
…and the nuts were the only edible thing left after that shot went off.
She is psycho…
What if that lynx was just trying to catch some meat for its cubs?
@ Rock:
Its the circlllllle of liiiiiiiiiife
Ithink the theory about that nut not being the “normal kind of nut” is now the most acceptable, that poor linx is going to suffer mor than anyone can immagine…
yeah, my pills, again, all right. no straightjacket please!
@ abowden:
I can… the gun can only fire one shot and if it misses on short range, given that lynx is likely to desperately dodge…
Than squirrel can only run for it´s life… and useless heavy weapon in hands is not a way to do it…
well, now I have the lyrics for the complete song, thanks to Norman and GUEST, without you, i would never have done this, thought my psycologist is now angrier than ever, be carefull not to end in the asylum with me and the pink litlle singing dragon…
This was never the way I planned
Not my intention
I got so brave, pistol in hand
Lost my discretion
It’s not what, I’m used to
Just wanna try it on
I’m curious for it
Caught my attention
I ate a nut, and I liked it
The taste of acorn caps is…
I ate a nut, just to try it.
I hope syd doesn´t mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don´t mean I´m a rodent tonight
I ate a nut and I liked it
I liked it
No, I don’t even know It´s name
It doesn’t matter,
It´s my experimental game
Just squirrel nature,
It’s not what,
Carnivores do
Not how they should behave
My head gets so confused
Hard to obey
I ate a nut, and I liked it
The taste of acorn caps is…
I ate a nut, just to try it.
I hope syd doesn´t mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don´t mean I´m a rodent tonight
I ate a nut and I liked it
I liked it
I´m a fifth-level carnivore
Brown hair, a neckerchief, and my revolver
Hard to resist I was starving
Too hungry to deny it
Ain’t no big deal, it’s innocent
I ate a nut, and I liked it
The taste of acorn caps is…
I ate a nut, just to try it.
I hope syd doesn´t mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don´t mean I´m a rodent tonight
I ate a nut and I liked it
I liked it
Woohoo. at least this time it wasn’t a wolf.hurray for finally giving the wolf there much deserved break.
What people tend to forget is that squirrels are omnivorous. While its true that they eat mostly nuts and mushrooms* and other veg, they won’t pass up an unguarded egg, newly hatched chick or even the occasional small frog or toad.
So Ruth needs to convince Sid to try a steak while Sid helps her embrace nuts.
*–This might help explain Ruth. She may have consumed the wrong kind of shroom at one time.
Who’s that riding into the sun?
Who’s the squirrel with the itchy gun?
Who’s the squirrel who kills for fun?
Psycho Squirrel, Psycho Squirrel, Psycho Squirrel!
She sleeps with a gun, and she will not stop.
Only kills predators that are on the top.
Psycho Squirrel, Psycho Squirrel, Psycho Squirrel!
@ The J.A.M.:
She would have been a flying squirrel! =D
And I bet he ran out of ammo.
Aren’t Lynx and Bobcats 2 different species?
Panel-4 stalky-lynx is adorable! 🙂
@ The J.A.M.:
Well, she seems just short enough that if she braced the gun on the ground before firing, most of the recoil *should* be passed into the ground instead of to her. So perhaps that could bring it down to manageable levels for a squirrel…
♪Psycho Squirrel♪
♪Qu’est-ce que c’est ♪
♪fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better ♪
♪Run run run run run run run away! ♪
It’s due time Sid planned an intervention. Logically speaking, if Ruth is hunting only the top predators, she’d be gunning for humans before long, and that can only land her in trouble.
This reminds me of a Dilbert strip, actually. Dilbert reasons that humans are the dominant species because they have the ability to kill anything else. Dogbert counters, if the squirrels in the trees could kill Dilbert, would that make them dominant? It turns out they were considering it all along.
By looking at the tags and the whatever that’s called, I’d say that Ruth has mistaken the bobcat for a lynx. Either that or something was lost somehow. Though it’s not that hard of a mistake to make. 😛
@ D-Rock: All i can think about is “I can’t believe it was not a decoy!”
@ The J.A.M.: I think this was considered before, and it was concluded she must have developed muscles strong enough to hold her ground. After all, she’s been doing this for years for all we know.
Greenwood Goat wrote:
You think they’d know to avoid the squirrel with the handgun, wouldn’t you?
It almost sounds staged. XD
And now that I think about it…where does she get all her bullets anyway? o_O
David Nuttall wrote:
Um, news flash, she hides the handgun. If you didn’t notice, the lynx saw her from behind. She was hiding the handgun in front of her, so the lynx didn’t see it.
@ AckAckAck:
I’m going to have to remember that.
No, Buhonero13, thank you!
And thanks also to Petah-Petah and Bucc-i!
Moxie Man wrote:
The red squirrels in the pine forests of Ontario often eat baby rabbits when the parents aren’t looking. Most of their energy comes from seeds including nuts, but the vast majority of their protein comes from predatory activity.
Fluffy wrote:
Lynx and Bobcats are indeed different, but related species. They are about the same size, have very similar colouration, and similar prey, but they live in different habitats and have adapted to the differences in those environments.
Well at least she isn’t a rabbit.
O_O Well…that got dark quick.
@ The J.A.M.:
Not to mention the sound of the gunshot from that close to the barrel, since she doesn’t have earplugs.
OK, that thing is already pouncing in panel 5. How on earth can it recoil in panel 6? Surely this should end with her pinned under a couple dozen pounds of dead bobcat?
Frank wrote:
No, it was mentioned before, but nobody with sense concluded she could plausibly fire the thing. Even a .22LR recoil would hit her about 10x harder than a .50BMG recoil hits a human, which would easily kill her unless it was solidly braced for every shot. Also, even the smallest derringer would probably weigh more than she does.
So bobcat IS same as lynx. I have been wondering that for a while now.